Arts & Entertainment 'An American In Paris' Brings Gershwin Tunes To Vivid Life At The Orpheum When the cheery new Roman Holiday musical made its San Francisco debut in June, I noted that this out-of-town tryout destined for Broadway was part of a trend of mid-century nostalgia that's been
Arts & Entertainment 'Something Rotten!' At The Orpheum Is A Laugh-Out-Loud Goof Tailor-Made For Theater Nerds Take the truly raucous, goofy, juvenile humor of recent broadway hits like Spamalot, The Producers and The Book of Mormon, set it in Shakespeare's England in the 1590s, mash it up with an
Arts & Entertainment 'The Curious Incident' Brings To Life The Great Pains (And Pleasures) Of Living On The Autism Spectrum "I find people confusing" is both one of the opening lines and a defining mantra for the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the acclaimed 2003 novel
Arts & Entertainment 'Roman Holiday' Is A Cheery Throwback Musical Of Which Cole Porter Would Approve Capitalizing on the recent Broadway success of throwback revivals and adaptations from 1950s and 60s like The King & I, The Light In The Piazza, and An American In Paris, a pre-Broadway tryout
Arts & Entertainment SHN Brings Seven Broadway Blockbusters To San Francisco Rock, Pop, Dance, Romance and a genie. SHN’s 2017-2018 Season includes seven unforgettable musicals that has something for everyone. And if that’s not enough, when you become a member, you get
Arts & Entertainment <em>Into The Woods</em> Is The Fairytale Mashup You Need In a move that quite literally brings the back of the house to the front of the house, the acclaimed Fiasco Theater production of Into The Woods coming to the SHN Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment Enthusiastic Castro Flier Advertises $14,000 'Hamilton' Tickets With 'Supreme Bragging Rights' SHN's Hamilton run enters previews a week from Friday, and someone has a whole lot of scalping to do before then, as a Castro flier spotted by Hoodline leads us to believe. Hoodline
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 'Hamilton' Online Ticket Queue Swells 100,000+ As In-Person Fans Go To War With Line-Cutters When your #Hamilton alarm doesn't go off and you log on 6 min late...only a mere 99,405 people ahead of me 😭 #hamiltonSF pic.twitter.com/Cyh7WugSYM— Kelsey (@Kelsey_001) December 12,
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Camped Out Overnight For <i>Hamilton</i> Tickets Today tips off a Tulip mania the likes of which the Bay Area ticket market has never seen. Tickets for the runaway smash hit musical Hamilton went on sale to the general public
Arts & Entertainment SF Hamilton Pre-Sale Tickets Sell Out With 60K People Left Waiting In Queue Pre-sale tickets to see the hit musical Hamilton as it tours San Francisco were selling like legit Broadway tickets today: Entering a queue at 10 a.m., American Express cardholders vied online to
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 'Hamilton' Tickets Go On Pre-Sale Monday Morning, General Sale December 12 As you likely already know, the absurdly popular Hamilton is set to come to San Francisco this spring — opening on March 14 and running through August 5. We now learn via SHN that
Arts & Entertainment Darren Criss Growing Into Big Heels For 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' In two decades of performances, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has seen many performers, male and female, embody Hedwig, the bawdy, self-assured, third-tier German-American rock goddess
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Dates For 'Hamilton' Run Finally Confirmed The Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to San Francisco next spring, and we now for the first time have the official dates for the five-month run. The Mercury
Arts & Entertainment Darren Criss To Play Hedwig For San Francisco Run In October The casting announcement has just been made, and for the San Francisco touring production of the revival of the hit rock musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch, the genderqueer main character Hedwig will
Arts & Entertainment 'An Act Of God' Starring Sean Hayes Is A Smart, Mostly Light-Hearted Take On The Maker Sean Hayes the performer is not to be confused with the character of Jack McFarland on Will & Grace that he's blessed (or doomed) to be branded with as his career-defining role. And
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Broadway Premiere Of 'Roman Holiday' Comes To SF, Along With Acclaimed Revamp Of 'Into The Woods' Today SHN announced their full regular season of shows, following their earlier announcement in January that Hamilton would be part of the 2016-2017 season along with the Tony Award-winning play The Curious Incident
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Returns To SF, Is Still A Lot Of Fun Wicked, the 10th longest-running musical on Broadway, has returned to San Francisco for the first time since 2013. But Wicked and San Francisco have a long history, as it was here that the
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Comes To SF For Five Months Starting In March 2017, LA After We heard a couple weeks ago that the first national tour of the wildly popular Broadway musical Hamilton would be kicking off this fall in Chicago, with definite stops in San Francisco and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' at the Curran Theater The new school of theater is all about old-school ingenuity, energy, and devising scenes without the crutches of fancy sets or special effects. Peter and the Starcatcher, the Tony Award-winning play based on
Arts & Entertainment 'Book of Mormon' Returns to SF This Fall Good news for theater fans, and South Park fans, and fans of all things funny and awesome. The Book of Mormon is returning to S.F., this time to the Orpheum Theater, for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Anything Goes' at the Golden Gate Theater SHN's latest Broadway tour arrival, Anything Goes, is a good reminder of what purely pleasurable confections musicals once were. And this cast and production, fresh from a Tony-winning run in New York, shine
Arts & Entertainment Spoof of Hitchcock's <em>The 39 Steps</em> Opens at Curran Theater A theater piece spoofing Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, which played on Broadway earlier this year and was nominated for several Tony Awards, opens at the Curran Theater this week. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>South Pacific</i> at the Golden Gate Theater Theater fans may have heard about the 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, which took home a bunch of Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Direction and Best Scenic
