Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Race' Royalty Alaska Thunderf*ck to Play Mary In 'Oh, Mary!' In SF Speculation and rumors have been swirling for months now about who would play the titular role of Mary Todd Lincoln when Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' comes to San Francisco this fall, and now we have an answer.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Hit Play 'Oh, Mary!' Coming to San Francisco This Fall The Tony Award-winning, ahistorical hit play by Cole Escola about the imagined life of Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic would-be cabaret star is heading out on tour this year and will come to the Curran Theater in SF this October.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Native and Rupaul's Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour Brings Her 'Big Reveal' Live Show to Berkeley Rep Sasha Velour, the winner of Season 9 of 'Rupaul's Drag Race,' is returning to her birthplace of Berkeley to perform in drag for the first time there next week, kicking off a tour with a two-week residency at Berkeley Rep.
Arts & Entertainment Theatrical Take on 'Paranormal Activity,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and Broadway Hit 'Stereophonic' All Coming to SF This next theater season in San Francisco is shaping up to be a good one, with several Broadway hits and new works coming our way.
Arts & Entertainment Eddie Izzard Bringing Solo 'Hamlet' to ACT's Strand Theater In April Much lauded comedian Eddie Izzard is bringing her one-person version of Shakespeare's Hamlet to San Francisco in April, and Dame Judi Dench has reportedly called the performance "spectacular."
Arts & Entertainment Expect Magic, Music, and Puppetry In ACT's World Premiere 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' In setting out to do a new spin on the Dickens classic, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon enlisted playwright and friend Craig Lucas to write a new metaplay about a small-town putting on a production of 'A Christmas Carol.'
Arts & Entertainment Shakespeare In the Park Brings ‘The Tempest’ to the Embarcadero, and ‘As You Like It’ Opens at CalShakes This season of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival got extended to include two weekends of performances of ’The Tempest’ at Sue Bierman Park at the foot of Market Street, on the Embarcadero. And CalShakes comes back alive in Orinda this weekend with its production of ‘As You Like It’.
Arts & Entertainment Performers at Immersive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Allege Harassment and Other Problems as Show Remounts The Speakeasy, an immersive theater piece set in the 1920s that ran for 425 performances pre-pandemic in a subterranean space in North Beach called The Palace Theater, is reopening tonight. And as it does, former cast members are raising alarms.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musicals and a World Premiere Musical Come to the Bay Area This Spring This spring's theater season in San Francisco is especially full with acclaimed shows newly on tour, and a world-premiere musical at Berkeley Rep centered on the story of Galileo Galilei.
Arts & Entertainment 'Some Like It Hot,' 'Back to the Future,' 'Kimberly Akimbo' and More Announced for Next BroadwaySF Season Per usual, last year's Broadway hits will be making it to San Francisco a couple years late, with the touring shows just now announced for BroadwaySF's 2024-2025 season.
Arts & Entertainment 'Morning Show' Star Billy Crudup Brings Acclaimed One-Man Play to Berkeley Rep Emmy- and Tony-Award-winning actor Billy Crudup has returned to the Bay Area, starring in the one-man play 'Harry Clarke,' which first made a splash off-Broadway in 2017.
Arts & Entertainment Interactive Theater Piece 'The Speakeasy' Returns to North Beach In April Popular interactive theater experience 'The Speakeasy,' which has been on an extended hiatus since mid-2019, is returning to its underground digs in North Beach this spring, and the waitlist for tickets closes today.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musical 'Hadestown' Is Back In SF For Brief, One-Week Run After doing its first West Coast performances last year, 'Hadestown' has swung back through San Francisco by popular demand, and performances begin Tuesday night.
Arts & Entertainment 'Rent' Star Anthony Rapp to Bring Autobiographical Musical 'Without You' to the Curran in October Anthony Rapp, who played the character Mark in 'Rent' both on Broadway and on the big screen, has a new one-man show that tells the story of how he met 'Rent' creator Jonathan Larson and auditioned for the show, and it's coming to SF this fall.
Arts & Entertainment 2022 Tony Winner For Best New Musical, 'A Strange Loop,' Comes to SF Next Season at A.C.T. The acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson that took Broadway by storm last year, 'A Strange Loop,' will be coming to San Francisco next season directly from engagements on Broadway and London's West End.
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theatrical Party 'Pride In Gotham' to Deliver Campy Batman Experience Inside Historic Hibernia Bank A pretty unique Pride Week offering kicks off Tuesday night at the historic, long shuttered and barely-seen-for-decades Hibernia Bank space at Jones and Market, and it's sure to be a campy queer romp in a very gay Gotham City.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Announced SF Theater Seasons Include 'Company,' Pre-Broadway Preview of 'The Wiz' and World Premiere of 'Galileo' The announcements are in for the 2023-24 theater seasons in San Francisco and Berkeley, and after some sputtering through the last couple years of a pandemic, the show schedule finally looks very full once more.
Arts & Entertainment The Cockettes Come Back Hard In ‘Cockettes: Res-Erection’ This Weekend At The Oasis SF’s legendary heart-'throbs' the Cockettes will get it up again for Cockettes: Res-Erection, a “musical mayhem revue” featuring a touch of the original troupe and a fresh generation of cast members.
Arts & Entertainment 'Fiddler on the Roof' Revival Arrives In SF for One-Week Run Director Bartlett Sher's Drama Desk Award-winning 2015 revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' currently on a restarted national tour that was interrupted by the pandemic, is arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Comic Political Thriller 'Tea Party' Opens at the Strand Theater, a Swan Song Directing Project From a Director With ALS A Bay Area theater director who was diagnosed with ALS last year, and who has already lost the ability to speak, is at the helm of what she calls her "dream project," which came together quickly through the help of theater friends and opened last night at ACT's Strand Theater.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Headlands' at A.C.T. Is a Homecoming for Playwright Christopher Chen The American Conservatory Theater has technically been back open and audiences have been seeing shows there since last September. But this week's opening of a new play by San Francisco-born playwright Christopher Chen marks a more complete return for the theater in presenting a new work on stage.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Broadway Revival of 'Into the Woods' Is Coming to the Curran Next Year A new production of Sondheim's fairy tale mashup 'Into the Woods,' which won rave reviews and became an immediate hit of the latest Broadway season, is heading to San Francisco for a limited engagement in June 2023, as part of a national tour.
Arts & Entertainment New Musical Inspired and Performed By Real Bay Area Teens to Premiere August 4 at ACT 'The Code' is an unusual piece of work that benefited from a long incubation due to the pandemic, and American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory is getting set to premiere the musical in two weeks.
Arts & Entertainment SF Theaters Announce Next Season Lineups Including 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Six,' and 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Dear Evan Hanson' is returning to the Bay Area next winter, the West End and Broadway hit 'Six' is coming to town next year, and ACT is bringing in a new show by the acrobat troupe that created 'Dear San Francisco.'
Arts & Entertainment SF-Themed Circus Show Preps for Opening at Club Fugazi, Will Serve Liguria Bakery Focaccia and Other Snacks 'Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story,' the new show from Pickle Family Circus heir Gypsy Snider and co-artistic director Shana Carroll, is readying for its first previews at Club Fugazi in North Beach later this month, and they gave a sneak preview to some members of the press last week.
