Arts & Entertainment SF Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season, Readies In-Person Summer Shows The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Return to Curran In January as One-Part, One-Night Play The Tony Award-winning two-part play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is going to return, both to Broadway and to San Francisco, in a revised and much shorter form — with the creative team having worked during the pandemic to turn this into a one-part show.
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Releases 'Tales of the City' Musical on Streaming, for Pride Week In celebration of Pride and the 10th anniversary of the world premiere of Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City, the Musical,' ACT is releasing it on streaming.
Arts & Entertainment 'Paradise Square,' a Musical About 19th Century New York That Played at Berkeley Rep In January 2019, Heads to Broadway A musical that was in development over the last decade and was last seen by an audience here in the Bay Area, 'Paradise Square,' is planning a Broadway run starting next February.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Will Return With Four-Week Run to Reopen SF's Orpheum Theater 'Hamilton' is returning to the San Francisco theater this August where it was still being performed last March before the pandemic shut down all theaters on and off Broadway.
Arts & Entertainment Still Unnamed Circus Show Taking Shape at Club Fugazi, as the Former Beach Blanket Babylon Venue Gets Remodeled A circus show from two Bay Area natives is moving into the storied North Beach theater that was once a Beat Generation venue before becoming the longtime home of 'Beach Blanket Babylon'.
Arts & Entertainment Circus-Themed Show By Pickle Family Circus Vet Reportedly Set to Take Over 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Venue Club Fugazi A well known circus creator has reportedly inked a deal to take over Club Fugazi in North Beach, the longtime home of Beach Blanket Babylon before its New Year's Eve 2019 closure.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Announces Three Filmed Play Readings to Be Streamed This Spring As San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater prepares to try to reopen for in-person performances this summer (or fall), the company has announced a series of play readings that will continue its streaming programs that began in the fall.
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812' Berkeley's Shotgun Players is alive and well, and they're planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition between streaming-only and in-person theater.
Arts & Entertainment Support Local Theater By Watching a One-Night-Only Video Performance of the Lizzie Borden Musical Way back in 2015, local musical theater company Ray of Light Theatre put on a well received production of 'Lizzie: The Musical,' a rock opera based on the story of notorious family-murderer Lizzie Borden.
Arts & Entertainment Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere 'The Catastrophist,' a New Play About Pandemics Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it's set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.
Arts & Entertainment All You Need to Know About Virtual Theater in the Bay Area This Fall It will be a while before we’ll be able to come together and sit shoulder-to-shoulder to enjoy the shared experience of live theater, but in the meantime, several Bay Area theater companies are refusing to go completely dark and are producing shows that can be enjoyed at home.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge,' 'Hadestown,' and 'Oklahoma!' Announced for Broadway SF 2020-2021 Season The upcoming season at BroadwaySF features a bunch of big tours coming to us from the last season of Broadway, and there's more of them now that 'Hamilton' is closing at the end of May and freeing up the Orpheum Theatre again.
Arts & Entertainment 'Gatz,' the Acclaimed Six-Hour Theater Adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby' Comes to Berkeley Rep in February A legendary production that originated over a decade ago with New York's Elevator Repair Service theater company that takes on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby in its entirety is coming to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in February for a special ten-day run.
Arts & Entertainment Leona Helmsley Musical 'Queen of Mean' Comes To Feinstein's In Cabaret Form A pared-down version of a show that's been workshopped and performed multiple times in recent years in the hopes of going to Broadway, all about the life and times of infamous New York hotelier and entrepreneur Leona Helmsley, is coming to Feinstein's at the Nikko this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment J.K. Rowling Reveals That Alcatraz Was A Direct Inspiration For Azkaban Ahead of the October opening of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at The Curran in San Francisco, director John Tiffany, playwright Jack Thorne, and author J.K. Rowling sat down for an interview about adapting the show for the SF theater.
Arts & Entertainment Here's What You Should Be Checking Out In Bay Area Theater This Summer Summer is a lively time for theater in the Bay Area, especially with outdoor productions by the California Shakespeare Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (who will premiere their new musical "Treasure Island" on July 4th).
Arts & Entertainment The Curran To Be Transformed Into Theater-in-the-Round For 'The Jungle' Ahead of the April 4 opening of The Jungle at The Curran, the recently renovated theater's 1600-seat proscenium setup will become an intimate 600-seat house with 360-degree staging.
Arts & Entertainment Alec Baldwin Comes To SF November 18 To Promote Satirical Trump 'Memoir' As part of The Curran's newly announced "Show & Tell" series, Edward Snowden will be doing a live (presumably via Skype) conversation with KQED's Michael Krasny on the anniversary of last November's election.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Taylor Mac Discusses His SF Inspiration For 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Tonight is the opening of Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, being performed at the Curran from start to finish (in four parts on four separate days, separated across two weekends)
Arts & Entertainment SF Society Season Kicks Off With Opera Ball, Opening Night Of 'Turandot' This Friday, September 8, opens the 95th season for San Francisco Opera with the opening night of a production of Puccini’s Turandot originally staged by English artist David Hockney, directed by Garnett
Arts & Entertainment Kathleen Turner Coming To Feinstein's To 'Sing And Share Backstage Stories' Acclaimed actress Kathleen Turner is coming to San Francisco this fall for a pair of intimate performances at Feinstein's at the Nikko and who knew she did cabaret? As Playbill first reported, her
Arts & Entertainment New Daniel Handler Play 'Imaginary Comforts' To Premiere At Berkeley Rep In October A new play by local author Daniel Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, by the name of Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be having its world
Arts & Entertainment Watch Taylor Mac And A Gang Of Beautiful Freaks Galavant Around SF To 'Amazing Grace' "We're making a 24-decade history of popular music. It is a Radical Faerie realness ritual sacrifice." Thus begins this stunning promo video for the upcoming San Francisco production of Taylor Mac's acclaimed A
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns To SF In September To Perform His Complete 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Performer and playwright Taylor Mac will, for only the second time, be performing all 24 hours of his epically ambitious A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music this fall at The Curran. The wildly
