Arts & Entertainment 'The Encounter' To Bring Experimental Audio-Centric Theater To The Curran English actor and director Simon McBurney will be recognizable to many for his supporting roles in action movies of recent years like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, but he
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming SHN Season To Include Broadway Hits 'The Color Purple' And 'An American In Paris' It was SHN's turn to announce their upcoming season of theater today, and included among the Broadway-tour offerings are the first national tours of current Broadway hits School of Rock, Alladin, and Waitress,
Arts & Entertainment Select Face-Value 'Hamilton' Tickets Now Available For Entire SF Run A new release of face-value tickets for the San Francisco run of Hamilton, which officially opens Thursday following two weeks of previews and runs through August, has not gotten a ton of press
Arts & Entertainment 'Angels In America' To Return To The Bay Area Next Season At Berkeley Rep Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Angels in America, commissioned by and first produced at San Francisco's Eureka Theater in 1991, will be having its first full production in the Bay
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 SF Shakes Celebrates 35 Years With '35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places' All Over San Francisco The scrappy local theater troupe known as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is celebrating their 35th season in SF this year, and they're doing with an extended series of brief outdoor performances in
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Curran, The Newly Renovated 95-Year-Old Theater Reopening This Month After two years of renovation and restoration, The Curran theater on Geary Street comes back to life this month with an inaugural production of the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. This will be
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' National Tour Cast Includes Members Of Broadway And Chicago Casts Casting for the first national tour of Broadway smash hit Hamilton, which officially kicks off here in SF in March, was just announced, and among the principal cast members are performers who are
Arts & Entertainment The Strand Theater Welcomes The Skivvies With Their Underwear-Clad 'Holiday Roadkill' Bringing some saucy (and pretty gay sounding) fun to The Strand next week are The Skivvies, the Broadway duo of Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, and their holiday revue of classics, covers, and
Arts & Entertainment Film Premiere Of 'Fences' Starring Denzel Washington And Viola Davis To Mark Reopening Of Curran Theater The local theatergoing community has been awaiting the grand reopening of The Curran theater since late last year, when it was announced that local producer and SHN co-founder Carole Shorentstein Hays was renovating
Arts & Entertainment Sadly, David Byrne's Musical About Imelda Marcos Won't Be Coming to ACT After All Sad news today for theater fans: ACT announced that they've had to cancel the planned June production of Here Lies Love, the acclaimed musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim that tells the
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley's Shotgun Players Enter Full Repertory Cycle, With New Plays Each Night Of The Week Shotgun Players opened their ambitious 25th anniversary season this spring with a decidedly ambitious approach to Hamlet seven actors have their names randomly drawn each night, each having memorized most of the show's
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Spring Awakening' At Stanford Fans of the two-run Broadway hit Spring Awakening may want to consider a trip to Palo Alto next week for a new and pretty great sounding production at Stanford's Department of Theater and
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Ring Of Keys' From 'Fun Home' Gets Music Video By Oakland School Of The Arts The inaugural production at the newly renovated and revamped Curran Theater, under the artistic direction of owner and longtime local theater impresario Carole Shorenstein Hays, will be the Tony Award-winning Best New Musical
Arts & Entertainment Fall Theater Preview: New Plays Explore San Francisco's Past, England's Future, And More As Labor Day passes, we start to say goodbye to whatever high hopes we had for making the most of our oh-so-wintry summer months, but we start to hope for another couple months
Arts & Entertainment Jane Lynch Brings New Christmas Cabaret To Feinstein's At The Nikko In December Actress and comedian Jane Lynch, best known for her role as Sue Sylvester on Glee but also as host of Hollywood Game Night and for a recent Broadway appearance as Miss Hannigan in
Arts & Entertainment Magic Theatre Expanding To Mid-Market, But Not Relocating When we originally heard about the plans for the massive new mixed-use development headed for a long blighted block of Mid-Market, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, back in early 2014, it was set
Arts & Entertainment Tony Nominated Play <i>Eclipsed</i> Added To New Curran Season The Curran is continuing to undergo an extensive renovation and reinvention at the hands of new owner, producer Carole Shorenstein Hays, and Hays is continuing to add some high-profile productions direct from Broadway
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Daughters Of A Riot' At The Brava Theater At the Brava Theater this weekend, Friday and Saturday only, is a unique piece of collaborative performance being done by some notable names in SF's drag and nightlife communities. It's titled Work MORE!
Arts & Entertainment Louis C.K. Adds Two SF Sets At Bill Graham To Summer Tour Actor/writer/comedian/Jeopardy! champion Louis C.K. is coming to San Francisco this summer, and after just announcing a July 8 show at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Monday, which sold out
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment After-School Program That Did Anti-Tech Musical Now Takes On The Environment In <i>This American Hive</i> Fans of This American Life and loyal readers of SFist will remember CASA (Children's After-School Arts), the local after-school program that was featured because of a provocative musical they created and staged in
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theater Piece <i>The Speakeasy</i> Returns This Summer In Permanent North Beach Home Boxcar Theatre's hit immersive theater experience from 2014, The Speakeasy (see SFist's review here) is being revived this August in a new space in North Beach/Chinatown and like its first incarnation, the
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 Alan Cumming Brings His 'Sappy Songs' Show To The Castro Theatre In June Scottish-born actor Alan Cumming, who lately has been doing his best American accent as Eli Gold on the final season of The Good Wife, returned to the live stage in 2014 to reprise
