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
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 Tony-Winning Musical 'Fun Home' To Be Inaugural Production In Newly Redone Curran In conjunction with a discussion with the show's creators and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom last night, the Curran Theatre announced that Broadway hit and 2015 Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home is on its
Arts & Entertainment John Leguizamo To Preview 'Latin History For Dummies' At Berkeley Rep This Summer In what's likely to be the pre-Broadway trial run of his latest one-man show, Obie and Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo is bringing Latin History For Dummies to Berkeley Rep for a world
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love To Discuss And Perform From Her Musical Collaboration 'Kansas City Choir Boy' With Todd Almond March 7 Love her or despise her, onetime SF resident Courtney Love is swinging back through town next month to give us a one-night sneak peek at a musical theater collaboration she's been working on
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's School For The Arts Brings 'School Of Rock - The Musical' To The Curran As part of their ongoing Under Construction series while the theater itself undergoes a major, year-long renovation the Curran is putting on the first ever amateur production of School Of Rock - 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 [Update] <i>Hamilton</i> The Musical Will Be Coming To SF And LA By 2017 In the rush of holiday stuff we missed the news that the wildly popular and critically lauded Broadway musical Hamilton, written by Lin-Manual Miranda of In the Heights fame, had already announced a
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Local Theaters In The Bay Area The SF Bay Area may not hold a candle to New York when it comes to theater offerings, but you may not be aware of the rich array of small local and regional
Arts & Entertainment Perez Hilton To Play Bob Saget In <i>Full House: The Musical!</i> An off-Broadway musical set to premiere in New York this fall will lampoon the sitcom Full House, and will give celebrity barnacle Perez Hilton a new opportunity to show off his talents as
Arts & Entertainment Eliana Lopez Comedy Opens This Week, Looks As Embarrassing As Expected Sherriff Ross Mirkarimi's actress wife Eliana Lopez will be debuting her all-in-Spanish one-woman comedy this coming weekend, chronicling the year-long 2012 domestic violence scandal that nearly cost Mirkarimi his job. Lopez maintained throughout
Arts & Entertainment 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac' Remounted For Limited Run In June The FOGG Theatre's inaugural, original production, The Cable Car Nymphomaniac which SFist reviewed during its initial run in January is being remounted in a new space starting May 29. The initial run was
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tour A.C.T.'s Brand New Strand Theater It's a new opening curtain at The Strand (1117 Market at 7th), the American Conservatory Theater's new second home on Market Street. Or it would be, only the gorgeous stage doesn't have a
Arts & Entertainment Idina Menzel Coming To SF This Fall In 'If/Then' Broadway star Idina Menzel will be joining the national tour of the Tony-nominated musical she starred in last year on Broadway, If/Then, for its first seven cities, the third of which will
Arts & Entertainment Peeking Inside The Historic, Almost-Open Strand Theater, A.C.T.'s New Second Home On Market Street Now after three years of fundraising and construction, SF's American Conservatory Theater is getting set to show the public its brand new performance space on mid-Market, The Strand Theater (1117 Market at 7th)
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'The Facts Of Life' Coming To Oasis This Month Because SF's drag queens have not yet run out of old TV shows to reenact, in drag, D'Arcy Drollinger and a cast of friends bring you The Facts of Life, premiering April 23
Arts & Entertainment What Is SHN Doing With The Old Mint? SHN SF, the organization that brings Broadway touring companies to SF stages, has something up its sleeve for The Old Mint, and I'm dying to know what. As the Chronicle reported this week,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Everybody Say Yeah' From 'Kinky Boots' Opening tonight in San Francisco is the first touring production of the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best New Musical, Kinky Boots, direct from Broadway where it's still playing to sellout crowds. Adapted from the
Arts & Entertainment You Can Still Get 'Book Of Mormon' Tickets Via Lottery Hoorah! Book of Mormon opens next week for its second run in San Francisco (see our review from last year's touring production), and if you hadn't heard, it's a hilarious and wonderful musical
Arts & Entertainment More Big Broadway Names Headlining Feinstein's This Summer Showing that they have more booking power and a greater taste for musical theater than their predecessors at the Rrazz Room, the folks at new cabaret venue Feinstein's at the Nikko have just
Arts & Entertainment Tony Kushner, Kneehigh Theatre Both Returning for Berkeley Rep's New Season This week, Berkeley Rep announced six of the plays in the upcoming 2013-14 season, and among them will be the acclaimed Tony Kushner play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Opens Next Week (Again) With $25 Daily Ticket Lottery Wicked, the Wizard of Oz-inspired Broadway musical, is returning to S.F. next week, with a four-week run from January 23 to February 17. During this run, they'll be doing a daily lottery
Arts & Entertainment Mike Tyson To Appear Live on Stage In S.F. In One-Man Show Directed by Spike Lee Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth is a one-man show that features the infamous boxer and convicted rapist live on stage talking about himself, and it's coming to San Francisco's Orpheum Theater for a week
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'The Fifth Element': Live! at the Darkroom Theater Well, this is fun. The kooky kids at the Darkroom Theater (2263 Mission Street) who brought you the staged reenactment of The Princess Bride over the summer are now doing a rendition of
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers' Daughter Seeks Funding for One-Woman Show Liberty Bradford Mitchell, one of ten kids in the Mitchell Brothers' clan and daughter of Art Mitchell, is a yogi down in L.A. and appears to be leading a happy, stable life
