42nd Street Moon News

42nd Street Moon's final production of the season, Very Warm for May, is the company's first show in the Jerome Kern Celebration and spotlights Kern's final Broadway score. The show previews on May 5, 6 and 7, opens on Saturday May 8 and runs through May 24 at the Eureka Theatre.

Three couples, two dinner parties, one adulterous affair. International City Theatre presents How the Other Half Loves, the delicious comedy by Alan Ayckbourn that ingeniously juggles time and space to create a whirlwind of chaos, confusion and laughter. Todd Nielsen directs a four-week run April 30 through May 23, with low-priced previews beginning April 27.

Carly Ozard, voted 'Best Cabaret Performer 2009', presents six diverse showcases and will co-host four evenings of open mics featuring talented performers from professional Bay Area musical theatres and groups including 42nd Street Moon, Lamplighters, The SF Gay Men's Chorus and vocal artists from the local cabaret and performance oeuvre. This is part of the SOMETHING C.O.O.L. - THE SUMMER CABARET FESTIVAL, which runs MAY 27 - JUNE 27, 2010. All shows are at the Eureka Theatre - 215 Jackson St. in SF 94102.

42nd Street Moon will end its current run of Klea Blackhurst in her highly-acclaimed one-woman show, Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman on April 25 at the Eureka Theatre.

Maureen McVerry stars in VERRY McVERRY and is making her Solo Debut at the Eureka Theatre in SF. The show will run Sun. June 6, 2010 - 7:00 pm for one night only. Musical Direction is by Dave Dobrusky

42nd Street Moon's Artistic Director, Greg MacKellan, today announced that the Company will present Klea Blackhurst in her highly-acclaimed one-woman show, Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman for five performances only at the Eureka Theatre from April 21 - 25.

Rena Wilson, the Diablo Theatre Company's education coordinator and a performer familiar to audiences throughout the Bay Area, has added another role to her already-busy schedule.

Forced to find a new member just days before an appearance at the White House, the artists of an internationally celebrated string quartet are caught in a crescendo of talent and personality in the regional premiere of Michael Hollinger's OPUS, presented by TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theater of the Silicon Valley.

42nd Street Moon's final production of the season, Very Warm for May, is the company's first show in the Jerome Kern Celebration and spotlights Kern's final Broadway score. The show previews on May 5, 6 and 7, opens on Saturday May 8 and runs through May 24 at the Eureka Theatre.

42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin Celebration kicks off with one of the earliest Gershwin hits: Lady, Be Good!, the first smash hit the Gershwin brothers enjoyed in New York. It opens at the Eureka Theatre on Saturday, April 3, with three low-priced previews on March 31, April 1 and 2, and runs through April 18.

42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin Celebration kicks off with one of the earliest Gershwin hits: Lady, Be Good!, the first smash hit the Gershwin brothers enjoyed in New York. It opens at the Eureka Theatre on Saturday, April 3, with three low-priced previews on March 31, April 1 and 2, and runs through April 18.

42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin Celebration kicks off with one of the earliest Gershwin hits: Lady, Be Good!, the first smash hit the Gershwin brothers enjoyed in New York. It opens at the Eureka Theatre on Saturday, April 3, with three low-priced previews on March 31, April 1 and 2, and runs through April 18.

42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin Celebration kicks off with one of the earliest Gershwin hits: Lady, Be Good!, the first smash hit the Gershwin brothers enjoyed in New York. It opens at the Eureka Theatre on Saturday, April 3, with three low-priced previews on March 31, April 1 and 2, and runs through April 18.

Three couples, two dinner parties, one adulterous affair. International City Theatre presents How the Other Half Loves, the delicious comedy by Alan Ayckbourn that ingeniously juggles time and space to create a whirlwind of chaos, confusion and laughter. Todd Nielsen directs a four-week run April 30 through May 23, with low-priced previews beginning April 27.

The seventh annual San Francisco Theater Festival, a free one-day extravaganza of 120 shows on 17 stages has been scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Yerba Buena Gardens arts complex.

This year's Critics Circle Awards, sponsored by Actor's Equity Association, today announced is nominees for excellence in San Francisco Bay area theater. Berkeley Rep's production of American Idiot, which played in the fall of 2009, leads with 12 nominations and will open on Broadway this spring.

Greg MacKellan, artistic director of 42nd Street Moon, and Stephanie Rhoads, producing director, today announced details of the upcoming 2010-11 season of uncommon musical theater. For its eighteenth season, merriment abounds in a season rife with Lovers, Liars and Clowns at the Eureka Theatre. The great American composers, lyricists, and librettists featured in 2010-11 are Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, John Kander and Fred Ebb, George S. Kaufman, Stephen Sondheim and more.

Local actor Tom Orr, San Francisco's 'original musical comedy cabaret porn star,' happily joins the cast of Theatre Rhinoceros' current production of Jonathan Larsen's 'tick tick ... BOOM!', a prequel of sorts to his RENT.

Greg MacKellan, artistic director of 42nd Street Moon, and Stephanie Rhoads, producing director, are proud to announce that the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund has awarded the company a grant in the amount of $25,000.

Local actor Tom Orr, San Francisco's 'original musical comedy cabaret porn star,' happily joins the cast of Theatre Rhinoceros' current production of Jonathan Larsen's 'tick tick ... BOOM!', a prequel of sorts to his RENT.