Carole Shorenstein Hays News

SHN is pleased to announce the 2008-2009 Best of Broadway season.

ALMOST AN EVENING, Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen's trio of comic plays directed by Neil Pepe, will welcome Kate Blumberg and Peter Maloney to the cast of the hit Off-Broadway production on Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

SHN is pleased to announce that THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, the five-time Tony Award-winning musical within a comedy, will play the Orpheum Theatre beginning Tuesday, July 22nd through Sunday, August 17th. THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is presented as a part of the 2007-2008 Citibank Best of Broadway season under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays. Tickets go on sale Sunday, May 18th.

SHN is honored that A Chorus Line will return to its beloved 'hometown' San Francisco, where the show launched its original national tour at the Curran Theatre in 1976.

Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus), now starring in Atlantic Theater Company's hit world premiere production of Academy Award winning film maker Ethan Coen's ALMOST AN EVENING, will appear live on 'CW 11 Morning News' on Monday, March 31st, and on Bloomberg Television's 'Night Talk with Mike Schneider' on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008.

Tuna Does Vegas, the new installment from the legendary 'Greater Tuna' creative team, rolls into San Francisco for a strictly limited engagement playing the Curran Theatre beginning Tuesday, June 17 through Saturday, June 28. Tuna Does Vegas will be presented as a special engagement of the 2007-2008 Citibank Best of Broadway season, under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 18.

Catch this special video feature of 'Almost An Evening' in rehearsals!

Casting has been announced for the San Francisco engagement of Disney's High School Musical playing the Orpheum Theatre April 15-27, 2008.

It was announced today that Xanadu star Anika Larsen, will star in the new musical 'Ha'Penny Bridge,' as Molly 'a beautiful yet principled young woman' angered by the senselessness of civil war in 1920s Ireland. Larsen's other credits include All Shook Up and Rent.

Ha'Penny Bridge, a new Irish musical makes its U.S. Premiere in San Francisco this summer, on its way to Broadway. This brand new show portrays a rich, moving, but troubled love story, set against a backdrop of political unrest and divided loyalties. Ha'Penny Bridge plays the Golden Gate Theatre (1 Taylor Street) beginning Sunday, July 6 through Sunday, August 10

SHN announces today that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's musical, Whistle Down The Wind will play San Francisco's Curran Theatre April 1-20, 2008.

SHN is pleased to announce the national tour of Disney's High School Musical will play San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre April 15-27, 2008.

The front row of the center orchestra seats will be made available for $25 for every performance of Jersey Boys playing the Curran Theatre now through December 30, 2007

Casting has been announced for the special holiday encore engagement of Jersey Boys, set to play San Francisco's Curran Theatre from November 20-December 30, 2007. The cast of Jersey Boys will be lead by Rick Faugno (Frankie Valli), San Franciscan Jeff Leibow (Nick Massi), Bryan McElroy (Tommy DeVito) and Andrew Rannells (Bob Gaudio) as The Four Seasons with Jonathan Hadley and Ken Krugman.

The West Coast premiere of Oprah Winfrey's new musical, The Color Purple began performances at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre October 9, running through Sunday, December 9.

Following an extended, 44-week, record-breaking run at San Francisco's Curran Theatre, Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will return to delight Bay Area audiences for a special holiday encore engagement from November 20-December 30, 2007.

Mamma Mia!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to the Orpheum Theatre (Hyde and Market at 8th Street) for a limited engagement beginning Wednesday, September 5 and running through Saturday, September 22 as a special engagement in association with the 2007-2008 Best of Broadway season

Nero, a collaboration by Spring Awakening Tony Award-winners Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater about the debauched Roman emperor, might conquer Broadway in the future

'Avenue Q' national tour launches at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre beginning August 7 through September 2. Rush tickets ($25) available at each performance!

SHN is pleased to announce the national tour of 'Spring Awakening,' winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will launch at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in the fall of 2008.