Carole Shorenstein News

The international sensation, The Ten Tenors, give a special concert engagement at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre for only four shows, October 6-8.

Chicago, featuring rock and roll superstar Huey Lewis, is presented as a special attraction of the San Francisco 2005-2006 Best of Broadway season, to play the Golden Gate Theatre October 24 through November 5.

SHN San Francisco has launched their new internet-audio podcast, Backstage, whereupon episodes will take you behind the scenes and spotlight exclusive interviews for each show from the 2006-2007 Best of Broadway season, including the SF premiere of 'A Chorus Line.'

Adriane Lenox, Chris McGarry and Lisa Joyce will join Cherry Jones in the upcoming national tour of Doubt

SHN has announced the world premiere Pre-Broadway debut of the new musical, 'Legally Blonde,' at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre January 23, 2007.

DOUBT, the winner of the 2005 Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize for Best Play, will complete its triumphant Broadway run this Sunday, July 2. DOUBT, which is written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Doug Hughes, will have played 525 performances, and 25 previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). When it completes its run, DOUBT will be the fifth longest running play of the past 10 years.

'The Light in the Piazza' visits The Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco August 1 through 27. Tickets go on sale for the general public in July.

RENT, the critically acclaimed Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif that inspired a major motion picture (which was filmed recently in the Bay Area), returns to San Francisco. RENT, celebrating its 10th anniversary on Broadway, is presented as a special attraction on the 2005-2006 Best of Broadway season brought to you by Citibank, under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays.

DOUBT, the winner of the 2005 Tony Award(r) and Pulitzer Prize for Best Play, will complete its triumphant Broadway run on Sunday, July 2.

Matthew Broderick, who was previously announced to star in the Broadway-bound Kenneth Lonergan play The Starry Messenger, will first take the play to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in January of 2007

San Francisco's Best of Broadway 2006-07 Season features many highly-anticipated theatre events! Including 'Jersey Boys,' 'The Light in the Piazza,' 'Legally Blonde,' 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,' 'Doubt,' and 'Altar Boyz.'

WELL, a new comedy, will open on Broadway tonight, March 30.

The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.

San Francisco heralds in a highly-anticipated season of pre-Broadway premieres and special engagements, including 'Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake,' 'Slava's Snowshow,' and 'A Chorus Line.'

MCC Theater's 'Miscast' benefit evening was held last night with a star-studded celebrity line-up including Michael Cerveris, Eden Espinosa, Ana Gasteyer, Matthew Morrison.

Matthew Broderick has been cast in the Broadway-bound Kenneth Lonergan play The Starry Messenger, which will deliver itself on Broadway in April of 2007

MCC THEATER announced today that FELICIA FIELDS (The Color Purple), along with a special performance by members of Broadway's THE WEDDING SINGER will join the celebrity cast of 'MISCAST,' a star-studded musical revue featuring some of Broadway's biggest names singing show tunes in roles they would never, ever perform.

Jayne Houdyshell was awarded a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Female Supporting Performance earlier today for her work in the American Conservatory Theater's production of WELL.

On March 10th, Lisa Kron's Well will begin Broadway previews at the Longacre Theatre