Keri Safran News

Votes are cast; polls are closed; and results have been tabulated! This was our biggest year yet! After a record number of voters in more than 75 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is very excited to announce the 2016 San Francisco winners! Thanks to all who voted, and huge congratulations to all the winners!

For years now, Kate Pazakis' UMPO has been steadily optimizing her passion of film, turning them into loving spoofs that even those unfamiliar with the movie sent-up can still enjoy. With her talented partners, they take cult film favorites and match them up with pop tune soundtracks for mash-ups of wit, fun, incredible singing and much laughter. UMPO's latest creation THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF HOCUS POCUS opened September 29, 2016 at the Rockwell Table & Stage.

Transcendence Theatre Company had an INCREDIBLE week!! We closed DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY and also held a special and NEW experience, the Wine Country Speakeasy.

For our 68th show, we take a look back at one of the greatest decades in music and the amazing singer/songwriters of that era. It's a different kind of show for us, but we do love to be different. So, you'll be getting classic and amazing songs by the likes of Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Elton John - well, you get the idea. We've assembled a wonderful cast, including a rare appearance from Guy Haines, who absolutely assures us that he will be there this time. So, get in the Kritzerland Time Machine and travel back to the eclectic and astonishing songs of the great singer/songwriters of the 1970s.

Dude Hang on to your undies...and your beverage! Rockwell Table & Stage crosses the line with its outrageous Unauthorized Musical Parody of The Big Lebowski, an American cult classic, running Thursday and Friday nights, though the end of this 2016 summer. Grab your tickets before they go missing, now on sale at: www.rockwell-la.com

Every year, Hollywood studios spend millions upon millions of dollars on TV pilots, the test shows that networks order before deciding which shows should become full-fledged series or wind up being locked away in a vault never to be seen again. For every pilot that eventually airs, there are three that never will see daylight, even though there are thousands of hopeful writers, directors and actors in our town that work around-the-clock during pilot season, hoping their work will be picked up and make them a lot of money as a hit TV series.

After a sold-out show and a stellar review from BroadwayWorld's Gil Kaan, the Stupid Songs Troupe will return to Rockwell Table and Stage tonight, August 25th, for an Encore performance of STUPID GOLD! A Night of their Stupidest Hits (plus some brand new songs)!

After a sold-out show and a stellar review from BroadwayWorld's Gil Kaan, the Stupid Songs Troupe will return to Rockwell Table and Stage on Tuesday, August 25th, for an Encore performance of STUPID GOLD! A Night of their Stupidest Hits (plus some brand new songs)!

On August 18th, The Stupid Songs Troupe wowed the packed house of the Rockwell Table & Stage with their fast-paced 70-minutes of 18 non-stop songs of high hilarity and witty, hysterical lyrics. Director Keri Safran begins the fun with 'Stupid Gold,' her re-written lyrics to the tune of 'Xanadu.' Backed by twelve of her enthusiastic troupe-mates, this opener sets the audience up for the lofty amusement that follows.

Following a sold-out, rave-reviewed run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Stupid Songs Troupe will return to Rockwell Table & Stage tonight, August 18th, 2015, for a night of their Stupidest Hits (plus some brand new, original tunes)!

Following a sold-out, rave-reviewed run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Stupid Songs Troupe will return to Rockwell Table & Stage on Tuesday, August 18th, 2015, for a night of their Stupidest Hits (plus some brand new, original tunes)!

Transcendence Theatre Company, producer of the Broadway Under the Stars in Jack London State Historic Park concert series, announced the company of artists who will appear during the 2015 series of shows running tonight, June 19 through September 13. From June through September on select weekends, visitors to Sonoma County can conclude a day of wine tasting by attending Broadway Under the Stars, the main stage musical concert series presented by Transcendence Theatre Company in the open-air Winery Ruins of Jack London State Historic Park.

Transcendence Theatre Company, producer of the Broadway Under the Stars in Jack London State Historic Park concert series, announced the company of artists who will appear during the 2015 series of shows running June 19 through September 13. From June through September on select weekends, visitors to Sonoma County can conclude a day of wine tasting by attending Broadway Under the Stars, the main stage musical concert series presented by Transcendence Theatre Company in the open-air Winery Ruins of Jack London State Historic Park.

Directed by Keri Safran, with Musical Direction by Dan Wessels, the Stupid Songs Troupe has been performing to packed houses at venues like Rockwell Table & Stage, The Groundlings, Miles Memorial Playhouse, et al, and is thrilled to bring their brand of funny to the Fringe. Most of the performers met while training at The Groundlings Comedy Theatre & School, and will be performing funny songs & parodies they have written, plus a few gems from up-and-coming composers. The band members also play regularly for Lost Moon Radio & Thirty Minute Musicals.

THE WINTER'S TALE is not the easiest of Shakespeare's plays to stage. It must believably present a story sharply divided into two parts set in two different countries with drastically contrasting tones, and pull off an ending that resolves them by way of magic or a well-concealed plot, based on whichever point of view the director takes. The violence of the first half of the play in Sicilia (winter) melts away in the pastoral beauty of Bohemia (spring) in the second where the story continues sixteen years later before reuniting the past and present and absolving the sins of a repentant king.

There will be swashbuckling when Wasatch Theatrical Ventures presents the Tony-nominated comedy MOON OVER BUFFALO, written by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), directed by Kiff Scholl, produced by Racquel Lehrman/Theatre Planners, opening today, August 2 at the Grove Center Theatre in Burbank, CA.

Runs August 2 through Sept. 14. Fridays and Todays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $25. Buy tickets at www.plays411.com/moon or (323) 960-7721. Grove Theatre Center is located at 1111-B West Olive Avenue in George Izay Park, Burbank 91506.

Runs August 2 through Sept. 14. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $25. Buy tickets at www.plays411.com/moon or (323) 960-7721. Grove Theatre Center is located at 1111-B West Olive Avenue in George Izay Park, Burbank 91506.

Playwright Kenneth Cavander's found the ideal collaborator in The Antaeus Company for finessing his original two night's worth of performances into its current smartly-written, easily comprehensible, two-and-a-half hour narrative.