San Francisco's Curran to Re-Open This Month with Tony Award Winning FUN HOME

Following an extensive two-year renovation, San Francisco's Curran is set to re-open this month with the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. Performances begin January 25 (running 4 weeks through February 19) with an official opening night set for Thursday, January 26 at 8:00 pm.

Individuals who purchase a ticket to Fun Home will automatically receive one year of charter access to the Curran Club. The Curran is driven to create a cultural hub where audiences and artists are part of the same community and will begin cultivating this community with the the launch of the Curran Club - a members-only service that honors the Curran community with special perks. Curran Club members will attend exclusive parties, meet-and-greets with the cast and receive special access to local arts events - in addition to special Curran Club ticket prices. More information on the Curran Club can be found at https://sfcurran.com/curran-club/

Fun Home is the first event at the Curran in 2017, a year featuring an eclectic array of programming. Next, written by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tommy, Eclipsed, the story of five extraordinary women brought together by upheaval in their homeland of Liberia, will run March 7 - 19. The Encounter, Simon McBurney?'s riveting one-man play where audience members must wear headphones to take part in the journey, will be the third event at the Curran, this spring, April 25 - May 7, 2017.

Tony Award-winning director Sam Gold, who staged both the Off Broadway and Broadway productions of Fun Home, has restaged this production for proscenium theaters like the Curran, as it was done in its sold-out run at The Public Theater's Newman and Shiva Theaters.

Based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home features music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and direction by Sam Gold, whose work on this production earned them Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Book and Best Direction.

Tickets for Fun Home are priced at $29 - $149 and can be purchased at SFCURRAN.COM or by calling Guest Services at 415-358-1220. Performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday - Sunday at 8 pm; Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 pm. For advance access to tickets for future shows, and to be the first to hear about exciting happenings at the Curran, sign-up at SFCURRAN.COM.

Fun Home introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family - her mother, brothers and volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father - that connect with her in surprising new ways. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Fun Home was also nominated for 2015 Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design of Musical (David Zinn), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Ben Stanton) and Best Orchestrations (John Clancy). The creative team also includes Danny Mefford (Choreography), Kai Harada (Sound Design), and Chris Fenwick (Music Direction).

Built in 1922, the Curran has housed some of the most important productions in history and has maintained a reputation over the course of its life as one of the greatest venues in North America. Now, nearly 100 years after it welcomed its first Bay Area audiences, the Curran has just completed a major restoration and renovation. Under the curation of eight-time Tony Award winner Carole Shorenstein Hays, the Curran is reopening as a 1,600 seat venue with a new mission, being a home for the most exciting stage works being conceived and created anywhere in the world.

For information, visit SFCURRAN.COM.

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