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Photos: First Look at South Bay Musical Theatre's COMPANYby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/30/2022) - South Bay Musical Theatre is presenting COMPANY, the Tony® winning musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim, with book by George Furth. Check out photos here!
Photos: First Look at David Greig's DUNSINANE at Marin Theatre Companyby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/27/2022) - Brand-new production photos have been released from David Greig's acclaimed play, Dunsinane, now playing at Marin Theatre Company through Sunday, October 16, 2022. See the photos here!
Photos: First Look at THE RIPPLE, THE WAVE THAT CARRIED ME HOME World Premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatreby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/22/2022) - Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting the world premiere production of the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson, directed by Jackson Gay, and produced in association with Goodman Theatre. Performances run through Sunday, October 16. Get a first look at photos here!
Review: CATS at San Jose Center For The Performing Artsby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/22/2022) - What did our critic, Linda Hodges think of CATS at San Jose Center For The Performing Arts?
Review: HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Golden Gate Theatreby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/18/2022) - What did our critic, Linda Hodges, think of HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Golden Gate Theatre, SF?
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at Orpheum Theatreby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/14/2022) - What did our critic think of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at Orpheum Theatre? Sometimes a show happily checks all the boxes for a satisfying performance, but then there is that rare creature that rises above the rest to so thoroughly dazzle, delight and enchant theatergoers that it leaves an indelible imprint on their minds forever. And what is the show? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical, a jukebox musical like no other. Prepare to be dazzled! Playing now through November 6, BroadwaySF's Moulin Rouge! The Musical will take your breath away.
Photos: First Look at KINKY BOOTS at Ray Of Light Theatre in San Franciscoby Blair Ingenthron - San Francisco / Bay Area
(09/10/2022) - Ray of Light Theatre has released production photos for the San Francisco production of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical, KINKY BOOTS. Performances begin September 9th at the Victoria Theatre and run through October 1st. Get a first look at the photos here!
Review: ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S OKLAHOMA! at Golden Gate Theatre, San Franciscoby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(08/20/2022) - What did our critic think of ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S OKLAHOMA! at Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco?
Photos: First Look At Christopher Sieber, Natalie Tenenbaum, and Natalie Joy Johnson At Broadway And Vineby Grace Cutler - San Francisco / Bay Area
(08/14/2022) - Broadway and Vine, intersecting the best of Broadway with the best of Wine Country continued its vineyard concert series this week with Christopher Sieber.
Review: THE LION KING at Broadway San Joseby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(08/05/2022) - What did our critic think of THE LION KING at Broadway San Jose?
Photos: Merola Brings Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, August 4 & 6by A.A. Cristi - San Francisco / Bay Area
(08/03/2022) - Merola Opera Program continues its 2022 season with a fully staged production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), giving the public the opportunity to see Merola’s exciting 2022 participants performing full operatic roles, conducted by Kelly Kuo, Associate Director of American Lyric Theatre and Music Director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra.
Photos: Steinway Society Announces Season 28 Classical Piano Performancesby Grace Cutler - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/30/2022) - Nine outstanding international classical pianists have been selected as Steinway Society’s featured performers for its 28th Season. Each month, from September 2022 through May 2023, one award-winning pianist will perform live in a south Bay Area concert venue.
Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouseby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/20/2022) - San Francisco Playhouse is presenting Follies, Book by James Goldman, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, through September 10. The cast features Natascia Diaz as Sally Durant Plummer; Samantha Rose Cárdenas as Young Sally and Ensemble; Maureen McVerry as of Phyllis Rogers Stone and more. Get a first look at photos here!
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Broadway San Joseby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/18/2022) - What did our critic think of COME FROM AWAY at Broadway San Jose? Broadway San Jose's Come From Away is far and away a show of delight, laughter, pathos and altogether great story-telling. The show - with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein - 'tells the true story of 38 planes and almost 7,000 passengers from around the world that were diverted to the small community of Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, doubling its population in an instant.' Using a documentary theater approach, Sankoff and Hein drew from interviews with the people of Gander and 'the plane people,' as they affectionately came to be called, to craft their loving, hugely funny and deeply touching show.
Transcendence Theatre Company Announces Cast And Creative Team For HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOODby A.A. Cristi - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/14/2022) - For the second show in their 2022 season of original outdoor musical revues, Transcendence Theatre Company will present HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD.
Photos: Latin American/Spanish Composers Showcased in Merola's Schwabacher Summer Concertby Stephi Wild - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/13/2022) - Lush, lyrical, and romantic works by Latin American and Spanish composers are showcased in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, when the young artists of the 2022 Merola Opera Program perform vibrant operatic scenes by distinguished composers Daniel Catán, Manuel de Falla, Osvaldo Golijov, and Amadeo Vives. Check out photos here!
Photos: First Look At AIN'T TOO PROUD and THE LION KING's Jelani Remy Performing at Broadway and Vineby Grace Cutler - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/12/2022) - Broadway and Vine, intersecting the best of Broadway with the best of Wine Country continued its second season Monday with Jelani Remy (Disney’s The Lion King, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations).
Photos: First Look At San Francisco Opera's June 30 concert, Eun Sun Kim Conducts Verdi And New Cast Announcementby Grace Cutler - San Francisco / Bay Area
(07/02/2022) - Get a first look here! San Francisco Opera announced a cast and program update for the June 30 Eun Sun Kim Conducts Verdi concert. Due to illness, tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz must withdraw from the concert.
Review: THE PROM at Golden Gate Theatreby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/26/2022) - What did our critic think of THE PROM at Golden Gate Theatre?
Exclusive: Check Out Photos of Lady Camden at Opening Night of THE PROM National Tour in San Franciscoby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/24/2022) - The national tour of The Prom is currently playing the Golden Gate Theatre through July 17, 2022. Lady Camden, a SF-based drag queen who placed first-runner-up on the latest season of RuPaul's Drag Race, visited The Prom for a pre-show as part of their LGBTQ night.
Photos: First Look at the World Premiere of NAN AND THE LOWER BODY at TheatreWorks Silicon Valleyby Chloe Rabinowitz - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/23/2022) - TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the World Premiere of Jessica Dickey’s Nan and the Lower Body. When Pap smear inventor Dr. George Papanicolaou takes on a new assistant, Nan Day, he senses that she is hiding a secret. As Dr. Pap discovers the truth, he learns that he may hold the key to solving her greatest mystery. See photos here!
BWW Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Broadway San Joseby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/10/2022) - What did our critic think of DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Broadway San Jose?
Photos: First Look at Silicon Valley Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIETby A.A. Cristi - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/10/2022) - Silicon Valley Shakespeare's free and outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet is currently running at Willow Glen's Willow Street Frank Bramhall Park in San Jose, California.
Photos: GLEE Star Lea Michele Kicks Off the BROADWAY AND VINE Concert Seriesby A.A. Cristi - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/09/2022) - Broadway and Vine, intersecting the best of Broadway with the best of Wine Country opened its second season with Lea Michele (GLEE, Spring Awakening).
BWW Review: HADESTOWN Is Out-Of-This-World Spectacular at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatreby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/09/2022) - What did our critic Linda Hodges think of HADESTOWN at Orpheum Theatre? Right now, before reading the rest of this review, go online and buy your BroadwaySF tickets for Hadestown before the show sells out. It is that good. Playing now through July 3, 2022, Hadestown is song and story woven together then ripped apart and put back together again, all conspiring to grip your heart. And grip your heart it will.
Photos: 42nd Street Moon Stages THE PAJAMA GAMEby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/04/2022) - San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon (Daniel Thomas, Executive Artistic Director and Daren A.C. Carollo, Producing Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for the Company’s long-awaited production of the Tony Award-winning “Best Musical” THE PAJAMA GAME, with sisters Becky Potter (Director) and Annie Potter (Playwright) teaming up with Armando Fox (Music Director) and Renee DeWeese (Choreographer) to bring audiences a contemporary take on a comedy classic, celebrating the best of Broadway’s Golden Age, reimagined for a Gateway Theatre stage.
Photos: Inside Look at TheatreWorks' Production of RAGTIMEby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(06/04/2022) - TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 51st season with the hit musical Ragtime. This sweeping and stirring musical masterpiece paints a portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, interweaving the lives of three families—an African American family, a Jewish Immigrant family, and a wealthy white family—finding their places and pursuing the American Dream in a rapidly changing world. Featuring a Tony Award-winning book by Pulitzer Prize finalist Terrence McNally (Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Rink) and a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Anastasia, Seussical The Musical), this musical is based on E. L. Doctorow’s best-selling novel of the same name. Ragtime will be presented June 1-26, 2022 (press opening: June 4) at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets (starting at $30) and more information the public may visit TheatreWorks.org or call (877)-662-8978.
Photos: First Look at the World Premiere of MONUMENT, OR FOUR SISTERS (A SLOTH PLAY) at The Magic Theatreby A.A. Cristi - San Francisco / Bay Area
(05/13/2022) - The Magic Theatre presents the World Premiere of Sam Chanse’s Monument, Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play).
Photos: Plethos Productions Stages ONCE ON THIS ISLANDby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(05/07/2022) - Plethos Productions is set to present Once on This Island. The first two weekends in June, Plethos Productions will bring a beautiful folktale to life under the stars at TwiningVine Winery in Castro Valley. Once on This Island is a Tony Award-winning musical featuring Afro-Caribbean beats and is based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
Photos: First Look at the West Coast Premiere Of OCTET at Berkeley Repertory Theatreby Chloe Rabinowitz - Broadway
(04/28/2022) - Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting the west coast premiere chamber choir musical, Octet written by three- time Tony Award nominee Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and directed by Annie Tippe, produced by special arrangement with Diana DiMenna and Plate Spinner Productions.
Photos: First Look at FUN HOME at 42nd Street Moonby Stephi Wild - San Francisco / Bay Area
(04/25/2022) - All new photos have been released from the first San Francisco-produced version of the five-time Tony Award-winning musical FUN HOME at 42nd Street Moon.
Photos: First Look at CROWNS at Contra Costa Civic Theatreby Stephi Wild - San Francisco / Bay Area
(04/22/2022) - Contra Costa Civic Theatre (CCCT) concludes its live, in-person Main Stage season with the musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, adapted from the book “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry.
BWW Review: TOOTSIE at Broadway San Joseby Linda Hodges - San Francisco / Bay Area
(04/21/2022) - Tootsie made its Northern California premiere at San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts and will be there now through April 24. With a Tony-winning book by Robert Horn, and with music and lyrics by the clever David Yazbek (The Band's Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) Tootsie garnered eleven Tony nominations, two wins and much acclaim, as well as pointed critique centered on transmisogyny. There are other problems as well.
Photos: First Look at Courtney Reed, Conor Ryan, Austin Durant & More In MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL on Tourby Alan Henry - Broadway
(04/20/2022) - BroadwayWorld has a first look at The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Moulin Rouge, now playing at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago. The limited engagement runs through May 14.
Photos: First Look at FUN HOME at 42nd Street Moonby Stephi Wild - San Francisco / Bay Area
(04/20/2022) - All new photos have been released from the first San Francisco-produced version of the five-time Tony Award® winning musical FUN HOME at 42nd Street Moon.
Photos: First Look at San Jose Stage Company's AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTYby Stephi Wild - San Francisco / Bay Area
(04/05/2022) - San Jose Stage Company presents its first production of 2022, Tracy Letts ’Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning play AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.
Photos: Inside Look at WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at The San Francisco Playhouseby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(03/19/2022) - San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced casting for Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner by Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights). The play will run on the San Francisco Playhouse Mainstage from March 16 through April 23, 2022.
Photos: Campo Santo Premieres OTTO FRANK at The Magic Theatreby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(03/13/2022) - The Magic Theatre’s (Sean San José, Lead Director and Kevin Nelson, Managing Director) first Home Resident Company- Campo Santo is honored to announce a limited engagement of the Premiere Run of OTTO FRANK, a new performance piece created and performed by incomparable star of film, television, and stage Roger Guenveur Smith, with an original score and live sound by award winning musician Marc Anthony Thompson. OTTO FRANK will perform from March 12-27, 2022 on Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm and 8pm, at Magic Theatre’s Fort Mason location (Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., Building D, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94123).
Photos: Inside Look at SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at Theatreworks Silicon Valleyby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(03/13/2022) - Jane Austen’s engaging story of two resilient sisters comes to musical life on stage when TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents the Regional Premiere of Sense and Sensibility. This sensational work features book, music, and lyrics by Paul Gordon, whose Pride and Prejudice broke box office records when it premiered at TheatreWorks in 2019, and was then streamed by more than 160,000 viewers worldwide at its virtual debut.
Photos: Sneak Peek at 42nd Street Moon's A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGINGby Marissa Tomeo - San Francisco / Bay Area
(03/12/2022) - San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon (Daniel Thomas, Executive Artistic Director and Daren A.C. Carollo, Producing Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the complete cast and creative team for the Company’s first production of 2022: the Tony Award®-nominated A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING, a musical revue showcasing the songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein. A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING was conceived by Walter Bobbie and features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music arrangements by Fred Wells.
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Friends Of The Sound Red Heron Studios (6/12-6/12) |
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Ride the Cyclone City Lights Theater Company (7/16-8/23) |
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Comedy Oakland Late Show at Quinn's Lighthouse Sat May 30 9pm Quinn's Lighthouse (5/30-5/30) |
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Paper Wing Theatre (5/08-5/31) |
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San Francisco Boys Chorus Spring Concert: Coming Together to Sing - Saturday, June 6 Calvary Presbyterian Church (6/06-6/06) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (1/07-1/10) |
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Mamma Mia! San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (6/08-6/13) |
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Golden Gate Park Band Golden Gate Bandshell (4/26-9/27) |
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