BWW Review: Have a Little PATIENCE with Lamplighters Music Theatre
This production offers the very best of Lamplighters Music Theater.
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World Premiere of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS is Stunning
Playing now through February 26, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is at once haunting and hopeful; shattering and uplifting and will surely open people's hearts and minds to the plight of women in the world today.
BWW Review: BAKER STREET at 42nd Street Moon
Sherlock Holmes relocates his flat on 'Baker Street' to 42nd Street Moon and the Eureka Theatre for an elementary musical adventure, now through November 20.
BWW Review: DISNEY'S THE LION KING at San Francisco Orpheum Theatre
Disney's The Lion King, in all its magic and majesty, roared into San Francisco's Orpheum Theater and will be here now through December 31.
Broadway San Jose's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is Spectacular Now Thru Oct. 2
San Jose opened their season with the reimagined production of Phantom of the Opera.
BWW Review: Lamplighters' NEW MIKADO is Excellence Itself
There has been plenty of talk about the "lack of sensitivity" in Gilbert and Sullivan's British farce, "The Mikado," set in a Japan most often comprised of a white ensemble.
BWW Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Enchants at the Orpheum Now Thru July 10
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Enchants at the Orpheum Now Thru July 10!
CABARET: Searing and Sexy Tale for our Times Now Thru July 17
San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre plays host to the provocative and still darkly daring, Cabaret now through July 17.
BWW Review: A Magical Weekend of Transcendence Theatre's 'Broadway Under the Stars', Wine and More in Northern California
Northern California is home to miles of gorgeous Pacific coastline, over 50 parks with hiking and cycling trails, world-class restaurants, boutique shopping, and of course, majestic vineyards.
BWW Review: MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is Solid Gold
Broadway San Jose's Motown the Musical is a solid gold hit and played to an enraptured audience last night at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
BWW Opera Review: What's Old is New Again in CARMEN from Bad-Boy Bieito for US Debut at San Francisco Opera
For a director known as opera's bad boy, Calixto Bieito turned to something awfully familiar in CARMEN for his US debut.
BWW Review: LAST FIVE YEARS at ACT
Relationships are complicated because people are complicated.
BWW Review: BIG FISH is a Big Catch at Playhouse Merced
Andrew Burkum's enthusiastic Edward leads a glistening Playhouse Merced production with his determined "Alabama stomp" (the glistening much due to a fantastic lighting design).
BWW Review: Marin Theatre Presents a Regal ANNE BOLEYN
Like its title queen, Howard Brenton's 'Anne Boleyn' knocks at curiosity's door, difficult to grasp, but fascinating nonetheless.
BWW Review: SHNSF's WICKED Mesmerizing!
With a book by Winnie Holzman and music and lyrics by the great and powerful Wizard of Broadway, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked has won over 50 major awards and, as Variety stated, it truly is 'A Cultural Phenomenon.
BWW Review: FROZEN on Ice
The fame of the phenomenon-hit film "Frozen" has already landed it Broadway and theme park versions in the works.
BWW Review: Hershey Felder is IRVING BERLIN in Superb TheatreWorks Production
What do you give the person who has everything? For Irving Berlin, the answer was a song.
BWW Review: Jodi Benson and Charlie Brown at SF Symphony
San Francisco continues a – hopefully – new tradition this week with “A Charlie Brown Christmas – Live!” This delightful program had its West Coast premiere last season, with first-half vocals from Lisa Vroman and the Symphony Chorus.
BWW Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at SF Symphony
Performer Brian Stokes Mitchell speaks of his desire to uplift his audience by adding character to his music.
BWW Review: Enchanting EMMA Returns to TheatreWorks
Clever, sharp and witty, "Emma" the musical is as charismatic as it title character.
BWW Review: BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony closes its 25th Anniversary, 2015 tour at San Francisco's Davies Hall this weekend.
BWW Review: SCROOGE IN LOVE A New Audience Favorite
Only in San Francisco will theatregoers find the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and, yes, even Future dancing together on one stage.
BWW Review: Merced's MARY POPPINS Makes the Sun Shine Bright
One word describes Playhouse Merced's production of 'Mary Poppins,' and it isn't supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
BWW Review: IF/THEN - Captivating Tale of What Might Have Been, Now Thru Dec. 6
IF/THEN - Captivating Tale of What Might Have Been, Now Thru Dec.
BWW Review: Audiences SAIL AWAY with a Fabulous Cast at 42nd Street Moon
Noel Coward's musical "Sail Away" has plenty of charm, but little substance.
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