BWW Review: Broadway San Jose's RENT: It's All About LOVE!
by Linda Hodges - January 26, 2018
In an age of angst, with an administration that threatens the fabric of our communities, Broadway San Jose presents RENT and all of sudden, it's all about LOVE! We will survive!
by Linda Hodges - January 26, 2018
In an age of angst, with an administration that threatens the fabric of our communities, Broadway San Jose presents RENT and all of sudden, it's all about LOVE! We will survive!
A Play About Physics and Celebrity Opens In Redwood City This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2018
Imagine a meeting of the minds between Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Senator Joe McCarthy, and Joe DiMaggio in a New York hotel room in the 1950s. Using these archetypes as a jumping off point, playwright Terry Johnson shows that celebrity, sex, death, and politics are all intertwined. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Insignificance shows us that everything is in fact relative.
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2018
Imagine a meeting of the minds between Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Senator Joe McCarthy, and Joe DiMaggio in a New York hotel room in the 1950s. Using these archetypes as a jumping off point, playwright Terry Johnson shows that celebrity, sex, death, and politics are all intertwined. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Insignificance shows us that everything is in fact relative.
Go BEYOND with Ned Rothenberg & The Living Earth Show with Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band, Today
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2018
On January 26 & 27 the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band premieres Ned Rothenberg's improvised concerto Beyond C, an Ensemble commission inspired by Terry Riley's In C. Beyond C features Rothenberg as improvising woodwind soloist and Joel Davel as conductor. For this evening concert entitled BEYOND The Living Earth Show will premier selections from Dennis Aman's 24 Preludes & Fugues for invented instruments (created during Aman's 2016 Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency).
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2018
On January 26 & 27 the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band premieres Ned Rothenberg's improvised concerto Beyond C, an Ensemble commission inspired by Terry Riley's In C. Beyond C features Rothenberg as improvising woodwind soloist and Joel Davel as conductor. For this evening concert entitled BEYOND The Living Earth Show will premier selections from Dennis Aman's 24 Preludes & Fugues for invented instruments (created during Aman's 2016 Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency).
Vonda Shepard To Perform At Feinstein's At The Nikko Next Month
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Two-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner, Vonda Shepard, will be performing at Feinstein's At The Nikko on Friday, February 2, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m. before she embarks on her 2018 European tour. Shepard will perform a variety of hits from her 14 albums, like 'Maryland' and 'Baby, Don't You Break My Heart Slow,' as well as favorites from the TV series Ally McBeal in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Golden Globe winning show's premier.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Two-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner, Vonda Shepard, will be performing at Feinstein's At The Nikko on Friday, February 2, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m. before she embarks on her 2018 European tour. Shepard will perform a variety of hits from her 14 albums, like 'Maryland' and 'Baby, Don't You Break My Heart Slow,' as well as favorites from the TV series Ally McBeal in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Golden Globe winning show's premier.
CMT Mainstage Announces The Who's TOMMY
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
CMT San Jose Mainstage will present The Who's Tommy, featuring local performers ages 14-20, from March 2-11 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
CMT San Jose Mainstage will present The Who's Tommy, featuring local performers ages 14-20, from March 2-11 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose.
BORN YESTERDAY Comes to the San Francisco Playhouse
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Garson Kanin's delightful and dangerous comedy Born Yesterday is a timely exploration of politics, profiteering, and the power of persuasion. Harry, a ruthless, thuggish millionaire-with his showgirl fiancee, Billie, in tow-comes to Washington to bribe a senator and enrich his business interests.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Garson Kanin's delightful and dangerous comedy Born Yesterday is a timely exploration of politics, profiteering, and the power of persuasion. Harry, a ruthless, thuggish millionaire-with his showgirl fiancee, Billie, in tow-comes to Washington to bribe a senator and enrich his business interests.
Celebrated Jazz Vocalist Stacey Kent Returns to BAC with Two Shows
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Bay Area Cabaret is thrilled to present the return of Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Stacey Kent. As part of a triumphant world tour, the platinum-selling artist returns to the Venetian Room with her five-piece band for the first time since her two sold-out shows in 2015. She will be celebrating the release of her 11th album, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Bay Area Cabaret is thrilled to present the return of Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Stacey Kent. As part of a triumphant world tour, the platinum-selling artist returns to the Venetian Room with her five-piece band for the first time since her two sold-out shows in 2015. She will be celebrating the release of her 11th album, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions.
EXIT THE KING: Ionesco Returns To EXIT Theatre
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
King Berenger clings to life like he clung to his scepter, but one-by-one his faculties, staff, and two wives are taken from him until he has no choice but to die, as we all must, alone. But will he die at peace? Ionesco's Exit the King is an absurdist but compassionate exploration of acceptance as the ultimate act of grace. This vibrant new production, directed by EXIT Theatre artist-in-residence Stuart Bousel, shows us how to look Death in the eye, laugh in Death's face, and go quietly into the long night whether we've lived gracefully or not.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
King Berenger clings to life like he clung to his scepter, but one-by-one his faculties, staff, and two wives are taken from him until he has no choice but to die, as we all must, alone. But will he die at peace? Ionesco's Exit the King is an absurdist but compassionate exploration of acceptance as the ultimate act of grace. This vibrant new production, directed by EXIT Theatre artist-in-residence Stuart Bousel, shows us how to look Death in the eye, laugh in Death's face, and go quietly into the long night whether we've lived gracefully or not.
LOVE NEVER DIES to Soar into San Jose
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Love Never Dies will make its San Jose premiere at the Center for the Performing Arts (255 s. Almaden Blvd.) from March 13 18, 2018 as part of a North American tour. Single tickets ($48 $128) are on-sale now online at www.ticketmaster.com, in-person at the City National Civic Box Office (150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose), or by calling 800-982-ARTS (2787). Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
Love Never Dies will make its San Jose premiere at the Center for the Performing Arts (255 s. Almaden Blvd.) from March 13 18, 2018 as part of a North American tour. Single tickets ($48 $128) are on-sale now online at www.ticketmaster.com, in-person at the City National Civic Box Office (150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose), or by calling 800-982-ARTS (2787). Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.
New Conservatory Theatre Center Presents World Premiere of STILL AT RISK
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
In January, New Conservatory Theatre Center is proud to offer audiences the world premiere of Tim Pinckney's Still at Risk directed by Dennis Lickteig. This takes a new look at the personal and political effects of HIV/AIDS on the LGBT community decades after the crisis through the play's main character Kevin, a surviving activist from the front lines of the AIDS crisis who is struggling to find purpose in a modern age of greater gay rights. When an unexpected event threatens to erase the history he was part of creating, his anger and passion are renewed. Deeply moving and possessing sharp humor, Still at Risk is a powerful look at the hazards of rewriting the past, and one man's attempt to move forward.
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
In January, New Conservatory Theatre Center is proud to offer audiences the world premiere of Tim Pinckney's Still at Risk directed by Dennis Lickteig. This takes a new look at the personal and political effects of HIV/AIDS on the LGBT community decades after the crisis through the play's main character Kevin, a surviving activist from the front lines of the AIDS crisis who is struggling to find purpose in a modern age of greater gay rights. When an unexpected event threatens to erase the history he was part of creating, his anger and passion are renewed. Deeply moving and possessing sharp humor, Still at Risk is a powerful look at the hazards of rewriting the past, and one man's attempt to move forward.
Linda Eder to Bring Classics, Pop and More to Feinstein's at the Nikko This Winter
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
The incomparable Linda Eder returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko for three performances only - Today, January 25 (8 p.m.), Friday, January 26 (8 p.m.), and Saturday, January 27 (8 p.m.).
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2018
The incomparable Linda Eder returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko for three performances only - Today, January 25 (8 p.m.), Friday, January 26 (8 p.m.), and Saturday, January 27 (8 p.m.).
F*ck Tinder: A Love Story VALENTINE'S DAY Shows In San Francisco
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
PianoFight presents a special VALENTINE'S DAY show of F*ck Tinder: a love story, Written & Performed by David Rodwin. TWO NIGHTS ONLY: Thursday, February 8 @8pm, Wednesday, February 14 @9:30pm, PianoFight, Mainstage (144 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102). Tix $20 GA. $30VIP tix with reserved seats, wine & chocolate. Tix: http://www.f-tinder.com
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
PianoFight presents a special VALENTINE'S DAY show of F*ck Tinder: a love story, Written & Performed by David Rodwin. TWO NIGHTS ONLY: Thursday, February 8 @8pm, Wednesday, February 14 @9:30pm, PianoFight, Mainstage (144 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102). Tix $20 GA. $30VIP tix with reserved seats, wine & chocolate. Tix: http://www.f-tinder.com
Photo Flash: The Marsh Berkeley presents WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT LOVE
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
The Marsh welcomes a new solo show to the Berkeley stage, What They Said About Love by Steve Budd, which was awarded the Best of Fringe at the 2016 San Francisco Fringe Festival. In this absorbing solo show, Steve wonders why other people can and why he can't tie the knot. Budd sheds light on how people meet and make it to the altar, the push and pull of relationships, singles who can't seem to settle down, and more. The Oakland based actor captures the physical and vocal nuances of more than a dozen Bay Area characters, using their own words taken from hours of interviews, and weaves in his relentless search for the one. What They Said About Love, directed by Mark Kenward and developed with David Ford, will be presented 8:00pm Fridays and 8:30pmSaturdays February 2-March 3, 2018 (press opening: February 9) at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. For tickets ($20-$35 sliding scale, $55-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call The Marsh box office at 415-282-3055 (open 1pm-4pm, Monday through Friday).
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
The Marsh welcomes a new solo show to the Berkeley stage, What They Said About Love by Steve Budd, which was awarded the Best of Fringe at the 2016 San Francisco Fringe Festival. In this absorbing solo show, Steve wonders why other people can and why he can't tie the knot. Budd sheds light on how people meet and make it to the altar, the push and pull of relationships, singles who can't seem to settle down, and more. The Oakland based actor captures the physical and vocal nuances of more than a dozen Bay Area characters, using their own words taken from hours of interviews, and weaves in his relentless search for the one. What They Said About Love, directed by Mark Kenward and developed with David Ford, will be presented 8:00pm Fridays and 8:30pmSaturdays February 2-March 3, 2018 (press opening: February 9) at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. For tickets ($20-$35 sliding scale, $55-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call The Marsh box office at 415-282-3055 (open 1pm-4pm, Monday through Friday).
SFCM Faculty Centennial Concert Announced, Sunday, 1/28
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty Centennial Concert Sunday, January 28 The Second of Three Faculty Centennial Concerts This Season SFCM presents its second Faculty Centennial Concert this Sunday, January 28, a performance celebrating current and former faculty members. This event will feature the music of Elinor Armer, Shinji Eshima, David Garner, and Conrad Susa performed by fellow faculty members, current students, and alumni.
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty Centennial Concert Sunday, January 28 The Second of Three Faculty Centennial Concerts This Season SFCM presents its second Faculty Centennial Concert this Sunday, January 28, a performance celebrating current and former faculty members. This event will feature the music of Elinor Armer, Shinji Eshima, David Garner, and Conrad Susa performed by fellow faculty members, current students, and alumni.
PBS Star Pasquale Esposito Comes To Montalvo Arts Center, 3/23
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
Montalvo Arts Center continues its acclaimed Carriage House Concert Series with an exciting performance by Italian lyric tenor and star of PBS specials Pasquale Esposito, 8pm, March 23. The lauded singer will perform An Evening with Pasquale: A Musical Journey that will include songs from his upcoming PBS special, as well as a variety of contemporary Italian, Neapolitan, English, and Spanish standards, and other classical and contemporary works. This concert will be presented at Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Rd., Saratoga. For tickets ($49 Reserved, $55 Premier) and more information the public may visit montalvoarts.org or call 408-961-5858.
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
Montalvo Arts Center continues its acclaimed Carriage House Concert Series with an exciting performance by Italian lyric tenor and star of PBS specials Pasquale Esposito, 8pm, March 23. The lauded singer will perform An Evening with Pasquale: A Musical Journey that will include songs from his upcoming PBS special, as well as a variety of contemporary Italian, Neapolitan, English, and Spanish standards, and other classical and contemporary works. This concert will be presented at Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Rd., Saratoga. For tickets ($49 Reserved, $55 Premier) and more information the public may visit montalvoarts.org or call 408-961-5858.
Symphony Surround Special Event Returns with 'Classical Rock Star' Cellist Joshua Roman
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
California Symphony and Music Director Donato Cabrera celebrate the Orchestra's 31st season with Symphony Surround, a special event and fundraiser Saturday, June 16, 2018, at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, featuring star cellist Joshua Roman. Roman returns to perform with the California Symphony for the first time since his 2012 debut, when he was 29.
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
California Symphony and Music Director Donato Cabrera celebrate the Orchestra's 31st season with Symphony Surround, a special event and fundraiser Saturday, June 16, 2018, at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, featuring star cellist Joshua Roman. Roman returns to perform with the California Symphony for the first time since his 2012 debut, when he was 29.
BWW Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT at 20 YEARS: Still Powerful
by Linda Hodges - January 24, 2018
Theatre, at its best, can entertain you so much you forget all your troubles for a blissful two hours before remembering your dental appointment the next day. It can also cause you to delve deeply into questions about life, human nature and the gut-wrenching misery that human beings can visit upon one another. The Laramie Project eloquently, painfully and painstakingly belongs in the latter category. The powerful drama, as the Palo Alto Players' press release tells us, was originally developed by playwright Mois s Kaufman and members of his company, Tectonic Theater Project in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming. Twenty years later it is still as powerful as ever.
by Linda Hodges - January 24, 2018
Theatre, at its best, can entertain you so much you forget all your troubles for a blissful two hours before remembering your dental appointment the next day. It can also cause you to delve deeply into questions about life, human nature and the gut-wrenching misery that human beings can visit upon one another. The Laramie Project eloquently, painfully and painstakingly belongs in the latter category. The powerful drama, as the Palo Alto Players' press release tells us, was originally developed by playwright Mois s Kaufman and members of his company, Tectonic Theater Project in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming. Twenty years later it is still as powerful as ever.
ODC Presents Cori Olinghouse in West Coast Premiere of GRANDMA
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
ODC Theater is proud to present Cori Olinghouse in the West Coast premiere of GRANDMA, February 15 - 17. Best known for her practice of 'Clown Therapy,' which she defines as 'shape-shifting and a queering of the clown form,' Olinghouse in Grandma excavates the effects of television, the media and her own family lineage as portals to parody American consumerism. Sharing the bill with Grandma is Olinghouse's short film Ghost line. Performances run Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30, and may be purchased online at odc.dance/tickets or by phone at 415-863-9834.
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
ODC Theater is proud to present Cori Olinghouse in the West Coast premiere of GRANDMA, February 15 - 17. Best known for her practice of 'Clown Therapy,' which she defines as 'shape-shifting and a queering of the clown form,' Olinghouse in Grandma excavates the effects of television, the media and her own family lineage as portals to parody American consumerism. Sharing the bill with Grandma is Olinghouse's short film Ghost line. Performances run Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30, and may be purchased online at odc.dance/tickets or by phone at 415-863-9834.
Sierra Rep Opens 2018 Season with Mega-Hit MAMMA MIA!
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Sierra Repertory Theatre opens its 2018 season with Mamma Mia!, the international smash-hit musical. ABBA's hits tell the hilarious story of a teen's search for her birth father on a Greek island paradise. Mamma Mia! is directed and choreographed by Valerie Rachelle, music directed by John C. Brown, and features a cast of SRT favorites and newcomers. Mamma Mia! runs February 10 - April 8 at the East Sonora Theatre. For tickets, call (209) 532-3120 or visit www.SierraRep.org.
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Sierra Repertory Theatre opens its 2018 season with Mamma Mia!, the international smash-hit musical. ABBA's hits tell the hilarious story of a teen's search for her birth father on a Greek island paradise. Mamma Mia! is directed and choreographed by Valerie Rachelle, music directed by John C. Brown, and features a cast of SRT favorites and newcomers. Mamma Mia! runs February 10 - April 8 at the East Sonora Theatre. For tickets, call (209) 532-3120 or visit www.SierraRep.org.
Classical KDFC To Air Archival San Francisco Opera Broadcast of Richard Strauss' ARABELLA
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
On February 4 at 8 p.m., the Bay Area's Classical KDFC will broadcast a 1980 San Francisco Opera performance of Richard Strauss' romantic opera Arabella starring soprano Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role, soprano Barbara Daniels as Zdenka, tenorWilliam Lewis as Matteo and baritone Ingvar Wixell as Mandryka, with German conductor Wolfgang Rennert. This performance from the Company's archives will be hosted by KDFC radio announcer Dianne Nicolini.
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
On February 4 at 8 p.m., the Bay Area's Classical KDFC will broadcast a 1980 San Francisco Opera performance of Richard Strauss' romantic opera Arabella starring soprano Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role, soprano Barbara Daniels as Zdenka, tenorWilliam Lewis as Matteo and baritone Ingvar Wixell as Mandryka, with German conductor Wolfgang Rennert. This performance from the Company's archives will be hosted by KDFC radio announcer Dianne Nicolini.
Raisa Punkki Presents CONTROLE at ODC Theater this March
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Controle is the latest work from Finnish choreographer Raisa Punkki. As a departure from punkkiCo's last works that featured all female casts, often with obscured faces, this production will feature 2 female and 3 male dancers. Controle is a response to the social media frenzy that continues to escalate and intrude into our lives via what Punkki terms, fleshless interaction. What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to choose not to be seen?
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Controle is the latest work from Finnish choreographer Raisa Punkki. As a departure from punkkiCo's last works that featured all female casts, often with obscured faces, this production will feature 2 female and 3 male dancers. Controle is a response to the social media frenzy that continues to escalate and intrude into our lives via what Punkki terms, fleshless interaction. What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to choose not to be seen?
PlayGround's 24th Season 2018 PlayGround Festival of New Works
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
PlayGround's 2018 season concludes with the PlayGround Festival of New Works from May 10-June 17, 2018 at San Francisco's Potrero Stage, the company's newly-renovated home. Featured in this year's PlayGround Festival are premieres of two PlayGround commissioned full-length plays: BRIGHT SHINING SEA by Julianne Jigour opening on May 16, a co-production with Planet Earth Arts, and SCAPEGOAT by William Bivins opening on May 23, a co-production with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, both originally developed at the 2016 Festival and highlighting two timely issues. In William Bivins's Scapegoat, one man tests art's ability to create change in the face of another police shooting of an unarmed Black man. In Julianne Jigour's Bright Shining Sea, six characters find their lives intertwined as they face the personal challenges caused by environmental degradation.
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
PlayGround's 2018 season concludes with the PlayGround Festival of New Works from May 10-June 17, 2018 at San Francisco's Potrero Stage, the company's newly-renovated home. Featured in this year's PlayGround Festival are premieres of two PlayGround commissioned full-length plays: BRIGHT SHINING SEA by Julianne Jigour opening on May 16, a co-production with Planet Earth Arts, and SCAPEGOAT by William Bivins opening on May 23, a co-production with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, both originally developed at the 2016 Festival and highlighting two timely issues. In William Bivins's Scapegoat, one man tests art's ability to create change in the face of another police shooting of an unarmed Black man. In Julianne Jigour's Bright Shining Sea, six characters find their lives intertwined as they face the personal challenges caused by environmental degradation.
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Announce Their 42nd Awards Gala
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle is pleased to announce that the recipient of its 2018 Annette Lust Award - given to a promising new theatrical talent or an organization that has demonstrated early in its existence the potential to have a significant impact on Bay Area theatre - is
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle is pleased to announce that the recipient of its 2018 Annette Lust Award - given to a promising new theatrical talent or an organization that has demonstrated early in its existence the potential to have a significant impact on Bay Area theatre - is
Golden Thread Production's 2018 Season Promotes Dialogue
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, presents a season that fosters real conversations about issues that matter. The 2018 mainstage season begins with the return of the West Coast premiere of Amir Nizar Zuabi's Oh My Sweet Land in an extended tour of Bay Area kitchens (March 1-30, 2018). Inspired by interviews with Syrian refugees, the production, which was called extraordinary by the San Francisco Chronicle, is directed by Torange Yeghiazarian and features Nora el Samahy. Each performance will be followed by food sharing and a community conversation. The second show of the 2018 season is the critically-acclaimed production of Hassan Abdulrazzak's Love, Bombs, and Apples, which will make its U.S. debut after two sold-out runs in London (April 19-May 6, 2018). The tour-de-force solo show features Asif Khan, who brings to life four men of Middle Eastern descent, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation. Directed by Rosemunde Hutt and presented in association with Turtle Key Arts, the comedy was heralded as a quartet of monologues with a profound ability to find bubbling humor in the most over-trodden tragedies by The Stage. The mainstage season culminates in the world premiere of award winning playwright Mona Mansour's We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War, directed by Evren Odcikin (November 16-December 16, 2018). A Middle East America National New Plays Initiative commission, the play is a literal conversation between an American woman of Arab descent and her nephew, who has enlisted in the American military. Structurally adventurous with a third of the play taking place in the Pacific Ocean, We Swim welcomes Mansour for her fourth and most ambitious production with Golden Thread. Love, Bombs, and Apples and We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War will both be presented at San Francisco's Potrero Stage (1695 18th Street), where Golden Thread is a resident company. The 3 Show Pass ($87) offers the best value and priority access to our 2018 Season. Each pass includes one ticket to each of the three mainstage productions at a 20% discount: goldenthread.org.
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2018
Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, presents a season that fosters real conversations about issues that matter. The 2018 mainstage season begins with the return of the West Coast premiere of Amir Nizar Zuabi's Oh My Sweet Land in an extended tour of Bay Area kitchens (March 1-30, 2018). Inspired by interviews with Syrian refugees, the production, which was called extraordinary by the San Francisco Chronicle, is directed by Torange Yeghiazarian and features Nora el Samahy. Each performance will be followed by food sharing and a community conversation. The second show of the 2018 season is the critically-acclaimed production of Hassan Abdulrazzak's Love, Bombs, and Apples, which will make its U.S. debut after two sold-out runs in London (April 19-May 6, 2018). The tour-de-force solo show features Asif Khan, who brings to life four men of Middle Eastern descent, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation. Directed by Rosemunde Hutt and presented in association with Turtle Key Arts, the comedy was heralded as a quartet of monologues with a profound ability to find bubbling humor in the most over-trodden tragedies by The Stage. The mainstage season culminates in the world premiere of award winning playwright Mona Mansour's We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War, directed by Evren Odcikin (November 16-December 16, 2018). A Middle East America National New Plays Initiative commission, the play is a literal conversation between an American woman of Arab descent and her nephew, who has enlisted in the American military. Structurally adventurous with a third of the play taking place in the Pacific Ocean, We Swim welcomes Mansour for her fourth and most ambitious production with Golden Thread. Love, Bombs, and Apples and We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War will both be presented at San Francisco's Potrero Stage (1695 18th Street), where Golden Thread is a resident company. The 3 Show Pass ($87) offers the best value and priority access to our 2018 Season. Each pass includes one ticket to each of the three mainstage productions at a 20% discount: goldenthread.org.
LES MISERABLES & THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Returning To San Francisco
by BWW News Desk - January 22, 2018
Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Sch nberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISERABLES and Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will go on sale Friday, January 26 at 10am PT for their much anticipated San Francisco return engagements at the SHN Orpheum Theatre. To purchase tickets, visit shnsf.com or call SHN Audience Services at 888-746-1799. Ticket prices start at $56.
by BWW News Desk - January 22, 2018
Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Sch nberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISERABLES and Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will go on sale Friday, January 26 at 10am PT for their much anticipated San Francisco return engagements at the SHN Orpheum Theatre. To purchase tickets, visit shnsf.com or call SHN Audience Services at 888-746-1799. Ticket prices start at $56.
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