by Steve Murray - April 02, 2026
For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation. Playing a style of ‘dirty’ ball, her braggadocio will lead her to a foul play in Candrice Jones’ Flex, making its West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse....
by Linda Hodges - April 01, 2026
It's easy to see why Beetlejuice, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tim Burton's beloved 1998 cult-classic film, earned eight 2019 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. It is to die for. ...
by Steve Murray - March 30, 2026
There are many types of great theatre- light, cheerful, romantic, uplifting, silly, classic. Z Spaces’ co-production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and a tough watch – but it is great theatre, a timely cautionary tale of evil startingly conce...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
I admit I’ve never seen Stephen Sondhiem’s Assassins, nor ever heard the score or read the synopsis. A flop in 1990, the 2004 revival won five Tony awards, and it’s been in theatre rotations since, often causing controversy for its raw language and unsavory content. A play from the perspective...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, continues it’s forty-eighth season with a concert both cheerful and deeply emotional celebrating the music and events of the 1980’s. For the LGBT community, the 80’s was the apocalypse incarnate - a community devastate...
by Jim Munson - March 22, 2026
What did our critic think of DON QUIXOTE at San Francisco Ballet?...
by Steve Murray - March 21, 2026
What did our critic think of AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ at Feinstein's At The Nikko?...
by Steve Murray - March 19, 2026
There is plenty of interesting ideas in Eisa Davis’ into the lives of four women, students in a summer music program. The need for arts education drives these girls, partly for parity in a male dominated world of music and secondly as a respite from the dramas of their individual lives....
by Steve Murray - March 15, 2026
What did our critic think of GODS & MONSTERS at New Conservatory Theatre Center?...
by Steve Murray - March 14, 2026
What did our critic think of SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Hillbarn Theatre?...
Past Shows
Catchy melodies from the Golden Age of television quickly became an iconic form of musical entertainment still revered today. Now, DC and Peter lead you...
She was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time with a voice unparalleled in the industry. Set in 1959 in South Philadelphia,...
Perfect Hermany is the perfect match of performer and song, as two great Js come together Jason Graae and Jerry Herman. Enjoy a delightful, hilarious,...
YOU CANT STOP THE BEAT will showcase the whos who of Bay Area talent performing hit numbers from musical theatre favorites like Hairspray, Come From...
In the style of great holiday variety shows from Perry Como, Andy Williams, John Denver, Cher, and countless others, we bring you an evening of...
Jaron has taken up bread making and Jess cant stop buying plants. Quarantine right? Bay Area favorites, Jessica Coker and Jaron Vesely are hungry for...
Hungry for some great theater? Moon favorite Michael Patrick Gaffneys award-winning one-man show offers up delicious insights into his complicated and hilarious careers as both...
The third outing of our wildly-popular cabaret, where some of the Bay Areas best musical theatre actors and favorite Moon performers sing songs from roles...
Join award-winning pianist and master storyteller Richard Glazier on a musical tour of Broadway and Hollywood, featuring sensational songs written by everyone from George Gershwin...
42nd Street Moon presents THE PAJAMA GAME at the Gateway Theatre in San Francisco. One of the greatest scores of Broadways Golden Age, THE PAJAMA...
HILARIOUS 1930s PASTICHE MUSICAL 42nd Street Moon presents DAMES AT SEA Book and Lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller Music by Jim Wise Directed...
42nd Street Moon presents AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ The Fats Waller Musical October 11-29, 2017 Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. & Murray Horwitz Created and Originally Directed...
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