Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The dynamic duo behind the PS Classics recording label take their project from sounds to stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57AMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Ten Questions with Jason Graae.
The stage, concert, and television star returns to the Coachella Valley for one night only.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59PMThursday, April 11, 2024
Interview with Ted Chapin as "Follies" starts in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMThursday, March 24, 2016
When the curtain goes down on 42nd Street Moon’s new production of “The Boys from Syracuse,” it will not only signal the end of the show, but the end of »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMThursday, March 17, 2016
If the recent death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee engenders a nostalgic hunger to revisit her seminal work, the production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Hillbarn Theatre wi…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMThursday, March 3, 2016
Tony Award-nominee Emily Skinner is becoming a very welcome presence on The City’s performing arts scene. She led a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s seldom performed “Do I Hear a Waltz?�…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Legend is a gift that keeps giving and that’s just fine with Kim Novak. The legendary film star returns to The City this weekend to celebrate her work and that »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Called “whimsical” in its promotional materials, the world premiere of “Sagittarius Ponderosa” at New Conservatory Theatre Center was disappointingly vague and unfocused. The shortco…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Mix a 17th-century Italian folk tale with 21st-century matchmaking technology, shake with a lot of earnest energy and you get “Tinderella,” the new musical at the PianoFight-resident Fau…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
“Holidays are about family, about friends, fun and hopefully about relaxing,” says Brian Stokes Mitchell, “though they never seem to be that way for me since I am always working »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 05:54PMSunday, November 29, 2015
If creating a musical based on a vintage film has become a common, if unpredictable, theater practice, it might stand to reason that creating one based on a 65-year-old black-and-white »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
A woman who gets to go in both directions at a major fork in her life’s road is the central theme of the musical “If/Then,” written by Tony Award-winners Brian »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:05AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Stephanie Blythe is popping up all over San Francisco lately. She made a surprise appearance at the San Francisco Symphony gala opening last week. She’s also spent the last month »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:10AMThursday, September 24, 2015
A frequently humorous if talky slice of nothing set in the trickle-down Reagan-era, Kenneth Lonergan’s “This is Our Youth” marks the opening of a new season for Custom Made Theatre …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMSunday, September 20, 2015
Captain Picard is beaming up Frasier Crane to open the San Francisco Symphony season! Well, actually Kelsey Grammer has agreed to step into the 2015 gala concert this week because »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMThursday, September 10, 2015
Judging solely by big screen appearances two decades apart, Minnie Driver’s talents as a singer might be rated really awful (“Goldeneye” in 1995) or unexpectedly classical (2004’s �…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:05AMFriday, August 28, 2015
When the auction began onstage at the Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” had just completed its 11,474th performa…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:35PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Making theater is a risky business. Doing so successfully for 75 years is an accomplishment and Hillbarn Theatre celebrates that as it launches its diamond jubilee season this week with …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 01:44PMThursday, August 20, 2015
“West Side Story” is a classic — so much so that five productions are now playing or will open around the Bay Area before summer’s end. Happily, the version at »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMThursday, June 11, 2015
by Robert Sokol
One of the most perfectly formed musicals of Broadway’s golden age, “My Fair Lady” has a heavenly score – music by Alan Jay Lerner and lyrics by Frederic…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AMby Robert Sokol
San Jose Stage Company wraps its current season with a smorgasbord of outstanding local talent in a sparkling two-snaps-up musical production of “The Addams Fam…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AMby Robert Sokol
One of the most perfectly formed musicals of Broadway’s golden age, “My Fair Lady” has a heavenly score – music by Alan Jay Lerner and lyrics by Frederic…
SOURCE: archives.sfexaminer.com at 07:00AMby Robert Sokol
San Jose Stage Company wraps its current season with a smorgasbord of outstanding local talent in a sparkling two-snaps-up musical production of “The Addams Fam…
SOURCE: archives.sfexaminer.com at 07:00AMFriday, June 5, 2015
by Robert Sokol
Though W.C. Fields recommended never sharing a stage with kids and animals, associating with a production of the musical “Annie” makes that impossible.
In the…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AMby Robert Sokol
Though W.C. Fields recommended never sharing a stage with kids and animals, associating with a production of the musical “Annie” makes that impossible.
In the…
SOURCE: archives.sfexaminer.com at 07:00AMThursday, June 4, 2015
by Robert Sokol
Joseph Alsop was a polarizing figure in the Washington, D.C. press throughout the middle of the last century. Charmingly convivial one minute and harshly critical…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AMby Robert Sokol
Joseph Alsop was a polarizing figure in the Washington, D.C. press throughout the middle of the last century. Charmingly convivial one minute and harshly critical…
SOURCE: archives.sfexaminer.com at 07:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
If you know anything about Broadway musicals, you know one staged by Tommy Tune is worth whistling about. But even though the Tony Award-winning actor, director and choreographer, known for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Taye Diggs is getting his own groove back. He first came to many people's attention on the New York stage: first in the 1994 Broadway production of Carousel (opposite future TV co-star Audra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
The renowned "dragapella" group take on the political scene in their newest touring show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMFriday, August 3, 2012
The legendary singer and theater star is returning to performing after 10 years while continuing her career as a hypnotherapist.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM 
