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Continues through Aug. 16 at Custom Stage, Off-Market Theatre  Benjamin Pither (center, in gown) is Gordon Schwinn, a man who needs a new brain in William Finn's A New Brain, in a produc…
The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation's annual gala fundraiser, Help Is on the Way 14: Blame It on the Movies, is this Sunday, Aug. 3, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. As usual, the…
I know some people who have just flipped over the movie version of Mamma Mia! now plaguing movie theaters. I am not among them. Having seen the stage version several times, I knew just what …
When Bill Berloni barks, Broadway listens. Or, to be more accurate, when Berloni's clients bark. Or meow. Or chirp. Berloni is the foremost theatrical animal trainer working on the stage tod…
Mountain View's TheatreWorks will present the first post-Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Grey Gardens, based on the documentary of the same name about Jacqueline Bouvie…
Is it hot in here or is it just the animals? Crowded Fire Theater Company is holding a fundraiser, and it's of the hot and steamy variety. Sort of. Playwright Trevor Allen has been working o…
Last night at Davies Symphony Hall, Bernadette Peters was in a good mood. Her voice was in great shape (and her shape was in GREAT shape). In other words, Peters' "Summer in the City" concer…
When her stint on season two of "American Idol" flared into controversy, Frenchie Davis became infamous. The promising young singer had been kicked off early on because of some risqué photo…
Sarah Farrell (center), with (from left) Mikey Tongko, Joven Calloway, Mike Triolo and Alex Rodriguez sing and dance their way through L. Jay Kuo's Insignificant Others at Theatre Pier 39. P…
Opened July 23, 2008 at the Orpheum Theatre  The cast of The Drowsy Chaperone joins stage star Janet Van De Graaff (Andrea Chamberlain, center, leg in air) in the show stopper "Show Off.…
For a fifth year, some of the best and brightest in the Bay Area theater community will gather in the vicinity of the Yerba Buena Gardens for the annual San Francisco Theater Festival. This …
San Francisco's Rrazz Room has announced its fall schedule, and it's pretty amazing, especially for theater aficionados. The season opens in September with Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankw…
Opened July 21 at American Conservatory Theater Roger Rees performs a soliloquy from Richard II, one of many incredible moments in What You Will, a solo show about all things Shakespeare at …
The three remaining girls (from left), Bailey, Autumn, Rhiannon, face the judges one last time. B'bye Rhiannon. Photos courtesy of MTV. Well let's just be thankful it's over. MTV's reality s…
Bernadette Peters' career is going to the dogs. No, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway diva has not hit the skids. She's just more interested in dogs at the moment than the stage. Pete…
Such a busy weekend so full of entertainment treats. Here's a quick recap. Friday night, on a whim, I headed down to the Octavia Lounge for the official cabaret debut of homegrown diva Carly…
"I'm so old people will say, `Is he still alive?'"
That's Roger Rees exaggerating people's response to his arrival in San Francisco with his one-man show What You Will, an evening of Shake…
Continues an extended run through July 27 at Theatre Rhinoceros Michael Vega is Ishi and Chris Libby is a settler attempting to cash in on the State of California's reward of $5 for an India…
Four years ago, Cutting Ball Theater continued its search for the edge that cuts with the first Avant GardARAMA!, a festival of short, experimental plays. The quest for cutting-edge theater …
Producer Randy Taradash announced today that the off-Broadway hit bare will have its Bay Area premiere in 2009 in a San Francisco theater to be determined. "I'm thrilled that Bay Area audien…
Kimberly King (with Cassidy Brown as Father Flynn) plays the stern Sister Aloysius in the TheatreWorks production of Doubt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by John Patrick Shanley. Photos b…
Tony Award-winning singer/actress Idina Menzel once was Wicked. Now she's going viral. Menzel, who is on a concert tour promoting her most recent solo album, "I Stand," received a fan video …
Opened July 14, 2008 at Traveling Jewish Theater (show moves to the Ashby Stage Aug. 15-31) Â Juliet Tanner plays the title character in The Listener, a world-premiere play by Liz Duffy A…
We're getting so close to the end of MTV's "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods" that I'd like to just predict the winner and save us all the ridiculous drama. Bailey (righ…
Monty Python's Spamalot is coming to San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre in April 2009 as part of the Best of Broadway season. Photos by Carol Rosegg Prepare to eat ham and jam and Spam a lo…
