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Arielle Jacobs is Gabriella Montez and John Jeffrey Martin is Troy Bolton in the touring production of Disney’s High School Musical coming to San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre. Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
Growing up in Half Moon Bay, Arielle Jacobs wanted to be a pop singer – the next Mariah or Whitney. She’s not there yet, but [...]
Below you’ll find the winners of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. In lieu of a gala this year, winners will attend a cocktail party and receive their awards.
DRAMA (In theaters with more than 99 seats):
ENTIRE PRODUCTION:
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, American Repertory Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Theatre for a New Audience
The Pillowman, Berkeley [...]
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has named six finalists in its annual playwriting competition, supported by generous funding from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, which recognizes plays that premiered outside New York City.
The top honoree in the Steinberg /ATCA New Play Awards will receive $25,000 — the largest prize for a national [...]
Ha’penny, we hardly knew ye.
Hot on the heels of announcing that the big Irish musical Ha’penny Bridge would be part of its season, the folks at SHN/Best of Broadway have announced that the show has canceled its San Francisco date.
“It is with great regret that we will be canceling the scheduled engagement of Ha’penny Bridge, [...]
Opened Feb. 11, 2008 at SF Playhouse Stage II
Mee’s melancholy Gone goes down easy
Three stars (Sad beauty)
No man was ever born
but he must suffer.
He buries his children and gets others in their place;
then dies himself. — Sophocles
Those words open Charles L. Mee’s grief-stricken but strangely joyous Gone, having its Bay Area premeire from Crowded Fire [...]
Reading the almanac in the newspaper today, I noticed something interesting and theatrical.
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opened 59 years ago today — Feb. 10, 1949 — at Broadway’s Morosco Theater.
And Arthur Miller died three years ago today — Feb. 10, 2005 — at age 89.
In honor of this curious chronology, here’s a scene [...]
Ill wind, you’re blowing me no good.
Actually, the winds are favorable. If you’ve ever heard the original London cast album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind, you may be relieved to know that the American touring production of the show, which had previously been announced as part of the SHN/Best [...]
You knew Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, right? Well, did you know he also wrote a dog?
In the Lloyd Webber canon, only By Jeeves was more critically pummeled than Whistle Down the Wind, a collaboration with lyricist Jim Steinman (of Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” fame). [...]
There are some theater treats heading our way in 2008. Here’s a mere sampling.
The show I’m most excited about also seems the furthest away. The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening is slated to start sometime in the second half of the year, courtesy of SHN/Best of Broadway. Spring Awakening was the [...]
I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it’s a good year. This year’s entire list came almost entirely from memory (which is a feat in [...]
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