Tickets for the return engagement of the musical “Jersey Boys” at San Francisco’s Curran Theater go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 26. Tickets start at $45 and will be available at shnsf.com or by calling (888) 746-1799. Based on the story of ‘60s pop singers Frankie [...]
In 1956, shortly before “Dracula” film star Bela Lugosi died, he appeared in some odd bits of footage shot by low-budget film writer and director Edward D. Wood, Jr. Some of that film found its way into the notoriously bad movie “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” which premiered in 1957 [...]
Almost a decade ago, the hit musical “Wicked” previewed in San Francisco, before going on to become a Broadway hit. Now, the show is returning home once again, for a four-week run opening Jan. 23 at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, [...]
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown and Broadway singer Amy Ryder will perform Friday, Oct. 5, at a benefit concert for Santa Rosa’s Roustabout Theater. Roustabout, which offers training for young local actors, is the resident theater company at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, [...]
From Reed Martin of Sonoma, co-author of most of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's string of internationally popular hit shows, comes a report about a new show in town. A new professional troupe calling itself the Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company is presenting three plays in repertory this fall. Shakespeare’s [...]
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, for the San Francisco run of the Broadway musical, “The Book of Mormon.” The show will play the Curran Theatre for five weeks only, from Nov. 27 to Dec. 30. “The Book of Mormon” won nine Tony [...]
Not long ago, some of Sonoma County’s most beloved state parks were threatened with closure. Last year, some longstanding local theater companies were struggling to survive. But on Saturday night (July 14), the new Sonoma-based Transcendence Theatre Company made its debut outdoors at Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen. [...]
The 41st season of the Summer Repertory Theatre at Santa Rosa Junior College opens next week with a lineup that includes three musicals, one drama and a murder mystery. A cast and crew of summer students from all over California and around the country will present all five [...]
The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts will open its 31st season with a concert Aug. 15 by ZZ Top and close it May 8, 2013, with a performance of “The Pirates of Penzance” by New York’s Gilbert & Sullivan Players. The season includes 45 new shows in [...]
The response to the current 6th Street Playhouse production of “The Marvelous Wonderettes” has been so positive that the theater has added two more shows. The show opened April 20 and already was scheduled to continue at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 10-11, 2 and 8 p.m. [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.