American Idoler Taylor Hicks slides into ”Grease”
Grease is the word for Taylor Hicks. Soul patrol meets teen angel when the former American Idoler hits the road in the national tour of ”Grease,” which slides into SF next year. The pop singer will...
View Article”Phantom of the Opera” haunts SF once again
Sacre bleu! ”The Phantom of the Opera” will once again emerge from the shadows. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s insanely popular musical, which spins around the romance and intrigue of the Paris opera house,...
View ArticleMatthew Broderick shuffles back to Broadway
Matthew Broderick will hoof it back to Bway next spring in a revival of Christopher Hampton’s “The Philanthropist.” Beloved of theater buffs for his series of rubber-faced turns through hits such as...
View ArticleKatie Holmes bows on Broadway
Katie Holmes, who seems to be more famous for being Mrs. Tom Cruise 2 than anything else, made her Broadway debut recently in Arthur Miller’s harrowing expose of the economics of war “All My Sons.”...
View ArticleFanny Hill: a mini DVD review
If you think British period drama is all tea and scones, think again. “Fanny Hill” holds nothing back in a deliciously carnal adaptation of the notorious 18th century romp. Bawds, pimps and scoundrels...
View ArticleRocky Horror returns on DVD!
Let’s do the Time Warp again! Ok, so Halloween may be over but it’s always the right time of year for a little hot patootie, no? The “Rocky Horror Tribute Show†is now out on DVD to the delight...
View ArticleTheater Critic Karen D’Souza on View from the Bay
Holiday theater unwrapped. Catch me on View from the Bay tomorrow between 3 and 4 p.m. on ABC-7. I’ll be giving out my five cool picks for holiday theater. These are the perfect stocking stuffers for...
View ArticleDebbie Gibson: ’80s flashback anyone?
Foolish beat? Break out the legwarmers people because ’80s pop sensation Debbie Gibson (think Britney 1.0) is back in action. The pop princess of yore will be putting the pipes to work for a good cause...
View ArticleKent Nicholson of TheatreWorks: exits stage left
Give Kent Nicholson’s regards to TheatreWorks. The gifted Bay Area director is resigning his post as new works guru for the respected Peninsula company to decamp to New York’s esteemed Playwrights...
View ArticleHedwig returns to San Francisco!
WIG OUT! Dahlings, I have huge news in this business we call show. John Cameron Mitchell, the genius behind the glam-rock-diva-drag-icon Hedwig, as in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” as in the coolest...
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