Musical Theater

Jim Farber - January 25, 2018

The beauty of Baroque opera and its most distinctive star are enlisted to help heal a king.

Steven Winn - January 19, 2018

S.F. Symphony’s stripped-down staging highlights the operetta’s strengths and weaknesses.

Lou Fancher - January 19, 2018

The composer’s original scores will highlight a series of multimedia stories at the Curran Theater.

Janos Gereben - December 5, 2017

The 2009 Broadway musical by the songwriting team behind La La Land gets a terrific production at San Francisco Playhouse.

Janos Gereben - November 14, 2017

The young singers brought spark and polish to some deservedly obscure musical-theater and operetta selections.

Joe Cadagin - November 13, 2017

William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.

Lou Fancher - November 14, 2016

A compelling new documentary traces the creation of the phenomenally successful hip-hop musical about the hippest Founding Father.

Jim Farber - November 1, 2016

Artist in residence Matthew Aucoin created and conducted a new pastiche score for F.W. Murnau’s classic film that was surprisingly moving.

Steven Winn - May 27, 2016

The semistaged production cleverly transcends limits and delivers an exuberant reading of Bernstein’s score.

Janos Gereben - April 14, 2016

The "Broadway-worthy" version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella comes to San Francisco.