Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Giants Organization Is the New Owner of the Curran Theatre The Curran Theatre has just changed hands for the second time in fifteen years, and its new owner is the SF Giants, led by Giants President and CEO Larry Baer. But programming is likely to remain the same.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Is a Wild Ride and Dazzling Piece of Theater Sunday marked the opening day of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the epic, Tony Award-winning, two-part play at The Curran in San Francisco. And in its scale and its own fantastical forms of stage wizardry, it's a production that is difficult to compare to anything else.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Holds Contest For Front-Row Seats To Opening Day of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' The producers of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' are staging a scavenger-hunt-style contest for fans on Friday that will potentially win free front-row seats on Sunday and dinner for five lucky, fast-on-their-feet fans.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Jungle' Tells The Loud, Visceral, Messy Story of a Real-Life Refugee Camp Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's play The Jungle, which had its West Coast premiere last week at The Curran, is a stirring and unique theatrical experience, one which ought to serve as a paradigm for documentary-style storytelling.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'The Jungle,' Now Playing At The Curran Opening night is tonight for The Jungle, the immersive theater piece that has transformed The Curran from a 1,600-seat proscenium theater into a 600-seat Afghan cafe inside a French refugee camp.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The Curran Get Transformed For 'The Jungle' The Curran just underwent a major transformation for the immersive production 'The Jungle,' going from a 1600-seat proscenium setup to a 600-seat theater in the round.
Arts & Entertainment The Curran To Be Transformed Into Theater-in-the-Round For 'The Jungle' Ahead of the April 4 opening of The Jungle at The Curran, the recently renovated theater's 1600-seat proscenium setup will become an intimate 600-seat house with 360-degree staging.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Taylor Mac Discusses His SF Inspiration For 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Tonight is the opening of Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music, being performed at the Curran from start to finish (in four parts on four separate days, separated
Arts & Entertainment Watch Taylor Mac And A Gang Of Beautiful Freaks Galavant Around SF To 'Amazing Grace' "We're making a 24-decade history of popular music. It is a Radical Faerie realness ritual sacrifice." Thus begins this stunning promo video for the upcoming San Francisco production
Arts & Entertainment 'The Encounter' At The Curran Is A Trippy Existential Podcast Come To Life Actor and playwright Simon McBurney probably did not anticipate the explosion of old-fashioned radio theater that's been happening lately via podcasts when he began working on The Encounter several years
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns To SF In September To Perform His Complete 'A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music' Performer and playwright Taylor Mac will, for only the second time, be performing all 24 hours of his epically ambitious A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music this fall at The Curran. The
Arts & Entertainment 'Fun Home' At The Curran Is As Funny, Wrenching, And Complicated As It Was On Broadway For the inaugural production at the newly renovated, thoroughly gorgeous Curran producer and artistic director Carole Shorenstein Hays brought a show that had won wide praise and several Tony Awards, despite being a
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Curran, The Newly Renovated 95-Year-Old Theater Reopening This Month After two years of renovation and restoration, The Curran theater on Geary Street comes back to life this month with an inaugural production of the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. This will
Arts & Entertainment Film Premiere Of 'Fences' Starring Denzel Washington And Viola Davis To Mark Reopening Of Curran Theater The local theatergoing community has been awaiting the grand reopening of The Curran theater since late last year, when it was announced that local producer and SHN co-founder Carole Shorentstein Hays was
Arts & Entertainment Tony Nominated Play <i>Eclipsed</i> Added To New Curran Season The Curran is continuing to undergo an extensive renovation and reinvention at the hands of new owner, producer Carole Shorenstein Hays, and Hays is continuing to add some high-profile productions direct from
