53 stories by "Robert Sokol"
The dynamic duo behind the PS Classics recording label take their project from sounds to stage.
Ten Questions with Jason Graae.
The stage, concert, and television star returns to the Coachella Valley for one night only.
Interview with Ted Chapin as "Follies" starts in Las Vegas.
When the curtain goes down on 42nd Street Moon's new production of "The Boys from Syracuse," it will not only signal the end of the show, but the end of »
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If the recent death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee engenders a nostalgic hunger to revisit her seminal work, the production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Hillbarn Theatre will &…
Tony Award-nominee Emily Skinner is becoming a very welcome presence on The City's performing arts scene. She led a revival of Stephen Sondheim's seldom performed "Do I Hear a Waltz?" »…
Legend is a gift that keeps giving and that's just fine with Kim Novak. The legendary film star returns to The City this weekend to celebrate her work and that »
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Called "whimsical" in its promotional materials, the world premiere of "Sagittarius Ponderosa" at New Conservatory Theatre Center was disappointingly vague and unfocused. The shortcoming res…
Mix a 17th-century Italian folk tale with 21st-century matchmaking technology, shake with a lot of earnest energy and you get "Tinderella," the new musical at the PianoFight-resident FautLin…
"Holidays are about family, about friends, fun and hopefully about relaxing," says Brian Stokes Mitchell, "though they never seem to be that way for me since I am always working »
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If creating a musical based on a vintage film has become a common, if unpredictable, theater practice, it might stand to reason that creating one based on a 65-year-old black-and-white »…
A woman who gets to go in both directions at a major fork in her life's road is the central theme of the musical "If/Then," written by Tony Award-winners Brian »
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Stephanie Blythe is popping up all over San Francisco lately. She made a surprise appearance at the San Francisco Symphony gala opening last week. She's also spent the last month »
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A frequently humorous if talky slice of nothing set in the trickle-down Reagan-era, Kenneth Lonergan's "This is Our Youth" marks the opening of a new season for Custom Made Theatre »
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Captain Picard is beaming up Frasier Crane to open the San Francisco Symphony season! Well, actually Kelsey Grammer has agreed to step into the 2015 gala concert this week because »
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Judging solely by big screen appearances two decades apart, Minnie Driver's talents as a singer might be rated really awful ("Goldeneye" in 1995) or unexpectedly classical (2004's "The Phant…
When the auction began onstage at the Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" had just completed its 11,474th performance. M…
Making theater is a risky business. Doing so successfully for 75 years is an accomplishment and Hillbarn Theatre celebrates that as it launches its diamond jubilee season this week with …
"West Side Story" is a classic — so much so that five productions are now playing or will open around the Bay Area before summer's end. Happily, the version at »
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by Robert Sokol
One of the most perfectly formed musicals of Broadway's golden age, "My Fair Lady" has a heavenly score " music by Alan Jay Lerner and lyrics by Frederick Loewe …
by Robert Sokol
San Jose Stage Company wraps its current season with a smorgasbord of outstanding local talent in a sparkling two-snaps-up musical production of "The Addams Famil…
by Robert Sokol
One of the most perfectly formed musicals of Broadway's golden age, "My Fair Lady" has a heavenly score " music by Alan Jay Lerner and lyrics by Frederick Loewe …
by Robert Sokol
San Jose Stage Company wraps its current season with a smorgasbord of outstanding local talent in a sparkling two-snaps-up musical production of "The Addams Famil…
by Robert Sokol
Though W.C. Fields recommended never sharing a stage with kids and animals, associating with a production of the musical "Annie" makes that impossible.
In the non…
by Robert Sokol
Though W.C. Fields recommended never sharing a stage with kids and animals, associating with a production of the musical "Annie" makes that impossible.
In the non…
