Month: May 2014

In 2009 the Theatre Royal Haymarket mounted the most successful production ever of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This was followed by the first staged adaptation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. During the creation of these two historic productions, the Theatre Royal opened its doors to a television crew, for the recording of a…

In a delightful departure from conventional programming, San Francisco Opera opens its Summer Season on June 1 with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical masterpiece, Show Boat. At its first Broadway performance in December 1927, Show Boat marked an important milestone in the history of American theater – the confluence of European operetta and…

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are releasing a CD of their world premiere concert version of Leonard Bernstein’s complete score from the musical West Side Story – which MTT describes as “…. a new and rare opportunity to hear Bernstein’s complete score sung by a sensational young cast and a knock-your-socks-off orchestra”.…