Theatre
What's coming to Bay Area stages?
The fall theater previews that appear annually on these pages have at times been massaged and manipulated to assure that at least one upcoming production from the major theaters makes it into one of the categories devised for that year: promising solo shows, new musicals, star turns, etc. Read more
Soul sisters
The acronym LED, for light-emitting diode, did not trip off our tongues when Dreamgirls first opened on Broadway in 1981, but when the LED panels that comprise the scenery of the touring Dreamgirls at the Curran first began to glow, the opening-night audience responded with applause. Read more
Grand revue
When musical director Joe Wicht tells Darlene Popovic how honored he is to be playing piano for her first gig since she came out of retirement, she shoots him a look that could kill. Read more
