Musical Theater

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.

Joe Cadagin - February 3, 2015

The Lamplighters Musical Theater production of Candide has a lot going for it, along with a few unavoidable flaws.

Michael Zwiebach - July 19, 2013

Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri may not be the most famous or most remembered show by Gilbert and Sullivan, but it is one of their best. Lamplighters Music Theatre is, of course, the local specialist in this repertoire.