Monty Python's SPAMALOT is announced as part of the 2008-2009 Best of Broadway season. This hilarious smash hit Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005 is lovingly "ripped-off" from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The California premiere is at the Golden Gate Theatre.

Michael Bennett redefined the American musical with his groundbreaking creation, A Chorus Line, but three decades later it is Marvin Hamlisch’s music with lyrics by Edward Kleban that endures.

Celebrating 30 years presenting theater in the Bay Area, SHN announces the 2008-2009 Best of Broadway season.

They never know whose shoes they will be filling from one performance to the next. That's the challenge and thrill of being a "swing". It takes a special kind of person to excel at "swinging" in a Broadway Show.

SHN is pleased to announce that A BRONX TALE, written by and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri, will play a limited engagement at the Golden Gate Theatre beginning Tuesday, September 23 through Sunday, October 19 concluding the 2007-2008 Citibank Best of Broadway season.

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SHN has the lead role in stimulating the local economy when the curtain goes up at the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate theatres.  Area restaurants, bars, hotels, shops, and theatre service businesses all get into the act. 

"Good Luck" is bad luck so pinch me instead. Always open a show with the ritual of the Gypsy Robe, and please leave the Ghost Light on when you go. Do these and other superstitions of lore live on in the theatre today?

SHN Founder Carole Shorenstein Hays has announced plans to produce a new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, FENCES by August Wilson on Broadway this fall. 

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