Multiple Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein will star in the perennial family musical,  Fiddler on the Roof, playing the Golden Gate Theatre Jan. 27 through Feb. 21.

And NOW, SHNews readers can purchase priority tickets before they go on sale to the general public.  Click here and enter Special Code FAMILY when arranging your tickets.  This offer ends Nov. 21.

Denzel Washington will star in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Tony Award-winning play, Fences, that Carole Shorenstein Hays is planning to produce next Spring. The much anticipated sequel to The Phantom of the Opera has been announced. And, there's a new Sondheim musical coming, about Sondheim. Here's your direct connection to these stories and whatever else is going on stage and in the wings.

The 39 Steps, Broadway's longest running comedy is making news AND coming to San Francisco.

Here's a sound check of the Tony Award-winning whodunit comedy, The 39 Steps, based on Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1935 film and brought to the stage with inventive direction and an ingenious cast of 4 who play over 150 zany characters. It's coming to the Curran Theatre in December!

 Wicked launches "Behind the Emerald Curtain," an exclusive new peek behind the scenes at the blockbuster musical.

And, check out OZ-Some Wicked specials.

As part of The Witches of Wicked, we meet Patty Duke who plays Madame Morrible in the blockbuster musical currently playing an open-ended engagement at the Orpheum Theatre.

As part of The Witches of Wicked, we go off stage to meet Kendra Kassebaum who plays Glinda in the blockbuster musical currently playing an open-ended engagement at the Orpheum Theatre.

As part of The Witches of Wicked, we chat with Teal Wicks who plays Elphaba in the blockbuster musical currently playing an open-ended engagement at the Orpheum Theatre.

Hear what's coming up in the 2009-2010 Best of Broadway season. And listen in on any of our recurring podcasts. It's like your own SHN radio show that airs when it's convenient for you.

SHN announces the new 2009-2010 Best of Broadway season: 

Multiple Tony Award-winner In the Heights, the new Broadway production of West Side Story, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol.

See you at the theatre!

You'll meet Wicked actors Everth Lopez and Kehau Ahu and discover what it takes to morph into Chistery and a flying monkey while juggling a variety of other ensemble parts in the San Francisco production of this blockbuster musical. They really do give new meaning to "staying on track."

How the perfect storm of masks and makeup, costumes, lighting, effects and choreography make those Wicked flying monkeys so scary and, ultimately, sympathetic characters in the Land of Oz.

When a show is loaded into a theatre, the Costume Designer and Costume Shop staff hand off the responsibility for all costumes and accessories to the show’s Wardrobe Supervisor. For the San Francisco production of Wicked, that person is Gillian Kadish.

You’ll discover how this award-winning writer, who created TV’s acclaimed “My So Called Life,” teamed up with composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz to create the sensational musical theater adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

There's no place like home for Wicked as San Francisco turns green to welcome the international sensation back to where the magic all began.

Find out what it takes to move the multimillion production from Los Angeles to San Francisco, unload, and remount the show for an open-ended engagement at the Orpheum Theatre. It takes a lot more than packing tape and bubble wrap—although they do use some of that, too.

How is a composer’s score fleshed out for an entire orchestra? You find out when you meet the Tony Award-winning musical arranger and orchestrator who transformed Stephen Schwartz’ songs into individual parts for the Wicked musicians.

SHN launches new REWARDS program for season subscribers. Check out all the details!

For the past 30 years, Carole Shorenstein Hays has been bringing important new works to Broadway and the best of Broadway to Bay Area audiences.

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.