Get Eddie’s recommendations for shows on stage now that you should be sure not to miss.
Hairspray
It is only fair to open this review of San Francisco Playhouse’s Hairspray with a warning: From the opening “Good Morning Baltimore” to the finale “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” multiple worms will be implanted deep within your being that will ring forth in your ears for days to come. These are the necessary hazards of having one helluva good time at the Playhouse’s Hairspray production that is Broadway-plus in every rock-n-roll, rollicking respect.
Ride the Cyclone
Hilarity reigns supreme as fabulously voiced cast members sing the eclectic, genre-smashing songs that range from Broadway to folk, ballad, rap, R&B, synth-pop, and more. Combined with pull-out-all-the-stops direction by Kimberly Ridgeway, City Lights’ Ride the Cyclone is an outlandishly witty, thoroughly engaging, and in the end, heart-warming musical comedy about death and the hereafter.
