Posts by Shelton Theater

Tomfoolery – Wicked Words and Mischievous Music By Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer epitomized the era of satirical humor in the 1950s and 1960s, writing songs which were wickedly naughty yet not x-rated by today’s standards in any way. What is most amazing about Lehrer’s music is how timeless it has remained, dealing with subjects such…

Shelton Theater celebrates 25 years in San Francisco with the Bay Area premiere of Tennessee Williams’ black comedy play Baby Doll newly adapted by Emily Mann and Pierre Laville. The story follows a virgin child bride and her alcoholic husband into a revenge plot of seduction and justice. The film was created at the height…

Singing! Dancing! Acrobatics! …Androids? Yesterday Is Tomorrow: A Revolutionary Revue Written and Performed by Genie and Marie Cartier A satirical look at the past, present and future of a world increasingly hostile to artists and dominated by technology. With singing, dancing, acrobatics, comedy and boy bands. Also, feminism. Sisters Genie and Marie Cartier are artists…

In 1977, FREDERICK GLAYSHER took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day he might also revive the art of the rhapsode. Thirty years in…

New Heights Magazine and Jake Brewer present an exclusive “Landscapes: Unplugged” album release party in San Francisco. Join Jake on August 11 at the Shelton Theater for an exclusive unplugged performance and networking event. Jake Brewer is a rising musician from San Francisco, CA. His debut album, Lucky I Am, has accumulated over 100,000 streams…

The time has come for Jacques and Roberta to produce children of their own. But when the couple is unsuccessful, the rest of the family decides its time to intervene. Troupe Theatre brings you Eugene Ionesco’s vicious satire of western thought; a play about life, death, reproduction, and consumerism that is as frightening as it…

Strange Prescription brings us a double bill as the debut of Shelton Theater’s Lighthouse co-production program! The undercard English Revisionism is a short comedy about a teacher who lets her emotions get the best of her when she falls in love with one of her students. The main event Punch in the Face is a…