BroadwaySF’s 2025-26 lineup is here!

“Shucked,” a maize-centric comedy with enough puns to sate even the corniest cornball, opens the season at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from September 9 - October 5. The musical, with a book by Robert Horn and music and lyrics by country songwriters Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, follows a marriage engagement imperiled by the corn crop failure in the couple’s town. Song titles include “Corn,” “Corn (reprise)” and “Corn Mix.”

     Next up, at the Orpheum, is “Suffs” (Oct. 21-Nov. 9), Shaina Taub’s musical about the women who crusaded for the right to vote. The winner of the Tony Award winner for Best Book and Best Score chronicles suffragists’ vehement disagreements about their means and ends, cannily inviting audiences to take up their charge more than a century later.

     Fall continues with “Stereophonic” (Oct. 28-Nov. 23), the winner of last year’s Tony for Best Play; one of its performers, Bay Area native Will Brill, also took home a Tony. 

     David Adjmi’s script, with music by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, chronicles the eviscerating process by which a rock band makes one of the greatest albums of all time, all from a Sausalito music studio in 1976. While fictionalized, it bears lots of similarities to Fleetwood Mac’s recording of “Rumours.” Daniel Aukin reprises his directorial role for the tour, which plays at the Curran.

     Bring your tissues to the Orpheum in the new year for “The Notebook” (Feb. 10-March 1), Bekah Brunstetter and Ingrid Michaelson’s adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks tearjerker that traces two eras in a couple’s life: when socioeconomics nearly keep them from getting together and when illness drives them apart. 

     Spring brings “Fisch Schlapping,” head-bonking monks and coconut shells imitating a horse’s trot, thanks to the return of “Spamalot” (March 3-22) to the Golden Gate Theatre, followed by “Hell’s Kitchen” (May 6-24), which uses the music of 17-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys to tell her own story of growing up in New York in the ’90s. Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz wrote the book, and Camille A. Brown (“Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical” at American Conservatory Theater) choreographs.

     The season concludes with a revisit of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” (July 14-Aug. 9) to the Orpheum. At the same venue, another old favorite, “The Phantom of the Opera” (May 28-June 21), is an add-on option outside of the subscription package.

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Photo caption: Aisha Jackson, left, and Ryan Vasquez in the Broadway cast of “The Notebook.” The show tours to BroadwaySF’s Orpheum Theatre. (Julieta Cervantes/BroadwaySF)

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