The ground-breaking FUN HOME is the latest theater work to explore, dramatize, and otherwise celebrate the family dynamic. As we anticipate the arrival of FUN HOME, we also celebrate real life Bay Area families. To conclude our Family Portraits series, we are excited to introduce the Cordoba family of five from Castro Valley.

The ground-breaking FUN HOME is the latest theater work to explore, dramatize, and otherwise celebrate the family dynamic. As we anticipate the arrival of FUN HOME, we also celebrate real life Bay Area families. Here are Jayne and Jocelyn, students at the Oakland School for the Arts, both pursuing the love of music they were raised on.

Thirteen years ago this week Suzan-Lori Parks' groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize winning play TOPDOG/ UNDERDOG was performed at the Curran Theatre. Gracie Hays talks with her mom, Carole Shorenstein Hays about what her experience was like as the show's lead producer.

Five years ago this week the Curran hosted the US premiere of this incredibly unforgettable production, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey.

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The ground-breaking FUN HOME is the latest theater work to explore, dramatize, and otherwise celebrate the family dynamic. As we anticipate the arrival of FUN HOME, we also celebrate real life Bay Area families. The second piece in our Family Portraits series introduces the Curran family to Loretha Jones, an Oakland native, and her family of six.

The musical I DO! I DO! starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston was on the Curran stage during this week in 1968. Based on two-hander THE FOURPOSTER, the Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical was produced on Broadway by David Merrick and directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. Carol Lawrence and Gordon McRae played the matinees on Broadway and took over for Martin and Preston when they took the show on tour in March of 1968. The tour was scheduled for 27 cities, but a few months after the playing the Curran, Martin fell ill and the remaining tour dates were cancelled.

The ground-breaking FUN HOME is the latest theater work to explore, dramatize, and otherwise celebrate the family dynamic. As we anticipate the arrival of FUN HOME, we also celebrate real life Bay Area families. Here are Sammi Kane and her mother Lee in the first installment of our special Family Portraits series.