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Revolutionary musical "Hamilton" returns to San Francisco as part of the show’s third national tour. The production arrives directly from Puerto Rico where Lin Manuel Miranda reprised the lead role. In San Francisco, Julius Thomas III takes over for Miranda. Spend the big bucks or maybe you’ll get lucky and win the Hamilton $10 ticket lottery (the show will be in town for 573 days—meaning you have 573 chances to win).
The biggest theatre hit of modern times bar none is Jack Thorne and J.K. Rowling's epic two-part eighth adventure for erstwhile boy wizard Harry Potter. And now the adventure is coming to San Francisco! The Tony & Olivier Award-winning play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two, will premiere on the West Coast at San Francisco’s Curran on October 23, 2019. With record-breaking productions in London and New York as well as an Australian production set to premiere in Melbourne in early 2019, the San Francisco production will mark the fourth engagement of the smash hit play, as well as its West Coast premiere in North America. The play takes place almost two decades after the Battle of Hogwarts; Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs and his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. Tickets for Harry Potter and The Cursed Child will be available to purchase beginning March 14 at 11am. You can register for priority access, which will begin March 11. Registration will be open until March 3.
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San Francisco’s Chinatown contains the largest Chinese population outside of Asia. As a result, the culture is robust.
One of the most culturally and historically rich neighborhoods in the city.
Jump off at Montgomery or Embarcadero to explore this bustling business district.
The epicenter of hippie culture in the 1960s where trendy shops, tattoo parlors, funky bars and ethnic eateries radiate in all directions.
Largely unexplored, foggy areas that sandwich Golden Gate Park.
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