Fifty years after Snoopy the Musical first lit up San Francisco’s Little Fox Theatre, the companies responsible for its legacy are still struggling to tell the truth about it. Concord Theatricals, the licensing agent for the show, continues to promote a version of the musical that sidelines its 1975 West ... Read More »
BMG Concord’s Pride Branding, Minus Gay Men Concord Theatricals failed to celebrate June Pride Month 2026. Concord identity around curated LGBTQIA+ collections, themed catalogs, and marketing language that invites producers to “show your pride with these shows,” yet the company’s treatment of its Peanuts musicals tells a different story. BMG ... Read More »
The irony is brutal: Concord Theatricals, a cabal?like operation that licenses plays and musicals almost entirely created by men, now sells itself as the woke, feminist savior of the stage. In reality, it’s a corporate branding exercise run by music?industry outsiders, backed by a global merger with BMG Rights Management, ... Read More »
The Hollywood Pantages looks like a temple to art. In reality, it’s one of the most efficient profit centers in American theater—and a key node in a national system that turns hit musicals into long-term licensing revenue. Walk into a current run of Beauty and the Beast or Phantom of ... Read More »
A Secret Handshake It is the kind of story that feels like a secret handshake, you do not casually bring up Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom in conversation, you mention it only when you have found someone who was there, someone who remembers the strange, unmarked cultural currents ... Read More »
Charles Schulz once sat down for an interview and said something unusual for the creator of the most beloved comic strip in history. He didn’t write for children. He wrote for adults. “Citizen Kane” is featured in Snoopy!!! the Musical The quote appeared in a newspaper article whose lead ran ... Read More »
A Town of Open Secrets In old Hollywood, everybody knew, and nobody said a word. Two of the clearest examples were James Whale, the English director most closely associated with Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, and George Cukor, the dapper “woman’s director” whose Sunday pool parties became one of the ... Read More »
San Francisco–born actor Patrick Thomas (born February 21, 1961) has built a four?decade career as a dependable character actor and voice performer, moving fluidly between cult genre films, television guest spots, and animation and video games. Best known to many viewers as Uncle Fester in the television film Addams Family ... Read More »
The federal government just dropped the hammer on a massive Adderall trafficking operation in San Francisco. A telehealth company called Done Global allegedly pumped over 40 million stimulant pills into the country through a subscription model that required little more than a two-minute video chat. The CEO and clinical president ... Read More »
We are living in a time when the American values forged on the World War II home front feel more relevant than ever, and a must-see film that captures those values with heart and honesty is Since You Went Away. This sweeping 1944 drama is one of the definitive portraits ... Read More »
The headlines out of West Hollywood have been dominated by violence. Two recent shootings and a stabbing have rightfully earned the city its troubling designation as one of the 10 most dangerous cities in California. But for the residents who remain—many of them elderly or high-end professionals who can still ... Read More »
The Southern Pacific’s Streamliner Coast Daylight was the West’s finest train in the 1940s, 50s, and early 1960s. It hugged the Pacific Ocean with great views. Linking Los Angeles and San Francisco on a glorious daylight trip, streaking along the edge of the Pacific Ocean for more than a hundred ... Read More »
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