Darren Criss & Sutton Foster Kick-Off Broadway @ The Nourse

Broadway @ The Nourse concert series returns to San Francisco this season with stars Darren Criss and Sutton Foster. Hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky, the popular series will return for the 2015/16 season at The Nourse Theater with two concerts. First up will be the red-hot star of TV's "Glee" and Broadway's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," Darren Criss on October 30, followed by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster on January 16.

The Broadway @ The Nourse concert series will benefit San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Open Hand, and San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Tickets are now on-sale - further information can be found at www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway or by calling (415) 392-4400.

Darren Criss is widely known for playing Blaine Anderson on Fox TV's hit musical comedy/drama series "Glee." On the series, as lead vocalist of the show's Dalton Academy Warblers, his cover of the song "Teenage Dream" became the fastest-selling "Glee" single ever, reaching as high as number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a certified gold single in the U.S. Darren was nominated for an Emmy Award this year for writing the song "This Time" for the "Glee" finale. On Broadway, Darren Criss has starred in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." He is one of the founding members and co-owners of StarKid Productions, the musical theater company based in Chicago, at which he starred as Harry Potter in the company's production of "A Very Potter Musical." The company's original album "Me and My Dick" made Billboard history by becoming the first charting student-produced musical recording, debuting at number eleven on the Top Cast Albums chart in 2010. Criss made his feature film debut in 2012 in the comedy "Girl Most LIkely."

Sutton Foster won two Tony Awards for her leading roles in "Anything Goes" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and starred in the ABC Family TV series "Bunheads." She has just returned to TV this past year as the star of the hit new series "Younger" on TV Land by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, to rave reviews. She recently starred in the revival of Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party" for Encores at City Center this past July. She was nominated for another Tony Award in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical "Violet" at New York's Roundabout Theatre in 2014. Sutton Foster has starred on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies," "Grease," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Annie," and "Les Mis�rables" before her big break and Tony Award-winning performance in "Thoroughly Modern Millie." She has since then originated roles in the Broadway productions of "Little Women," "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Young Frankenstein," and "Shrek the Musical." She recently starred as Reno Sweeney in The Roundabout's revival of "Anything Goes," a role that earned her the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards.

She was first seen on television on "Star Search" at age 15, and has appeared in "Johnny and the Sprites" and "Flight of the Conchords." More recently, she was the star of the ABC Family TV ballet 'dramedy' "Bunheads," created by "Gilmore Girls" writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. She is the star of the brand new TV Land series "Younger" by "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, which just premiered on March 31, 2015, and co-stars Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar. Last year she also appeared on the prestigious 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, where she performed a medley of hit Broadway songs made famous by honoree Shirley MacLaine, including "Something Better Than This," "Steam Heat" and "She's No Longer A Gypsy."

Darren Criss
Friday, October 30, 2015 at 8:00 P.M.

Sutton Foster
Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 8:00 P.M.

The Nourse Theater
275 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone:(415) 392-4400

For tickets and info, please visit www.cityboxoffice.com/broadway
or call (415) 392-4400. Buy the 2 Concert Package and save 20%.