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SF Giants make surprise purchase of longtime downtown theater

As the calendar nears Christmas and the MLB offseason drags on, the San Francisco Giants have made their first splashy addition of the winter, acquiring a ... 103-year-old theater.

On Thursday, the Giants announced they have purchased the Curran Theatre, a 1,600-seat theater on Geary Street just two blocks from Union Square, from its previous owner, Carole Shorenstein Hays. The theater opened in 1922 and has hosted numerous off-Broadway shows.

Shorenstein Hays, a former Tony Award-winning theater producer, was both an owner and the primary operator of the facility from 2010 until 2019, when she lost a long legal battle with her former partner Robert Nederlander and was ousted.