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WestFest 2022 will present two full weekends of shows, a different presentation each week, to entice the loyal audiences who have returned for WestFest every year, as well as to introduce new audiences to the richly varied work of the city's longest-running, continuously operating professional company. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 2. Each week's program runs two hours, plus intermission.

THE PIG FARM - A WORLD PREMIER PLAY IN TWO ACTS is an immersive and visceral audience experience of sound, light, darkness, comedy and horror that follows the journey of two young religious schoolgirls trapped on a pig farm.

This summer, Free Shakespeare in the Park will become Free Shakespeare at Home as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival transitions its public theater program to a virtual format. Offering live virtual performances of King Lear is the safest way to continue thirty-eight years of tradition in the face of the current pandemic.

Everything Goes! The Music of Cole Porter features several of Porter's most famous songs as well as some of his lesser-known gems. Among the numbers being performed in this all-singing, all-dancing revue are mainstays, including 'In the Still of the Night' sung a cappella by the entire cast, 'Night and Day,' 'I Love Paris' and 'Begin the Beguine.' The show also features rarely heard Porter tunes such as 'Live and Let Live' and 'Ritz Rock and Roll.'