by Steve Murray - April 03, 2026
Berkely Rep’s co-production with La Jolla Playhouse of Ngozi Anywanu’s The Monsters is a joyous, heartwarming story of the bond between sister and brother that will want to make you hug your sibling. Both emotionally devastating and rewarding, The Monsters is brilliantly written, superbly acted ...
by Steve Murray - April 02, 2026
For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation. Playing a style of ‘dirty’ ball, her braggadocio will lead her to a foul play in Candrice Jones’ Flex, making its West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse....
by Linda Hodges - April 01, 2026
It's easy to see why Beetlejuice, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tim Burton's beloved 1998 cult-classic film, earned eight 2019 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. It is to die for. ...
by Steve Murray - March 30, 2026
There are many types of great theatre- light, cheerful, romantic, uplifting, silly, classic. Z Spaces’ co-production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and a tough watch – but it is great theatre, a timely cautionary tale of evil startingly conce...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
I admit I’ve never seen Stephen Sondhiem’s Assassins, nor ever heard the score or read the synopsis. A flop in 1990, the 2004 revival won five Tony awards, and it’s been in theatre rotations since, often causing controversy for its raw language and unsavory content. A play from the perspective...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, continues it’s forty-eighth season with a concert both cheerful and deeply emotional celebrating the music and events of the 1980’s. For the LGBT community, the 80’s was the apocalypse incarnate - a community devastate...
by Jim Munson - March 22, 2026
What did our critic think of DON QUIXOTE at San Francisco Ballet?...
by Steve Murray - March 21, 2026
What did our critic think of AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ at Feinstein's At The Nikko?...
by Steve Murray - March 19, 2026
There is plenty of interesting ideas in Eisa Davis’ into the lives of four women, students in a summer music program. The need for arts education drives these girls, partly for parity in a male dominated world of music and secondly as a respite from the dramas of their individual lives....
by Steve Murray - March 15, 2026
What did our critic think of GODS & MONSTERS at New Conservatory Theatre Center?...
Past Shows
Parents suffer many indignities in this world and, GODDAMN, are they funny! If you’re a parent, come laugh through your pain; if you’re not a...
Spirals & Dirt is a new original musical by Sean P. Breen, and is directed by Brandon Joseph. The debut of this new musical is presented...
The Specimen - A Horror Play follows Johnny, a gay paleo zoologist who loses his job amid Trump-era science budget cuts. Outraged and unmoored, Johnny refuses...
Therapist Zero is a raw, darkly comic solo performance written and performed by Brian Leonard. This deeply personal one-man show explores the complexities of parenting...
A queer Filipina immigrant reckons with memory, identity, and the legacy of her larger-than-life celebrity mother in this intimate, multimedia theatrical experience.
Orange predator Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma joins bug-loving human Lila to lead the resistance.
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six...
PlayGround Festival of New WorksFESTIVAL STAGED READINGSA Look at Tomorrow’s Great Plays Today!May 9, May 12, May 16 & May 19 7pm PDT @ Potrero...
ABOUT THE PLAY: A man trapped in a deadly storm during his ascent of Mount Everest must wrestle with ghosts of the past—both figurative and...
PlayGround Festival of New WorksTHE PASSING STORM by Jessica June Rowe (a Festival Premiere Presentation)Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza May 17 & May 18 7pm PT...
ABOUT THE PLAY: Maya Money, Aurora, and Farrah Fenix fight to find what's real in the "heightened" world of professional wrestling.Featuring: L Duarte, Krystle Piamonte,...
Hear from five of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni....
80 mins. No Intermission.WRITTEN BY MONA PIRNOTDIRECTED BY PETER J KUO2023 Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding New Play or MusicalA searing one-act play interrogating the...
Bread & Butter Theatre returns to Potrero Stage with David Hare’s Tony and Olivier award-winning play Skylight. Broadway and the West End applauded this intensely...
Charles Darwin, Her True Story celebrates Latin American revolutionaries and the revolutionary potential that we all carry within.It is January 1, 2001 in the south...
PlayGround has announced a limited run of the Hollywood Fringe hit, BREED OR BUST by Joyful Raven, directed by Jael Weisman. Following a one-night performance...
PlayGround closes out the summer season with a new free festival of new plays by the PlayGround community, FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 26-28, at Potrero Stage...
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new...
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new...
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coasts premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new...
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our 26th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 26! Please join us in...
Internationally acclaimed actor Roger Grunwald explores a world gone mad in The Obligation, his riveting and immersive one-person drama. Directed by Bay Area Theatre Critics...
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