Golden Thread Productions presents its 30th anniversary edition of ReOrient, featuring five fully-produced short plays by MENA playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak, Banafsheh Hassani, Sepehr Jafari, Hannah Khalil, and Ahmed Masoud. This year's festival is dedicated to Iran and...
Compassion Collab's world premiere of Gamblin' Life or Death is a multilingual musical theater production. It has 4 shows from Thursday, November 5 through Sunday November 8, 2026 at Potrero Stage (1695 18th Street, San Francisco). The project is fiscally sponsored by...
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the inaugural Twisted Holiday Festival, December 4th - December 20th, 2026, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 8 productions and 24 performances of new holiday-themed works (with...
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It’s a season for women’s stories in the Bay Area. We have the comic fairy tale feminist Once Upon a One More Time at Ray of Light and Harold Pinters’ deceit-filled Betrayal at Marin Theatre. Now we get the heavy hitter in Bess Wohl’s Tony and Pulitzer winning Liberation which opened at Berk…
In the first scene of Harold Pinter’s award-winning play, it’s 1977 and Emma and Jerry are peppering each other with perfunctory ‘how ya doing’ questions over drinks at a pub. It’s awkward and testy, with some kind of subtext lurking beneath the surface. They’re meeting two years after t…
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME: THE BRITNEY SPEARS FAIRY TALE MUSICAL by Ray of Light Theatre at the Barbary Stage brings down the house on opening night with a electric dancing and high octane vocals.…
THE LION IN WINTER roars onto the stage at Altarena Playhouse. Political intrigue, succession battles, and holiday festivities are all wrapped up in a soap opera of family squabbles and topped off with a love triangle.…
A child requests her favorite fairy tale, and The Narrator puts out a call for the players to assemble on set to re-enact the story verbatim, as it’s been told since inception, no changes.…
What did our critic think of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at New Conservatory Theatre Center?…
What happens when one of America's most recognizable First Ladies becomes a foul-mouthed, cabaret-obsessed, and completely unhinged theatrical sensation?…
A weary Donte Coleman sits in his Western Addition family home that he’s just listed for sale. In this well constructed memory play, scenes from his childhood burst to life in SFBATCO’s homage to the golden age of 1950’s San Francisco’s Fillmore district. Local legend Daryl V. Jones is the e…
What did our critic think of DRACULA at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley?…
What did our critic think of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Broadway San Jose?…
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Orange Uncle Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma and human Lila join forces to resist.
Written and performed by Barbara Brady, this solo dramedy tells the true story of Brady's lifelong involvement with her eccentric uncle Jay, exploring dysfunctional family life and the power of talking about toxic secrets. Thinking she's had enough therapy to handle it, Barbara...
An improvised performance putting multi-faceted, complicated female characters at the center of the story. Presented by Improv Playhouse of San Francisco as part of the 5th Annual Free-Play Festival hosted by PlayGround. The cast features Mark Duncanson, Tim Orr, Lisa Rowland...
An improvised performance based on a movie title suggested by the audience, with a story that jumps through times and locations. Presented by Improv Playhouse of San Francisco as part of the 5th Annual Free-Play Festival hosted by PlayGround. The cast features Mark Duncanson...
A two-act improvised play wherein each improviser plays just one character and all the action takes place on one set. Presented by Improv Playhouse of San Francisco as part of the 5th Annual Free-Play Festival hosted by PlayGround. The cast features Mark Duncanson, Tim Orr, Lisa...
Waterfall is a new fully scored opera by composer Lisa Scola Prosek, presented by The Playground Free Play Festival. The opera tells the haunting story of San Francisco poet Laura Hothkiss Brown, who leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge after scattering her poems into the wind...
“Next Time" is an original musical by Sean P. Breen, directed by Brandon Joseph, with three performances at the SF Playground 2026 Free Play Festival. "Next Time" lives in a barbershop and at a vocal competition in Landstowne, Pennsylvania in 1990, with a flashback to 1979. What...
Laugh, cry, and sing along with this darkly comic exploration of growth and setbacks in the year following divorce!
Arab Spring, a dark comedy by Denmo Ibrahim, receives its world premiere in a co-production from Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO. The play follows two second-generation siblings — Yusef, a recovering addict played by Salim Razawi, and his controlling big sister Dina...
Tales of the City: A Waymo Carol is a new take on the classic story by Charles Dickens, where a tech worker discovers the beauty of humanity through the exploration of the past, present, and future of San Francisco. The play was written by Rover Dijkstra, a senior at Galileo...
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The Madness of Lady Bright Venue: iMPACt Center for Art & Dance (11/06-11/15) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Lena Hall: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (11/06-11/07) |
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The Secret Garden Marin Shakespeare Company’s Downtown Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
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BEAVER BAUER: FROM STREET TO STAGE San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) Main Library (11/05-4/11) |
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School of Rock Hillbarn Theatre (11/19-12/20) |
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Live At the Orinda - Beth Leavel Orinda Theatre (11/08-11/08) |
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD PLAY: WRITE PLAYS THAT GET PRODUCED Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop (10/11-12/13) |
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Come From Away Berkeley Playhouse (2/19-3/21) |
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“Inspiración: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers” Center for New Music (5/15-5/15) |
