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James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape the past… but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are. An original story...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang (Chinglish, Yellow Face, Soft Power, and operas The Monkey King,...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang (Chinglish, Yellow Face, Soft Power, and operas The Monkey King,...
Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Primary Trust receives its Regional Premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. In Eboni Booth's charming and powerful play, 38-year-old bookstore worker...
Scryer, an AI surveillance system, weaves Anita into a web of suspicion. Security agents of unknown provenance question her about a “targeted” student. As Scryer...
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, who wrote City Lights’ 2015 hit Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, now brings us a new version of a celebrated mystery that inspired...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast Premiere of Candrice Jones’ Flex, directed by Bay Area theatre titan and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director...
Folk tales say that everyone has a soul mate. Some tales go on to state that you meet your soul mate again in the afterlife....
Cassie, a fourteen-year-old girl raised on the San Francisco Bay, runs away, stealing a boat and embarking in search of her father. She draws upon...
SpaceHorizonZ wants you to colonize Mars, terraform the planet, and establish an extra-terrestrial plantation. Come along with Commander Jet Jope and Pilot Zhinga Ndongo as...
In her immaculate Silicon Valley home office, Merril believes in patterns and systems. But her life as a hotshot coder and AI expert falls apart...
Based on the true story of a 17th Century party girl, The Hortense Mancini Project romps through the lacy Baroque underthings of King Charles II,...
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by Steve Murray - March 06, 2026
For every lover of Ibsen, Arthur Miller and Stephen Sondheim, there’s a lover of The Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello and of course, Monty Python. Back in the 1970’s Monty Python’s Flying circus was a sensation with their irreverent and risqué observational comedy. If you couldn’t recite th...
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
There’s a giant dynamo inside the petite frame of Marilyn Maye that propels her constantly forward, now approaching her 98th birthday, and eighth decade of performances. She’s a national treasure and receives adulation befitting her status wherever she performs....
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
The late AIDS activist Larry Kramer meets Pete Buttigieg in John Fisher’s wild political fantasia Left Field, now occupying the full stage at Theatre Rhino. Written and directed by Fisher, Left Field follows an angry radical f****t who rises from mayor to supervisor, to VP candidate, to potential ...
by Steve Murray - February 26, 2026
Arthur Miller needed after his disastrous Broadway debut with the four-performance The Man Who Had All the Luck, and an article in an Ohio newspaper would provide the basis for All My Sons which would on to win two Tony awards for Best Author and Direction of a Play....
by Steve Murray - February 25, 2026
The Paranormal Activity franchise (seven films from 2007 -21), while critically panned, proved people love to be scared, then laugh at their foolishness. Now a theatre piece, the crowd anticipated the expected thrills of supernatural goings on in a live experience....
by Steve Murray - February 14, 2026
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by Steve Murray - February 12, 2026
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by Kelly Rogers Flynt - February 11, 2026
IMPROBABLE FICTION at Masquers Playhouse is a tale of two parts. Don’t let the easy-going first half lull you into complacency. When the action hits, it comes in quick succession with quippy lines, funny costumes, over the top dramatics, and plenty of belly laughs....
by Steve Murray - February 04, 2026
Change is hard, we all know that. We get stuck in patterns and the comfortable, even if that inertia is destructive. Watching Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, brilliantly directed by American Conservatory Theatre Artistic Director emerita Carey Perloff and starring an all-star cast of local legends, will...
by Steve Murray - February 02, 2026
Heidi Schreck’s award-winning 2019 homage to the US Constitution couldn’t be timelier than at this moment of political crisis in America. Written as a remembrance of her 15-year-old self as a debater in love with the constitution, the present-day Heidi narrates the play which links her family’...
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