LA CUCARACHA (Orange Uncle Sam Invades Mexico!)
Orange Uncle Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma and human Lila join forces to resist.
Upcoming Shows
ReOrient 2026 Festival of Short Plays
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...
PlayGround Twisted Holiday Festival
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...
Articles
Review: KING LEAR at Oakland Theater Project
Transformative, innovative, and hauntingly memorable. These words encapsulate the reaction to Oakland Theater Project’s production of KING LEAR. The story leaps to life with a flourish of energy and grace.…
Review: KING LEAR at Z Space
What did our critic think of KING LEAR at Z Space?…
Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Berkeley Playhouse
LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
Review: NORTH BY NORTHWEST at American Conservatory Theatre
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
Review: AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
Review: CRUSHING at A.C.T. Strand
Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…
Review: THE COOK at Berkeley Rep
A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season. In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Gets a Spectacular New Life at Broadway San Jose
Review of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Broadway San Jose, where dazzling stagecraft, spectacular choreography and standout performances make the new touring production a theatrical feast.…
Past Shows
35 total · showing 1–10
Manning
Manning is a new play by Benjamin Benne directed by Adin Walker, receiving its West Coast premiere at Crowded Fire Theater. Following the death of their wife and mother, a father and his two sons spread her ashes in their backyard garden, and when a giant zucchini mysteriously...
My Dead Uncle's Porn Collection
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...
The Bechdel Test
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...
Improvised Movie
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...
The Naked Stage
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
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"
“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...
Divorced: The Musical!
Laugh, cry, and sing along with this darkly comic exploration of growth and setbacks in the year following divorce!
Arab Spring
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
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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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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MELINA-FEST: 4 New Play Readings Studio B. Wolff (9/25-10/16) |
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Shrek the Musical Berkeley Playhouse (5/21-6/20) |
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The Legend of Robin Hood Hillbarn Theatre (1/21-2/14) |
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Steel Magnolias Town Hall Theatre (9/10-10/03) |
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Come From Away Berkeley Playhouse (2/19-3/21) |
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Rebecca Kaplan: How to Act Normal Mr Bing's (10/16-10/16) |
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Dream Hou$e City Lights Theater Company (5/13-6/06) |
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The 42nd Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party The Cow Palace (11/21-12/20) |
