San Francisco Playhouse closes its 2025-26 season with Hairspray, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical set in 1962 Baltimore, where teen Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on her favorite TV show and ends up taking on racial segregation along the way. The production features...
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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.…
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…
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.…
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully exec…
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully execut…
RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals is full of laughs and gaffs, and is a jolly good time. Set in a posh New York townhouse, RUMORS is Neil Simon’s only full length farce. From half truths to utter nonsense and mistaken identities to outright charades, this production will ensnare you in a strea…
Pickleball at Hillbarn Theatre, written by Jeff Daniels, takes one of the country’s fastest-growing sports and serves it up as an unabashedly silly comedy filled with eccentric players, romantic entanglements, and plenty of physical humor. …
Altarena Playhouse brings Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS to life with wit and charm. When the sardonic writing of a genius playwright meets the witty interpretation of a theater, it produces a night full of laughs and insights. …
The Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre answered that question with an evening overflowing with nostalgia, laughter, and plenty of love for one of musical theatre’s most enduringly strange creations.…
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San Francisco Playhouse stages Tennessee Williams ’ seminal masterpiece “ The Glass Menagerie ,” directed by in-demand Bay Area theatre artist Jeffrey Lo . In this captivating and visceral memory play, Tom longs to evade his monotonous day job and his mother Amanda. Recalling...
San Francisco Playhouse continues its season with “ The 39 Steps ,” a fast-paced farce that riffs on the Alfred Hitchcock thriller of the same name. Following a mysterious murder, all-action hero Richard Hannay launches on a high-speed chase from a London music hall to...
San Francisco Playhouse will ring in 2024 with the World Premiere of Minna Lee’s "My Home on the Moon." In this epic sci-fi journey into the metaverse, business is booming for a formerly failing pho restaurant in the middle of a gentrified neighborhood after it receives help...
Offering a snappy spin for the holiday season, San Francisco Playhouse will stage a new look at the Broadway hit "Guys and Dolls." Inspired by Damon Runyon’s stories about post-prohibition New York, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, and Jo Swerling’s beloved musical tale of gamblers...
San Francisco Playhouse opens its 2023-24 season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy “Nollywood Dreams.” Written by Ghanian-American writer/performer Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play”), this hilarious play with sharp wit and big heart...
San Francisco Playhouse concludes its 20th Anniversary Season with the hit Broadway musical A Chorus Line . In this groundbreaking work, twenty-four hopeful dancers undertake a grueling audition for eight coveted spots in the back-up chorus of an unnamed Broadway show. Exploring...
San Francisco Playhouse presents the comedy "Chinglish" by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly," "Yellow Face," "Soft Power"). In this fast-paced modern comedy, culture and customs collide as a naïve American sign manufacturer travels...
San Francisco Playhouse brings the beloved board game "Clue" to the stage in a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. Murder and blackmail are on the menu as six mysterious guests arrive at Boddy Manor for an unusual dinner party. When their host turns up dead, they all become...
San Francisco Playhouse presents the World Premiere of "Cashed Out" by Native American playwright Claude Jackson, Jr. "Cashed Out" shares the story of three generations of women who live on the Gila River Indian Community reservation in Arizona, illuminating their battles and...
San Francisco Playhouse continues its 20th Anniversary season with the imaginative and exhilarating hit musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It , helmed by San Francisco Playhouse’s Artistic Director Bill English with music direction by Dave Dobrusky and...
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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ELTON DOM: The Young Elton Experience Great Star Theater (9/10-9/13) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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Hello, Dolly! Hillbarn Theatre (4/15-5/09) |
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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/11-10/03) |
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The Fall Show Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25) |
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Fugazi Funny Festival Club Fugazi (9/09-9/12) |
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Antony and Cleopatra McLaren Park, Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, San Francisco (9/05-9/13) |
