Plays and Musicals in San Francisco

A photo from 'The 39 Steps'
The 39 Steps
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Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

March 7 - April 20, 2024

A photo from The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie logo
By Tennessee Williams

May 2 - June 15, 2024

Photo from 'Evita' musical
Evita
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Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

June 27 - September 7, 2024

2024/25 Season
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Plays and Musicals on stage in San Francisco:

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The 39 Steps

MAR 7 – APR 20, 2024

The 39 Steps

Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

A riotous, rip-roaring spoof of a Hitchcock classic with four actors playing over 100 characters.

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The Glass Menagerie

MAY 2 – JUNE 15, 2024

The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams

A drama of great tenderness, charm, and beauty, The Glass Menagerie is an icon of the American theater.

Evita

JUNE 27 – SEP 7, 2024

Evita

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice

The Tony-winning musical follows Eva Duarte on her journey to becoming the most powerful woman in Latin America.

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The Play that Goes Wrong

SEP 21 – NOV 9, 2024

The Play that Goes Wrong

Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer

An Olivier Award-winning comedy that’s a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes.

Waitress

NOV 21, 2024 – JAN 18, 2025

Waitress

Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly

This smash-hit musical phenomenon tells the story of Jenna, a small-town waitress who dreams of something bigger.

Exotic Deadly or the MSG play

JAN 30 – MAR 8, 2025

Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play

By Keiko Green

A whimsical, time-traveling adventure that uncovers the truth about MSG, the mysterious and misunderstood ingredient getting all the kids hooked!

Fat Ham

MAR 20 – APR 19, 2025

Fat Ham

By James Ijames

This Pulitzer Prize-winning reinvention of Hamlet is a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

MAY 1 – JUNE 21, 2025

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Adapted by Simon Stephens

Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Tony Award for Best Play.

Exciting announcement coming soon

JULY 3 – SEP 13, 2025

Our Summer Musical: To Be Revealed

Announcement coming May 1st, 2024

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement. We can’t reveal our summer musical until May 1st, but it’s worth the wait.

San Francisco Playhouse

San Francisco Playhouse is a nonprofit theatre in downtown San Francisco. The Bay Area’s most award-winning theatre company (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, 2012-2022), the Playhouse stages plays and musicals every year, including world premieres, Broadway and Off-Broadway hits, and thought-provoking works from playwrights around the world.

The company has been hailed by the New York Times as “a company that stages some of the most consistently high-quality work around,” was praised by KQED as “one of the few theaters in the Bay Area that has a mission that actually shows up on stage,” and called “local theater at its best” by the San Francisco Chronicle. The company was awarded the American Theatre Wing National Theatre Company grant, making it eligible for the Regional Tony Award.

San Francisco theatre productions take place Tuesday through Sunday at the Playhouse’s Mainstage in the Union Square theatre district, in addition to other performances at Sandbox venues throughout the city. Click here for a full schedule of events.

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2024/25 Season

Just Announced: Our 2024/25 Season

San Francisco Playhouse has announced its 22nd season, to be presented September 2024 to September 2025. Unveiled at a special event on March 24th to an enthusiastic group of Playhouse supporters and fans, Artistic Director Bill English and Producing Director Susi Damilano revealed the two musicals and four plays the company will present at its …

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Pamela (Maggie Mason) and Richard Hannay (Phil Wong) struggle with a sandwich in "The 39 Steps," presented by San Francisco Playhouse March 7 - April 20.

The 39 Steps: A Note from the Artistic Director

From the back seat of my parents’ Country Squire station wagon at the local drive-in theatre, I watched Cary Grant dodge a crop-duster and hang off Mount Rushmore and my life-long love of Alfred Hitchcock was born. Years later, while working a graveyard shift summer job at a state mental hospital it was cemented by …

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