Plays and Musicals in San Francisco

A photo from 'The 39 Steps'
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps logo
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
Evita logo
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

June 27 - September 7, 2024

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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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Prose and Confluence

MARCH 18, 2024 – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Prose and Confluence

Produced by Klanghaus

A queer cowboy musical, featuring an original score and script, that playfully explores themes of loss, mourning, and understanding.

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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The 39 Steps

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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My Home on the Moon

My Home on the Moon – A note from the Artistic Director

In many ways, the world premieres we produce on our mainstage make us the most excited. They are about taking risks, pushing envelopes of what theatre can do, giving our stage to playwrights/prophets to illuminate for us, life as it is being lived in our moment in time. World premieres bring out the best in …

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