Plays and Musicals on stage in San Francisco:
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.
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.
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.
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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