Music by Frederick Loewe
July 3 - September 13, 2025
Directed by Carey Perloff
July 26 – August 16, 2025
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Upcoming Plays and Musicals at San Francisco Playhouse
JULY 3 – SEP 13, 2025
Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, My Fair Lady is a Broadway classic about transformation, patronage, gender politics and class.
JULY 26 – AUG 16, 2025
Home? A Palestinian Woman’s Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness
By Hend Ayoub
Directed by Carey Perloff
In Israel, she’s Palestinian. In the Arab world, she’s Israeli. In America, she’s an “Other.” A Sandbox Series World Premiere presented by San Francisco Playhouse and Z Space.
Starting in September 2025: Our 23rd Season
SEP 25, 2025 – NOV 8, 2025
Noises Off
Play by Michael Frayn
A hapless theater troupe’s disastrous tour spirals into chaos both on and off stage.
NOV 20, 2025 – JAN 17, 2026
Into the Woods
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
A baker’s quest to fulfill a witch’s demands entangles him in a dark web of wishes and consequences in a twisted mashup of fairy tales.
FEB 5, 2026 – MAR 14, 2026
M. Butterfly
By David Henry Hwang
A French diplomat’s fantasy affair with a Chinese opera singer unravels into a tragic web of deception and cultural misunderstanding.
MAR 26, 2026 – MAY 2, 2026
Flex
By Candrice Jones
It’s 1997, and a high school girls’ basketball team must navigate the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South.
MAY 14, 2026 – JUN 27, 2026
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
By Kate Hamill
A female Van Helsing leads a fierce rebellion against the patriarchal monster, Count Dracula, in a battle for autonomy and justice.
JUL 10, 2026 – SEP 12, 2026
Hairspray
Book by Mark O’donnell & Thomas Meehan
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman
In 1960s Baltimore, Tracy Turnblad fights racial segregation and television bias to dance her way to stardom.
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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My Fair Lady – A Note from the Artistic Director
George Bernard Shaw was a revolutionary for his time, a member of the famed and radical Fabian Society and a passionate feminist who believed strongly that women should not be pigeonholed into stereotypical roles. He also believed that relationships should not be governed by conventional notions of gender or sexual orientation or be built around …
Theatre: A Sacred Space – A Note from the Empathy Gym
Our theatre is a sacred space. A place where hearts are cracked open, souls are stirred, and compassion is not just spoken of, but practiced. The Empathy Gym is not just a clever phrase; it is a spiritual calling. In a time when we are taught to armor up, scroll past pain and judge rather …
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