February 5 – March 14, 2026
Plays and Musicals at San Francisco Playhouse: 2025/2026 Season
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.
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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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M. Butterfly – A Note from Artistic Director Bill English
When M. Butterfly premiered in 1988, it detonated theatrical expectations. It asked Western audiences to confront how deeply our fantasies about the East distort what we are seeing. Nearly four decades later, far from feeling like a revival of an American classic, it feels more urgent. Despite our infinite access to information, the West still …
Play Reading Series: The White Chip by Sean Daniels
The White Chip Monday, December 8th, 7:00 p.m. By Sean Daniels Directed by Lauren English Featuring Patrick Russell, Julia McNeal, and Michael Gene Sullivan. 450 Post Street (San Francisco Playhouse Mainstage), San Francisco CA 94102 The lobby opens at 6pm for our 7pm show This is a FREE potluck-style event. We invite you to bring a …
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