As a long-time Cheryl Strayed fan, I was thrilled to see that Nia Vardalos’s wonderful dramatic adaptation of her Tiny Beautiful Things was...
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Groundhog Day | A Note from the Artistic Director
Each season, we seek a show that will work well for the holidays. What kind of art do we need this time of year? For millennia, mankind has searched...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – November 2019
Every once in a while, live theatre generates a miracle. Something that shouldn’t be possible, that everyone says couldn’t be done, that not only...
Continue Reading →The Daughters | A Note from the Artistic Director
I’d been hearing about The Daughters for several years from actors who had participated in developmental readings of it around the Bay Area. They...
Continue Reading →Dance Nation | A Note from the Artistic Director
Clare Barron has been shaking up the expectations of Off-Broadway audiences and critics for some time. I first saw Baby Screams Miracle a few years...
Continue Reading →Subscriber Newsletter – August 2019
Whew! Our 18-19 Season has fully opened. And what a season it has been. There is always a collective sigh of relief that rises from everyone down at...
Continue Reading →Cabaret | A Note from the Artistic Director
In the half-century since the world premiere of Cabaret, so much in our world has changed and yet so much remains the same. Like the giant mirror...
Continue Reading →The Fit | A Note from the Artistic Director
I believe playwrights are the prophets of our time. And it is thrilling when a play we have spent years developing opens at a moment that makes it...
Continue Reading →Significant Other | A Note from the Artistic Director
The term “significant other” is a generic one. In the ultra-complex diversity of the ways we partner, it is a careful term that reveals no...
Continue Reading →Yoga Play | A Note from the Artistic Director
Yoga Play will be the third play by Dipika Guha to be produced by San Francisco Playhouse. The first two, The Rules and In Braunau, were world...
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