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...
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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...
Continue Reading →From the Empathy Gym | Empathy Heals
Bill English, Artistic Director As 2019 begins, our nation remains ripped in half. Divided into camps, we refuse to understand the other side, so...
Continue Reading →King of the Yees | A Note from the Artistic Director
Not only is King of the Yees written by a local playwright, born and raised in San Francisco, but it is a San Francisco story. Set in and around...
Continue Reading →Mary Poppins | A Note from the Artistic Director
The version of Mary Poppins that we present on our stage hews much closer to the original spirit of P.L. Travers’s book than to the famous Disney...
Continue Reading →graveyard shift | A Note from the Artistic Director
With a commission from Playwrights’ Horizons and other leading theatre companies, prestigious awards, residencies around the country and a budding...
Continue Reading →You Mean to Do Me Harm | A Note from the Artistic Director
We feel deeply honored to have commissioned and presented the World Premiere of You Mean to Do Me Harm by Christopher Chen. A San Francisco native...
Continue Reading →In Braunau | A Note from the Artistic Director
When we first read In Braunau by Dipika Guha, there were only 60 pages—around two-thirds of a play. The characters and conflict had been set in...
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