Misery Loves Comedy If ever there was a time we need a good laugh, it’s now! With tensions growing in our country, with the constant drama in...
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Bill English Bill English is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of San Francisco Playhouse, and in twenty years with Susi Damilano, has guided its growth from a bare-bones storefront to the second-largest theater in San Francisco.
From the Empathy Gym | Stories of Hope
Bill English, Artistic Director These mornings it seems grief rolls in like the fog, and I find myself in meditation on the floor in a pile of...
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From The Empathy Gym | To Save Us or Destroy Us
Bill English, Artistic Director Three boys shared a bedroom in their family’s duplex. There wasn’t much room for anything but the three beds,...
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From The Empathy Gym | Whose Story Is It?
Bill English, Artistic Director It occurred to me last month while writing “The First Story,” that I was just grazing the tip of the iceberg...
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She Loves Me | A Note from the Artistic Director
Bill English, Artistic Director A country divided, fractured into a half dozen splinter groups. Ungovernable. Where every faction hates every...
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From The Empathy Gym | The First Story
November 2016 Newsletter Bill English, Artistic Director A group of ancient humans sit huddled around the fire, hunkered down in a...
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The Empathy Gym
Our theater is an empathy gym where we come to practice our powers of compassion. Here, safe in the dark, we can risk sharing in the lives of the...
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