San Francisco Playhouse Blog

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 …

When I first read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I was awed not only by its original storytelling format, but by its unique invitation to experience the world through the eyes of someone whose brain works differently than most. It is what we dream of in theatre, to be truly transported—not …

Adaptations of Shakespeare abound from West Side Story to Romanoff and Juliet to & Juliet. The composer of Hair wrote a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Verdi crafted operas of Othello and Macbeth, and John Cassavetes starred in a terrific film called Tempest. There is an adaptation of Macbeth set in a donut …

Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play is one of those rare scripts that became a front-runner for season selection before I even finished reading it. The play was handed to me by Marie-Claire Erdynast, our Associate Artistic Director, who saw the play in its Old Globe run in San Diego. Before I reached Page 10, …

I have always been drawn to St. Francis’s famous prayer, “Make me an instrument of thy peace.” What a wonderful wish. To be an agent of peace. To answer hate with love, despair with hope, doubt with faith. In the secular world of today, words like hope and faith have gotten lost in the endless …