San Francisco Playhouse Blog

San Francisco Playhouse will serve up a holiday treat with the beloved Broadway favorite Waitress, directed by San Francisco Playhouse Producing Director and co-founder Susi Damilano with music direction by Dave Dobrusky and choreography by Nicole Helfer. Featuring a tasty, tuneful score by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles and a fresh-baked book by Jessie Nelson, …

At a recent performance of Evita, our fabulous turntable hiccupped, stuttered, staggered and stopped. It failed, of course, at the very moment when it was needed to deliver the “lover’s bed/speaker’s podium” unit to the stage so it could serve as the anchor for the seven minutes of “A New Argentina” to close Act I. …

Why do we laugh at a farce? Because otherwise we would have to cry. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it, “Farce is nearer tragedy than comedy is.” Oscar Wilde said, “Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its …

San Francisco Playhouse kicks off its 2024-25 season with the Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong. This fast-paced farce packed with inventive theatricality finds the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society on opening night of its newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor. As the incompetent theatre troupe attempts to stage this 1920s murder mystery, their production devolves into …

In the late 1940s, the Eva Peron Foundation granted my grandmother the opportunity to build a home in a budding Buenos Aires neighborhood – something that was unheard of in Argentina, a country with no established middle class and an extremely polarized division between the rich and the poor. My grandmother spent the rest of …