At a recent performance of Evita, our fabulous turntable hiccupped, stuttered, staggered and stopped. It failed, of course, at the very moment when...
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The Play That Goes Wrong: A Note from Artistic Director Bill English
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...
Continue Reading →Casting Announced for ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
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...
Continue Reading →Evita: A Note from Dramaturg and Cultural Consultant Juan Rebuffo
In the late 1940s, the Eva Peron Foundation granted my grandmother the opportunity to build a home in a budding Buenos Aires neighborhood –...
Continue Reading →Evita – A note from the Artistic Director
Initially, I selected Evita for our 2023/24 Season because I knew it was going to be an election year in the U.S. and our democracy was certain to be...
Continue Reading →The Glass Menagerie – A Note from the Artistic Director
A high school junior who had played a supporting role in one musical but hadn’t really cared much about the experience was waiting for a bus when...
Continue Reading →Just Announced: Our 2024/25 Season
San Francisco Playhouse has announced its 22nd season, to be presented September 2024 to September 2025. Unveiled at a special event on March 24th to...
Continue Reading →The 39 Steps: A Note from the Artistic Director
Bill English, Artistic Director From the back seat of my parents’ Country Squire station wagon at the local drive-in theatre, I watched Cary...
Continue Reading →My Home on the Moon – A note from the Artistic Director
In many ways, the world premieres we produce on our mainstage make us the most excited. They are about taking risks, pushing envelopes of what...
Continue Reading →Guys and Dolls: A Note from the Artistic Director
Despite our deepening understanding of the subtleties and nuances of human behavior, despite a growing intellectual consensus that good and evil are...
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