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21st Season Announcement Party

21st Season Announcement Party

Every year, San Francisco Playhouse announces (and celebrates) our new season with a reveal party! We were thrilled to reveal our 2023/24 Season with...

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San Francisco Playhouse Announces 21st Season

San Francisco Playhouse Announces 21st Season

SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES DYNAMIC GLOBE-TROTTING 21ST SEASON Line-up includes World Premiere and West Coast Premiere plays, runs September...

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Clue: A Note from the Artistic Director

Clue: A Note from the Artistic Director

In the 1950s, during the depths of the House Un-American Committee’s evils, with Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign raging out of control,...

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Cashed Out: Basket-Weaving Sessions With The Cast

Cashed Out: Basket-Weaving Sessions With The Cast

The Indigenous basket-weaving culture of the O'otham (Pima Indians) tribe of Arizona is not just integral to understanding the culture which Cashed...

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Cashed Out: A Note from the Artistic Director

Cashed Out: A Note from the Artistic Director

Cashed Out, a San Francisco Playhouse commission and world premiere, was a rare happy result of the pandemic. Relegated to serving our patrons...

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As You Like It: A Note from the Artistic Director

As You Like It: A Note from the Artistic Director

A liberal, tolerant government is overthrown. The revolutionary is the ultraconservative younger brother of the progressive leader who has opened a...

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Indecent | A Note from the Artistic Director

Indecent | A Note from the Artistic Director

We were lucky enough to be on hand when Paula Vogel’s Indecent opened on Broadway five years ago, and being huge fans of hers already, and...

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Follies | An Orgy of Pastiche

Follies | An Orgy of Pastiche

If imitation, as the English cleric Caleb Charles Bolton suggested, is the sincerest form of flattery, then writing pastiches – what Merriam...

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Follies | A Note from Artistic Director Bill English

Follies | A Note from Artistic Director Bill English

Follies is, perhaps, Stephen Sondheim’s greatest masterwork, yet it is seldom performed these days because of its technical demands including...

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San Francisco Playhouse refurbishes auditorium ahead of 2022/23 Season

San Francisco Playhouse refurbishes auditorium ahead of 2022/23 Season

New seats, cushions, carpeting, and more at 450 Post Street It finally happened. As we get ready to celebrate our 20th Season, and our tenth in our...

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