SAN FRANCISCO (13 April 2021) — San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced its return to...
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‘I Was Right Here’: A Note from the Artistic Director
I did not imagine, when we started our five-year, 20-play commission program that we would be commissioning a solo piece. The one-person show has...
Continue Reading →A Note from ‘I Was Right Here’ Playwright Julia Brothers
When I first started writing this piece in 2018, it was to be a one-character play driven by high tech effects, an experimental bent, and a more...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – March 2021
They are calling this the age of disinformation – the systematic and knowing flooding of the airwaves with false statements – the countless...
Continue Reading →[hieroglyph]: A Note from the Artistic Directors
Every year, an amazing grass-roots organization, The Kilroys, selects fifty promising new scripts by women, trans, and nonbinary playwrights that...
Continue Reading →A Note from [hieroglyph] Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza
: an origin story I was six years old when Patrick Sykes kidnapped & raped nine-year-old Shatoya Currie (Girl X) in apartment 504 of...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – February 2021
To say it has been a crazy time this last 11 months, is to beg the obvious. Our heads are reeling from the pandemic, from the election and from all...
Continue Reading →‘Songs for a New World’: A Note from the Artistic Director
Its emphasis on breaking past barriers to discover hope and redemption has made me a fan of Songs for a New World since it first appeared. It's...
Continue Reading →‘The Jewelry Box’: A Note from the Artistic Director
More than ten years ago, our late amazing publicist, Anne Abrams, introduced us to Brian Copeland and got me on his weekly radio show to promote our...
Continue Reading →‘Art’: A Note from the Artistic Director
When Art was first produced on Broadway 22 years ago, it was a brilliant fable about male friendship. An affectionate satire, written by a woman,...
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