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
A liberal, tolerant government is overthrown. The revolutionary is the ultraconservative younger brother of the progressive leader who has opened a...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →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...
Continue Reading →The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin – A Note from the Artistic Director
In this time when there has been so much focus on immigration, not just in the US and our border with Mexico and Trump’s wall, but in Europe with...
Continue Reading →Water by the Spoonful – A Note from the Artistic Director
In our pandemic-devastated world, the prophetic Pulitzer winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes seems even more relevant now than when...
Continue Reading →Music …And the Food of Love | A note from the Twelfth Night dramaturgs
First performed on the Feast of the Epiphany, Twelfth Night marked a day when accepted ranks and relationships could be turned upside down, with...
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 →Tiny Beautiful Things: A Note from the Artistic Director
As a long-time Cheryl Strayed fan, I was thrilled to see that Nia Vardalos’s wonderful dramatic adaptation of her Tiny Beautiful Things was...
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