Category : Program Notes

Groundhog Day | A Note from the Artistic Director

Groundhog Day | A Note from the Artistic Director

Each season, we seek a show that will work well for the holidays. What kind of art do we need this time of year? For millennia, mankind has searched...

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The Daughters | A Note from the Artistic Director

The Daughters | A Note from the Artistic Director

I’d been hearing about The Daughters for several years from actors who had participated in developmental readings of it around the Bay Area. They...

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Dance Nation | A Note from the Artistic Director

Dance Nation | A Note from the Artistic Director

Clare Barron has been shaking up the expectations of Off-Broadway audiences and critics for some time. I first saw Baby Screams Miracle a few years...

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Goodbye to Berlin. Hello, Cabaret!

Goodbye to Berlin. Hello, Cabaret!

The arc of Cabaret as a force on the cultural landscape reaches back eight decades. The novel Goodbye to Berlin by British author Christopher...

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Cabaret | A Note from the Artistic Director

Cabaret | A Note from the Artistic Director

In the half-century since the world premiere of Cabaret, so much in our world has changed and yet so much remains the same. Like the giant mirror...

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The Fit | A Note from the Artistic Director

The Fit | A Note from the Artistic Director

I believe playwrights are the prophets of our time. And it is thrilling when a play we have spent years developing opens at a moment that makes it...

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Significant Other | A Note from the Artistic Director

Significant Other | A Note from the Artistic Director

The term “significant other” is a generic one. In the ultra-complex diversity of the ways we partner, it is a careful term that reveals no...

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Yoga Play | A Note from the Artistic Director

Yoga Play | A Note from the Artistic Director

Yoga Play will be the third play by Dipika Guha to be produced by San Francisco Playhouse. The first two, The Rules and In Braunau, were world...

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A White Girl’s Guide to International Terrorism | A Note from the Artistic Director

A White Girl’s Guide to International Terrorism | A Note from the Artistic Director

We met Chelsea Marcantel two years ago at the Humana Festival of New Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. This marvelous festival—where we have been...

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King of the Yees | A Note from the Artistic Director

King of the Yees | A Note from the Artistic Director

Not only is King of the Yees written by a local playwright, born and raised in San Francisco, but it is a San Francisco story. Set in and around...

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