Cabaret at Theatre Rhinoceros

Theatre Rhinoceros, in its third year of residence in San Francisco’s historically gay Castro neighborhood and the nation’s longest-running LGBTQ+ theatre, is producing Kander & Ebb’s timeless masterpiece … in a retail building-turned-blackbox with a footprint smaller than the average two-bedroom apartment. Why? The parallels between *CABARET*’s 1930s Nollendorfplatz, Berlin and present day Castro, San Francisco, are undeniable. Both promise a haven for the queers and weirdos who might have to hide their true colors in their daily life - largely by way of providing a light escape, or a series of semi-engaged distractions, tailor-made for us, the marginalized, whether that’s through satirical arts and performance, alcohol, drugs, casual intimate encounters, or music that somehow never seems to stop playing. “So - life is disappointing? Forget it!”

Authors

• Christopher Isherwood
• Fred Ebb
• Joe Masteroff
• John Kander
• John Van Druten

Tony Awards and Nominations for Cabaret