SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE

Evita charts the young and ambitious Eva Peron’s meteoric rise to sainthood. Set in Argentina between 1934-1952, the Tony-winning musical follows Eva Duarte on her ...

Four tickets to use for any San Francisco Playhouse plays in our 2023/24 Season, in any combination....

San Francisco Playhouse presents Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Evita.” This powerful musical explores the life and meteoric rise of ...

San Francisco Playhouse stages Tennessee Williams ’ seminal masterpiece “ The Glass Menagerie ,” directed by in-demand Bay Area theatre artist Jeffrey Lo . In ...

Ghosts of the past continue to haunt in Williams seminal play The Glass Menagerie. Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now ...

San Francisco Playhouse  continues its season with “ The 39 Steps ,” a fast-paced farce that riffs on the Alfred Hitchcock thriller of the same name. ...

Step aside, Hitchcock. The legendary filmmaker’s serious spy flick becomes a chaotic and hysterical farce, with four characters playing dozens of roles—and even inanimate objects. ...

From the windows of the old pho restaurant, Mai watches her neighborhood get gentrified, storefront by storefront. Just as the restaurant seems doomed to close, ...

San Francisco Playhouse will ring in 2024 with the World Premiere of Minna Lee’s "My Home on the Moon." In this epic sci-fi journey into the metaverse, ...

Offering a snappy spin for the holiday season, San Francisco Playhouse will stage a new look at the Broadway hit "Guys and Dolls." Inspired by ...

San Francisco Playhouse opens its 2023-24 season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy “Nollywood Dreams.” Written by Ghanian-American writer/performer Jocelyn Bioh (“School ...

San Francisco Playhouse concludes its 20th Anniversary Season with the hit Broadway musical A Chorus Line . In this groundbreaking work, twenty-four hopeful dancers undertake ...

San Francisco Playhouse presents the comedy "Chinglish" by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly," "Yellow Face," "Soft Power"). In ...

San Francisco Playhouse brings the beloved board game "Clue" to the stage in a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. Murder and blackmail are on the menu as ...

San Francisco Playhouse presents the World Premiere of "Cashed Out" by Native American playwright Claude Jackson, Jr. "Cashed Out" shares the story of three generations ...

San Francisco Playhouse  continues its 20th Anniversary season with the imaginative and exhilarating hit musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s  As You Like It , helmed by ...

INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem ...

FOLLIESBook by James GoldmanMusic and Lyrics by Stephen SondheimDirected by Bill EnglishMusic Direction by Dave DobruskyChoreography by Nicole HelferPLAY DETAILSIts 1971, and theatrical impresario Dimitri ...

THE PAPER DREAMS OF HARRY CHINBy Jessica HuangDirected by Jeffrey LoPLAY DETAILSDuring the Chinese Exclusion Act, Harry Chin, a Chinese national, entered the U.S. by ...

Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts ...

WATER BY THE SPOONFULBy Quiara Alegra HudesDirected by Denise BlasorPLAY DETAILSSomewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is working at Subway while trying ...

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNINGBy Will ArberyDirected by Bill EnglishPLAY DETAILSSeven years ago, Teresa, Kevin, Justin, and Emily graduated from a Catholic college in Wyoming. ...

TWELFTH NIGHTConceived by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina TaubMusic and lyrics by Shaina TaubA musical adaptation of William Shakespeares Twelfth NightDirected by Susi DamilanoMusic Direction by ...

THE GREAT KHANBy Michael Gene SullivanDirected by Darryl V. JonesCo-produced with the San Francisco Mime TroupePLAY DETAILSJayden, an African American teenager, just wants to be ...

STARTING HERE, STARTING NOWMusic by David ShireLyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.Directed by Susi Damilano and Nicole HelferMusic Direction by Dave DobruskyChoreography by Nicole HelferPLAY DETAILSStarting ...

THE SONG OF SUMMERBy Lauren YeeDirected by Bill EnglishPLAY DETAILSEach summer, theres a song on every playlist, radio station, and wedding dance floor; that inescapable ...

HOLD THESE TRUTHSBy Jeanne SakataDirected by Jeffrey LoStarring Jomar TagatacA GRIPPING STORY ABOUT A SHAMEFUL CHAPTER OF OUR HISTORY. THE NEW YORK TIMESCHILLINGLY RELEVANT SAN ...

SHOOT ME WHENBy Ruben GrijalvaDirected by Susi DamilanoCommissioned by San Francisco PlayhouseStarring Blythe de Oliveira Foster, Dan Hiatt, Lorri Holt, and Melissa OrtizPLAY DETAILSJackie has ...

Written and Performed by Brian Copeland Developed with David Ford On demand NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 25, 2020 Virtual Opening Night Gala NOVEMBER 28, 2020...

The Marsh San Francisco: Brian Copeland; dir: David Ford....

San Francisco Playhouse is taking the theatre industry into formerly unknown territory after receiving approval from the Actors' Equity Association to film and stream their ...

Josefina Lopez; dir: Debra Gallegos....

Sugar is the anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be Strayed—who thousands of people have turned to for words of wisdom, honesty and hope. At ...

GROUNDHOG DAY is the story of Phil Connors, an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, when sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, ...

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they'll claw ...

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget ...

It’s a fight for survival in the Silicon Valley world of venture capital and Sakina, an Indian-American venture capital associate, has big dreams of financing ...

Blaze is angry, and with good reason. She's getting kicked out of her mom's trailer park in the drug addled Gulf Coast of Louisiana, where ...

For nearly 20 years, playwright Lauren Yee’s father Larry has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men’s ...

'She Loves Me' follows Amalia and Georg, two perfume shop clerks who don’t quite see eye to eye. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, ...

Andrew Hinderaker; dir: Kevin Moriarty....

Aaron Loeb; dir: Michael Stevenson....

Steven Dietz; dir: Ed Herendeen. World Premiere...

Jennifer Haley....

In this clever new comedy by MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner Sarah Ruhl, art imitates life—or is it the other way around? When ex-lovers HE and ...

book: Peter Duchan; lyrics: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul; music: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul; dir: Bill English....

George Furth; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Susi Damilano.  ...

Lila Rose Kaplan; dir: Lauren English. World Premiere...

Richard Dresser; dir: May Adrales....

Aaron Posner; dir: Susi Damilano....

Lauren Yee....

Julie Hébert’s provoking and powerful new play depicts three generations divided by race, culture, time, and place. A divorced chef, Leo, is caring for his ...

Set amidst the swinging sixties in New York City, Promises, Promises is a hilarious and heartwarming musical based on the Billy Wilder film "The Apartment." ...

Theresa Rebeck....

Lauren Gunderson....

On St. George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day pied piper, is a wanted man. The ...

John Patrick Shanley....

The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of ...

Arthur Miller....

- Mike Leigh....

n reasons to be pretty, Greg’s tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker’s pretty face and his ...