San Francisco Playhouse Blog

Adaptations of Shakespeare abound from West Side Story to Romanoff and Juliet to & Juliet. The composer of Hair wrote a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Verdi crafted operas of Othello and Macbeth, and John Cassavetes starred in a terrific film called Tempest. There is an adaptation of Macbeth set in a donut …

Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play is one of those rare scripts that became a front-runner for season selection before I even finished reading it. The play was handed to me by Marie-Claire Erdynast, our Associate Artistic Director, who saw the play in its Old Globe run in San Diego. Before I reached Page 10, …

I have always been drawn to St. Francis’s famous prayer, “Make me an instrument of thy peace.” What a wonderful wish. To be an agent of peace. To answer hate with love, despair with hope, doubt with faith. In the secular world of today, words like hope and faith have gotten lost in the endless …

The official trailer for Waitress is here! Watch the video below. Performances of Waitress continue through January 18, 2024. Featuring a tasty, tuneful score by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles and a fresh-baked book by Jessie Nelson, this sweet musical confection follows Jenna, a waitress for a small-town diner. Trapped in a loveless marriage and unexpectedly pregnant, …

Community is a word we see bandied about a lot these days. It is used to sell products, memberships in organizations promising belonging while asking for money, and loyalty to the home team or the home religion. Community is much in demand and difficult for us to feel. When faith in government, local or federal …