Plays and Musicals on stage in San Francisco:
NOV 21, 2024 – JAN 18, 2025
Waitress
Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
This smash-hit musical phenomenon tells the story of Jenna, a small-town waitress who dreams of something bigger.
JAN 30 – MAR 8, 2025
Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play
By Keiko Green
A whimsical, time-traveling adventure that uncovers the truth about MSG, the mysterious and misunderstood ingredient getting all the kids hooked!
MAR 20 – APR 19, 2025
Fat Ham
By James Ijames
This Pulitzer Prize-winning reinvention of Hamlet is a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
MAY 1 – JUNE 21, 2025
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Tony Award for Best Play.
San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco Playhouse is a nonprofit theatre in downtown San Francisco. The Bay Area’s most award-winning theatre company (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, 2012-2022), the Playhouse stages plays and musicals every year, including world premieres, Broadway and Off-Broadway hits, and thought-provoking works from playwrights around the world.
The company has been hailed by the New York Times as “a company that stages some of the most consistently high-quality work around,” was praised by KQED as “one of the few theaters in the Bay Area that has a mission that actually shows up on stage,” and called “local theater at its best” by the San Francisco Chronicle. The company was awarded the American Theatre Wing National Theatre Company grant, making it eligible for the Regional Tony Award.
San Francisco theatre productions take place Tuesday through Sunday at the Playhouse’s Mainstage in the Union Square theatre district, in addition to other performances at Sandbox venues throughout the city. Click here for a full schedule of events.
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