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Directed by Margo Hall
March 20 – April 19, 2025
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by Susi Damilano
May 1 – June 21, 2025
Plays and Musicals on stage in San Francisco:
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.
JULY 3 – SEP 13, 2025
Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, My Fair Lady is a Broadway classic about transformation, patronage, gender politics and class.
Our 23rd Season
SEP 25, 2025 – NOV 8, 2025
Noises Off
Play by Michael Frayn
A hapless theater troupe’s disastrous tour spirals into chaos both on and off stage.
NOV 20, 2025 – JAN 17, 2026
Into the Woods
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
A baker’s quest to fulfill a witch’s demands entangles him in a dark web of wishes and consequences in a twisted mashup of fairy tales.
FEB 5, 2026 – MAR 14, 2026
M. Butterfly
By David Henry Hwang
A French diplomat’s fantasy affair with a Chinese opera singer unravels into a tragic web of deception and cultural misunderstanding.
MAR 26, 2026 – MAY 2, 2026
Flex
By Candrice Jones
It’s 1997, and a high school girls’ basketball team must navigate the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South.
MAY 14, 2026 – JUN 27, 2026
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really.
By Kate Hamill
A female Van Helsing leads a fierce rebellion against the patriarchal monster, Count Dracula, in a battle for autonomy and justice.
JUL 10, 2026 – SEP 12, 2026
Hairspray
Book by Mark O’donnell & Thomas Meehan
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman
In 1960s Baltimore, Tracy Turnblad fights racial segregation and television bias to dance her way to stardom.
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.
Latest News
Fat Ham – A Note from the Artistic Director
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 – A Note from the Artistic Director
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, …
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