By Kate Hamill
May 14 – June 27, 2026
Plays and Musicals at San Francisco Playhouse: 2025/2026 Season
MAY 15, 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.
2026/27 Season Productions
August 6 – September 5, 2026
R.O.I. (Return on Investment)
Creativity Theater
A venture capitalist meets a visionary founder, and ambition, ethics, and profit collide in a race to change the world.
September 26 – November 28, 2026
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
San Francisco Playhouse
A theater troupe takes on Peter Pan, and everything goes spectacularly wrong in this brilliantly chaotic comedy.
December 11, 2026 – February 6, 2027
Rent
San Francisco Playhouse
This timeless musical follows young artists navigating love, loss, and friendship with urgency and unforgettable music.
February 19 – April 3, 2027
Lizard Boy
San Francisco Playhouse
A reclusive young man risks everything on a first date in this indie-rock musical about identity, love, and being seen.
February 25 – April 3, 2027
Perfect Daughter
Creativity Theater
A father builds an AI daughter in pursuit of perfection, but each version reveals how complex and human love truly is.
April 16 – June 19, 2027
Life of Pi
San Francisco Playhouse
After a shipwreck, a boy must survive at sea in this visually stunning story of faith, resilience, and imagination.
July 2 – September 11, 2027
Sweeney Todd
San Francisco Playhouse
A barber returns to London seeking revenge in Sondheim’s thrilling musical filled with dark humor and haunting melodies.
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
Dracula – A Note from Artistic Director Bill English
Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Dracula is not a relic of gothic horror, but a sly, muscular act of theatrical reclamation. What was once a tale orbiting a charismatic, predatory male becomes a female-driven reckoning with male power, interrogating how it is performed, how it seduces, and how it must be dismantled. At the center of …
Flex – A Note from Artistic Director Bill English
In Flex, playwright Candrice Jones gives us a story that pulses with the rhythm of gym shoes on maple and the heartbeat of young women yearning to define themselves. Set in rural Arkansas, the play follows a high school girls basketball team chasing the state championship. As with any great underdog story, the true contest …
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