Initially, I selected Evita for our 2023/24 Season because I knew it was going to be an election year in the U.S. and our democracy was certain to be...
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The Glass Menagerie – A Note from the Artistic Director
A high school junior who had played a supporting role in one musical but hadn’t really cared much about the experience was waiting for a bus when...
Continue Reading →The 39 Steps: A Note from the Artistic Director
Bill English, Artistic Director From the back seat of my parents’ Country Squire station wagon at the local drive-in theatre, I watched Cary...
Continue Reading →My Home on the Moon – A note from the Artistic Director
In many ways, the world premieres we produce on our mainstage make us the most excited. They are about taking risks, pushing envelopes of what...
Continue Reading →Guys and Dolls: A Note from the Artistic Director
Despite our deepening understanding of the subtleties and nuances of human behavior, despite a growing intellectual consensus that good and evil are...
Continue Reading →Nollywood Dreams: A note from the Artistic Director
I stumbled onto the script of Nollywood Dreams in the Drama Book Shop in New York where all theatre fans must go when visiting. I read it quickly and...
Continue Reading →How to Purchase Official San Francisco Playhouse Tickets
Purchasing tickets online can be tricky nowadays, especially with the influx of resellers and third-party marketplaces. That's why we've put together...
Continue Reading →A Chorus Line: A Note from the Artistic Director
A Chorus Line was the first Pulitzer-winning musical developed in the non-profit world. It opened at the Public Theater on April 15, 1975, and almost...
Continue Reading →Lost in Translations? A Conversation with Cultural Consultant Patrick Chew
Premiering at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago before opening on Broadway in 2011, Chinglish, is a comedy by renowned playwright and librettist David...
Continue Reading →Chinglish: A note from the Artistic Director
David Henry Hwang writes, "Chinglish is about attempts to communicate across cultures and the barriers that separate us, and the most superficial of...
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