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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21st Season Announcement Party
Every year, San Francisco Playhouse announces (and celebrates) our new season with a reveal party! We were thrilled to reveal our 2023/24 Season with...
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SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES DYNAMIC GLOBE-TROTTING 21ST SEASON Line-up includes World Premiere and West Coast Premiere plays, runs September...
Continue Reading →Clue: A Note from the Artistic Director
In the 1950s, during the depths of the House Un-American Committee’s evils, with Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign raging out of control,...
Continue Reading →Cashed Out: Basket-Weaving Sessions With The Cast
The Indigenous basket-weaving culture of the O'otham (Pima Indians) tribe of Arizona is not just integral to understanding the culture which Cashed...
Continue Reading →Cashed Out: A Note from the Artistic Director
Cashed Out, a San Francisco Playhouse commission and world premiere, was a rare happy result of the pandemic. Relegated to serving our patrons...
Continue Reading →As You Like It: A Note from the Artistic Director
A liberal, tolerant government is overthrown. The revolutionary is the ultraconservative younger brother of the progressive leader who has opened a...
Continue Reading →Indecent | A Note from the Artistic Director
We were lucky enough to be on hand when Paula Vogel’s Indecent opened on Broadway five years ago, and being huge fans of hers already, and...
Continue Reading →Follies | An Orgy of Pastiche
If imitation, as the English cleric Caleb Charles Bolton suggested, is the sincerest form of flattery, then writing pastiches – what Merriam...
Continue Reading →Follies | A Note from Artistic Director Bill English
Follies is, perhaps, Stephen Sondheim’s greatest masterwork, yet it is seldom performed these days because of its technical demands including...
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