San Francisco Playhouse Live Stream Archive
Missed a live stream? Want to watch it again? An archive of our weekly Zoomlets and Fireside Chats is available below.
Zoomlets
Our live streaming short-play table read series. Some Zoomlets are not available for replay.
Fireside Chats
Artistic Director Bill English has live conversations with today’s essential playwrights..
Past Zoomlets
Note: If a past Zoomlet is not available below, it is due to the fact that some production licenses do not permit us to provide an archived recording to the public. We apologize for the inconvenience.
3 Tall Persian Women by Anita Abdinezhad – Zoomlet
Directed by Dalia Ashurina | Featuring Anita Abdinezhad, Nicole Ansari and Nora Armani
Three generations of marvelous Iranian women come together for the holidays. They try to deal with Facebook hackers, boy issues, and worst of all, each other’s differing opinions. Who will survive the night?
UPSTREAM / DOWNSTREAM by Sam Hamashima – Zoomlet
Directed by May Liang | Featuring Gabby {G} Momah and Dennis Yen
An unlikely interaction between strangers in a park. Sometimes the most welcoming interaction in a new city comes from an unexpected place.
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen – Zoomlet
Directed by Carey Perloff | Featuring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni and Albert Rubio
An excerpt from the 1881 Danish Classic, Oswald reveals an important secret to his mother about his recent prognosis.
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov – Zoomlet
Directed by Carey Perloff | Featuring Gretchen Egolf and Albert Rubio
A scene from the 1895 Russian Classic, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev has attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head, yet he fails to kill himself instead leaving behind a nasty wound. Konstantin asks his mother Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina to change his bandage in an attempt to heal the wound in their relationship.
Esmeralda by Demitra Olague – Zoomlet
Directed by Catherine Castellanos | Featuring Wilma Bonet, Marilet Martinez, and Gabriel Montoya
As she gets ready for her brother’s wedding, Esmeralda lures Gabriel into her room. Her words are a masterful dance ensnaring Gabriel. But what is she planning?
Homeward by Drew Woodson – Zoomlet
Directed by Tara Moses | Featuring Kholan Studi and Chingwe Padraig Sullivan
Meeting in secret at night at Steward Indian Boarding School in 1935, Thomas and William, two Shoshone teenage boys gather to whisper their secret longings for a better life.
Blue by Caridad Svich – Zoomlet
Directed by Marie-Claire Erdynast | Featuring Michelle Talgarow
A swimmer’s poetic meditation on their life, past, present, and future as they swim across the Channel. The swimmer reflects on how they to continue feel alive in the wake of generations of pain, wildfires, and a mini stroke.
River’s Message by Conrad A. Panganiban – Zoomlet
Directed by Jeffrey Lo | Featuring Adrienne Kaori Walters and Carolina Đỗ
On the eve of their University’s Final Examinations, Kennedy creates a Facebook App to help her best friend, River, communicate with her mom who has recently passed away. River’s Message explores the line between life and death over a Wi-Fi connection.
Perfect Numbers by Diana Burbano – Zoomlet
Directed by Katja Rivera | Featuring Stacy Ross and Michelle Talgarow
A woman without a home makes friends with a philosophical octopus on Venice Beach.
Give Her God by Candrice Jones – Zoomlet
Directed by Elizabeth Carter | Featuring Tristan Cunningham, Luisa Frasconi, Garrett Turner, and Akilah Walker
Nisha and Teen, two Black women bound by their friendship to Amber who is dying of cancer, must reckon with racism that rears its ugly head on their friend’s death bed.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles – Zoomlet
Directed by Carey Perloff | Featuring Steven Anthony Jones and John Douglas Thompson
Marking the summit of classical Greek drama’s formal achievement, Oedipus Rex examines the story of Oedipus, who, in attempting to flee from his fate, rushes headlong to meet it.
Funeral Attire by Lee Cataluna – Zoomlet
Directed by Shaun Taylor-Corbett | Featuring Darrell Dennis, Kalani Queypo, and Román Zaragoza.
Kekoa and Nainoa have been called to the funeral home in preparation for their father’s memorial services.
Frozen Foods by Ian August – Zoomlet
Directed by Michael Moran | Featuring Heather Konowal and Dawn L. Troupe
Linda finds Carol in the middle of the frozen foods aisle of the Superfood Market having an existential crisis. Can she snap her friend out of it or will she be sucked into the never-ending cycle of despair?
An American Dream by Dipika Guha – Zoomlet
Directed by Tom Ross | Featuring Tristan Cunningham, Joseph Patrick O’Malley and Danny Scheie
When he falls in love at first sight with a woman he sees at Venice Beach, Seb’s world turnsupside down. An American Dream is a contemporary verse comedy inspired by T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Cashed Out by Claude Jackson, Jr. – Zoomlet
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe | Featuring Rainbow Dickerson, Carolyn Dunn, and Lulu Goodfox
Rocky comes home to celebrate her big win at the casino, but her Auntie Nan is not having any of it. Because she knows Rocky is a gambling addict and in the middle of a freefall. This affects the women and Rock’s daughter, Maya as the ladies drum up the past living on an Indian reservation.
Flight by DeLanna Studi – Zoomlet
Directed by Marie-Claire Erdynast | Featuring Eileen DeSandre, Brent Florendo, and Tanis Parenteau
In Flight by DeLanna Studi, Quoya and her father, Otto, talk about a suicide she witnessed. Otto offers advice for Quoya on how to handle this traumatic event with what it means to be the 7th generation of Cherokee after the Trail of Tears.
A Sure Cure Lure Story by Aaron Loeb – Zoomlet
Directed by Jon Tracy | Featuring Aldo Billingslea, James Carpenter, Cathleen Riddley, and Stacy Ross
A Sure Cure Lure Story by Aaron Loeb is about the difficulties faced when talking about privilege. The characters demonstrate the obstacles to privilege regarding race and sex.
In the Desert by Dipika Guha – Zoomlet
Directed by Peter J. Kuo | Featuring Jillian Macklin, Pooya Mohseni, Michael Khalid Karadsheh, and Jeff Wittekiend
In the Desert by Dipika Guha is an allegorical story about a camel, a man, a camel-child, and a donkey-child. It’s about the consequences left behind after rape and how children of rape move their lives.
The following Zoomlets are unavailable due to rebroadcast rights:
- The Logic By Will Arbery
- Night Vision By Dominique Morriseau
- Great to See You By Theresa Rebeck
- The Forgotten Place By Jeff Locker
Past Fireside Chats
All episodes of our Fireside Chats and Fireside Cocktails series are available for viewing below.