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533 Sutter (at Powell) San Francisco, CA 94102

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Best Experimental Theater Company
Award Winner 2011

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A Behanding in Spokane

Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 15 until June 30

A black comedy involving a man searching for his lost hand after 30 years.
Comedy on the Square

7:00 p.m. every Sun.

2011 | Best Experimental Theater Company

You'll hear how contemporary playwrights have an increasingly difficult time getting their work produced in local theater circles because so many companies choose established (some would say "safe") productions because they believe more people will attend. SF Playhouse is not one of those companies. In March and April, it staged Wirehead, a play about a society in which people can buy brain implants to increase their intelligence. Late last year, the company staged Coraline, a modern-day... More »
2007 | Best Theater Company

The black-box theater at 533 Sutter used to be a bit of a dump. But ever since SF Playhouse moved in and gave the place a lick of paint, the venue has been transformed both physically and artistically. Directors Bill English and Susi Damilano not only possess a slick aesthetic sense (the sets, which are usually designed by English himself, are among the most ingenious and well-crafted to be found anywhere), but they also know how to pick and cast appealing plays. At times, the company's... More »

Minimalism to the Max

By Lily Janiak | Wed, March 21, 2012

"A country road. A tree. Evening." So go the opening stage directions of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one of the most important plays of the 20th century. But if the set description seems minimal, Tides Theatre's interpretation of them is a... More »
Family, Meet Train Wreck

By Lily Janiak | Wed, February 15, 2012

Becky Shaw is like a two-hour greatest hits album ... for a soap opera. Have a favorite cliché of the genre? You'll probably find it somewhere in Gina Gionfriddo's careening script. There's a well-to-do family that, upon the death of its patriarch... More »
"Becky Shaw": SF Playhouse Finds Pleasure in Soapy Pain

By Lily Janiak | Wed, February 08, 2012

Becky Shaw, a regional premiere now at SF Playhouse, is like a two-hour greatest hits album ... for a soap opera. Have a favorite cliché of the genre? You'll probably find it somewhere in Gina Gionfriddo's careening script. There's a well-to-do f... More »
"Period of Adjustment": Romantic Holiday Comedy Achieves Lyrical Poignancy

By Lily Janiak | Wed, December 07, 2011

Comedy is not what we associate with Tennessee Williams. Sure, there are funny lines in A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie. But what we cherish is the poetry with which characters convey their ache and anger, ... More »
Un-Scripted Theater's Improvised Dickens Musical Is Hard Times Indeed

By Alan Scherstuhl | Fri, December 2, 2011

Here's a testament to the make-it-up-as-it-goes ethos of improv. If a show isn't going anywhere, really, the cast might have it in themselves to fix it as they go. Such a phenomenon occurred last we... More »
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