The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse
533 Sutter St. San Francisco CA 94102- Phone:
- 415-677-9596
- Website:
- http://www.sfplayhouse.org
- Capacity:
- 100
The Playhouse is located at 533 Sutter Street in downtown San Francisco, 2 blocks from Union Square, between Powell & Mason. Parking is easy at the Sutter/Stockton Garage, and BART is just down the street at the Powell Street stop.
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
A Behanding in Spokane: Martin McDonagh's New Dark Comedy
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00
This 2010 comedy from acclaimed Tony and Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Beauty Queen of Leenane) is the first of his works set in the... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
The Aliens: Annie Baker's Obie-Winning Play at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
SF Playhouse presents up-and-coming playwright Annie Baker's Obie-Winning drama, The Aliens. A pair of thirtysomething dropouts hang out by the dumpster outside a coffee shop and meditate on music,... Learn More.
Blind Date Comedy Thriller Becky Shaw at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
Pulitzer Prize finalist play Becky Shaw is a wickedly funny comedy about a blind date gone bad. When a newly married couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends, crisis and comedy ensue. From their... Learn More.
Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment: A Romantic Comedy
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents Tennessee Williams' Period Of Adjustment to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great American playwright's birth. A departure from Williams' dark dramas, Period of Adjustment... Learn More.
3-Play Membership for The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $150.00
- Our Price:
- $45.00
If getting out to the theater more often is your goal, the three-play subscription from SF Playhouse is just the ticket. You'll choose the dates you want to see each of the productions, which include a... Learn More.
Family-Friendly Holiday Hilarity With Boswick the Clown
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $19.00
- Our Price:
- $9.50
Your children will love the playful antics of former Ringling Brothers Clown Boswick who is famous for his zany tricks and hysterical spirit which have delighted children for nearly two decades. This special... Learn More.
Honey Brown Eyes Makes its West Coast Premiere at The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
SF Playhouse opens its ninth season with the West Coast premiere of Honey Brown Eyes by Stefanie Zadravec. Inspired by actual events, the story contrasts the everydayness of domestic settings with the... Learn More.
New Comedy Tigers Be Still at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The feel-good comedy hit Tigers Be Still, in its West Coast premiere at the SF Playhouse, finds a young woman having difficulty coping with unemployment and life in general after she earns her master's... Learn More.
SF Playhouse Premieres Zayd Dohrn's Dark Comedy Reborning
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
SF Playhouse presents the world premiere of New York playwright Zayd Dohrn's Reborning, featuring a cast of top local actors. The dark comedy/drama follows a young artist who creates "reborn" babies --... Learn More.
Regional Premiere of Thought-Provoking Thriller Wirehead at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
In their play Wirehead, co-writers Matt Benjamin and Logan Brown imagine a future where people can purchase a brain implant that turns them into geniuses. How far would you go to get it? How far would you go... Learn More.
British Drama Harper Regan at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
Harper's had enough. A woman goes out for a walk... and just keeps going, telling nobody where she is going or why. Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens explores concepts of family, loss and delusion in a... Learn More.
West Coast Premiere of Musical Coraline, Based on Neil Gaiman's Story
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $35.00
SF Playhouse presents the West Coast premiere of the musical stage version of Coraline, Neil Gaiman's tale of a bored young girl who finds her way into a fantasy land that is not what it seems. The story was... Learn More.
Freddy and Me: Sunday Night Solo Show Written and Performed by Bryan Curtiss White
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Bryan Curtiss White presents Freddy and Me, the first in the SF Playhouse's Sunday Night Solo series, featuring world premieres of one-person shows by local performers. White's show explores the question of... Learn More.
Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited Makes its West Coast Premiere at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse opens its eighth season with the West Coast premiere of The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, The Road, No Country for Old Men). Billed as "a novel in play form," the... Learn More.
The Fantasticks: SF Playhouse Presents a Modern-Day Take on the Classic Musical
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The Fantasticks is a musical love story in the spirit of a whimsical Romeo & Juliet. Such hit songs as "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain" sparkle throughout and evoke the agony and rapture of young... Learn More.
Spoken Word Artist Mike McGee in Autobiographical In Search of Midnight
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Writer and performer Mike McGee, winner of the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Championship, has adapted his popular book In Search of Midnight into a 90 minute solo performance. McGee tells the story of... Learn More.
Joshua Walters's One-Man Show Madhouse Rhythm at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Joshua Walters performs Madhouse Rhythm, an autobiographical collage based on one man's experience with bipolar disorder. This solo show is infused with a variety of styles, including hip hop theater, spoken... Learn More.
One-Woman Show How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The kinda/sorta female love child of John Lequizamo and Mike Myers, Aileen Clark chronicles her true life story about being the whitest latinita on the planet, finding life in death, and learning why you... Learn More.
SF Playhouse Presents the Northern California Premiere of Slasher by Allison Moore
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
When she's cast as the "last girl" (last girl to be killed, that is) in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it is her big break. Unfortunately, news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother's... Learn More.
Black Comedy Den of Thieves from SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
SF Playhouse delves into the world of unorganized crime in Den of Thieves. Cracking a safe to steal $750,000 in drug money may not be the perfect road to recovery for kleptomaniacs Maggie and Paul. When they... Learn More.
Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
Animals Out of Paper is a quirky comedy about origami experts that deftly explores how life can get messy as it unfolds. When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage, hip-hop, origami... Learn More.
She Stoops to Comedy at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $70.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $35.00
The SF Playhouse presents She Stoops to Comedy, a playful, gender-bending show by one of New York's most innovative writer/performers, David Greenspan. Set in a summer-stock production of Shakespeare's As... Learn More.
First Day of School, a Sexy New Comedy at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents the world premiere of a new sex farce by Billy Aronson, the playwright who developed the concept for Rent. In First Day of School, a group of daring parents engage in some "physical... Learn More.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Based on Ken Kesey's novel, this drama tells the unforgettable story of a mental hospital whose patients struggle to retain their... Learn More.
Dead Man's Cell Phone: Quirky Comedy at The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents the Bay Area premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone. Ruhl, a MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, has written a wildly imaginative tale of a woman... Learn More.
Newspaper Morality Drama The Story at The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
Inspired by real-life events, an ambitious newspaper reporter goes against her editor to investigate a murder and finds the best story...but at what cost? Wilson explores the elusive nature of truth as the... Learn More.
John Guare's Affecting Comedy Landscape of the Body at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
Part comedy, part mystery, part musical, this urban fantasy by award-winning playwright John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation) moves back and forth in space and time to create an affecting study of the... Learn More.
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party: Satirical Farce at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents the world premiere of Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party. Mixing wild farce with pointed social commentary, the play tells the story of the trial of a rural third grade teacher... Learn More.
Shining City: Bay Area Premiere of Tony-Nominated Drama at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents the Bay Area premiere of Conor McPherson's modern ghost story Shining City. In modern-day Dublin, a man seeks professional help after seeing the ghost of his late wife; both he and... Learn More.
Hit Musical Cabaret at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $20.00
The SF Playhouse presents the landmark musical that turns Berlin of 1931 into a dark and sexually charged haven of decadence as the outside world prepares for war. Inside the infamous Kit Kat Club, a romance... Learn More.
Tea 'N Crisp - One-Man Celebration of Gay Icon Quentin Crisp, Back By Popular Demand
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $26.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $13.00
In celebration of Quentin Crisp's life, critically acclaimed character actor Richard Louis James has crafted a ninety minute one-man show, Tea 'N Crisp, based on the writings and public appearances which... Learn More.
SF Playhouse Presents Bug, a Creepy Psychological Thriller
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
Walk on the wild side with Tracy Letts' Bug, a Bay Area premiere from the author of Killer Joe and current Broadway darling August: Osage County. Bug is a psychological thriller about love, fear...and little... Learn More.
West Coast Premiere of Dennis Lehane's Coronado at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
From Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, comes Coronado, a film-noir ride through the lives and passions of Middle Americans. Complete with shady characters, sex and murder, Coronado... Learn More.
Black Comedy The Scene, Starring Daphne Zuniga, at The SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
The SF Playhouse presents the west coast premiere of Theresa Rebeck's The Scene, a thoroughly modern, sharply written black comedy. Inspired by Rebeck's forays in the Manhattan party circuit, her run-ins... Learn More.
Wickedly Funny Send-Up Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge is a playful, cracked look at the perennial Dickens Christmas classic about mean Ebenezer Scrooge and his discovery of the true meaning of Christmas through the... Learn More.
Six Degrees of Separation: Powerful True-Story Drama Unfolds at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
Based on an actual incident, in Six Degrees of Separation a young African-American man gains access to the homes of upper-class New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier--and the... Learn More.
Classic Musical Man of La Mancha from SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
Based on The Adventures of Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha is the classic comic tragedy of man's struggle against all odds to dream impossible dreams. SF Playhouse's re-imagining of this classic musical tells... Learn More.
First Person Shooter at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
JetPack Games is a start-up video game company where the hottest, most violent game on the market has brought instant success to its twenty-something tech geniuses. Their celebration fizzles when their game... Learn More.
Satire About How Propaganda Works in Contraganda
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $5.00
It could be argued that other people's propaganda guides your every decision. Scot Nery and Eric Cash, two of San Francisco's favorite underground performers, deliver this satire about how propaganda works--... Learn More.
Jesus Hopped the "A" Train Explores the Power of Faith
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
Carl Lumbly (Alias, Cagney and Lacey) stars in this honest, cage-rattling play about faith and justice. Angel doesn't understand why he's in trouble. All he did was shoot Reverend Kim, the cult leader who... Learn More.
You Bet Your Improvisor: The Live Improv Comedy Game Show
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Comedy improv theater meets old-school game show in this out-of-the-ordinary night of improvised entertainment. It's your choice: sit back and enjoy the show or submit your name for a chance to become a... Learn More.
Three Seconds in the Key - A Twilight-Zone-like Comedy
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
The New York Knicks invade the theatre. In this Twilight-Zone-like comedy, a single Mom and her twelve-year old son's passion for basketball magically transports five huge Knicks into their living room.... Learn More.
Dark Comedy Reckless at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
On Christmas Eve Rachel is as happy as she's ever been. Until her husband, Tom, informs her he's taken out a contract on her life. In Reckless one naive, average woman's life gets turned upside down in the... Learn More.
Arthur Miller's Romantic & Suspenseful The Ride Down Mount Morgan
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
Arthur Miller, the master of social commentary, struck again with his last full-length play before his death in 2005. Lyman Felt (Victor Talmadge) has it all. Wealth, success, power, and the kind of good,... Learn More.
All Aboard San Francisco's Improv Comedy Supertrain!
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Supertrain! is a San Francisco style single-story two-hour improv show set against the backdrop of the world's largest train. Audiences follow the story of the crew and passengers as they fall in love,... Learn More.
The Impossible Film Project from Un-Scripted Theater Company
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
Lights...Camera...Improv! Ever seen a movie mere moments after it was shot? While the crew is still out shooting the rest of it? It's as close to a "live" movie as you can get, and it's all improvised from... Learn More.
Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together from SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together is a revue that covers 40 years of Broadway brilliance, and showcases over 30 of Sondheim's most memorable songs from such Tony Award-winning classics as Company, ... Learn More.
West-Coast Premier of Roulette, at the SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
SF Playhouse presents the west coast premiere of Roulette, a hilarious play about a suburban father who decides to spice up his humdrum life by playing Russian roulette, loosening his family's handle on... Learn More.
Our Lady of 121st Street, a Dramatic Dark Comedy
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
When a group of former schoolmates gather to attend the funeral of their beloved teacher, they learn that her body has been stolen. As they wait for the outcome of this sordid crime, the characters unearth... Learn More.
Spine-Tingling Thriller The Mystery Plays from SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
Don't miss the West Coast premiere of this "spine-tingling" (New York Times) thriller from the up-and-coming writer of the Fantastic Four comic book, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Borrowing from Hitchcock and H.P... Learn More.
Modern Fairy Tale Prelude to a Kiss, Live on Stage
The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $30.00
This charming, modern fairy tale explores the enduring power of love. Winner of an Outer Critics and Obie Award as well as Tony nomination for best play, Prelude to a Kiss is about a storybook wedding gone... Learn More.
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Handicap Information
Their new location does feature an elevator.
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.