Thick House
Thick House
1695 18th St. San Francisco CA 94102- Phone:
- 415-821-4849
- Website:
- http://www.thickdescription.org/
- Capacity:
- 80
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Note: Some events offered through Goldstar at this venue are only available via email. Please refer to your past emails to view these events.
Working-Class British Drama A Taste of Honey
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Set in 1960s Manchester, England, this poignant and comic play tells the story of Jo, a shy 17-year-old chafing against the constraints of her life in a working-class slum and the demands of her selfish,... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
Language Rooms: A Dark Comedy About Homeland Security
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00
In Language Rooms, Ahmed is a shining example of the American Dream working as a translator in a Homeland Security detainment facility. His workplace "frenemy" Nasser, a Muslim of Asian descent, soon brings... Learn More.
Hanging Georgia: A New Play with Music About Georgia O'Keeffe
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
An ensemble-based piece with movement and live music, Sharmon J. Hilfinger's theatrical work delves into the complex relationship between iconic American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer and art... Learn More.
Patience Worth: A Literary Mystery, Based on a True Story
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
Spiritualism was the cultural craze of the early 20th century, and there was no case more famous than that of Pearl Curran, a young Midwestern woman who suddenly began channeling a 17th-century ghost named... Learn More.
Discover Emerging Playwrights During the 34th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
The Playwrights Foundation is recognized as one of the top new play development centers in the country serving writers at all levels of career placement and artistic maturity. The foundation's annual... Learn More.
Fighting Mac!: World Premiere Play Considers Gays in the Military
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $15.00
In this world premiere, written and directed by Theatre Rhinoceros Executive Director John Fisher, we meet England's greatest general, Hector MacDonald, who also happened to be queer. "Fighting Mac's"... Learn More.
Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $55.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $27.50
The 15th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given... Learn More.
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven: Irreverent Satire on Asian-American Identity
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Obie-winning avant-garde playwright Young Jean Lee's acclaimed New York show receives its West Coast premiere from Asian American Theater Company and Crowded Fire Theater Company. The scathingly satirical... Learn More.
Show and Tell: Symmetry Theatre Presents a Powerful Drama
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
A 4th-grade teacher leaves her students alone for just a moment, when an unimaginable catastrophe strikes. As officials and parents convene in a search for answers, the stunned teacher is left to deal with... Learn More.
Marital Combat Explored in Macho Bravado from Asian American Theater Company
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
In Macho Bravado, Evan Cho is a Korean American soldier who has just returned from fighting in the Middle East and can't bring himself to tell his wife that he is now sterile as a result of serving in the... Learn More.
The Gilded, a New Steampunk Musical from The Curiouser Group
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
Set in a steampunk-inspired world, The Gilded is the story of a disillusioned soldier, a runaway princess and a troupe of actors who arrive in the cold, industrial city of Commodore and perform stories of... Learn More.
ReOrient 2009: Short Plays Explore the Middle East
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Golden Thread Productions presents ReOrient 2009 - The First Ten Years. The annual festival of short plays exploring the modern Middle East celebrates its tenth anniversary with two separate programs and... Learn More.
The Creature: an Elegant Frankenstein Adaptation at Thick House
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Creature is Trevor Allen's adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. With no green skin and no neck bolts, this is an elegant production told from the Creature's point-of-view, juxtaposing the... Learn More.
Tragi-Comic Parable #5 Angry Red Drum from Asian American Theater Company
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
The fifth work in the celebrated playwright's Garage Band Series, Philip Kan Gotanda's #5 Angry Red Drum is the story of two world-refugees determined to survive with style amidst a post-apocalyptic universe... Learn More.
Remembering and Forgetting in Ecstacy | a waterfable, a Drama with Live Music
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $12.50
Adapted from a Sufi fable called "When the Waters Were Changed." Khidr, the Teacher of Moses, tells all that water not specially hoarded would be vanish from the Earth and be replaced with a water that would... Learn More.
A Girl's War: An Armenian-Azeri Love Story
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
This love story of opposite sides was named one of the top 10 plays of 2001 by the Boston Globe. A New York fashion model learns that her brother has been killed by enemy soldiers in her native Karabakh,... Learn More.
12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given... Learn More.
Ten Dollar Destiny: Multimedia Song Cycle About Fortune-Telling
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Thick Description presents Ten Dollar Destiny, a song cycle conceived and performed by Julie Queen. Queen went to a wide array of psychics, fortune tellers, hucksters and psychoanalysts, and has turned their... Learn More.
World Premiere Play Hunter Gatherers, from Killing My Lobster
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
Killing My Lobster presents the world premiere of Hunter Gatherers, at Thick House Theater. Hunter Gatherers is the story of a dinner reunion amongst old friends that goes deeply, shockingly, hilariously awry. Learn More.
Obie Award-Winning In On It from Encore Theatre Company
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere production of Daniel MacIvor's Obie Award-winning play In On It, a spiraling narrative about a pair of lovers trying to make a play, only to discover... Learn More.
West Coast Premiere of Award-Winning Play In On It
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
The Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Daniel MacIvor's Obie Award-winning play In On It, a spiraling narrative about a pair of lovers trying to make a play, only to discover that the... Learn More.
Killing My Lobster: Nothing Is Original - A Collection of Comedy Vignettes
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $17.00
- Our Price:
- $8.50
This fall, Killing My Lobster gets derivative! The first three weeks in November the gang the press is calling "the hottest sketch comedy group in the Bay Area" (the Contra Costa Times) presents a new comedy... Learn More.
The Life of Samuel Pepys, Live on Stage
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $12.50
Samuel Pepys: A Life Worth Living is a world premiere play based on the diaries of the famed Englishman who rose from poverty to become a member of Parliament. Pepys left behind a wealth of memories about... Learn More.
Dostoevsky's Masterpiece The Grand Inquisitor On Stage
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Central Works presents a glowing stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's last great work, The Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov, the compelling story of the return of Jesus Christ during The... Learn More.
"Funny and Provocative" New Comedy The Typographer's Dream
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
See the West Coast premiere of Adam Bock's The Typographer's Dream, a smart new comedy in which a typographer, a geographer and a stenographer obsess over their professions, their identities and Canada over... Learn More.
Asian American Theatre Company Presents Rental Car
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Rekindling the voice of David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross, Alex Park's world premiere play Rental Car is a fast and edgy tragicomedy of life in a rental car office. Learn More.
One-Man Show The Bone Man of Benares
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Encore Theatre Company presents world premiere of Terry Tarnoff's The Bone Man of Benares, a one-man show adapted from the novel of the same name, at The Thick House. Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Thick House is located at 1695 18th Street,
near the corner of Carolina Street on Potrero Hill in San Francisco.
Our zip code is 94107.
We're in the big steel building with orange trim, and our entrance is in the middle of the block.
By bus
You can take the 22 Fillmore or the 53 Southern Heights to 18th Street & Connecticut and walk one and a half blocks West on 18th Street to get to the theater. If you take 19 Polk, get off at DeHaro and 18th Streets and walk one and a half blocks East on 18th Street.
By car from the North
If youâe(tm)re coming from the north, which includes most of San Francisco: Take 10th Street south, which will turn into Potrero Avenue. From Potrero Avenue, turn left at 16th Street. Go six blocks to DeHaro Street and turn right. Go up three blocks to 18th Street, turn left, go to the bottom of the hill, and youâe(tm)re there.
By car from the East Bay
If youâe(tm)re coming from the East Bay: take the 5th Street exit, the left hand exit off the Bay Bridge. Turn left onto Harrison Street, and turn left one block later on Sixth Street. Stay on Sixth Street, which will take you directly onto Highway 280. Take the first exit, which is 18th Street. Turn right on 18th Street, and go about 6 and 1/2 blocks to the bottom of the hill, and youâe(tm)re there.
By car from the Peninsula
If youâe(tm)re coming from the Peninsula: take the Vermont Avenue exit off Highway 101. Go three blocks to DeHaro Street, turn right, go up one block to 18th Street, turn left, and go to the bottom of the hill.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.