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PLAYS, MUSICALS, SHOWS >> Update: August 8, 2022

PLAYS, MUSICALS, SHOWS >> Update: August 8, 2022

Play List

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Coming Soon

“Pride & Prejudice” – Kate Hamill #Comedy – 6thStPlayhouse

“It’s Only a Play” – Terrance McNally #Comedy – Altarena

“Atlas, the Lonely Gibbon” – Deborah Yarchun – SpreckelsArts

“Hat Matter” – Michael Wayne Turner #BLM #Solo – Z-Space

“Much Ado About Nothing” #Comedy #FREE/Parks – SFShakes

“Goddess” – Jocelyn Bioh #Music #Africa #BLM – BerkeleyRep

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“House of Desires” – Sor Juana
#Comedy #Romance #Latina
ThoseWomen
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“Sanctuary City” – Martyna Majok
#Dreamers #ImmigrantLovers
BerkeleyRep
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“Follies” – Stephen Sondheim
#Musical #BroadwayTales
SFPlayhouse
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“Rent”
– Jonathan Larson #Musical #CriticsRave! – Landmark

“Dream Hou$e” – Eliana Pipes #Latinx #Gentrification – Shotgun

“Lion King” – Julie Taymor #Musical #BLM – BroadwaySanJose
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“Back to the Way Things Were” – Michael Gene Sullivan
#MusicalComedy #BLM #FREE/Parks
SFMimeTroupe
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“Fun Home” – Alison Bechdel #Musical #ComingOutLesbian – CityLights

“The Anarchy Quartet” – Stuart Bousel #FourRoyals – ExitTheatre
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“Talk to Your People”
– Dan Hoyle
#GeniusSolo #FacingRace #BLM
TheMarsh-SF

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“Harry Potter & the Cursed Child” – Jack Thorne/J.K. Rowling
#SorcerySchool #Father/Friends #Fireworks!
TheCurranTheatre
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“Tragedy of Macbeth”
– Shakespeare/Coen
#ShakesNoir #Denzel/Frances
Theaters & Apple TV+
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“Dear San Francisco: A High Flying Love Story”
#ClubFugazi #AmazingAcrobats
ClubFugaziSF
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“Bedroom”
– John Fisher #FREE/Online – Sassymouth

“Fredi” – John Fisher #WWII #FREE/Online – Sassymouth

“Standing Room” – John Fisher #GayLife #FREE/Online – Sassymouth
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“Central Park Jogger”
– John Fisher
#NYC #BLM #FREE/Online
Sassymouth
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“Essential Services Project” – Patricia L. Morin
#JohnFisher #GayHeroes #Interview
Theatre Rhinoceros
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“Seeing Red: Time-Traveling Musical”
#Revolution #Audio #Updated!
SF Mime Troupe – FREE
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“Shadow/Land” – Erika Dickerson-Despenza
#AudioPlay #BLM
#HurricaneKatrina
PublicTheater.NY
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – August Wilson 
#JazzAge #BLM #BluesMother  
Netflix
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“I Am Sending You the Sacred Face” – Heather Christian
#DragOpera #MotherTeresaExplains – FREE
Theater in Quarantine
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“What the Constitution Means to Me” – Heidi Schreck
#Women’sRights  #Comedy/Politics #BLM
AmazonPrime
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“The Farm”
– John Fisher
#1%University #PrivilegedCrime #FREE/Online
TheRhino

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“In the Heights”
– Lin-Manual Miranda #Musical #Latinx – HBO

“Angels in America” – Tony Kushner #GayEpic –NationalTh.UK
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Twilight: Los Angeles – Anna Deavere Smith
#WitnessesTestify  #ProtestersSpeak
#BLM – PBS.org
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“Gloria: A Life” – Emily Mann
#Gloria Steinem #Christine Lahti
#BLM – PBS
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“Hamilton” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
#BLM – #RevolutionLives!
DisneyPlus – $6.99
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“Notes from the Field” – Anna Deavere Smith
#BLM  #School to Prison Pipeline
Amazon/HBO
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“Pipeline” – Dominique Morisseau
#BLM  #Mother’sFears  #School>Prison Pipeline
LincolnCenter.NY – $8.99
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“PRIDE: Frank Kameny, Eyes on the Stars” – John Fisher
#Soldier/Astronomer #GayRebel #FREE/Online
TheRhino.org
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“West Side Story” – Bernstein & Sondheim
#MovieMusical #Latinx&Gender
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon
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“A Box Without A Bottom” – David Hirata
#Race, Illusion, and Magic
TheMarsh.org
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“Fiddler on the Roof” – Musical w/ Topel
#RussianJews  #FaithChallenged
Netflix.com
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“Ann” – Holland Taylor
#AnnRichards  #WonderWoman
PBS.org

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“Sunday in the Park with George” – Sondheim
#Musical  #Painting&Art  #GeorgesSeurat
PBS.org

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“A Murder in Hawaii”  –  John Fisher
#Mystery#BLM #FREE/Online
TheRhino.org
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“The Afterlife” – Gary Soto
#
LatinxTeens #FREE/Online
S.F.YouthTheatre
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