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>> Streaming & Live Theater >> Update: May 23, 2022

>> Streaming & Live Theater >> Update: May 23, 2022

Play List
Plays: Live & Online

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Coming Soon

“Romeo y Juliet” – Shakes/Karen Zacarías – CalShakes – May 25

“Balikbayan Box” – Jeffrey Lo #FilipinoDreams – TheatreFirst – May 26

“The Sound Inside” – Adam Rapp  #Prof/Student – MarinThCo – May 26

“Melancholy Play” – Sarah Ruhl  #Comedy – TheatreLunatico – May 27

“Little Shop of Horrors” – Ashman #Musical – BerkeleyPlyhse – May 27

“The Quality of Life” – Jane Anderson #OaklandFires – Altarena – May 27

“The Keeper” #Lighthouse #AlamedaPoint – WePlayers – May 27

“Macbeth” – Shakes/John Fisher #Horror/Updated – RHINO – May 28

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Playing Now


“Hat Matter”
– Michael Wayne Turner III
#DandyLion  #Hip-Hop  #BLM
OaklandTheaterProject
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“Monument, or Four Sisters” – Sam Chanse
#WomenWarriors #NatureFading
MagicTheatre
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“The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin” – Jessica Huang
#ChineseImmigrants #AmericanLies
SFPlayhouse
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“A Doll’s House, Part 2”
– Lucas Hnath  #MeToo – NovatoThCo

“Blood at the Root” – Dominique Morisseau #BLM – CustomMade

“Waiting for Next” – Jeffrey Lo #Buddies – CityLights-SJ
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“Going Out” – Don Reed
#SoloComedy #BLM
TheMarsh-SF
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“The Government Inspector”
– Nikolai Gogol
#Comedy #Corruption #Costumes
RossValleyPlayers
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“Octet” – Dave Malloy
#MusicalHarmony #InternetAddiction
BerkeleyRep
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“Real Women Have Curves”– Josefina López #WomanPower – 6thStPlyhse

“A Small Fire” – Adam Bock #BossLady #LosingControl – Shotgun

“Encore”  #MusicalReview  #Broadway – NCTC-SF
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“Talk to Your People”
– Dan Hoyle
#GeniusSolo #FacingRace #BLM
TheMarsh-SF
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“Allegiance” – Jay Kuo
#Musical #JapaneseCamps #WWII
PaloAltoPlayers – OnLine
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“The Sound of Music” – Howard Lindsay  #Musical – Throckmorton

“SDA: Someone Dies Again” – Árpád Schilling #GunRule – Word4Word

“The Imaginaries” #ImaginedFriends #KidsMusical  – BACT
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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 #FREE/Online #WWII – Sassymouth

“Standing Room” – John Fisher #GayLife #FREE/Online – Sassymouth
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“Central Park Jogger”
– John Fisher
#NYC #FREE/Online #BLM
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
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 #GayRevolutionary #FREE
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
#MurderMystery #RaceTrial #FREE
TheRhino.org
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“The Afterlife” – Gary Soto
#
LatinxTeens #FREE/Online
S.F.YouthTheatre
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Current Shows

  • “Hat Matter” Unfolds Fashion as Political Action—at OTP
  • “Monument, or Four Sisters” Explores Loss of Love & Coral Reefs—at Magic Theatre
  • “Paper Dreams of Harry Chin” Reveals Chinese American Fears—at SF Playhouse
  • “Going Out”: Humorous & Heartfelt Memories thru a COVID Lens—at The Marsh
  • “The Government Inspector”: Classic Comedy Mocks Corrupt Officials—at Ross Valley
  • “Our Town”: Small Town Charm Exposes Need for Change—at Center REP
  • “Octet” Invites Musical Escape from Internet Tyranny—at Berkeley Rep
  • “PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute”: Packed with Plots and Passions—at NCTC
  •  “Allegiance”: A Musical that Entertains & Instructs—at Palo Alto Players
  • “Crowns” Spotlights African American Perseverance—at CCCT
  • “Drowning in Cairo” Plumbs Depths of Homophobia—at Golden Thread
  • “The Incrementalist”—A Tender, Illuminating View of Compromise—at Aurora
  •  “One Flea Spare”: Praiseworthy Experiment Pays Off—at Main Stage West
  • “Endlings” Unnerves with Extinction Nightmares—at Oakland Theater Project
  • “Gem of the Ocean”: A Mighty Cruise to African Epiphany—at TheatreWorks   

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