THEATRE BAY AREA 2016 spring preview spring World Premiere previewChildren’s or Teens’ Show SAN FRANCISCO 3Girls Theatre Company 3girlstheatre.org Thick House 1695 18th St. Z Below 470 Florida St. ` 2016 Salon Reading Series (By resident & associate playwrights) Thru 6/19 ` Low Hanging Fruit (By Robin Bradford) Z Below 7/8-30 ` 2016 New Works Festival Thick House David Naughton, Abby Haug & Lucas Coleman in 42nd Street Moon's production of 8/22-28 The Boys From Syracuse. Photo: David Allen 42nd Street Moon ` The Colored Museum American Conservatory Theater (By George C. Wolfe; dirs. Velina Brown, L. 42ndstreetmoon.org act-sf.org Peter Callender, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe Geary Theater Eureka Theatre & Michael Gene Sullivan) 415 Geary St. 215 Jackson St. Thru 3/6 Strand Theater ` The Boys from Syracuse ` Antony and Cleopatra 1127 Market St. (By R. Rodgers, G. Abbott & L. Hart; dir. (By Shakespeare; dir. Jon Tracy) Greg MacKellan) 5/6-29 ` The Realistic Joneses 3/23-4/17 (By Will Eno; dir. Loretta Greco) Geary Theater ` The Most Happy Fella AlterTheater Ensemble 3/9-4/3 altertheater.org 4/27-5/15 ACT Costume Shop ` The Unfortunates (By Frank Loesser; dir. Cindy Goldfield) 1117 Market St. (By J. Beavers, K. Diaz, C. Hurt, I. Merrigan African-American Shakespeare & R.; dir. Shana Cooper) ` Vi [working title] Strand Theater Company (By Michelle Carter) Thru 4/10 african-americanshakes.org 6/2-19 Buriel Clay Theater 762 Fulton St. All information listed comes directly from publicity information supplied to Theatre Bay Area by the producing companies. Please contact companies or venues directly with questions. 1 THEATRE BAY AREA 2016 spring preview SAN FRANCISCO ` The Lion ` BATS Summer Improv Festival: SF vs. (By Benjamin Scheuer) LA Theatresports Strand Theater 8/5 4/19-5/1 ` BATS Summer Improv Festival: SF + ` The Last Five Years LA in Spontaneous Broadway (By Jason Robert Brown) 8/6 Geary Theater 5/11-6/5 ` BATS Summer Improv Festival: Improvised Mamet ` Chester Bailey 8/12-13 (By Joseph Dougherty; dir. Ron Lagomarsino) ` BATS Summer Improv Festival: Strand Theater Theatre on the Edge 5/25-6/12 8/19-20 BATS Improv ` BATS Summer Improv Festival: improv.org Improvised Cinema Noir 8/26-27 Bayfront Theater Tierra Allen, Jepoy Ramos, Ally Fort Mason Center, Bldg. B Reardon and Benjamin Nguyen in Bay Bay Area Children’s Theatre Area Musicals' production of Hair. ` Friday Night Theatresports bactheatre.org Photo: Ben Krantz (Dir. Kasey Klemm) (See also: East Bay) 3/4-7/29 ` Rickshaw Girl Children’s Creativity Museum Theater (By Aditi Kapil; adptd. from Mitali 221 Fourth St. Perkins) ` Improvised Musical (Dir. Rafe Chase) 4/2-5/22 ` 3/5-4/30 Bad Kitty on Stage (By Min Kahng; adptd. from Nick Bruel; ` Elephant and Piggie’s dir. Benjamin Hanna) ` Gritty Improvised Western We Are in a Play! 3/5-26 5/7-6/25 (By Deborah Wicks La Puma & Mo Willems) ` Warp Speed: An Improvised Trek 5/14-6/12 7/2-30 Bay Area Musicals bamsf.org Victoria Theatre 2961 16th St. ` Hair (By G. Ragni, J. Rado & G. MacDermot; dir. Jon Tracy) 2/20-3/12 ` La Cage aux Folles (By Harvey Fierstein & Jerry Herman; dir. Matthew McCoy) 7/9-30 Bobrow Productions bobrowproductions.com Shelton Theater 533 Sutter St. ` Foodies! The Musical Sango Tajima in Bay Area Children's Theatre's production of Bad Kitty on Stage. Ongoing Photo: Jay Yamada All information listed comes directly from publicity information supplied to Theatre Bay Area by the producing companies. Please contact companies or venues directly with questions. 2 THEATRE BAY AREA 2016 spring preview SAN FRANCISCO ` I Call My Brothers (By Jonas Hassen Khemiri; trans. Rachel Willson-Broyles; dir. Evren Odcikin) 3/31-4/23 Custom Made Theatre Co. custommade.org 533 Sutter St. ` Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant (By Gino Dilorio; dir. Leah Abrams) Thru 3/5 ` Middletown (By Will Eno; dir. Brian Katz) 3/24-4/23 Maesie Speer, Julie Hammond, Liz Hayden and Erin Leddy in Pep Talk, one of the productions in FoolsFury's Fury Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater. ` Six Degrees of Separation Photo: Anna Campbell (By John Guare; dir. Stuart Bousel) 5/19-6/18 Brava Theater Center The Breadbox brava.org breadboxtheatre.org ` The Thrush & the Woodpecker 2781 24th St. (By Steve Yockey; dir. Tracy Ward) Exit Stage Left 8/4-28 156 Eddy St. ` On the Hill 3/21-26 ` The BoxCutter Series The Cutting Ball Theater (By C. Crowley, A. Hileman & A. Petri) ` cuttingball.com The Wong Street Journal 3/25-4/9 (By Kristina Wong) Exit on Taylor 4/7-9 277 Taylor St. ` The Awakening (By Oren Stevens; adptd. from Kate ` ` Ondine 57 Chevy Chopin; dir. Ariel Craft) (By Cris Franco; dir. Valerie Dunlap) (By Katharine Sherman; dir. Rob Melrose) 7/29-8/20 4/14-17 Thru 3/6 ` Cuba Caribe Dance City College of San Francisco ` Risk Is This...The Cutting Ball New 4/29-5/1 Theatre Arts Department Experimental Plays Festival ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/ (Readings of plays by B. Fisher, P. Howze ` Baile en la Calle school-and-departments/school-of- A. Johnson; dirs. Paige Rogers, Rem Myers 5/1 liberal-arts/theatre.html & Ariel Craft) 3/11-26 ` Don Quixote Diego Rivera Theatre 50 Phelan Av. 5/14-15 ` A Dreamplay (By August Strindberg; dir. Rob Melrose) ` All the Way ` Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven 5/20-6/19 5/21-22 (By Robert Schenkkan; dir. John Wilk) 3/4-13 ` Hedda Gabler Brava! for Women in the Arts (By Henrik Ibsen; dir. Yury Urnov) brava.org Crowded Fire Theater Company 5/29 crowdedfire.org Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St. Thick House 1695 18th St. ` Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester ` Mechanics of Love Musical (By Dipika Guha; dir. Jessa Moreno) (By Anthony Wayne; dir. Kendrell 2/18-3/12 Bowman) 2/17-3/13 All information listed comes directly from publicity information supplied to Theatre Bay Area by the producing companies. Please contact companies or venues directly with questions. 3 THEATRE BAY AREA 2016 spring preview SAN FRANCISCO ` Bridge Culminating Project Landmark Musical Theatre (By Lydia Raag; dir. Brian Livingston) landmarkmusicals.com Intersection for the Arts The Great Star Theater 4/15-16 636 Jackson St. ` Fury Factory Festival of Ensemble and ` The Boy from Oz Devised Theater 6/13-26 (By Peter Allen & Nick Enright; dir. Jon Project Artaud Rosen) 4/23-5/15 Golden Thread Productions goldenthread.org Thick House 1695 18th St. ` The Most Dangerous Highway in the World (By Kevin Artigue; dir. Evren Odcikin) 5/5-29 Killing My Lobster Landmark Musicals presents the San killingmylobster.com Francisco premiere of the Tony Award- Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon. winning hit, The Boy From Oz, based Photo: Rick Markovich PianoFight 144 Taylor St. on the life of the late great singer/ Deborah Slater Dance Theater songwriter/showman Peter Allen whose deborahslater.org ` Body Talk hit songs included the Oscar-winning 3/24-26 "Arthur's Theme" and Olivia Newton- Studio 210 John's "I Honestly Love You." Locally 3435 Cesar Chavez St. ` 826+KML=BFFs acclaimed performer Connie Champagne 4/28-30 is featured as Allen's longtime friend ` Studio 210 Summer Residency, 5th and mentor Judy Garland. Champagne's Edition ` Lifetime: Theatre for Women performances as Garland have been 7/29-30 5/19-21 described by the New York Times as "a subtle masterpiece of parody and DivaFest ` Game of Nerds homage." divafest.info 8/18-20 ` The Drowsy Chaperone Exit Theatre (By B. Martin, D. McKellar, L. Lambert & G. 156 Eddy St. Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Morrison; dir. Kimberly Krol) koshercomedy.com 7/9-31 ` Hotel Burlesque El Rio (By C. Cagigal, A. Ortmayer & R. Velvet; dir. 3158 Mission St. Amanda Ortmayer) Magic Theatre 3/4-4/2 ` Comedy Returns to El Rio magictheatre.org Thru 12/15 Fort Mason Center, Building D ` The Big Hot Mess 2 Marina Bl. (By Catherine Debon; dir. Amanda Lamplighters Music Theatre Ortmayer) ` Sojourners 6/2-25 lamplighters.org (See also: East Bay & South Bay) 4/12-5/8 FoolsFury Theater First Unitarian Universalist Church (By Mfoniso Udofia; dir. Ryan Purcell) 1187 Franklin St. foolsfury.org ` Runboyrun Intersection for the Arts ` The Pirates of Penzance Singalong 4/28-5/15 925 Mission St. (By W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan; dir. (By Mfoniso Udofia; dir. Sean San José) Project Artaud Baker Peeples) 499 Alabama St. 3/13 All information listed comes directly from publicity information supplied to Theatre Bay Area by the producing companies. Please contact companies or venues directly with questions. 4 THEATRE BAY AREA 2016 spring preview SAN FRANCISCO The Marsh San Francisco ` On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Pocket Opera themarsh.org (By A.J. Lerner, P. Parnell & B. Lane; dir. Ed pocketopera.org Decker) 1062 Valencia St. SF Legion of Honor 5/13-6/12 (See also: East Bay) 100 34th Av. ` The Waiting Period Ninjaz of Drama ` Martha (By Brian Copeland) (By Friedrich von Flotow; dir. Nicolas Phoenix Theatre Thru 4/10 Aliaga Garcia) 414 Mason St., Suite 601 3/6 ` Second Time Around: A Duet for Cello ` King Lear ` and Storyteller (By: Shakespeare) King for a Day (By Giuseppe Verdi; dir. Jane Erwin (By Charlie Varon & Joan Jeanrenaud; dir. 6/16-7/2 David Ford) Hammett) 3/5-4/17 4/17 ODC/Dance ` Elect to Laugh: 2016 odcdance.org ` Julius Caesar (By Will Durst) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (By George Frideric Handel) 3/15-11/8 701 Mission St. 4/24 ` Colette Uncensored ` ODC/Dance Downtown ` I Pagliacci & My Fair Galatea (By Lorri Holt & Zack Rogow; dir.