Theatre

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 7:30 PM; Sun May 10, 3:00 PM
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

A powerful solo performance by Algiin Ford exploring identity, resilience, and self-discovery. Through vivid storytelling, humor, and vulnerability, Algiin traces a journey from childhood and incarceration to awakening, guided by transformative teachers, ultimately reclaiming his voice, truth, and self beyond labels and illusion.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 8:30 PM; Sun May 10, 7:00 PM
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Venue: Monkeybrains
• Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Antoine’s crew merge hip hop, improvisation, and comedy into a high-energy performance shaped entirely by the audience, whose ideas fuel scenes, and stories by skilled performers flipping suggestions into music and laughter. Blending the spontaneous charm of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and “Freestyle Love Supreme” to guarantee a new adventure every night.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu May 7, 7:00 PM; Sat May 9, 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
• Duration: 75 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Follow a young American journalist to Brazil in the 1960s as he reports on a military dictatorship, witnesses the Amazon, and navigates the nightlife of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the letters, diaries, and reportage of a foreign correspondent for United Press International and ABC News. Mystery and music included.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sun May 10, 5:30 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Venue: Fingersnaps Media Arts
• Location: 3527 20th St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

An intimate, high-glam drag revue that invites audiences behind the lashes and beneath the fantasy. Featuring performances by Bobby Friday, Alexis Miranda, and Linda Summers, the show delivers polished drag excellence and unforgettable moments. A post performance Q&A peeks under the wig to share stories, laughter and the joy behind the art of drag.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu April 30, 7:00 PM; Sat May 2, 3:00 PM
• Duration: 70 minutes
• Venue: Monkeybrains
• Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

From Off Broadway to a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, Duane Forrest takes audiences on an uplifting, deeply human journey through the music and legacy of Bob Marley. Blending soulful renditions of Marley’s classics with heartfelt stories of identity, ancestry and rediscovery, Forrest explores how reggae became a rhythm of unity, resistance and healing.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 1, 7:30 PM; Sun May 3, 6:30 PM
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

An intimate, cinematic theatre experience blending live music, object storytelling, shadow play, and projection. Inspired by The Little Prince & The Alchemist, the show follows a boy growing up in government housing who has forgotten how to dream — but the universe conspires to help him remember.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 7:30 PM; Sat May 9, 6:00 PM
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Venue: The Marsh Studio
• Location: 1062 Valencia St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

What makes English teachers so memorable? In the aftermaths of January 6th, 2021, an Asian immigrant drag queen from San Francisco began writing to his retired, Republican, White, English teacher from Bountiful, Utah. They kept this pen-pal friendship going… right up to Trump’s election in 2024. Genuine. Relatable. Absurd. Funny.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 1:00 PM
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Venue: The Marsh Studio
• Location: 1062 Valencia St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Sliding Scale: $0-$20

Speaking to the preamble of the US Constitution, seven nationally renowned storytellers from across the many diverse peoples of America share their stories of resilience as they have maneuvered challenges in their pursuits for equality, and how they have been able to find hope, strength and resilience in the process.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 7:00 PM; Sat May 9, 4:00 PM
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Venue: Monkeybrains
• Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Toying with detective fiction with a bizarre twist, the Postmortem series traces the investigations by a detective duo as they roam amidst vast memories and existential oblivion. An absurdist, SF-inspired physical theatre performance, Postmortem II visualize a post-apocalyptic world at the convergence of abstraction and mundanity, of robots and dinosaurs.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 7:00 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Venue: Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge
• Location: 521 Valencia St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Free (donations welcome)
  An Evening of Poetry and Music curated by Kimi Sugioka and presented in collaboration with International Indian Treaty Council and the American Indian Cultural Center. We invite our audience to share ideas and bread and find inspiration in the thoughts and words of artists and writers whose perspectives are drawn from a kaleidoscope of cultures, but who are united by compassion and a common desire to seek justice, equity and truth..

• Date(s) & Time(s):  Sat May 9, 2:30 PM & 7:00 PM
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Venue: Masonic Lodge
• Location: 169 Bartlett St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $45, Advance: $55, Door: $60 (Youth/Seniors/Students: $40)

Audiences are invited to fully immerse themselves in a fairy world. Frolic with fawns, play politics with courtly fae, and meet with Baba Yaga herself. Featuring circus performance, live music elements, and interactive theater.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sun May 3, 2:00 PM, Sun May 10, 2:30 PM
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Venue: Monkeybrains
• Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Foxes and dogs bark to warn of the changes wrought on planet earth by humankind. Images of animals appear, twist and transform. Shadow puppets enlarge and shrink. A costume installation represents a giant god looking down onto the world as it moves through disasters of wind or weather and shadows.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 6:00 PM; Sat-Sun May 9-10, 3:30 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Venue: Ruth's Table
• Location: 3160 21st St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Sliding Scale: $0 - $25

A serious play with silly puppets about an interracial lesbian couple navigating the burdens of privilege, trauma, and racism. A dying woman-as-puppet orchestrates a fraught reunion between her biological and spiritual daughters, decades after their explosive breakup. What could possibly go wrong?

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 7:00 PM
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Venue: Fingersnaps Media Arts
• Location: 3527 20th St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

A showcase gathering Black Trans and Gender Nonconforming artists presenting music, movement, poetry, and visual storytelling. Performances reflects the moment of recognition—when survival softens into self-knowing and art becomes a mirror. The audience is invited to witness transformation, honor resilience and celebrate the beauty of Black Trans creativity unfolding in real time.