Theatre

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu May 7, 7:00 PM; Sat May 9, 2:00 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): 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): Sun May 3, 4:00 PM
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Venue: Masonic Lodge Banquet Room
• Location: 169 Bartlett St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

The Pla[y/n] for Reparation$ immerses audiences in a choice-driven performance on healing and repair. Through yes/no questions, participants shape their path, engaging history, identity, and reparative futures inspired by the California Reparations Report.

• 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): Thu May 7, 7:30 PM; Fri May 8, 8:00 PM; Sat May 9, 2:30 PM
• Duration: 110 minutes
• Venue: Z Space
• Location: 450 Florida St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30
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A stage adaptation of Mishima’s landmark novel. Directed by Leon Ingulsrud and starring Major Curda, the production charts Mishima’s spiraling psychological drama, inspired by a postwar act of arson. Curda portrays an alienated young monk whose obsession with beauty turns destructive, while Chiharu Shiota’s evocative stage design depicts a haunting inner landscape. 

• 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): 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?