Presentations of San Francisco Theater Festival 2007
The Smorgasbord of Theater Festivals
Yerba Buena Gardens, YB Center for Arts, Zeum, Metreon, Sunday, July 22, 2007
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…and still… performs and repeats a 10-minute installation theatre-dance piece commenting on the nature of reality. www.andstilldancing.com
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African-American Shakespeare Company previews its upcoming season with excerpts from Cinderella, Tartuffe, Carmen Jones, Alice in Wonderland Revue, The Othello Papers, and Comedy of Errors. www.africanamericanshakes.org
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Ambit Theatre Co. presents Attrition, an original fugue-like drama of four characters who confront the single moment that changed their lives. www.ambittheatre.org
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ArcLight Repertory Theatre presents A Write To Heal, an examination of domestic violence. (San Jose). www.arclight.org
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Asian American Theater Company’s Korean Badass is one man’s tumultuous inner journey to become the first Korean leading man who is true to himself. www.asianamericantheater.org
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Atmos Theatre performs scenes from Shakespeare’s classic, A Midsummer’ Night’s Dream. www.atmostheatre.com
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BATS Improv performs its hilarious and spontaneous Theatresports in which two teams of actors compete in scenes, games, and songs. www.improv.org
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Big City Improv performs You Bet Your Improvisor.
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Blue Blanket Improv specializes in creating on-the-spot outrageous comedy based on audience suggestions. www.blueblanketimprov.com
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Brian Shapiro’s CultureWorks presents Touch Me There…Oh Yeah, revealing how we are led into uncomfortable situations while unconsciously begging for more. www.cultureworksinc.com
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Caterpillar Puppets presents The Itty Bitty Variety Show
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The Clown Conservatory presents Experiment! The Excitement of Science, in which the world famous conservatory clowns explore science concepts in the special universe of circus. www.clownconservatory.com
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Colored Ink—An urban safari, hip-hop style, through the less seen parts of San Francisco. www.coloredink.org
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The Cutting Ball performs its commedia dell’arte influenced, hip-hop, and modernized version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. www.cuttingball.org
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Everyday Theatre, Tim Barsky, Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian blends hip-hop and Jewish folklore. www.timbarsky.com
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The Exit Theatre will present a sampling of its rich and varied program, including some highlights from September’s San Francisco Fringe Festival. www.theexit.org
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Foothill Theater Conservatory presents The Drag of Dating, a comedy about four manly men discussing their dating experiences. www.foothill.edu/fa
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42nd St. Moon performs musical theatre selections from its 15 seasons that have brought vintage Broadway musical to life. www.42ndStmoon.org
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Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre presents Arthur Ballesteros & Robert Cheifetz in an artful blending of original music (saxophone) and spoken word. In addition, Galatean presents Diary of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain.
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Gillian Summers performs her play, hush, a love story set against the backdrop of a working class family in Liverpool.
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High Noon Ensemble (Foothill College Drama Department) performs The Creative Process, a satirical short piece about writing a play guaranteed to have mass appeal and finally The Re-Education of Norma Jean, which imagines Marilyn’s famous lovers, JFK, Joe DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller competing against each other for her heart. www.foothill.edu/fa
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Insignificant Others is an award-winning original romantic musical comedy by L. Jay Kuo that shows the eye-opening experiences for newcomers to San Francisco. www.isomusical.com
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Intersection for the Arts, a San Francisco original, presents an overview of the Intersection: its productions, its performative readings, and its open process forums. Material from Campo Santo, Hybrid Project, and ESP Project are included. www.theintersection.org
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Jazz Kids is a diverse group of talented 8-14 year-old performers visiting from Singapore, singing and dancing to American jazz standards and Asian pop. www.kidsperforming.com
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Jump! Theatre presents Cuckoo, an exploration of multiple personality disorder. www.jumptheatre.org
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K-Arts (Kambayoka Artists’ Resource Training System, Inc.) presents Nonoy at Inday, a musical play showcasing Filipino tradition through songs and dances, a modern zarsuela in a Kambayoka theater form.
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Lamplighters Music Theatre presents highlights from Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic masterpiece, “H.M.S. Pinafore,” which plays in July at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre. www.lamplighters.org
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Last Night at Playland is an original musical about San Francisco’s Playland-at-the-Beach, which was once the apex of amusement but fell to the wrecker’s ball in 1970. www.wehavemet.org
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Lucky Dog Theatre presents The Dalai Lama Doesn’t Need a Face Lift, written and performed by Joya Cory and directed by Roberta D’Lois, it is a mediation and rant on beauty, grief, aging, and happiness. www.joyacory.com
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Lynn Ruth Miller performs Farewell to the Tooth Fairy, her collection of six stories about finding the magic in our lives. www.lynnruthmiller.com
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Lyric Theatre of San Jose presents Lionel Monkton’s operetta The Quaker Girl, which opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1910. www.lyrictheatre.org
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The Magic Theatre presents winners of its citywide Launch Pad contest for high school playwrights, performed by professional actors. www.magictheatre.org
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The Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance, will present four riveting solo performances. www.themarsh.org
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Mountian International Dance Company, a performance group of youngsters ages 6-14, presents Dancing Around the Globe, folk dances from many countries.
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New Works West presents four one-act plays: Riot, Lady Liberty, The Performance, and My Son the Soldier. www.newworkswest.org
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No Nude Men Productions, a popular festival returnee, presents its imaginative and clever comedy: Better! Faster! Cheaper! Smart! www.horrorunspeakable.com
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Omni Circus presents Signal to Noise, a tragic-comic and surreal drama with music, that tells the story of a fateful telephone call. www.omnicircus.com
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Pangs Theater presents Lamb, a drama that examines human suffering and acceptance. www.pangstheater.com
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Panhandler’s Theater Company presents the 300-year-old commedia del’Arte piece called Servant of Two Masters, incorporating audience interaction and improvised physical comedy. www.panhandlerstheater.com
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Pirate Tenaya Plunders Europe tells the story of Tenaya’s search for adventure in Europe through words and songs. www.tenayahurst.com
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Playground, a showcase for some of the Bay Area’s most promising new playwrights, presents two of its best short plays from this year’s Best of Playground festival. www.playground-sf.org
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Performers Under Stress (PUS) presents The Farmington Armada, a collection of short plays and monologues based on a mass UFO sighting in 1950. www.pusworks.org
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Ray of Light Theatre presents a sampling of lively musical numbers from its recent season. www.roltheatre.com
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Red Lantern Theatre Company presents All About Al, a comedy about love, sex, and relationships. www.redlantern.com
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Richter Scale presents Duggan and Roma, sketch comedy with social and political themes. www.richterscalesf.com
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San Francisco Buffoons presents Divided We Fall, a buffoon show flush with nonsense, madness, violence, and grotesquerie.
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The San Francisco Free Civic Theatre will present American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Aria da Capo, a one-act play written in verse. www.sffct.org
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San Francisco Recovery Theatre, which addresses the violence and addiction in the “hood,” presents The Spot, with actors who have been there. www.sfrecoverytheatre.org
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San Francisco Improv Alliance presents three of the best improvisation groups from the SF Improv Festival:
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4 in 1 (San Francisco)
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Big Yellow Bus (Chicago)
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String Theory (Vancouver)
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Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra performs with discarded materials for instruments.
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Sha Sha Higby, internationally known for her evocative and haunting performances influenced by shadow puppets, Noh and Butoh Theater, presents her newest show, The Glass Jungle. www.shashahigby.com
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Sleepwalkers Theatre presents Saints in Strange Places, an absurd world is created in this strange play. www.sleepwalkerstheatre.com
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Spellbinder Entertainment presents Eccentrics of Old San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, a journey with storytelling and magic through our city’s colorful and notorious past. www.spellbinderentertainment.com & www.paradoxmagic.com
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Stagebridge Senior Theatre’s performs Never Too Late—2007, a comic musical revue about old age and how misunderstood it is. www.stagebridge.org
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Stanford Summer Theater presents Oda Oak Oracle, an Ethiopian play incorporating words, drums, saxophone, and a chorus, that is part of SST’s African season. www.stanford.edu/group/summertheater/
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Steve Solomon performs from My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy! which is now running at the Marines Memorial Theatre.
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Subterranean Shakespeare presents Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, performances of songs from Shakespeare’s plays. myspace.com/subshakes
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Tell it on Tuesday celebrates the expression of individual voices through storytelling and solo performances in its ongoing series at the Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley. The festival sampling will feature Carolyn Doyle performing Bonne Bell Cotton Candy Lipsmacker, which examines one of life's most poignant milestones: the first kiss; Stefanie Goldstein with Blame it on the Bossa Nova, a titillating tale of twins doubling their luck on Who Wants to be a Millionaire; Steve Budd in LOSING IT, a nerdy college kid meets British model; Liz Nichols performs Creation is a Messy Business weaving her personal history with ancient myths to find an answer to the question: Where do I come from?; Sandra Niman performs Without a Place, in which she wanders through Greek tragedy and bittersweet reality always looking for home; Frank Turco performs Homo sapiens TODAY, featuring celebrated anthropologist Sir Kensington Longbottom. www.tellitontuesday.org
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Terri Tate presents her show Shopping as a Spiritual Path, which has been called “Brilliant” by bestselling writer Anne Lamott. It shines a hilarious light on dark subjects. www.territate.com
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365 Plays—Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks has written a play cycle called 365 Days/365Plays, a daily meditation on an artistic life. Theaters around the world are producing the plays between Nov.13, 2006 and Nov. 12, 2007. The San Francisco Theater Festival is proud to present productions of the seven short plays covering Week 36, July 16-22, 2007.
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Three Wise Monkeys’ Sweet Jesus reveals, through the efforts of an inquisitive reporter, the special ingredients in a tasty homemade pie. www.threewisemonkeys.org
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Un-Scripted Theater Co. Improvisational comedy theater. You Bet Your Improvisor. www.un-scripted.com
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Venus Christ is a rock opera that retells the stories of mythological women, connecting them to modern themes. www.venuschrist.com
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Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Company sings it way through a century of American musical theater.
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Youth for Asian Theater (YFAT), which promotes pride in Asian heritage and awareness of youth issues, presents Great Expectations, a silent play about one young girl’s search for her perfect match. www.yfat.org
Stage Hosts
Fred Anderson, Juggler/Comic, www.comedyonthesquare.com;
Tony Sparks, Standup comic, metahost101@yahoo.com;
Mike Cappozola, Stand-up Comic and Cartoonist, michael_c@mindspring.com;
Lynn Ruth Miller, Writer/Actress, www.lynnruthmiller.com;
RJ Owens, Magician, www.rjowens.com;
Big Al Catraz, Magician, www.bigalcatraz.com;
Keith Everslage, Comedy/Juggler, www.comedyjuggling.com;
Tom Smith, Stand-up Comic, smith_san_fran@hotmail.com;
Kevin Madden, Magician, www.musicandmagic.com;
Paul Nathan, Magician & Producer, www.firemagic.com, www.climatetheater.com;
Tim Gaskin, TV host, www.timgaskin.com;
Steve Budd, Actor & Comedian, steve_budd@hotmail.com;
Lindsy Benner, Actress & Juggler, www.lindsybenner.com.
