SF Theater Festival

The SFTF will be held at the beautiful urban park setting of Yerba Buena Gardens as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Festival performances range from 15-30 minutes and include all kinds of theater: Shakespeare, comedy, drama, musical theater, children's shows, solo performances, improv, one acts, excerpts, classics, new works…

An estimated 10,000 people attended the 2008 festival, including families, teens, and adults. Our multicultural audience included the Bay Area's committed theater audience and an audience that is just discovering the possibilities of theater and learning about the many theater groups they had never heard of before.

Featured at the 2008 festival:

• AfroSolo presents Angela Dean-Baham as Black Patti
• Amiri Baraka's provocative plays of black experience, including his new play, "Sisyphus Syndrome"
• Lamplighters Music Theatre's "The Mikado"
• Best of Playground's one act plays
• Aleshia Brevard & Gina Grahame's transsexual production of "One Damn Man!"
• Oh My Godmother, gay Cinderella
• Best of the Buddy Club, 16 great children's shows
• Improv Groups: Blue Blanket, BATS, SPF, Big City & Stagebridge's Over-50 Improv
• The Exit Theatre
• The Marsh
• Tell it on Tuesday

(SoMa) Third St. (between Mission and Howard streets)  
415-291-8655 Map it
sftheaterfestival.org

Event date: Sunday, July 27 (11 a.m.)
Event location: Yerba Buena Gardens

You can think of the one-day SF Theater Festival in Yerba Buena Gardens as a sampler plate of the city's theater scene: 77 short (20- to 30-minute) presentations of everything from Shakespeare to musicals to dance to improv from dozens of local companies, including the Marsh, Intersection for the Arts, Exit Theatre, the Magic Theatre, the Asian American Theater Company and many more.

Thank you for reading!

Owen Geronimo 

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