Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Forum

 
Theatre
701 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

Box Office Phone:
(415) 978-2787
Event
Best of Playground
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

PlayGround presents two short plays selected from this year’s Best of PlayGround Festival.
 
Event
Florodora Highlights
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Excerpts from Lyric Theatre’s revival of “Florodora” the smash hit turn-of-the-last-century musical, rediscovered and restored.
 
Event
GEM of the Ocean (excerpts)
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean is the play that begins August Wilson’s ten-play cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the twentieth century.

Presented by Multi Ethnic Theater at The Next Stage
 
Event
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Don’t miss the West Coast Premiere of this outlandish, shocking and hilarious opera based on the long running television talk show.

Presented by Ray of Light Theatre
 
Event
La Traviata (excerpts)
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Presented by Pocket Opera

A pleasure-loving lady of questionable morality is transformed when she unexpectedly finds true love, with tragic yet glorious musical consequences.
 
Event
Never Too Late 2010
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Stagebridge’s all new musical review is a wink and a nod to good times with friends and family that keep us laughing and aging gracefully
 
Event
Party of 2: The Mating Musical
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Party of Two – The Mating Musical: A hilarious new musical comedy about a relationship by award-winning composer, Morrie Bobrow.
 
Event
Pearls Over Shanghai
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

A comic mock-operetta about white slavery and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai, China.

Presented by Thrillpeddlers
 
Event
Pirates of Penzance (excerpts)
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Performed by Lamplighters Music Theatre

Gilbert & Sullivan’s swashbuckling musical comedy. A hilarious farce featuring sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dewy-eyed daughers and an eccentric Major General!
 
Event
Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical
Open: Aug-08 2010
Close: Aug-08 2010

Presented by the Royal Underground Theater Company

After J.J. Hunsecker takes Sidney Falcone, a struggling Press Agent, under his wing and makes him a huge success, Sidney learns that success can cost more than he is willing to pay.