5th Annual San Francisco Theater Festival on Sunday, July 27, 2008: 100 Shows, 14 Stages, One Day

The Largest Theater Event of the Year!

SAN FRANCISCO–(EMWNews)–The fifth annual San Francisco Theater Festival, a one-day free

extravaganza of 100 shows on 14 stages and the largest live theater

event of the year, will be held Sunday, July 27^th,

11:00 am-5:00 pm. The festival presents a diverse lineup

of Bay Area performers, featuring:

• AfroSolo Festival preview-Bay Area opera singer Angela Dean-Baham

  performs “Black Patti.”

• Amiri Baraka’s (LeRoi Jones) provocative

  plays of black experience, including his new play, “Sisyphus

  Syndrome”

• Lamplighters Musical Theatre’s “Mikado”

• Best of Playground’s new one act plays

• Aleshia Brevard and Gina Grahame—a

  two-woman story of gender change, family, love, and self, One Damn

  Man!

• Oh My Godmother, a gay take on the Cinderella story

• Best of the Buddy Club, 20 entertaining children’s

  shows

• Improv Groups: Blue Blanket, BATS, SPF7, Big City

This year’s festival is a true adventure in

theater — plays, musicals, solo performers,

improv, staged readings, new work, excerpts —

and defies concise description.

There will be 30 hours of performance throughout the day being performed

simultaneously on 14 stages, indoors and outdoors, which are located

within a short walk of each other.

Many of the performances are family friendly including 20 shows for

children. An estimated 10,000 people attended the festival last year.

The downtown San Francisco festival takes place at Yerba Buena Gardens,

the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Zeum, and the Metreon. Yerba Buena

Gardens is located between Mission & Folsom, Third & Fourth Streets, in

downtown San Francisco. Easy to reach by MUNI and BART. All admissions

are FREE.

“This is the chance to discover some

wonderful performers, shows, and theater groups that are under the

radar, as well as others that are more well known. Short performances,

30 minutes and less, allow you to sample so much in one place on one

day. It’s casual, fun, and festive,”

said producer Bill Schwartz. “Theater in

earlier days was a people’s art form that now

has become exclusive. This festival brings theater back to its roots. It’s

truly accessible.”

The festival is presented in partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens

Festival.

Information: www.sftheaterfestival.org,

415-543-1718

e-mail at: [email protected].

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