2010 festival program
Main Festival Show times, Venues & Details
*Click on column headings to organize each column alphabetically| Start | End | Venue | Presenter | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:55 | 12:25 | Waterfall Stage | Planet Booty | Planet Booty is a ridiculous, high energy space funk extravaganza. Their genre defying mix of styles will get your booty on the floor. |
| 12:30 | 12:35 | Waterfall Stage | Project 2.7 | The people’s Shakespeare |
| 12:35 | 12:55 | Waterfall | In Light of Optimism | Twenty minutes of courageous no-holds-barred Shakespeare; bravely displaying Hamlet’s downward spiral into madness (or TRUTH). |
| 1:00 | 1:15 | Waterfall Stage | Lamplighters Music Theatre | Excerpts from Gilbert & Sullivan shows. |
| 1:20 | 1:35 | Waterfall Stage | Beach Blanket Babylon | San Francisco’s longest running show performs a few of their wonderful songs |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | Waterfall Stage | No Nude Men Productions | Who will be the last to see curtains? A darkly comical piece with wry existential musing and song-and-dance vignettes about classic stage deaths. |
| 2:15 | 2:45 | Waterfall Stage | Bats Improv | The award-winning BATS presents Theatresports, a hilarious improv competition between two teams performing a variety of spontaneous scenes and songs. |
| 2:55 | 3:25 | Waterfall Stage | Allen Mathis and Friends | Two skits in search of a laugh or at least a hug: Coffee shop insanity and the intergenerational green battle. |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | Waterfall Stage | Order My Life Productions | “On Both Sides Of The Wall” reveals a true friendship between a young couple’s love and the prison walls that separate them. |
| 4:05 | 4:35 | Waterfall Stage | Northern California Renaissance Faire | “Manly Men in Tights” Manly Men teach the art of wooing with laughter, steel and sex appeal. |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | East Garden | 11th Hour Ensemble | A thrilling and inventive physical re-imaginging of Lewis Carroll’s text. Six actors create the whole of Wonderland with their bodies. |
| 12:05 | 12:30 | East Garden | Mimi’s Makeshift Players | Come and see just how funny short plays about aviophobia, roommate rage and deadly sins can be. |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | East Garden | Un-Scripted Theater Company | “In a World” – The Un-Scripted Theater Company performs a shortened version of their improvised show which explores life in an audience created, alternate version of our world. |
| 2:15 | 2:45 | East Garden | YFat | Y-Fat is a completely youth-led, non-profit theater program. They will present the student-written play “At a Loss for Words”. |
| 2:50 | 3:15 | East Garden | Ross Travis | The night that would change the lives of my brothers in mud and I forever. A journey into the past of the old old west. A one man revenge tragedy set in small town Colorado. |
| 3:20 | 3:50 | East Garden | Solano College Theatre Touring Company | A fully choreographed Broadway style musical revue featuring songs from Rent, Hairspray, Mamma Mia and the popular TV series Glee. |
| 3:55 | 4:25 | East Garden | Kimberly Peterson | An autobiographical one-woman musical about a California girl’s experience with life, love and music in New York. |
| 11:40 | 12:05 | Stone Stage | Secret Improv Society | A refreshing, irreverent and fully-improvised blend of comedy and music that will have you laughing out loud. |
| 12:10 | 12:30 | Stone Stage | Kimberly Peterson | An autobiographical one-woman musical about a California girl’s experience with life, love and music in New York. |
| 1:40 | 2:05 | Stone Stage | Seabat Studios | Towering over the crowd as he ambles round the grounds, the Swamp Kirin will amaze young and old alike. |
| 2:10 | 2:25 | Stone Stage | We Players – Hamlet | Join We Players for select moments from Hamlet on Alcatraz coming to The Rock October 2010. |
| 2:30 | 3:00 | Stone Stage | Blue Blanket Improv | Spontaneous comedy scenes made up on the spot based entirely upon audience suggestions. Family friendly humor that fits just right. |
| 3:05 | 3:30 | Stone Stage | Three of a Perfect Pair Theatre Troupe | A street preacher delivers a sermon with wisdom, humor, an open heart and a naughty wink. |
| 3:35 | 4:00 | Stone Stage | La Pandilla De Zacadilla | Two older adults accidentally meet in a street. A very eloquent courtship with laughter and embarrassment. |
| 4:05 | 4:35 | Stone Stage | Thomas John | A brand new comedy juggling show with masks, mayhem and machetes. Not to mention skill and wit. |
| 4:40 | 5:00 | Stone Stage | Global Women Intact | African drumming and dance! |
| 11:35 | 11:50 | Rock Circle | Steve Kopel | See the poet chew his words! Procrastinate! See props emerge as fanciful surprises! See Stephen Kopel kiss the blarney! |
| 11:55 | 12:25 | Rock Circle | TBD | TBD |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | Rock Circle | TBD | TBD |
| 2:15 | 2:45 | Rock Circle | TBD | TBD |
| 2:50 | 3:15 | Rock Circle | OperaSaw | A humorous song cycle about cancer treatments and its results. Performance includes original music, singing saw, other instruments and costumes! |
| 3:20 | 3:50 | Rock Circle | Meldy Henandez | From birthing hut to deathbed, a motherless woman learns to groove towards a daughter of her own. An intensely personal and unexpectedly hilarious tale that will leave you dancing. |
| 11:30 | 11:55 | CA Historical Society | Solo Performance Workshop – Zahra Noorbakhsh | It’s just a matter of physics, a pre-engagement ceremony and a sacrificial lamb. |
| 12:00 | 12:25 | CA Historical Society | Paolo Sambrano | Paolo thinks he’s bi-polar, but knows he’s gonna die, either from the blood clot in his leg or from jumping in front of a BART train. |
| 12:30 | 12:55 | CA Historical Society | Nicole Maxali | Nicole’s grandmother isn’t just being forgetful. After a doctor’s appointment, everything changes, for Nicole and her grandmother. |
| 1:00 | 1:25 | CA Historical Society | Lisa Marie Rollins | One Black Girl’s Story of being adopted into a white family, that aren’t Celebrities. Angelina Jolie has adopted black children. Should you go pick one up? |
| 1:30 | 1:55 | CA Historical Society | Enzo Lombard | Sixteen distinct, often arguing characters in fast paced episodes, each set in a different city. |
| 2:10 | 2:35 | CA Historical Society | Coke Nakamoto | A girl detective seeks va-j-j treasures beneath her piano teacher’s dress and ends up finding her own soul. |
| 2:40 | 3:05 | CA Historical Society | Bruce Pachtman | Hollywood’s top talent agency wants me. I move from NYC to LA. They reconsider. What now? A comedy. |
| 3:10 | 3:35 | CA Historical Society | Martha Rynberg | Starting out as a daughter, turning into a mother, Martha’s just trying to figure out how it all fits together. |
| 3:40 | 4:05 | CA Historical Society | Julia Jackson | Join a bi-racial queer couple as they take the white-knuckle rollercoaster ride known as adoption. |
| 4:10 | 4:40 | CA Historical Society | Thao P. Nguyen | Thao wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer-hunting with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen. |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | The Forum | Stagebridge Musical | 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. |
| 11:35 | 11:50 | The Forum | The Royal Underground Theatre 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. |
| 11:55 | 12:25 | The Forum | 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! |
| 12:35 | 1:05 | The Forum | STFS Productions, LLC | A diverse group of seniors find excitement, meaning and passion developing instructional sex videos while exploring social roles and relationships. |
| 1:10 | 1:40 | The Forum | Playground | PlayGround presents two short plays selected from this year’s Best of PlayGround Festival. |
| 1:45 | 2:10 | The Forum | Pocket Opera | Pocket Opera stars sing a collection of favorite opera arias. |
| 2:15 | 2:40 | The Forum | Ray of Light Theatre | Don’t miss the West Coast Premiere of this outlandish, shocking and hilarious opera based on the long running television talk show. |
| 2:55 | 3:25 | The Forum | Lyric Theatre of San Jose | Excerpts from Lyric Theatre’s revival of “Florodora” the smash hit turn-of-the-last-century musical, rediscovered and restored. |
| 3:30 | 3:50 | The Forum | Party of Two | Party of Two – The Mating Musical: A hilarious new musical comedy about a relationship by award-winning composer, Morrie Bobrow. |
| 3:55 | 4:25 | The Forum | Multi Ethnic Theater at the Next Stage | 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. |
| 4:30 | 5:00 | The Forum | Thrillpeddlers | A comic mock-operetta about white slavery and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai, China. |
| 11:40 | 12:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | Jet – A portrait of a nicotine addict and true story, explores the healthcare system from a consumer perspective. |
| 12:20 | 12:50 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Queen – A view of the world from the fractured mind of Graffiti Queen, the self proclaimed Dear Abby of the John. |
| 1:00 | 1:30 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Mama – A sharply drawn voyeuristic examination of HIV, family secrets and the threat of an imminent implosion in the Jefferson household. |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | The Spot – Critically acclaimed story of young lovers trapped in urban society a’la West Side Story. |
| 2:20 | 2:50 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | Lower Bottom Playaz | Flowers – A circa 1960 Black Arts dramatic short that interrogates the silence between a father and son. |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | The Dutchman – SF Recovery Theatre players put a new twist on this OBIE award winning play by Amiri Baraka. |
| 3:40 | 4:10 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | SF Recovery Theatre | A Soldiers Play – Introducing SF Recovery Theatre’s BayView Playaz in this classic murder mystery by Charles Fuller. |
| 4:20 | 4:50 | Screening Rm (Upstairs fm. Forum) | The One Act Players | Harding Park, Fog City’s second best radio detective, takes to the air in a script penned expressly for the Festival. |
| 11:35 | 12:05 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe | As a troupe, PI creates comedic theatre using elements of mime technique, acrobatics, juggling, eccentric dance, music, improvisation and feats of incredible strength and stupidity. |
| 12:10 | 12:40 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Cinnabar Theatre presents a WALKING ELEPHANT Theater Company production | Young actors interviewed 8 couples (some gay, some straight) & wrote a word-for-word play on LOVE & DISCRIMINATION: hilarious, moving, inspiring theater |
| 12:50 | 1:20 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Peters Sausage Company | Join us in a trip back to film past while three greats of Hollywood collaborate and almost kill each other. |
| 1:25 | 1:40 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Widget Theatre Company | Your GPS knows you better then you know yourself. They just don’t tell you. Until now. |
| 1:45 | 2:15 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Jason Whalen – The Big Lebowski | Urban Achievers see their favorite film taken to satiric heights in this interactive theatrical re-interpretation of the Coen Bros classic! |
| 2:25 | 2:55 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Jeff Greenwald | Jeff will perform two selections from his acclaimed “Strange Travel Suggestions”, tales of global wanderlust and adventure.Jeff will perform two selections from his acclaimed “Strange Travel Suggestions”, tales of global wanderlust and adventure. |
| 3:00 | 3:25 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | FiFi & Fanny | FiFi & Fanny tackle the Queers, Queens. Lezzies and Marines of Bumfuck, TX with music, comedy, brass, hunky weathermen and the IRS. |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | A Debt by Any Other Name | TBD |
| 4:05 | 4:35 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Andrew Klein and Company | Pennies from Heaven: About surviving a serious economic downturn as told through the songs of the Great depression of the 1930’s. |
| 4:40 | 5:00 | Action Theater (Metreon 2nd Fl) | San Francisco Theater Pub | Short plays in the time it takes to finish a beer, performing this month at the Café Royale. |
| 11:25 | 11:50 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Howard Petrick Solo Performer | The hilarious autobiographical story of a Vietnam-era draftee who frustrates military brass while organizing his fellow GIs against the war. |
| 11:55 | 12:25 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Wegent & Page | They’ll make you laugh. A lot. Mostly because you’ll be glad you’re not in a two person comedy team with your significant other! |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Mugwumpin | Viscerally, hilariously unsettlingly explores our contemporary anxieties, our relationships with our possessions and the urge to accumulate. |
| 12:55 | 1:20 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Cliché This | We now that the geek gets the girl in the movies, but can he in real life? |
| 1:25 | 1:55 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Arclight Repertory Theatre | Two characters and – a man-eating chair? A witty, challenging and ultimately absurd take on the insanity of life! |
| 2:00 | 2:30 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Jeff England | Part concert, part theater, this quirky scripted and improvised solo performance explores storytelling through songs, monologues, narratives and movement. |
| 2:35 | 3:05 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | SF Free Civic Theatre | A homeless man tries to get arrested so he can sleep indoors. |
| 3:10 | 3:40 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | BRADLEY LUM AND MARK ZHANG | Bradley Lum and Mark Zhang bring their unique hard-hitting jokes and witty humor on Aisian culture and life situations to the stage. |
| 3:45 | 4:00 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | FatherSon | The classic portrayal of a son reaching out, unsuccessfully, to his aging, emotionally damaged father. |
| 4:05 | 4:25 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Youth Speaks Poets | This will be a performance on the cutting edge of spoken word. The best young poets in the Bay Area will explode the stage with word and story true to their experiences. |
| 4:30 | 4:55 | Yerba Buena Rm (Metreon 2nd Fl) | Nancy Gold | Performing for years or just starting out. Become a Powerful, Energized Spontaneous Performer! – Expand your “silly side”. Get a free nose! |
| 11:40 | 12:05 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | Ericka Lutz | Modern widowhood, a story of absurdity, grief, skin-hunger and tattoos. Who knew love and death came with a side of So-Much-To-Do. |
| 12:10 | 12:40 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | Big City Improv | Big City Improv uses audience suggestions and participation to create scenes, stories and songs. Shows are fast paced, un-scripted and completely unique. |
| 12:50 | 1:20 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | EXIT Theatre’s San Francisco Fringe Festival | Cora’s Fringe Appetizers showcases performers from the upcoming San Francisco Fringe Festival Sept. 8-19th at the EXIT Theatre. |
| 1:25 | 1:55 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | Firstborn Cast/Scorpio Rising Productions | A grieving musician takes stock in his life before meeting with his estranged daughter. |
| 2:00 | 2:30 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | The Flashlight | Two short plays by local playwrights. How do you maintain hope in challenging, no impossible times? Sharks search for love; and an amateur astronomer longs to leave earth. |
| 2:40 | 3:10 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | Bathwater Productions | A Commedia dell’Arte adventure celebrating love, betrayal, megalomanis and magic reveals the secrets of the soul and the longings of the heart. |
| 3:15 | 3:45 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | TuTiatro | Arlechino and Francheschina play two characters of Italian Art Comedy. This work uses traditional masks, live music and improv to make the audience feel a part of the show. |
| 3:50 | 4:20 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | The Ross Valley Players | A humorous, edgy, challenging play that asks “What do women have to do to make it in a man’s world? |
| 4:25 | 4:55 | SOMA Rm(Metreon 2nd Fl) | Marvin X | The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/fables by Marvin X, performed by the Academy of Da Corner Reader’s Theatre. |
| 12:05 | 12:35 | SPUR 1 | Theatre Engage | Bernie Madoff has died in his cell of a heart attack and God makes one more attempt to reach his soul and conscience with the help of Bernie’s horrified father. |
| 12:40 | 1:10 | SPUR 1 | Crisis Hopkins | SF Improv and sketch comedy stalwarts, monthly improv jam hosts, SF Improv Festival producers (Aug. 12th-22nd) – Come see us! |
| 1:20 | 1:35 | SPUR 1 | Artis Mundi | The vicar of Christ, Pope Sixtus IV plots to murder Lorenzo de Medici during elevation of host in Florence Cathedral. |
| 1:40 | 2:10 | SPUR 1 | Ninjaz of Drama | Ninjaz of Drama presents 3 One Act Plays by Rey Carolino – “Dancing with Udo,” “Charon & Sharon” and “Boozy’s Brides.” |
| 2:15 | 2:45 | SPUR 1 | Marsh Theater Performance Initiative series | Come embark on the journey to Africa, experience the history of the Americans, be inspired by the roller coaster relationship between a mother and daughter. |
| 2:50 | 3:15 | SPUR 1 | American Art Institute & Hua Yi Performing Group | A fashion designer’s models almost knock him off from the runway in a 2010 new fashion trend, but the dummy hit off the finest fashion demonstration |
| 3:25 | 3:50 | SPUR 1 | Laura Sheppard/ Mechanics’ Institute | Paris Portraits: Two San Francisco ladies, Harriett L. Levi and Alice B. Toklas go to Paris, meet Gertrude Stein and party with Picasso in Montmartre. |
| 3:55 | 4:25 | SPUR 1 | New Conservatory Theatre Center | NCTC YouthAware Educational Theatre Program presents excerpts from “Outspoken” by Prince Gomovilas performed by NTCT’s Teen Acting Conservatory. |
| 4:30 | 4:55 | SPUR 1 | Silvia Girardi Acting | A theatre dance piece about the tragic COMIC world of Angelique and her dream… cats, horses, beethoven, dragoons, and the absurd reality… |
| 11:40 | 12:10 | SPUR 2 | Libby Skala | The story of a pioneering Austrian who transcends poverty, artistic repression and the rise of Hitler through the magic of dance. |
| 12:15 | 12:45 | SPUR 2 | Living Miracle Productions | A young girl has visions of the Virgin Mary. Is she a liar? Is she crazy? Or is she a Saint? |
| 12:50 | 1:15 | SPUR 2 | Burning Doll Theater presents | Forget dishonest affirmations! Face your Filth! A cleansing, liberating guided mediation. |
| 1:20 | 1:40 | SPUR 2 | Joya Cory | Our heroine considers a face lift while ranting and meditating on aging, stilettos, happiness, love and grief. |
| 1:45 | 2:10 | SPUR 2 | Bindlestiff Studio’s TASTE BETTER WIT | Obsessed with the letter J? The most interesting Filipino Man in the world. Vietnamese Improv? What Does it Taste Better Wit? |
| 2:20 | 2:50 | SPUR 2 | Stagebridge Improv | The Antic Witties take you for a fun, spirited, improvised adventure through the prime time show “Antiques Road Show.” |
| 2:55 | 3:25 | SPUR 2 | PianoFight’s S.H.I.T. Show | PianoFight’s sketch comedy riot. Flavorpill.com called them “a highly entertaining exercise in four-mouthed sketch comedy with a surprising jolt of braininess.” |
| 3:30 | 3:50 | SPUR 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 3:55 | 4:25 | SPUR 2 | Dombella Productions | Inapproprate levity (and texting) get one family through their time of greatest gravity. A story of death, memories and eCommunication. |
| 4:30 | 5:00 | SPUR 2 | Flim Flam Players | On a cold night, in a hot meth lab, one life will be saved, the other shattered. |
| 11:45 | 12:15 | SPUR 3 | Alison Whittaker | A nurse’s life in a modern hospital. Comic, tragic and touching, patients, nurses and families cope with difficult and utterly ridiculous situations. |
| 12:20 | 12:50 | SPUR 3 | Angela Neff | A girl struggles to come of age as the dark spiral of bipolar illness takes over her dad’s life |
| 12:55 | 1:20 | SPUR 3 | David Jacobson | In this dark comedy, detectives investigating the worst ride accident ever, face a funhouse full strange suspects and shadowy subcultures. |
| 1:25 | 1:40 | SPUR 3 | Mary Samson | A tour of an adolescent girl’s psyche, Shiny packets, Joan’s magic pillow and all that follows. |
| 1:45 | 2:05 | SPUR 3 | Victoria Doggett | Remember your first best friend? You’ll cringe, laugh and feel the nerve pain well after your “forever” friend is gone. |
| 2:10 | 2:35 | SPUR 3 | David Caggiano | Brother Dallas pitches his movie idea to Hollywood but Hollywood has its own ideas what his movie should look like. |
| 2:40 | 3:10 | SPUR 3 | Anniversary Productions | A baseball star and a high school teacher are stuck together on an elevator. Who is most stuck? |
| 3:15 | 3:35 | SPUR 3 | Dave Pokorny | A (mostly) true journey of one man’s life as he attempts to procrastinate finding his calling. |
| 3:40 | 4:05 | SPUR 3 | Poet, Tony Seymour | Tony Seymour has composed a raging set of verses that take off on the pyrotechnic work of guitarist Jeff Beck |
| 4:10 | 4:40 | SPUR 3 | Piano Fight | A delightful collection of comedic sketches that address everything from Nursery Rhymes to Dictators. |
| 4:45 | 5:00 | SPUR 3 | Ashley Cowan | In a fast paced world of pickups, let downs and makeouts, it’s no easy to read between the lines. Especially on your cell. |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Zeum Theater | Ringling Bros. Boswick the Clown | Nicknamed “The Clown’s Clown”, Boswick is a former Ringling Bros. performer who is a clown in every sense of the word – physically funny, great juggler and magician, and a hilarious comedian |
| 11:30 | 11:50 | Zeum Theater | Ringling Bros. Boswick the Clown | Nicknamed “The Clown’s Clown”, Boswick is a former Ringling Bros. performer who is a clown in every sense of the word – physically funny, great juggler and magician, and a hilarious comedian |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Zeum Theater | Award-winning Magician Timothy James |
Tim’s hilarious routines and impressive magic skills are earning him rave reviews and awards with family audiences everywhere he performs |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Zeum Theater | Award-winning Magician Timothy James |
Tim’s hilarious routines and impressive magic skills are earning him rave reviews and awards with family audiences everywhere he performs |
| 1:00 | 1:20 | Zeum Theater | Hilarious Ventriloquist Steve Chaney & Cornelius | Superstar Ventriloquist Steve Chaney and his puppet partner Cornelius Crowe are two of the Bay Area’s most popular dummies. Their fast paced comedy routines are a huge hit as you never know who’s gonna throw the next punchline! |
| 1:30 | 1:50 | Zeum Theater | Hilarious Ventriloquist Steve Chaney & Cornelius | Superstar Ventriloquist Steve Chaney and his puppet partner Cornelius Crowe are two of the Bay Area’s most popular dummies. Their fast paced comedy routines are a huge hit as you never know who’s gonna throw the next punchline! |
| 2:00 | 2:20 | Zeum Theater | Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly |
Bay Area’s Master Magician Phil Ackerly is twice voted “Bay Area’s Best Entertainer”. Phil’s charm and quick wit makes him a favorite at Corporate Events and Private Parties all over the country. |
| 2:30 | 2:50 | Zeum Theater | Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly |
Bay Area’s Master Magician Phil Ackerly is twice voted “Bay Area’s Best Entertainer”. Phil’s charm and quick wit makes him a favorite at Corporate Events and Private Parties all over the country. |
| 3:00 | 3:20 | Zeum Theater | Juggling with “Unique Derique” |
Derique is a Bay Area legend! Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one of a kind performer! |
| 3:30 | 3:50 | Zeum Theater | Juggling with “Unique Derique” |
Derique is a Bay Area legend! Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one of a kind performer! |
| 4:00 | 4:20 | Zeum Theater | Illusionist Brian Scott | Brian has established himself as a leader in Bay Area Magic circles and one of the most popular private event and corporate magicians around. Don’t miss his wacky and mysteriously entertaining show! |
| 4:30 | 4:50 | Zeum Theater | Illusionist Brian Scott | Brian has established himself as a leader in Bay Area Magic circles and one of the most popular private event and corporate magicians around. Don’t miss his wacky and mysteriously entertaining show! |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Zeum Amphitheater | San Francisco Sound Wave Chorus | San Francisco Sound Wave Chorus has been part of the Bay Area Musical Comminity since 1955. The chorus is committed to singing four-part harmony in the barbershop style. |
| 12:40 | 1:10 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 1:20 | 1:35 | Zeum Amphitheater | The AJI Show | New school vaudeville juggler Aji and his Jugglers Against Chainsaws present an exhibition of exhilarating circus skill. |
| 1:45 | 2:10 | Zeum Amphitheater | La Pandilla De Zacadilla | Two older adults accidentally meet in a street. A very eloquent courtship with laughter and embarrassment. |
| 2:20 | 2:50 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 3:35 | 3:55 | Zeum Amphitheater | San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Advanced Shakespeare Workshop | The Advanced Shakespeare Workshop Students perform work from Shakespeare’s cannon. |
| 4:00 | 4:20 | Zeum Amphitheater | Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly |
Bay Area’s Master Magician Phil Ackerly is twice voted “Bay Area’s Best Entertainer”. Phil’s charm and quick wit makes him a favorite at Corporate Events and Private Parties all over the country. |
Family-Friendly Program Show times, Venues & Details
*Click on column headings to organize each column alphabetically| Start | End | Venue | Group/Artist | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Zeum Theater | Ringling Bros. Boswick the Clown | Nicknamed “The Clown’s Clown”, Boswick is a former Ringling Bros. performer who is a clown in every sense of the word – physically funny, great juggler and magician, and a hilarious comedian |
| 11:30 | 11:50 | Zeum Theater | Ringling Bros. Boswick the Clown | Nicknamed “The Clown’s Clown”, Boswick is a former Ringling Bros. performer who is a clown in every sense of the word – physically funny, great juggler and magician, and a hilarious comedian |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Zeum Theater | Award-winning Magician Timothy James |
Tim’s hilarious routines and impressive magic skills are earning him rave reviews and awards with family audiences everywhere he performs |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Zeum Theater | Award-winning Magician Timothy James |
Tim’s hilarious routines and impressive magic skills are earning him rave reviews and awards with family audiences everywhere he performs |
| 1:00 | 1:20 | Zeum Theater | Hilarious Ventriloquist Steve Chaney & Cornelius | Superstar Ventriloquist Steve Chaney and his puppet partner Cornelius Crowe are two of the Bay Area’s most popular dummies. Their fast paced comedy routines are a huge hit as you never know who’s gonna throw the next punchline! |
| 1:30 | 1:50 | Zeum Theater | Hilarious Ventriloquist Steve Chaney & Cornelius | Superstar Ventriloquist Steve Chaney and his puppet partner Cornelius Crowe are two of the Bay Area’s most popular dummies. Their fast paced comedy routines are a huge hit as you never know who’s gonna throw the next punchline! |
| 2:00 | 2:20 | Zeum Theater | Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly | Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one-of-a-kind performer. |
| 2:30 | 2:50 | Zeum Theater |
Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly |
Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one-of-a-kind performer. |
| 3:00 | 3:20 | Zeum Theater | Juggling with “Unique Derique” |
Derique is a Bay Area legend! Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one of a kind performer! |
| 3:30 | 3:50 | Zeum Theater | Juggling with “Unique Derique” |
Derique is a Bay Area legend! Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one of a kind performer! |
| 4:00 | 4:20 | Zeum Theater | Illusionist Brian Scott | Brian has established himself as a leader in Bay Area Magic circles and one of the most popular private event and corporate magicians around. Don’t miss his wacky and mysteriously entertaining show! |
| 4:30 | 4:50 | Zeum Theater | Illusionist Brian Scott | Brian has established himself as a leader in Bay Area Magic circles and one of the most popular private event and corporate magicians around. Don’t miss his wacky and mysteriously entertaining show! |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Zeum Amphitheater | San Francisco Sound Wave Chorus | San Francisco Sound Wave Chorus has been part of the Bay Area Musical Comminity since 1955. The chorus is committed to singing four-part harmony in the barbershop style. |
| 12:40 | 1:10 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 1:20 | 1:35 | Zeum Amphitheater | The AJI Show | New school vaudeville juggler Aji and his Jugglers Against Chainsaws present an exhibition of exhilarating circus skill. |
| 1:45 | 2:10 | Zeum Amphitheater | La Pandilla De Zacadilla | Two older adults accidentally meet in a street. A very eloquent courtship with laughter and embarrassment. |
| 2:20 | 2:50 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Zeum Amphitheater | TBD | TBD |
| 3:35 | 3:55 | Zeum Amphitheater | San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Advanced Shakespeare Workshop | The Advanced Shakespeare Workshop Students perform work from Shakespeare’s cannon. |
| 4:00 | 4:20 | Zeum Amphitheater | Bay Area Legend, Magician Phil Ackerly | Having won numerous awards for his body percussion and juggling comedy, Derique is a world-famous one-of-a-kind performer. |
Map of Festival Venues
*Printed maps will be available at the festival.- East Garden
- Rock Circle
- Stone Stage
- Waterfall Stage
- The Forum
- Screening Room
- Action Theatre
- Yerba Buena Room
- SOMA Room
- Goldman Hall
- CJM Classroom
- Jesse Square
- MoAD 2
- MoAD 3
- Zeum Theater
- Zeum Amphitheater
- Zeum Circle
