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This year’s festival is a true adventure in theater—plays, musicals, solo performers, improv, staged readings, new work, excerpts—and defies concise description.

Here is an attempt at summary: Broadway and original musical comedy, gritty black experience, Vietnam, racism, Jewish ritual, Jazz opera, World War II, Iranian storytelling, being a man, South Asian assimilation, travel and wanderlust, white privilege, Philippine culture, dating, Gilbert & Sullivan, aging and beauty

Turkish belly dancing, marching bands, puppetry, love and relationships, Lorca, Shakespeare’s insults, new local writers, old time radio mystery, Rocky Horror SF, the president’s challenge, Nazi justice, SF’s 1863 drug scene, circus, barbershop quartet, shopping, teen singers, sketch improv comedy, antique roadshow spoof, absurd theater, inter-species love, relationships, conservation, jug band, one weak moment…,

folk tales, poetry, Asian identity, God & man, magic, illusion, clown, and more. Featuring: The Marsh, Tell it on Tuesday, 42nd Street Moon, Stagebridge, No Nude Men Productions, Three Wise Monkeys, Uncle Buzzy’s Show, The One Act Players, AtmosTheatre, ArcLight, San Francisco Buffoons, Golden Thread Fairytale Players, Galatean Players, SF Recovery Theatre, Triple Shot Theater, Acme Players, Lower Bottom Playaz, Wordslanger, and many others. Many have won awards or been recognized for their shows at the Fringe and other venues. There are about 30 hours of performance.

Many of the performances are family friendly including 15 shows for children. An estimated 10,000 people attended last year.

The downtown San Francisco festival takes place, indoors and outdoor, at Yerba Buena Gardens, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Zeum, and the Metreon. All admissions are FREE to the 11 stages, which are located within a short walk of each other.

"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 know. 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 and pricey. This festival brings theater back to its roots. It’s truly accessible."

The festival is presented in partnership with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Yerba Buena Gardens is located between Mission & Folsom, Third & Fourth Streets in San Francisco. The San Francisco Theater Festival is presented

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