San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

Nationally renowned artist Matthew Graham Smith directs and adapts this profound tale of power, magic, and the possibility of second chances.

Schemes, disguises, and romantic mischief abound as two clever women teach a pompous knight a well-deserved lesson.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

A float in, water-access only performance in Sausalito. Secret location disclosed upon ticket purchase!

The Curtain Theatre provides free outdoor theater during the summer in Old Mill Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

Seating is first come - first served. Audience members are requested to be personally responsible, distance themselves accordingly and are encouraged to wear masks outside of their seating area.

Richard of Gloucester longs to be King and his ambition threatens the lives of all those around him. Manipulation, deceit, and cold-blooded murder take the stage as he claws his way to the crown.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

In collaboration with Play On Shakespeare, this groundbreaking three-week festival presents six teams of artists exploring and reenvisioning world classics with interactive public events, inviting audiences to witness the evolution of classic narratives and engage in conversations about their relevance today.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, adapted and directed by Bridgette Loriaux (2023’s Twelfth Night) reimagines Shakespeare’s most magical play through a musical and movement-driven contemporary lens, offering a celebration of love, connection, and the endless possibilities for transformation on this earth.

Banished to a mystical island, Prospero has spent years honing his magical powers. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, he conjures a powerful storm to wreck a passing ship carrying his enemies, who soon find themselves at the mercy of his supernatural abilities.

In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Romantic love, family love and even the love of love are all presented, as is the question of appearance and reality.

This fresh adaptation, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, promises to ignite the imaginations of young audiences and remind them of the power of great storytelling to transcend time and place.

This fresh adaptation, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, promises to ignite the imaginations of young audiences and remind them of the power of great storytelling to transcend time and place.

A bewitching all-female production staged in San Francisco's historic fortress beneath the Golden Gate Bridge

What happens when famous influencers get dropped into a Shakespeare play?

Richard II is Shakespeare’s examination of the destructive powers of privilege.

Director and adaptor Domenique Lozano explores who owns the truth in this comedy with a bite.

Twelfth Night is Shakespeare’s quintessential comedy, complete with mistaken identities, identical twins, love triangles, and those who are lost, finding themselves in love.

The Taming of the Shrew: Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

A hilarious glimpse into the life and times of Will Shakespeare—of Stratford-Upon-Avon fame. From meeting with his crazy publisher, to the frustrations and antics of family life and working from home in quarantine during  the plague… to life in London with his cronies and competitors, we ‘discover’ how many of The Bard’s ideas, plays and poetry came about; and how society then may not have been so different from society today! And who has the last word in the end!

The war is over! It's time to eat, drink and bask in the Italian summer sun. It's the perfect time for love to blossom, for some.