2009 - 2010 Season

Cutting Ball is celebrating its tenth birthday! After ten years, we have grown into San Francisco's premiere cutting-edge theater, offering experimental new plays and re-envisioned classics. This year, in addition to our groundbreaking season which includes new works by local playwrights Eugenie Chan and Marcus Gardley, and our popular Hidden Classics Reading Series, we'll be kicking off a season of festivities - including offering our first-ever Season Membership!

Join us as we commemorate our first ten years and toast to our future!

The Bald Soprano

by Eugène Ionesco
In a new translation by Rob Melrose
Directed by Rob Melrose
October 23, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Opening Night: October 29 at 8pm

…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi

A New Play by Marcus Gardley
Directed by Amy Mueller
A co-production with Playwrights Foundation
March 12 – April 11, 2010
Extended to April 25!!!

Bone to Pick & Diadem

By Eugenie Chan
Directed by Rob Melrose
June 4 – July 3, 2010
Press Opening June 10 at 8pm
Gala Opening June 11 at 8pm

Krapp’s Last Tape

by Samuel Beckett directed by Rob Melrose June 4 – July 3, 2010 Press Opening June 10 10th Anniversary Gala Opening June 11 Click Here for Tickets! This funny and poignant one-person play tells the story of an older man listening to recordings he made when he was young and in love. It is an [...]

The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2009-2010 Season is made possible in part by The Creative Work Fund, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Zellerbach Family Foundation