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“We want to activate and re-energize the building with that always in the forefront of our mind, making improvements to the customer and artist experience, including dressing room upgrades, restoring the marquee and blade and expanding food and beverage service. Intersectionality has long been part of The Rhino’s DNA: Kenneth R.

Dixon, who led the company in the late 1980s was the first black man to ever run a non-African-American theater company in the U.S.; and artistic director Adele Prandini (1990-1999) championed groundbreaking feminist productions by The Five Lesbian Brothers and Split Britches. The company presents six to seven shows, most of which run for a month or longer, between September and June each year.

The Castro’s captivating interior was designed by one of San Francisco’s most prominent architects, Timothy Pfleuger. An end-of-year & holiday celebration and fundraiser at Eureka Valley Recreation Center, 100 Collingwood St, SF (right around the corner from Rhino). A troupe called Fraudway Productions has presented two Rowling-routing Harry Poofter musicals:  The Sorcerer’s Rhinestone and The Chamber of Secretions.

In 1984, The Rhino commissioned The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival, the first professional theater piece to address the epidemic, later the subject of a PBS documentary. Site-specific performances, puppetry and aerial arts have all found their way into the company’s pieces. Co-hosted by Bobby Friday, Grand Duchess 48 of SF & Miss California Gold 2020, and John Fisher, Executive Artistic Director of Theatre Rhinoceros and featuring live performances from your Rhino friends and family. 

 

Food, Raffles, Photo Gallery, VIP Pre-Party & Extras! 

 

Made possible with a generous donation from Adrienne Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman.

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THE 2025/2026 RHINO SEASON HAS ARRIVED!

Also check Oasis’ calendar for local all-male burlesque/variety show Baloney and one-night stands from nationally known comedic queens including Jackie Beat, Adore Delano and Alaska.

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PianoFight is a community-centric cabaret and restaurant in the heart of the Tenderloin district.

By night, its two  intimate showrooms are booked and programmed by independent artists and production companies. Offerings range from the southern fried camp of Del Shores (Sordid Lives) to musicals (Fun Home) to regional premieres by prominent playwrights including Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein.

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Variety venues

Several other multi-use venues in town that frequently play host to queer theater artists. We want to present all sorts of programming in the theater – comedy, music, film, community and private events and more. Additionally, BuildIT, the world’s first LGBTQ construction advocacy organization, has played a major role providing specialized trade professionals to the project.

Ray of Light’s cutting edge productions have included West Coast premieres of Jerry Springer: The Opera; Carrie; and American Psycho. This includes major renovations to accommodate a wider variety of entertainment; opening the venue for the first time to standing room musical performances while still maintaining the seated experience for cinema, comedy and more.

The re-opening will showcase the revitalization of the ceiling’s stunning original artwork along with the sgraffito murals and a long hidden historic proscenium, all masterfully restored by Evergreene Architectural Arts.

But if you can afford the ticket, it’s a treat to catch Broadway stars and queer heroes—Betty Buckley, Sandra Bernhard, Leslie Jordan, Charles Busch—in such a cushy 150 seat boite.

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RETURNING 2026!

The Castro Theatre is a world renowned iconic venue and cherished landmark.

gay movie theater san francisco

Located in the Castro Neighborhood, San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ cultural epicenter, this designated historic landmark is the heart of the community. But for exclusively—and often eccentrically—queer productions, here’s a selection of companies to check out:

New Conservatory Theatre Company

Producing the city’s most robust and diverse calendar of queer-themed productions, NCTC has its own technically sophisticated three-stage complex in easy walking distance of the trendy Hayes Valley neighborhood.

By day, the space serves as office and classroom space for local non-profits. From its 1977 debut production, mounted in a leather bar, the company has performed in a variety of venues around the city. Among these anthology evenings have been I’m Not Okay Cupid, about the dating scene; San Francisco, Here I Come, with seven shorts featuring the ever-changing tenants of a single apartment over 60 years; #WTFamily about clans of both the genetic and chosen variety; and Twisted Hitchcock, a trio of parodies.

And interactive FabLab“playshops” have celebrated fringe queer icons including Puerto Rican television psychic Walter Mercado and the 15th century Hawaiian third-gender healer Kapaemahu.