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Your Friends' Basement Theater Company

Shakespeare in the Trash

Summer 2026
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Did we stutter? It's like Shakespeare in the Park, but in a San Francisco trash yard. A collaboration with SOMA West Community Benefit District.

Pick Pull Bite

Spring 2026
A ten-minute play written by company member Violet Trachtenberg
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A satire about healing and healers. Presented at Short Attention Span Theater's Ten-Minute Play Festival in Potrero Hill.

Lines

Fall 2025
An original musical written by company member Violet Trachtenberg
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This play investigates the complexities of legacy, and gives honor to our cringy and vulnerable tweenage selves. To borrow from Paula Vogel: "This is a play about the gifts we receive from the people who harm us."

Variety Show

Spring 2025
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Featuring works by Tom Stoppard, Paula Vogel, Julia Cho, Jose Llana, William Finn, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Terry Bisson, and company member Noam Samuel

Bros in the Wild

Fall 2024
An original musical written by company member Sara Saavedra
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A heartwarming tale of friendship and adventure, "Bros in the Wild" is a story of characters whose sincere care for each other is plainly known. This musical explores relationships of all shapes and sizes, intertwined with a touch of mystical whimsy. And written in a mere three weeks!

Nightmaretime and The Truth

Spring 2024
Two original one-act plays written by friend of the company Emily Elyse
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A fascination with psychological unraveling; the marrying of unassuming everyday experiences with the mythic; an obsession with women who are misguided or wronged... these are just a few things to be discovered in these two plays. Though often dark, mysterious, and neurotic, Emily's stories also carry a deep tenderness and sharp wit, exploring the complexity of human morality, and questioning why we make the choices we do.

In Good Time

Fall 2023
An original musical written by company member Nat Lista
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The musical that got us started! A heartfelt and magical tale about friendship and confronting your past... literally!