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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY

A Benefit for The Rhino on our 45^th Anniversary*
By Truman CapotePerformed by Sandra SchlechterDirected by Rica AndersonHonorary Producer, Tom Horn*Made possible by a generous grant from the Horizon’s Foundation

Tuesday, December 20 at 7 p.m.One Performance Only(Reception to follow with food, drink and raffles included with admission)Theatre Rhinoceros | 4229 18th Street, SF
*Masks are no longer required at our performances, but we do recommend them.

Capote’s evocative fable focuses on country life, friendship, and the joy of giving during the holiday season. Truman’s words also gently yet poignantly touch on loneliness, loss, and the necessity of companionship.

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A Free Staged Reading

PORCELAIN

by Chay YewDirected by Ely Sonny OrquizaTuesday, December 13 at 7 p.m.Theatre Rhinoceros | 4229 18th Street, SF
*Masks are no longer required at our performances, but we do recommend them.

By acclaimed playwright and director Chay Yew (A Language of their Own), Porcelain is an examination of a young man’s crime of passion. Triply scorned — as an Asian, a homosexual, and now a murderer — 19-year-old John Lee has confessed to shooting his lover in a public lavatory in London. The play dissects the crime through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and John’s own recollections to a prison psychiatrist. This event is free to attend.

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Theatre Rhinoceros — San Francisco’s Live Professional Queer Theater

"Whatever theatre looks like in 2021...

we'll owe it in large part to companies like Theatre Rhinoceros, whose digital output has been tireless since spring."

— Lily Janiak, SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle

Please read our winter appeal for more about how you can show your support.
Check out the year-end roundup for 2021 to see how Theatre Rhinoceros has continued to flourish.

– A WHOLE NEW SEASON OF PLAYS –

2022–2023 Season

Subscribe now to The Rhino’s 2022-23 Season – In The Castro!

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Exciting new queer plays by Reyes, Fisher, Urban, D’Elia and Shakespeare
All presented in the Queerest Neighborhood anywhere: The Castro!
We’re the only live theatre in The Castro!

Comedy, Drama, Music and Spectacle…and all of it queer.

Past Performances this Season

Tickets: $15-$25

Discount: Students, Seniors and Theatre Bay Area Members

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Theatre Rhinoceros Presents

BAD HOMBRES

By Guillermo Reyes

Directed by River Bermudez Sanders

Performed by Rudy Guerrero

Honorary Producer, Lawrence Dillon

Our season opens with a solo performance featuring Bay Area favorite, Rudy Guerrero.

Explore contemporary politics and social struggles of the Latinx and queer communities in the West Coast premiere of this probing new work.

Now–October 30, 2022
Thursdays–Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m.

Theatre Rhinoceros | 4229 18th Street, SF (Formerly Spark Arts) in The Castro!

*Masks are no longer required at our performances, but we do recommend them.

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Great Press for BAD HOMBRES!

Meet the Actor
Rudy Guerrero

RUDY GUERRERO* (Actor) Previous Rhino performances include Macduff in Macbeth, “Tick/Mitzi” in Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical (where he received the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Principal Actor in a Musical), Nugget/Frank/Nurse/Dalton in Equus, Wilson Mizner in Road Show, Sam in Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, and Man in Seven Palestinian Children. Other theater credits include performances at 42nd St. Moon, Alcazar Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Central Works, Connecticut Repertory Theater, Foothill Music Theater, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Magic Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Playground, Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Willows Theatre Company, and Word for Word. Rudy has a BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. www.rudyguerrero.com *The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Theatre Rhinoceros Presents

A SLICE OF LIFE

World Premiere
Written and Directed by John Fisher
Honorary Producer, Henry Rosenthal

Roxanne and Jordy have absolutely nothing in common. Except that they are daughter and father. They are also both story-tellers, some of them true, some of them complete fantasies. In this comic-drama they take a long night’s journey into day as they discover what has happened since they saw each other last, twenty years ago.

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Read the Press Release

November 5–27, 2022
Thursday–Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.
No performance on Thanksgiving—Thursday, November 24, 2022

Theatre Rhinoceros | 4229 18th Street, SF (Formerly Spark Arts) in The Castro!

A Slice of Life is ninety minutes in length and is performed without intermission.

*Masks are no longer required at our performances, but we do recommend them.

“John Fisher’s newest play, ‘A Slice of Life’ (produced by Theatre Rhinoceros) is an intimate and elegant play about two people trying to connect–two people not very good at connecting. They have common bonds, but they are also a little damaged. Fisher makes Jordy a small theater maker in a cozy, intimate space that also serves as his apartment. He is scrimping and trying to keep his life together. The play opens with Jordy working on a new solo play. Enter Roxanne who claims to be his daughter. Jordy does have a daughter with whom he has no contact. This Roxanne is an aspiring actor, and so the two perform a getting-to-know-you series of conversations, monologues, storytelling and helping each other connect. It’s not a long piece, but rich in imagery and humanity.”—Jerry Metzker

Pictured left to right: Flannery Mays as Roxanne and
John Fisher* as Jordy in A SLICE OF LIFE by John Fisher;
A Theatre Rhinoceros Production; Photo: Crystal Liu
*Member, Actor’s Equity Association

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Theatre Rhinoceros received two Bay Area
Theatre Critics’ Circle Certificates of Commendation!

• Certificate of Commendation “for rising to the challenge during this
unique time of crisis by offering original and traditional work in new forms” •• Certificate of Commendation to John Fisher and the Essential Services Project “for especially
courageous and distinguished work online during COVID-19’s devastating forced closures” •

Available Now

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Hold me the Forgotten Way
Episode 4: “do not fall in love”

Available Now

Performed by Stan Stone
Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza

Listen to all episodes of Hold me the Forgotten Way

Listen to the audio monologue “do not fall in love,” featuring Theatre Rhinoceros’s own Stan Stone and directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza. Hear this and six other episodes from Hold Me the Forgotten Way, a national, queer audiotheatre collaboration of a micromonologue cycle by Harrison David Rivers that explores intimate confessions made in public spaces about love and sex.

Theatre Rhino in the News

The Essential Services Project

Read how E.S.P. “keeps S.F. theaters thriving.” Read more in Theatrius.

See the amazing article about Theatre Rhinoceros and other local theaters adapting to digital. Read it in The Chronicle.

Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle

The Bay Area Reporter talks about The Rhino

in “Not curtains: theater companies adapt to retain audiences”

Read the October 20, 2020 shout out!

Sister Dana in the Bay Times

Highlighted Marie’s Crisis in her recent column.

Theatre Bay Area quotes John Fisher

in “Bay Area Theatre Makers Hang On In Uncertain Times”

Read the story!

Theatre During Covid

KPFA interviews John Fisher for their second in a series of interviews about how Bay Area theatres are coping with the Corona Virus shutdown.
Listen now.

Anti-Racist/Accountability Statement

Theatre is a vehicle for social justice and human development and we are committed to utilize all our resources to focus our community consciousness toward justice and equality. The extremity of the violence and absence of justice visited upon George Floyd, Oscar Grant, Breonna Taylor and a host of others underscores the tremendous amount of work that needs to be accomplished.

Theater is a cultural enterprise and as such its purpose is to create structures that challenge, problematize and destabilize biased traditions and practices. Thus, we are reinvigorating our effort to correct inequalities in our institution as they are apparent in the way we choose plays, hire our staff and populate our board, and in the way we pay people and balance our budget. Anti-racism and ant-oppressive practices are at the core of our work, as an institution founded on social justice and equality for all people.

To this end we make the following commitments as an organization:

• Work with facilitators and coaches to implement anti-racist practices throughout our organization.

• Engage our artists, past and present, in feedback requests and respond to that feedback in a timely and effective manner.

• Actively recruit a more diverse and inclusive board.

• Incorporate any-racist practices into rehearsal rooms and establish clear structures for acknowledging and addressing racist and oppressive behavior.

• Invest in an EDI committee on our board which will meet and develop strategies for eradicating racism company-wide.

• Commit to an annual audit by an outside team to review and report on the progress of our anti-racist work.

• Incorporate diverse voices in our play selection, with an emphasis on voices of people of color.

Performances to Enjoy — Free on YouTube

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