The Bay Area’s June lineup of accessible performances

‘Night, Mother

Audio Described: June 14 at 2 p.m.

Thelma Cates is a mother and widow who lives with her daughter, Jessie. Jessie is the divorced mother of a troubled son, who struggles with life as an unemployed epileptic.

Altarena Playhouse
altarena.org

The Phantom of the Opera

Audio Described: Available at every performance (May 28 – June 21)
Closed Captioned: Available at every performance (May 28 – June 21)

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s romantic, haunting, and soaring score includes The Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Masquerade, and the iconic title song.

ATG San Francisco
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The Lunchbox

Closed Captioned: Evening performances on June 2 & 3; every matinee through June 25
Audio Described: June 27 at 2 p.m.

Rediscover the beauty of human connection in The Lunchbox—a new musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s internationally acclaimed film filled with heart, humor, and hope.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
berkeleyrep.org

Back to the Future

Closed Captioned: June 3 at 7:30 p.m.; June 6 at 2 p.m.
ASL Interpreted: June 6 at 2 p.m.
Open Captioned: June 7 at 6:30 p.m.

When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history.

Broadway San Jose
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The Barber of Seville

English supertitles: Available at all performances (May 28 – June 21)

Rossini’s exuberant comedy features some of the most joyful music in all of opera. From the famous overture to the irresistible “Largo al factotum,” this masterpiece of comedic writing has delighted audiences for over two hundred years.

San Francisco Opera
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Elektra

English supertitles: Available at all performances (June 7 – 27)

In a brutal world where revenge is enacted with the axe, Klytämnestra has murdered her husband Agamemnon. Their daughter Elektra is consumed by her grief and is fixated on vengeance against her mother. Justice must be served.

San Francisco Opera
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Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really

Haptic Tour: June 14 at 12:30 p.m.
Audio Described: June 14 at 2 p.m.

Kate Hamill’s imaginative, gender-bending “feminist revenge fantasy” is like no Dracula you’ve ever seen—exploring the nature of predators and reinventing the story as a smart, disquieting, darkly comic drama. 

San Francisco Playhouse
sfplayhouse.org

Continuity

Haptic Tour: June 7 at 12:45 p.m.
Audio Described: June 7 at 2 p.m.
ASL Interpreted: June 18 at 7 p.m.

Set on a Hollywood film shoot where the chaotic soundstage mimics the real-world climate crisis their big-budget movie addresses, the director, Maria, tries to keep her set – and herself – together in this sharp-witted, fast-paced comedy.

Shotgun Players
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