The Marsh

Ann Randolph's "Squeezebox"
NOW PLAYING
Ann Randolph's "Squeezebox" playing Saturdays (5:00) and Sundays (7:00) September 13th through October 4th.
With pathos and humor, Randolph skillfully weaves together stories about working in a women's homeless shelter and the pursuit of true love. Her painfully funny portraits of the shelter's residents, and hilarious account of her hiking trip with Harold, the accordionist of her dreams, are beautifully drawn in this poignant tale about finding dignity and grace in unusual places.
Randolph, who has been compared to the late Gilda Radner, uses her elastic face, acrobatic voice, and attuned body language to play male and female, young and old characters. With just a chair, banjo, guitar and lights, she brings to immediate, pulsing life her tragicomic journey of discovery and self-acceptance with remarkable freshness and vibrancy. Randolph began working with the chronic mentally ill while attending college, where she received room and board from a state mental hospital in exchange for writing original comedies with schizophrenics.
Note: The show will be followed by a fifteen minute workshop performance of Anne’s newest show – a work in progress about the outrageous tenants in a low-end Santa Monica apartment building and its challenged owner.
Liza Raynal's "American Joe" playing July 3rd through August 15th Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm.
Sister. Brother. She's older. He always wanted to be first. She wears ballet flats. He wears steel-toed boots. They're both exercising their rights. His Second Amendment. Her First. She's an English teacher. He's an Army recon sniper.
Joe's heading to Afghanistan. Liza's coming to the Marsh to tell her side of the story. All they're missing is you.
COMING SOON
To purchase tickets please call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 or click here .
MARSH RISING SERIES
July 30th: Evan Spector's "California Son"
August 6th: Mia Paschal's "Along the Path of Larks and Swallows"
August 13th: Donald Lacy's "Color Stuck"
Also, be sure to check out our Monday Night Marsh
The Marsh, develops new performance. Located in San Francisco, The Marsh has lived up to its moniker as a breeding ground for new performance and has grown into one of the Bay Area’s most visible and highly respected performance venues. Each year, through its developing work series and mainstage performances, The Marsh presents nearly 500 performances on its three stages.
Founded in 1989 by its current Artistic Director, Stephanie Weisman, The Marsh came out of several months that she spent living near a marsh, writing and watching the landscape’s rich interplay, a perfect metaphor for artistic development in the urban environment.
Work developed at The Marsh has received local, national and international critical acclaim and has moved on to venues across the country and abroad. Productions by such artists as Dan Hoyle, Marga Gomez, Brian Freeman, Josh Kornbluth, Brian Copeland, John O’Keefe, Liebe Wetzel and Charlie Varon have received numerous awards including two prestigious Will Glickman Playwright Awards, Bay Area Critic’s Circle and Dramalogue Awards and the American Theater Critics Association Osborn Award.
In addition to its developing work and mainstage performance series, The Marsh offers a year-round roster of classes, an artist-in-residency program and its newest program, the Marsh Performance Initiative, provides a nine-month workshop to both develop full-length performances and teach the business of theater culminating in a Festival of New Voices. The Marsh also has a vibrant multi-arts children’s program, Marsh Youth Theater, which recently presented its own version of Siddhartha.
The Marsh’s vision is to give artists the venue and tools to develop their “voice.” At The Marsh, the First Amendment is a living practice, supporting freedom of speech by finding a way to say yes to the stories of our times. The Marsh also seeks a diversity of voices and stories as part of its commitment to “citizen performers”— people who have not had a luxury of life in the arts but have an important, often little-heard piece of our collective story to tell. And through all this we have built a wonderful community of artists and teachers.
If you would like more information on The Marsh, the website is www.themarsh.org or contact us at 415 641-0235.