Left Coast Theatre Co.

Theater is coming back! Slowly, but surely, the industry is returning from limbo - just in time for Left Coast Theater Co. to celebrate a major milestone.

We’re turning ten!

In the fall of 2012, we premiered our first anthology of original short plays at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco. Ten years later, we’re still bringing new LGBTQ+-themed works to Bay Area audiences. We’re proud of the work we’ve done and we’re looking forward to celebrating our first decade.

We’ll return to the stage in September 2021 for the SF Fringe Festival with some of the best plays from our past productions. Later in the Fall 2021, we’ll hold the first staged reading of our new anthology: Queerstory, Little-known stories of queer people in history.  

Left Coast will be back in 2022 with a full season, fingers crossed!

We’ll kick off with Between the Sheets, which we postponed from our 2020 season, in the spring of 2022. This new production is a group of short plays centered around the theme of love, relationships and sex in the LGBTQ+ community.

In an ongoing effort to build lasting and stronger connections to the broader LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities with our art, we’ve spent a considerable amount of time during the pandemic assessing our past efforts. There are so many more stories that we have not told by the people whose experiences they reflect. In the Spring of 2022, we’ll present a staged reading of Unheard Voices.

Unheard Voices will be a collection of six to seven 10- to 15-minute shorts written by and about underrepresented communities within the broader LGBTQ+ community. We hope to uplift and give a platform to these underrepresented communities and give them a chance to share their voice. So if you are trans, BIPOC, bi, non-binary, genderfluid, ace, someone with a disability, or part of any other group whose voice needs to be heard by the broader LGBTQ+ community, we want to hear your voice and your perspective.

In June of 2022, we aim to present a full production of Queerstory, just in time for Pride!

Then we will close out our 10th season with a Ten-Year Anniversary show in October of 2022! Details about this show are in the works, but expect lots of nostalgia, lots of laughs, and lots of fun.

While we are incredibly excited to be able to do what we love again, we can’t ignore the effects of the pandemic on our company. We have a long way to go financially in order to bring our audiences the stories they have been waiting over a year to finally see. Your contribution on Give OUT Day, June 30, 2021, will help us to bring these full productions, and our other queer-themed projects in development, to San Francisco audiences.

Best,

Left Coast Theatre Co.