CCSF Theatre: Good. Better. Best. Bested.

City College of San Francisco’s Theatre Arts department is staging Jonathan Spector’s black comedy “Good, Better, Best, Bested” in San Francisco this weekend. (eventbrite.com) The production runs on multiple dates, with at least one listed performance on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Ave. Eventbrite lists the show at 2 hours and 30 minutes and recommends it for ages 12 and up. (eventbrite.com) City College describes the play as a black comedy set over one night on the Las Vegas Strip, with bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers and tourists moving through the same story. The college says an “earth-shattering event” half a world away forces those characters to decide how much it should interrupt their night out. (ccsf.edu) The staging puts a community-college company on a script by a playwright whose profile rose sharply after “Eureka Day” reached Broadway. The American Theatre Wing lists “Eureka Day” as a 2025 Tony winner for best revival of a play, and Playbill reported that the win was Jonathan Spector’s first Tony. (tonyawards.com) (playbill.com) That matters in San Francisco because Spector’s work is rooted in the Bay Area as much as in New York. KQED reported after the 2025 Tonys that Spector is an Oakland playwright and that “Eureka Day” first premiered at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company in 2018. (kqed.org) “Good, Better, Best, Bested” is not a new script being tried out in class for the first time. Custom Made Theatre Co. says it co-produced the world premiere in 2018, also describing the play as a one-night Las Vegas story in which distant tragedy collides with vacation spectacle. (custommade.org) City College’s theatre program says it was founded in 1947 and offers training in performance, technical theatre and survey courses that transfer to University of California and California State University campuses. The department is using this production as part of a broader hands-on program that includes acting, improv and stagecraft. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2) Tickets and schedule details are being circulated beyond the college through Bay Area event listings, including Eddie’s List’s roundup for the week of April 20-26, 2026. For a local audience, that means a student production is arriving with a script that already carries both Bay Area history and recent Broadway credentials. (eddies-list.com)