CCSF Theatre: Good. Better. Best. Bested.

City College of San Francisco Theatre Arts is staging Jonathan Spector’s black comedy *Good, Better, Best, Bested* in San Francisco this weekend. (ccsf.edu) The production is set for the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Ave., with a listed Saturday, April 25, performance from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (sf.funcheap.com) An Eventbrite listing from CCSF Theatre shows multiple dates, including Sunday, April 26, and describes the running time as 2 hours 30 minutes with an ages 12-and-up recommendation. (eventbrite.com) CCSF describes the play as “a one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip,” with bachelorettes, magicians, gamblers, street performers, and tourists colliding as “an earth-shattering event” unfolds elsewhere in the world. (ccsf.edu) That setup gives the show two tracks at once: a party-night comedy in Las Vegas and a story about how people react when distant catastrophe interrupts private plans. CCSF’s notice says the characters must decide “how much to let it disturb their good time.” (ccsf.edu) Spector is a Bay Area playwright best known for *Eureka Day*, and CCSF’s production notice calls him a 2025 Tony Award winner. A separate American Theatre profile lists *Better. Best. Bested.* among his plays and notes productions and development work at Bay Area and national companies. (ccsf.edu) (americantheatre.org) For CCSF, the production is also a public showcase for a department that says it has offered theatre training since 1947 and sends students to venues including the Taube Atrium Theater and Z Space. The department says its courses lead to University of California and California State University transfer credit, an Associate in Arts for Transfer, and certificates. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2) Tickets are being sold through Eventbrite, and Eddie’s List included the show in its April 20-26 Bay Area events roundup. For a college theater department, that puts this weekend’s run in front of both campus audiences and the broader San Francisco events crowd. (eventbrite.com) (eddies-list.com)