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 on April 25 and April 26. (ccsf.edu) The performances are scheduled at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Ave., according to the ticket listings for Saturday and Sunday. Eventbrite lists the show as an in-person production with a running time of about 2 hours 30 minutes and an age guidance of 12 and up. (eventbrite.com, eventbrite.com) CCSF describes the play as a black comedy set over a single night on the Las Vegas Strip, with bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers and tourists colliding as a major event unfolds “half a world away.” New Play Exchange, a script platform used by theaters and playwrights, gives the same one-night setup and says the characters are forced to decide how much outside tragedy should interrupt their good time. (ccsf.edu, newplayexchange.org) That setup places the production inside the kind of ensemble satire Spector has become known for, where comedy turns on social discomfort and public crisis. CCSF’s department page identifies Spector as the playwright of “Eureka Day” and “This Much I Know,” and its audition notice for this show called him a 2025 Tony Award winner. (ccsf.edu) The college is mounting the production as part of a department that has offered theater training at CCSF since 1947. CCSF says the program covers acting, improv, technical theater and stage management, and offers transfer-oriented coursework along with certificates and an Associate in Arts for Transfer. (ccsf.edu, ccsf.edu) The show is also appearing in local event roundups this week, including Eddie’s List, a Bay Area newsletter and calendar that says it curates arts, music, classes and cultural events for more than 27,000 subscribers. (eddies-list.com, eddies-list.com) For CCSF, the weekend run puts a current Bay Area playwright’s work in front of student performers in a downtown venue better known for major civic and arts events. For audiences, it is a two-night chance to catch a campus production built around a play that starts in Vegas excess and turns toward something darker. (eventbrite.com, newplayexchange.org, ccsf.edu)