CCSF Theatre: Good. Better. Best. Bested.

City College of San Francisco Theatre Arts is staging Jonathan Spector’s black comedy “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” for one weekend in San Francisco. (ccsf.edu) The production is set for Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, 2026, at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Ave. Eventbrite lists multiple dates, a 2 hour 30 minute run time, and an age recommendation of 12 and up. (eventbrite.com) A separate listing on Funcheap shows the Saturday performance starting at 2 p.m. and an $18 ticket price. Eddie’s List included the show in its San Francisco Bay Area events guide for April 20-26. (sf.funcheap.com) (eddies-list.com) The play follows “a one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip,” with bachelorettes, magicians, gamblers and tourists colliding as “an earth-shattering event happens half a world away,” according to City College of San Francisco and New Play Exchange. The story turns on how much the characters let a distant tragedy interrupt a night built for distraction. (ccsf.edu) (newplayexchange.org) That setup places the show in the lane Spector has become known for: ensemble satire that starts as comedy and tightens into argument. His 2025 Tony win came when “Eureka Day” took Best Revival of a Play on Broadway, a first Tony win for the Oakland-based playwright. (playbill.com) (concordtheatricals.com) “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” is not new, but it has Bay Area roots. New Play Exchange lists a 2018 professional production by Custom Made Theatre Company in San Francisco after earlier readings and workshops in 2015 and 2016. (newplayexchange.org) City College of San Francisco’s own preview frames this run as part of its spring 2026 work and notes that the department is producing the show at the Taube Atrium rather than on campus. The college says it serves more than 60,000 students annually across San Francisco, putting this staging inside one of the city’s largest public arts education programs. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2) For audiences, the immediate draw is a current college production of a locally connected playwright whose profile rose sharply after Broadway. For CCSF, the weekend run puts student performers inside a professional downtown venue with a script already tested in Bay Area and New York theater circles. (concordtheatricals.com) (newplayexchange.org) (eventbrite.com) The play’s title promises a ladder upward and then a fall, and the premise does the same: a night of spectacle in Las Vegas interrupted by events nobody onstage can fully control. City College’s version gets that collision for one weekend in Civic Center. (newplayexchange.org) (eventbrite.com)