CCSF Theatre: 'Good. Better. Best. Bested.'
- What: City College of San Francisco Theatre presents Good. Better. Best. Bested., a black comedy by Tony-winning playwright Jonathan Spector. - When/Where: Three performances next weekend, April 25–26, at the City College of San Francisco Theatre (showtimes listed on the event page). - Event listing and weekend schedule at eddies-list.com.
City College of San Francisco Theatre is staging Jonathan Spector’s black comedy “Good, Better, Best, Bested” in San Francisco this weekend. (eventbrite.com) The production runs for three performances on Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Ave. Eventbrite lists the Sunday performance and describes the show as an in-person production for ages 12 and up with a 2 hour, 30 minute runtime. (eventbrite.com) City College’s Theatre Arts Department calls the play “a black comedy” and describes it as a one-night story on the Las Vegas Strip involving bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers and tourists. The department says an “earth-shattering event” unfolds half a world away as the characters decide how much it should interrupt their night. (ccsf.edu) The timing puts a student production behind a playwright whose profile rose sharply in the last year. Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, and the Tony Awards site lists Spector as the author of that revival. (playbill.com, tonyawards.com) That matters locally, too. KQED described Spector as an Oakland playwright after the Tony win, linking his work to the Bay Area theater scene that City College students are now drawing from onstage. (kqed.org) For City College, the show also fits a training program built around public performance. The Theatre Arts Department says it was founded in 1947, offers transfer credits and certificates, and regularly places students in Bay Area venues including the Taube Atrium Theater and Z Space. (ccsf.edu) The weekend listing also appears in Eddie’s List’s April 20–26 Bay Area events roundup, which places the production alongside other civic-center and arts listings for this week. (eddies-list.com) By Sunday night, the run is over. For one weekend, though, City College is putting a current Tony-winning playwright’s dark Vegas comedy in front of a San Francisco audience at one of the city’s historic downtown stages. (eventbrite.com, ccsf.edu)
