CCSF Theatre: Good. Better. Best. Bested.
- Black comedy by Tony-winning playwright Jonathan Spector, produced by City College of San Francisco Theatre Arts. - Performances next weekend, Saturday–Sunday, April 25–26. - Tickets and show details at eddies-list.com
City College of San Francisco Theatre Arts opens Jonathan Spector’s *Good. Better. Best. Bested.* this weekend at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building. (eventbrite.com) The production runs Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, at 401 Van Ness Ave., with CCSF listing it as an in-person show for ages 12 and up. Eventbrite lists the running time at 2 hours and 30 minutes. (eventbrite.com) CCSF describes the play as a black comedy set over one night on the Las Vegas Strip, with bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers, and tourists colliding as “an earth-shattering event” unfolds elsewhere in the world. The college posted the same description when it announced auditions for its spring 2026 production. (ccsf.edu) The show arrives after Spector’s *Eureka Day* won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival, a distinction CCSF cites in its production materials. Concord Theatricals identifies Spector as an Oakland-based playwright whose work has been produced on and off Broadway and includes *This Much I Know* and *Good. Better. Best. Bested.* (ccsf.edu) (concordtheatricals.com) The script itself is not new. Custom Made Theatre and Just Theater presented the world premiere in 2018, using nearly the same setup: a surreal Las Vegas night interrupted by a distant crisis. (custommade.org) For CCSF, the production is also part of a larger push to keep student performance visible while the college’s long-planned new performing arts center moves ahead. The college says its Theatre Arts students perform at venues including the Taube Atrium Theater and Z Space, rather than only on campus. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2) CCSF says its Theatre Arts Department, founded in 1947, serves students pursuing acting, stagecraft, design, and transfer degrees, and the college says it serves more than 60,000 students annually citywide. That makes this weekend’s run both a public performance and a student production inside one of San Francisco’s largest community-college arts programs. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2) Tickets and additional show details are being circulated through Eventbrite and local event listings ahead of the two-day run. By Sunday night, this CCSF staging will have had exactly two performances. (eventbrite.com) (eddies-list.com)
