CCSF Theatre: Good. Better. Best. Bested.

City College of San Francisco Theatre Arts is staging Jonathan Spector’s black comedy “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” this weekend at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco. (eventbrite.com) The production is scheduled for multiple dates, including Sunday, April 26, 2026, at the Taube Atrium Theater in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Ave. Event listings for the week of April 20-26 also place the show in this coming weekend’s Bay Area calendar. (eventbrite.com) (eddies-list.com) City College’s Theatre Arts department described the play as “a one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip,” with bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers and tourists reacting after “an earth-shattering event” happens “half a world away.” Eventbrite’s listing calls it “a surreal journey down the Las Vegas strip.” (ccsf.edu) (eventbrite.com) The campus production arrives after Spector’s profile rose sharply in 2025, when “Eureka Day” won the Tony Award for best revival of a play. City College’s own announcement identifies him as the 2025 Tony-winning playwright behind “Eureka Day” and “This Much I Know.” (tonyawards.com) (ccsf.edu) That gives the show a local angle as well as a timely one: Spector is a Northern California playwright, and “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2018 through Custom Made Theatre Co. and Just Theater. (newplayexchange.org) (custommade.org) (justtheater.org) City College is mounting the production through a department that says it was founded in 1947 and now trains students in acting, technical theatre and stagecraft, with classes that transfer to University of California and California State University campuses. The department says students also perform at Bay Area venues including the Taube Atrium Theater and Z Space. (ccsf.edu) The Eventbrite page lists the running time at 2 hours and 30 minutes and says the show is for ages 12 and up. It also notes paid parking at the venue and a refund policy that allows refunds up to seven days before the event. (eventbrite.com) For City College, the weekend production doubles as a public performance and a showcase for a department that has recently highlighted stagecraft classes, student showcases and spring 2026 registration. For audiences, it is a chance to catch a campus staging of a Bay Area playwright’s dark comedy in one of the city’s civic-center theaters. (ccsf.edu 1) (ccsf.edu 2)