$5 Off Tix: Darkly Comic “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really” Live (May 15-June 27)
San Francisco Playhouse | 450 Post St., San Francisco, CA
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$5 Off Tix: Darkly Comic “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really” Live (May 15-June 27)
A wildly entertaining, blood-soaked twist on Dracula arrives at San Francisco Playhouse. In Kate Hamill’s gender-bending feminist revenge fantasy, the line between monster and man blurs fast. Critics are hooked: “the kind of horror I could watch all day,” says Vulture, while the The Wall Street Journal calls it “a fresh, theatrically potent spin.” Both terrifying and riotous, this darkly comic reinvention drives a stake through the heart of toxic masculinity.
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
May 15 – June 27, 2026
450 Post St., SF
Tickets start at $47$52(fees incld.)Exclusive – $5 off tickets w/ secret code FUNCHEAP
The best seats go quickly. Tickets are subject to availability.
“Delicious… a feminist romp… a powerful argument for the full humanity of women in our culture… The world women inhabit in this loose, rollicking adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel is frightening precisely because it’s not so different from our own…” – The New York Times
“Marvelous… A timely spin on Stoker for the #MeToo era… crisply wrought… Ms. Hamill has given us a tremendously entertaining DRACULA that has GREAT BIG HIT stamped all over it… she has unlimited talent.” – The Wall Street Journal
About the Playwright
Originally from the farms and fields of upstate New York, KATE HAMILL is an award-winning NYC-based actor/playwright. She is deeply passionate about creating new feminist, female-centered classics, both in new plays and in adaptation: stories that center around complicated women. Her work as a playwright celebrates theatricality, often features absurdity, and closely examines social and gender issues – as well as the timeless struggle to reconcile conscience / identity with social pressures. As an actor, she tends to play truth-tellers, oddballs, and misfits.
Kate was named 2017’s Playwright of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. She has been one of the 10 most-produced playwrights in the country, 3 seasons running (2017-2020); in both 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, she wrote two of the top 10 most produced plays in the U.S.; many of her plays have been produced internationally. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, PlayMaker’s Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production) & more. Kate’s Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, and Little Women are published by DPS. She is currently working on an adaptation of The Odyssey (commissioned by A.R.T.) as well as several new original plays – including Love Poem, In The Mines (Sundance Semi-Finalist; now collaborating with The Bengsons on this piece), Em (Red Bull New Play finalist), The Prostitute Play (O’Neill Semi-Finalist), and The Piper (O’Neill Finalist, PlayPenn Haas Fellow play).
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
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Cost: $47*
