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We Players connects people with place through site-integrated theatre. https://weplayers.org
Actor Regina Léon performing at Our Lady of the Moon as moon goddess Ix Chel. She bears a bowl of salt in her hands and stands before the hoop that surmounts her moon ladder.
Our Lady of the Moon arrives at Western Hills Garden Oct 4 with an intimate opening ceremony. This interactive installation honors release and renewal with evocative signage that guides the visitor to a towering ladder built of recycled California cedar.
www.weplayers.org/2025-our-lad...
We Got The Power is happening in San Francisco tomorrow - an event comprised of a host of outdoor, public artist performances centered around a participatory Flash Dance of the same name. It's also San Francisco's inauguration of The People vs. Project 2025. www.sfiaf.org/we_got_the_p...
19.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"What a phenomenal performance, what a brilliant piece of work! We loved every second, every word."
Our plucky Caretta Caretta travels north next month with 3 performances of The Keeper at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, September 5-7
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Tickets at www.weplayers.org
Two attendees encounter a masked Anubis spirit guide in our PSYCHOPOMP at McLaren Park production of 2021.
We're adding new objects from the past handful of years to our History of Objects collection.
Read about how we transformed the challenges of mask-wearing into a design opportunity. tinyurl.com/4xzmv8ww
We Players celebrates 25 years of award-winning, crowd-pleasing site-integrated theatre!
Drawing of a dark-furred cat's head in white and red.
Frieda the fabulous! Frieda the fantastic!
Oh how we love this woman composed of light and love and beauty! Culinary artist Frieda de Lackner has been with us through thick and thin and has weathered it all with grace and groundedness! #IAmWe
www.weplayers.org/news/2025/1/...
Secret Byrd logo in white blackface font over a sepia-toned photograph of a vaulted corridor.
Check out the work of our dear friend Bill Barclay coming to San Francisco this weekend! The hit immersive touring production Secret Byrd appears at Grace Cathedral July 17 & 18.
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Drawing of the head and shoulders of a hawk in short red strokes of pastel or chalk.
We continue our 25th anniversary I Am We series with Ann Podlozny. You saw Ann as Lady Macbeth this spring & you've seen her influence in all of our shows, as she was Artistic Director Ava Roy's earliest theatre teacher.
Ann is so many things, among them she is "We"!
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Logo for the Wonder Storytime with Alice and Friends podcast, featuring the White Rabbit drawing from our production of Adventures with Alice.
Logo for the Odyssey Audio Drama podcast, featuring the silhouette of a two-masted sailing ship with the We Players spiral on its largest sail.
In 2020, 2 podcasts - The Odyssey Audio Drama and Wonder Storytime with Alice and Friends - came out of our effort to keep creating while enduring that year's isolation and uncertainty.
Check out our new History in Objects entry to learn more and have a listen!
www.weplayers.org/history-in-o...
Logo for The Keeper, featuring a cheerful anthropomorphic lighthouse wearing yellow heart sunglasses, mouth open to the starry skies with a wide beam of light coming from her mouth.
What's next from We Players?
This September, We Players ventures to the stunning Olympic Peninsula in Washington state for our Pacific Northwest debut!
We will present three performances of The Keeper at the lovely Port Angeles Fine Arts Center September 5 - 7.
Tickets at weplayers.org
The cast of Macbeth at Fort Point gathered within the spiral stairway at the fort, looking up at photographer Lauren Matley.
Thank you for making our #Macbeth at #FortPoint a huge success! We sold out our entire run and received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.
Check out more photos and video from this epic production as well as interviews and reviews at www.weplayers.org/Macbeth2025
Photo of Macbeth audience members leaning on the long banquet scene table beneath arching brick vaults. Everyone is dressed for winter because this site is uncommonly cold even in summer.
Photo of a performing Macbeth at Fort Point actor in tears, arms outstretched.
Macbeth at Fort Point is now completely sold out!
Thank you everyone for your support of our site-integrated theatre, and we hope that you enjoy the heck out of the show.
Thank you for coming to our Macbeth and for sharing these lovely words about your experience that evening!
We'd like to share this post on other platforms, may we quote this post?
Also this lovely photo is by the amazing Lauren Matley
www.laurenmatleyphotography.com
A cloaked actor stands at a high parapet atop Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Sunset sunlight shines and shades the scene.
We've added a few more seats to many of our sold-out performances of Macbeth at Fort Point. Snag these soon, as they will not last!
www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-f...
Our Artistic Director (and Macbeth actor!) Ava Roy recently spoke on the Outside Lands San Francisco podcast, part of a project dedicated to the #history of western #SanFrancisco. Listen and learn more about Fort Point and Macbeth!
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Three costumed figures stand in separate pale archways beneath two tiers of brick archways
Macbeth at Fort Point opens tomorrow & the first 6 shows are already sold out!
You don't want to miss this parable for our present time. Enter the Fort at night and step into a world of magic and murder, where fate is the only true king.
www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-f...
Our Macbeth at Fort Point returns next week!
Want more insight into the story of Macbeth and our production? Check out this engaging 13 minute audio recording from historian, Shakespeare scholar, and dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly on Macbeth and imagination.
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#Macbeth
San Francisco locals: I saw @weplayers.bsky.social’s production of Macbeth (staged inside the scary, freezing Fort Point) a decade ago and have never stopped thinking about it. Go see it. You will not regret it. www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-f...
25.03.2025 22:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Macbeth poster image with the text "We Players presents Macbeth at Fort Point" over an image of a figure with arms upraised, hands clutching at the air and mouth open. Smoke or mist emerges or enters its chest in a large dark cloud.
"Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble."
We're casting our best spells and cooking up a Macbeth to sink your teeth into! Spectacle and catharsis combine in this relevant reflection on fate and fortune.
The witches are waiting...
www.weplayers.org/macbeth-at-f...
On March 18 & 19, wonderful We collaborator Julie Douglas leads a playful, hands-on introduction to the art of using the principles of masks to create compelling, physical characters.
The workshop is at Counterpulse in SF, register at dellarte.com/product/mask...
A drawing of a crocheted dragon 'plushie' in digital red pastel.
This week's 'I am We' article features Dana Taylor: a dream, a dream weaver, a weaver of spells with needle & thread, a weaver of dreams in cloth & dazzlement! Dana's lent her stitching skills to many We Players shows including our previous iteration of Macbeth at Fort Point!
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Poster design for Macbeth featuring the torso of a shadowy figure on a red background. Its arms are upraised and fingers half-curled. A dark cloud of mist or smoke emerges from (or passes into) the chest of the figure.
"A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come."
We're bringing it back!
Macbeth returns to Fort Point with a (mostly) new, all-female cast. Gather with the witches on the foggy heath as we anticipate the slam of the sally-port that starts the show - you don't want to miss this tale! weplayers.org/Macbeth2025
Sketch of the head and shoulders of a bear in pastel-like strokes of red.
We continue our celebration of our community, this time with Lauren Matley, aka Loe. You’ve seen her captivating images on our website, in our emails, and on our stationery since 2013. Read more at www.weplayers.org/news
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Portrait photo of a performer in costume with a minimalist angular crown headpiece.
There are so many people that make We possible- including you! We want to introduce you to some of the amazing humans that help us perform our special brand of magic.
First up, Lauren Dietrich Chavez! She was our first Managing Director & there would hardly be a We without her. weplayers.org/i-am-we
A banner image with a collection of theatre production posters and the tag line "Celebrating 25 years of award-winning, crowd-pleasing, sense-awakening site-integrated theatre!"
We Players was born on the Stanford campus 25 years ago.
We couldn't be more grateful for the overwhelming support, the incredible opportunities, & deep love that we've received over these years. We are so deeply proud of the work that we've produced, the art that we've made over that time.
Thank you, old friends and new! We couldn't do it without you!
Happy New Year, friend.
...thank you for your generous support of our end of year campaign. Thank you for volunteering! Thank you for laughing! Thank you for your careful attention! Thank you for donating! Thank you for all the ways, big & small, that you contribute to our community!
01.01.2025 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait-layout black and white photo with an infrared filter featuring a group of actors performing as costumed characters from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass on the grass under sunlit trees.
Happy New Year & the biggest "thank you"!
Thank you for donating to our Season Launch Party last February, thank you for attending Mother Lear, thank you for rocking out with us at our Sites and Sounds concert, thank you for adventuring with Alice on both coasts...
Photo by Mark Kitaoka
A performer in costume as the Hatter from Alice in Wonderland sits among trees and grasses in a park, one hand and teacup raised in getting or benediction.
"Thank you for all you create, imagine and inspire. With gratitude for your role in my world." - Audience member
Cheers! Here's to the arts!
www.weplayers.org/we-2024
Photo by Tracy Martin
Six musicians on a stage, all brass except one in the middle playing the drum kit. Some of the front row of audience members are visible, seated in chairs, at the bottom of the image.
Finally wrapping up this long list of events from our busy 2024!
We of course put on our annual Sites and Sounds concert, this time featuring the tunes of our 2015 production of Ondine at Sutro, arranged for 6-piece jazz outfit.
