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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Home Sweet Home!
July 1, 2011



Lorraine
                                Hansberry Theatre


Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
                                        450 Post Street San Francisco

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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
450 Post Street
San Francisco, California 94102
Business Offices: 777 Jones Street
San Francisco, California 94109
415.474.8800 / Fax 415.345.3983

 

Thank you for supporting an unprecedented year of big, bold growth and opportunity for LHT and our community. Because of your support and the support of the community, We are thrilled to announce that we have secured a new permanent home at 450 Post Street next to historic Union Square! Our entire 2011-2012 season will be presented there.

 

The theatre is located on the second floor of the Kensington Park Hotel and is the former home of Theatre on the Square and the Post Street Theatre. Built by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) in 1925, the Spanish-Gothic style building also houses the restaurant, Farallon, and is right in the heart of downtown San Francisco.  In 1982, the flat-floored BPOE meeting hall was converted for use as Theatre on the Square. Architect Gene Angell, who also designed the Thrust Stage Theatre at Berkeley Rep, Brava for Women in the Arts, and LHT's old home on Sutter Street, oversaw the redesign.  

 

Our 2011-2012 season will commence in October with a program of two one-act plays, Almost Nothing by Marcos Barbosa, and Douglas Turner Ward's classic, Day of Absence. The season will continue in December with a brand new holiday show, Rejoice! In February, we will present British playwright Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, and we will finish our season with Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage.

 

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