Coming Attractions

(Kweenasheba)

A SNAPPY SAN FRANCISCO COMEDY

Coming Attractions (Kweenasheba) holds a landmark place in LGBTQ theater history as the first gay play written and produced in 1970s San Francisco. Adapted by Jack Fritscher from his 1972 short story “Sweet Embraceable You,” this snappy comedy premiered March 13, 1976, at the SIR (Society for Individual Rights) Center Theatre on a double bill with Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright. The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed the production in its “Arts & Leisure” section — an early mainstream acknowledgment of gay theater emerging from the city’s post-Stonewall cultural scene.

Reviewed in Chronicle Pink “Arts & Leisure” Section.

Read the Play and Short Story in the book Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories or the Short Story: “Sweet Embraceable You” or the Play: Coming Attractions (Kweenasheba).