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The nation's longest-running LGBTQ+ theater, founded in 1977.
The world's longest-running LGBTQ+ theater company, founded in San Francisco in 1977 by Allan B. Estes Jr. and Lanny Baugniet and led since 2002 by artistic director John Fisher. After years staging work around the city, the Rhino settled into an intimate black-box house of roughly 50 to 99 seats on 18th Street in the Castro in 2023, where it runs a full season of plays centering queer lives — dramas, comedies, musicals, and world premieres. Its landmark production remains The AIDS Show (1984), among the first theatrical responses to the epidemic in the U.S., extended for months and toured widely across the Bay Area. Recent and current seasons have ranged from La Cage aux Folles to Fisher's own new work — among them Doodler, drawn from the unsolved 1970s Castro murders. For a traveler, it's the rare chance to see explicitly queer theater in the neighborhood that shaped so much of it.
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