Through June 27, Custom Made Theatre Co. is running Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really — a darkly comic stage adaptation that flips the gothic horror source material from the perspective of the women usually left screaming in the margins. Performances run Thursdays through Sundays; check custommade.org for the full schedule and exact curtain times. Tickets are available through their site, with $5 off using the SFFuncheap promo code. The theater is at 533 Sutter Street in Union Square — Powell Street BART puts you a five-minute walk out. No listed age restriction, but the material skews adult.
This isn't a straight staging of Stoker. The production leans into the comedy and the revenge part of that title, which puts it closer to a horror-comedy with something to say than a Halloween-season reverent adaptation. Custom Made is a mid-size company that tends to cast tight and keep productions lean — you're not getting Broadway budgets, but you're also not sitting through filler. The run is long enough that you have options, but the back half of June will fill faster as word gets around.
Practical note: parking in Union Square is expensive and unnecessary. BART is the move. If you're eating before, Sutter Street has options but gets touristy fast — go a block north or south.
With two hours, I'd catch the Thursday preview pricing if it applies, grab a drink on the way in, and stay for the post-show Q&A if they're running one — small companies often do, and it's usually worth the extra twenty minutes.
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