Aaron Loeb's Silicon Valley drama about a venture capitalist's career-defining, ethically fraught bet plays its U.S. premiere at SoMa's Creativity Theater through Sept. 5. Here's what it actually costs and how to get there.

If you saw "$41" floating around aggregator listings (external source, opens in a new tab) for San Francisco Playhouse's R.O.I., ignore it. San Francisco Playhouse's own box-office listing (external source, opens in a new tab) puts single tickets at $45 to $95, sliding with date, showtime and demand. The show is on stage now through Saturday, Sept. 5 at the Creativity Theater, 221 4th St., inside Yerba Buena Gardens in SoMa — not SF Playhouse's usual home above the Kensington Park Hotel on Post Street. That's the first thing regulars need to know: it's a different building on a different block, a bigger and more central room than the company's longtime upstairs stage, and it changes both the commute and where you'll grab a drink after.

What it is. A drama by Aaron Loeb — SF Playhouse's resident playwright and the writer behind the Glickman Award-winning Ideation — directed by Jonathan Moscone. May Lee (Sharon Shao), a rising venture capitalist chasing the youngest-partner title at her firm, meets a brilliant young scientist (Lauren English) with a bold, world-shifting idea. What begins as the career-defining deal curdles as ambition, belief and bottom-line math collide. Loeb is writing what he knows: he was, briefly, a venture capitalist himself, and the setup — smart money betting on a charismatic founder's breakthrough — lands differently in the city where that pitch is a daily occurrence. The San Francisco Chronicle (external source, opens in a new tab) has written it up as a Silicon Valley cautionary tale. It's the U.S. premiere, too — the piece bowed first as a world premiere at London's Hampstead Theatre this spring, and Moscone has restaged it here for the company that commissioned it. A full staging, not a reading.

Logistics that matter. Run time is 90 minutes, no intermission — genuinely a weeknight show, which is rarer than it should be. The house seats just 180, close-up and intimate, so there's no bad sightline, but the flip side is that the good weekend slots go and the room feels full fast. The schedule is four days a week and it is not a flat 7 p.m., which is exactly the kind of thing that strands people at the wrong door: Wednesdays at 2 & 7 p.m., Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 & 8 p.m. Dark Sunday through Tuesday. Buy online or call the box office at 415.677.9596. Live audio description and haptic access tours are offered on select dates through Gravity Access Services; the theater says specific accessible-performance dates are still being announced, so call ahead if you need one.

The insider tip. Getting there is the easy part, and the reason to leave the car home: the Creativity Theater sits a five-minute walk from Powell Street BART/Muni, with Montgomery nearly as close, so it's a clean in-and-out from either side of the bay without a garage hunt in SoMa. The cheapest seats sit at the $45 end of the range — grab a Wednesday 2 p.m. matinee or the Thursday 7 p.m., the quietest slots, before the closing-week Saturdays climb toward the $95 top. Wednesday's 2-and-7 double also means the matinee crowd clears out and the evening house is the easier ticket.

If you've got one free evening left: the Thursday 7 p.m. is the move — mid-week pricing, 90 minutes, out by 8:30, and a straight shot back to BART. A Silicon Valley morality play, staged four blocks from the money it's about.