Founded in 2003, the SF Playhouse is an intimate, professional theatre located in Union Square. The company garnered 20 Bay Area Theatre Critic nominations in its first year of operation alone, and it is well regarded for its efforts to present theater that “celebrates the human spirit,” including new works and classics. Among its recent productions: David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Den of Thieves, Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene, Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and such musicals as The Fantasticks, Cabaret, and Man of La Mancha.