San Francisco Playhouse's "Hieroglyph" might offer a preview of production methods for a hybrid time.
Lily Janiak March 17, 2021Updated: March 17, 2021, 3:48 pm
San Francisco Playhouse General Manager Danika Ingraham (left) takes the temperature of Jamella Cross, an actor, before rehearsal and filming of “Hieroglyph.” Photo: Jessica Palopoli, San Francisco Playhouse
If you were an actor, a stagehand or, like me, an observer at a rehearsal for San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s “Hieroglyph,” you had to get three negative COVID tests on three separate days before even being allowed into the theater.
Then, once inside, you had to undergo another COVID test and get your temperature taken. You’d be told which zones of San Francisco Playhouse’s Union Square venue you were allowed inside — one zone for actors, stage manager and backstage crew; another for everyone else.