Rather than pausing to regroup, The Rhino - as Theatre Rhinoceros is fondly known - forged ahead on a new path. “The next day, Sunday, there was no theater in San Francisco, and then on Monday, there was shelter-in-place.” “I think it was literally the last public performance of a live piece of theater in San Francisco, and it was very scary,” Fisher told 94.1 KPFA. By Saturday, smaller companies like Theatre Rhinoceros were also halted - the same day that an encore run of Radical, a sold-out play written and directed by Fisher, was set to open. The show was allowed to go on… for one night only. On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, the Bay Area began shutting down larger theaters. Led by Executive and Artistic Director John Fisher, it was also one of the very first theaters to transition to digital performance when COVID-19 hit. San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros, founded in 1977, is the longest-running continuously producing LGBTQ theater in the world.
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