Magic Theatre and Campo Santo present The Boiling: A Tale Of American Nihilism by Sunhui Chang in the theater in Building D, Third Floor at Fort Mason Center For Arts and Culture.

The Boiling tells the story of a Korean American adoptee, Brian, a virologist from the Midwest, and a former homicide detective, Vee, a Black woman in the Pacific Northwest. The unlikely two are partnered to “trace and track” from the North to the South, David, a white nihilistic carrier of a feverish virus called “the boiling.” The search reveals the intersections of science, identity, homeplace, and birding within an American landscape of the histories and traditions of redemptive violence.

Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, The Boiling plays at Magic from April 2, 2025 to April 20, 2025; Wednesday through Saturday, 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, 4:00 p.m. Single tickets are available, as well as Magic’s $120 Performance Pass. In addition to The Boiling, Performance Pass holders also receive tickets for two more Magic plays: Aztlán, a new simultaneously modern and mythic play by Luis Alfaro (June 25, 2025 to July 13, 2025) and Jerry Garcia In The Lower Mission, a new play with live music from the maverick Richard Montoya of Culture Clash (October 29, 2025 to November 16, 2025).