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Student Matinees

Request Student Matinee Tickets for the Spring 2026 Semester

Request your seats by January 23, 2026 for best availability.

A.C.T.’s Student Matinee program—one of the oldest in the United States—brings the highest-quality theatrical productions to your students. At A.C.T., students can experience theatrical storytelling that engages the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activates stories that resonate, promotes a diversity of voices and points of view, and empowers theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness. From epic dramatic spectacles in our 1,000-seat theater to up-close performances in our more intimate venues, we’re committed to bringing you rich, thrilling productions that will engage your students and spark conversation in the classroom.   

We offer free Student Matinee tickets to all SFUSD schools and Title I schools. If your school doesn’t qualify, low-cost tickets are available at just $15 each.

All confirmed Student Matinee orders include the following options, at no additional cost:

“Aside from being completely overtaken by how amazing the show was, I loved that my students were engaged. It was nice to see other schools in the building and a lot of familiar faces. The staff were patient and kind. A warm welcome and a great experience.”

Oakland School of the Arts, 2023

“I loved having the workshop before the show with a guest, and I loved the high energy of the show from beginning to end that really captivated my students the entire time."

Lincoln High School, 2023

Spring 2026 Semester Student Matinees

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||

Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11 a.m.
Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 11 a.m.

Strand Theater

Recommended Grades 5-12

Four highly-gifted teens collab and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious Berkeley Girls’ Music Program. They improvise and crack wise atop a steadily thrumming undercurrent of disaster and emergency. This world premiere play with music comes from A.C.T.-commissioned playwright Eisa Davis, the singular writer-musician-actor whose keen ear for the language and inner lives of adolescent women brought us the Pulitzer finalist BULRUSHER. At turns hilarious and melancholy, raucous and poetic, ||: GIRLS :||: CHANCE :||: MUSIC :|| is an exquisite and achingly true story of friendship, self-discovery, and the salvation of art-making.

Hamnet

Fri, April 24, 2026 at 11 a.m.

Toni Rembe Theater

Recommended Grades 7-12

When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, Agnes and William Shakespeare, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. Experience the U.S. premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “elegant and beguiling” (London’s Evening Standard) stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (LIFE OF PI, RED VELVET) and directed by Erica Whyman.

Request Student Matinee Tickets for Spring 2026 Semester

“When you say "this is your theater" you really mean it! From really well-trained ushers and production staff to making sure our students are taken care of and welcomed every step of the way.”

AccessSFUSD: The Arc, 2023

“The Student Matinee supported my curriculum... They all found inspiration in the show.”

El Cerrito High School, 2023

Can't make it to a student matinee? Discounted tickets to all regular public performances are available for school groups. Contact groups@act-sf.org for more information and prices.