||: 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.