InterACT at Home

While our theaters are dark, we’ve created exciting free and ticketed virtual programming and events that give you an up-close look at the inner workings of theater and an opportunity to interact with artists and other theatergoers, expand your imagination in new ways, and help build a better world through theater.

*NEW The 20/21/22 Season is here, beginning with virtual Live Stream and On Demand performances and events to enjoy from the comfort and safety of home! Virtual tickets are on sale now for each show or become an A.C.T. Anywhere Season Pass holder to access all virtual performances and events through June 2021. See more below.

at Home for Free

How Do You Memorize All Those Lines?

How do actors learn all those lines? Find out for yourself with A.C.T.'s fun, interactive memorization challenge. We invite you to send us a video of yourself reciting Elizabeth Bishop’s poem One Art. What do you learn in memorizing the text? Submit your video by Friday, Sep 18, and we will feature it on our social media. You could also win free tickets to an upcoming show!

To submit your video, you can:

Email it to artisticACTsf@gmail.com or
make a public post that includes your video on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Tag @ACTSanFrancisco and use the hashtag #ACTMemorizationChallenge.

Meads Reads

In this book club for plays, Director of Dramaturgy and New Work Joy Meads hosts a lively conversation about an irresistibly rich dramatic text. After reading the same play, the group will gather on Zoom to dig into its juicy layers of meaning. Each play comes with a suggestion for dinner from a local restaurant and/or a drink recipe from a local mixologist, and we will partner with small publishers, local booksellers, and individual playwrights to make scripts available.

The next Meads Reads will be announced soon.

Place: Here. Time: Now.

A monthly series of freewheeling conversations between A.C.T’s Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, eminent theater artists, and thought leaders on where they are in the present moment. Tune in to learn what is top of mind for some of the nation’s most curious and creative thinkers as they discuss and argue about theater and the world around them. How did we get here? What possibilities do they see ahead? How do they imagine change?

*NEW In this next episode, A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon chats with playwrights Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play–up next at A.C.T.) and Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park, Downstate) about what’s on their minds, from where their plays come from to the neuroscience of storytelling.

Subscribe on your podcast platform of your choice (like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play,and more!) or find new episodes here.

Take 10

Fun interactive theater games for all ages from A.C.T.'s Manager of Community Programs Stephanie Wilborn. Take 10 minutes to let you imagination soar and laugh with friends and family. Tune in for a new game every week with different hosts.

*NEW In this episode of Take 10, we're bringing you Part 2 of How to Rap with teaching artist Sierra Gonzalez. Dive in to the process of building your first lines from scratch—it's time to bring your inner poet alive!

Takes on a Scene

Artists provide commentary—their takes—on a specific scene from a recent A.C.T. production. Get a feel for the different points of view and the choices that go into bringing a script to life.

*NEW In this clip from Madhuri Shekar's In Love and Warcraft, director Peter J. Kuo, stage manager Ariana Johnson, and sound designer Lana Palmer take you behind the scenes to learn the ingenious secrets of how they created the illusions of actors sharing space in a live digital performance.

*NEW

Ticketed Productions

In Love and Warcraft

Presented in association with

by Madhuri Shekar
Directed by Peter J. Kuo

Sept 4 & 5, 11 & 12, 2020—Virtual-Live
Sept 18–25—On-Demand

The Thanksgiving Play

by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Shannon R. Davis

Sept 24–Oct 3, 2020—Live Streaming
Oct 9–16, 2020—On Demand

Moon Man Walk

by James Ijames
Directed by Dawn Monique Williams

Sept 25–Oct 3, 2020—Live Streaming
Oct 9–16, 2020—On Demand

Ironbound

by Martyna Majok
Directed by Jessica Holt

Sept 26–Oct 2, 2020—Live Streaming
Oct 9–16, 2020—On Demand

Blood Wedding

by Federico García Lorca
Adapted by John Graham
Directed by Christine Adaire

Oct 22–Oct 30, 2020—Live Stream
Nov 6–13, 2020—On Demand

Virtually Speaking

Pam MacKinnon in conversation with
Annette Bening

Nov 20, 2020—Live Stream
Dec 4, 2020–June 30, 2021—On Demand

Tickets on sale soon for the productions below

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh
Music by Karl Lundeberg
Radio Adaption and Directed by Peter J. Kuo

Dec 4–Dec 31, 2020

A.C.T. Out Loud

Directed by Awoye Timpo

Jan 29, 2021—Live Stream
Feb 12–Feb 26, 2021—On Demand

Directed by Colman Domingo

Feb 19, 2021—Live Stream
Mar 5–19, 2021—On Demand

Directed by Dawn Monique Williams

Mar 26, 2021—Live Stream
Apr 9–23, 2021—On Demand

Animal Wisdom

A.C.T. Presents The Bushwick Starr's production in association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Created by Heather Christian
Co-Directed by Emilyn Kowaleski and Mark Rosenblatt

Spring 2021