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Committed to telling stories, we don’t try to recreate theatre online, but distill performances down to the simplest and purest form of Theatre there is: The playwright's words.

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"entrancing (in the fullest sense of the word), disturbing, liberating, hypnotizing, mind blowing..."

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"you guys did SUCH a great job. I'm wary of zoom theater for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the way it can unintentionally flatten an actor's natural rhythm, but you and the others really nailed it. the nuance you were able to bring to zoom is unreal."

​Upcoming Events

Outside the Box '25
Reading Series

Upcoming
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Play #1
THE THIN PLACE

by Lucas Hnath

Directed by Emilie Talbot

Monday, July 7, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco  

Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley

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Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in the thin place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one. Beautiful and deeply creepy all in one.

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Cast includes: Michelle Apriña Leavy*, Ron Chapman*, Amy Kossow, Danielle Levin*

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Play #2
APPROPRIATE

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Directed by Leontyne Mbele-Mbong

Sunday, July 20, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley

Monday, July 21, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco

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Appropriate follows the dysfunctional Lafayette family as they return to a decaying plantation mansion in Arkansas to battle over their recently deceased father's inheritance. Soon after the discovery of a relic buried deep in the recess of their family's past, decades of resentment burst through centuries of historical sin.

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Cast includes: Harry Davis*, Isabel Langen*, Catherine Luedtke*, Ash M.B., Luisa Sermol*, Michael Ray Wisely*

 

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Play #3
THE BEST WE COULD

By Emily Feldman

Directed by Timothy Redmond

Sunday, July 27, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley

Monday, July 28, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco

 

In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella’s mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface.

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Cast includes: James Carpenter*, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong*, Lisa Morse*, Robert Parsons*, Michelle Talgarow*

 

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Play #4
RECIPE

by Michael Gene Sullivan

Directed by Ansley Valentine

Monday, August 4, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | 7pm at the Magic in San Francisco

 

The Morning Glory Baking Circle seems like a harmless enough group of women bakers of retirement age... until they reveal the rest of their title, "for Revolutionary Self-Defense!" They may appear inoffensive, but they are as dedicated to making pies, cakes, muffins, and cobbler as they are to overthrowing the fascist corporatocracy of America... with a "K!" But when they invite a young Black reporter to their rebel headquarters to divulge their latest plan for socialist revolution the last thing they expect is that she might be an F.B.I. mole, sent to infiltrate and destroy them. Or is she? Are they just paranoid old nuts, or has the government really taken notice of them?

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Cast includes: Mary Baird*, Anne Hallinan*, Asia Jackson*, Julia McNeal*, Emilie Talbot*

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​* Member, Actors' Equity Association

The Thin Place
Appropriate
The Best We Could
Recipe
Past Streams

Past FULL PRODUCTIONS

Annie Baker // THE ANTIPODES

Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St

Performed NOV 8 - DEC 2, 2024

Directed by Alyson Schacherer

Past READINGS

OUTSIDE THE BOX Reading Series 2024
Presented at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St, San Rafael

George Brant // INTO THE BREECHES!

Performed on JULY 1, 2024

Directed by DAVID SINAIKO

Betty Shamieh // MALVOLIO

Performed on JULY, 21, 2024

Directed by AMY KOSSOW

Jeffrey Hatcher // STAGE BEAUTY

Performed on AUGUST 12, 2024

Directed by NANCY CARLIN 

Susan Ferrara // BUZZ

Performed on AUGUST 21, 2024

Directed by MARCIA PIZZO

Stephen Adley Guirgis // THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St

Performed on MAY 4, 2024

Directed by LUISA SERMOL

Aaron Posner // LIFE SUCKS

Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St

Performed on DECEMBER 4, 2023

Directed by AMY KOSSOW

OUTSIDE THE BOX Reading Series 2023
Presented at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St, San Rafael

Henry & Hissom // SHAKESPEARE AND
                  THE ZOMBIE PLAGUE OF 1590

Performed on JUNE 5, 2023

Directed by ALDO BILLINGSLEA

Dominique Morriseau // PIPELINE

Performed on JUNE 19, 2023

Directed by LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG & EMILIE TALBOT

Jez Butterworth // THE FERRYMAN

Performed on JULY 10, 2023

Directed by ROBERT PARSONS 

Lucy Kirkwood // THE CHILDREN

Performed on JULY 31, 2023

Directed by TIM REDMOND

Jordan Harrison // THE GROWN-UP

Presented in person at Z Space

Performed on JANUARY 30, 2023

Directed by TIM REDMOND

Max Posner // SNORE

Presented on Broadway on Demand

Performed on SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Cast by TANYA MARIE, TIM REDMOND

Amy Herzog // MARY JANE

Presented in person at Z Space

Performed on AUG 15, 2022

Cast by AMY KOSSOW

Lisa Loomer // ROE

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on JULY 4, 2022

Cast by CATHERINE CASTELLANOS

Nick Payne // INCOGNITO

Presented on Broadway on Demand

Performed on JUNE 26, 2022

Cast by TIMOTHY REDMOND

Aaron Wilton // THE PLAY ABOUT A DICK

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on MAY 22, 2022

Cast by JEREMY KAHN

Oksana Zabuzhko  // YOUR AD COULD GO HERE

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on APRIL 30, 2022

Cast by AMY KOSSOW & PATRICIA SILVER 

Jeffrey Hatcher // COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY

Presented on Broadway on Demand

Performed on MARCH 13, 2022

Cast by LUISA SERMOL

José Rivera // MARISOL

Presented on Broadway on Demand

Performed on FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Cast by DENA MARTINEZ

Michael Gene Sullivan // fugitive/slave/act

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on JANUARY 30, 2022

Cast by MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN

Dylan Thomas // A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on DECEMBER 19, 2021

Adapted and Cast by AMY KOSSOW, SUSAN LYNSKEY, & LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG

Octavio Solis // MOTHER ROAD

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cast by CATHERINE CASTELLANOS & AMY LIZARDO

Henry & Hissom // SHAKESPEARE AND THE
                  ZOMBIE PLAGUE OF 1590

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on OCTOBER 24, 2021

Cast by ALDO BILLINGSLEA

Shakespeare // ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Presented on ARC YouTube Channel

Performed on AUGUST 21, 2021

Cast by AMY KOSSOW

Charles L. Mee // BIG LOVE

Presented by THE STREAMING THEATER

Performed on JULY 17, 2021

Cast by ROBERT PARSONS

George Bernard Shaw// HEARTBREAK HOUSE

Presented by THE STREAMING THEATER

Performed on JUNE 26, 2021

Cast by AARON WILTON

Stephen Adly Guirgis// THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS iscariOT

Presented by THE STREAMING THEATER

Performed on APRIL 24, 2021

Cast by LUISA SERMOL

Lynn Kaufman// Magician's Choice

Presented by REMOTE THEATER

Performed on MARCH 17, 2021

Cast by GIOVANNI RODRIGUEZ

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