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