In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders are embarking on a courageous journey into the Deep South. When twenty-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones—and himself—that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own.
Our February guest will be El Cerrito resident Peter Albin, bass player of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and part of a large family of artists -- sculptors, musicians, painters, and puppeteers -- whose work has left an indelible mark on our community.
London, 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA double helix. Providing the key is driven young physicist Rosalind Franklin. But if the double helix was the breakthrough of the 20th century, then what kept Franklin out of the history books? A play about ambition, isolation, and the competition for greatness.
The story of Joan of Arc's mother, a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.
Our inaugural guest will be El Cerrito resident Debbie Chinn, Managing Director of Anna Deavere Smith's Pipeline Project and author of a forthcoming book about her family’s historical connection to the missionaries of China and of the pioneering impact her family of immigrants has made to advance the fields of research, science, medicine, academia, engineering, arts, humanities, and culinary hospitality in the United States.
What happens when a brilliant lost soul comes to stay in his sister’s basement and refuses to leave? And if the menacing brother-in-law doesn’t approve? In a dog-eat-dog world, these siblings find a haven of sorts in an unfinished basement as they attempt to make sense of the past and negotiate how to move forward into the future.
In-person classes for students 7-12 and 13-16. Build life-long skills and make life-long friends through age-appropriate theater classes.
