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The Actors’ Reading Collective presents

Outside the Box

The Actors’ Reading Collective returns with the third annual summer reading series Outside The Box. Presented in the company’s signature acclaimed style of staged readings with large-cast ensembles of all-star Bay Area and National talent, this year’s series builds on our community partnerships to offer each play in two Bay Area theater locations.

For information on performances in the series taking place at other theaters, please visit ARC’s website.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

*Member, Actors' Equity Association