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Gloria, performing at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater will be playing through Sunday, April 12, 2020.

Tony Award winner and American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon announced today the full cast and creative team for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, this scalpel-sharp dark comedy explores how we cope with trauma and the tales we tell each other to escape. In the dog-eat-dog office of a New York magazine, twentysomethings Ani, Dean, and Kendra compete for a book deal to kick-start their careers. But after tragedy strikes, which one of them will write the story?

Featuring a lively cast of dozens, delightful music, gorgeous costumes, and those deliciously spooky ghosts, the Bay Area's favorite holiday tradition returns as American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presents its celebrated production of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

At a desolate campground in Oregon, two desperate families are driven over the edge by greed, secrets, and desire. 

Now in its fourth year, YCI consists of a reading and recording session of music by six young composers selected from local institutions. During the session, the composers will introduce their works and have them rehearsed and recorded by the superb musicians of the BPYO, led by Conducting Fellow Kristo Kondakci.