Read by Steven Anthony Jones and BD Wong On a chilly autumn night, an old fisherman makes his way to the lake in the dark. He casts a line...and reels in the ghost he's been seeking.

Straddling the worlds of her divorced parents, Yasmine doesn't feel fully at home in either. Desperate to see her best friend in San Francisco, she embarks on the voyage across the Bay alone, exhilarated at her newfound independence.

How do you find your people in middle school — especially when you don't quite fit the mold? A girl experiments, assimilates, adapts, and journeys towards genuine self-love and community.

Bored, lost, and lonely, a teenager stumbles into a café. While eating a cup of soup, he hears a wondrously inscrutable sonata, and begins to sense that being lost might not be such a lonesome condition after all.

Sometimes music becomes indelibly linked to specific memories, invoking the people with whom we shared them. Songs by Isaac Hayes, Peter Tosh, Stevie Wonder, the Doors, the Knight Brothers, and Patti LaBelle conjure a deep friendship, one that began on a hot night in 1986 outside Leopold's Records.

Hope, fear, excitement, and a dizzying array of possibilities unspool across an expectant dad’s imagination, as he and his partner navigate medical uncertainties and rediscover each other as almost-parents.

A young oboist kisses a pianist on a street corner. At long last! But the kiss unlocks pressures, expectations, dreams, and fears. Can we learn to live with uncertainty? To ask for what we need?

A neighborhood park — its playground, sloping hillside, and basketball court; its tunnel to a rose garden and many paths — bears witness to a boy, growing up and growing old.

This is the last Repisode in the 19/20 season! This is Part Two of our special two-part Core series on SCHOOL GIRLS. In this series, Berkeley Rep directing fellow Nailah Harper-Malveaux, who also worked as the assistant director on the show, speaks with two local artists about recent exhibits that connect to the work onstage. In this conversation, Nailah speaks with Toshia Christal, co-curator of the SOMArts exhibit, Unbound Roots: a Paradigm for Healing. They explore the parallels between the wellness industry and the beauty industry, what visual art can teach us about capturing a moment in time and how to take care of yourself during this period of increased physical isolation. Learn more about Toshia Christal's work: https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Toshia-Christal/26E8C28D0BD0641A Learn more about SOMArts and check out the exhibit: https://www.somarts.org/ Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Music credit to Peter Yonka. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! WE MISS YOU ALL!

In a grand finale to our prematurely closed play, we are launching a special two-part CORE series around SCHOOL GIRSLS: OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY. In this series, Berkeley Rep directing fellow Nailah Harper-Malveaux, who also worked as the assistant director on the show, will speak with two local artists about recent exhibits that connect to the work onstage. If you’re not able to see the play online, know that this conversation is still for you! We’ll reference the play as a jumping off point, but the majority of the conversation will delve into how the play’s themes connect with the Black is Beautiful exhibit, which was recently shown at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Joining us is Mark Sabb, the Senior Director of Innovation and Engagement at the museum, as well as an artist, writer and creator of the art collective, FeltZine. Learn more about Mark: http://mark.feltzine.us/portfolio Learn more about MoAD and check out the exhibit: https://www.moadsf.org/ Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Music credit to Peter Yonka.