Bay Area Children's Theatre actress and teaching artist Amber Dickerson performs as Queen Gigglegoose in Geeseland in a scene from "Playdate with a Queen," one of several videos the theatre has produced offering online activities for young viewers. (Photo courtesy of Bay Area Children's Theatre)

To help keep kids occupied during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, the Bay Area Children’s Theatre has launched an online “playborhood,” theatre executives said.

Each episode of “Creativity Corner” urges children to take part in the story and complete activities afterward. The activities are based on the episode and can be sent to the theatre, which will share examples online.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.