THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH
1/31 - 3/9/2025
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Past Shows
Cult of Love
1/26 - 3/3/2024
WRITTEN BY LESLYE HEADLAND DIRECTED BY TRIP CULLMAN IN ASSOCIATION WITH RED YES STUDIO, RACHEL SUSSMAN, AND SEAVIEW RODA THEATRE TICKES NOW ON SALE ...
Harry Clarke
11/15 - 12/23/2023
BY DAVID CALE THE VINEYARD THEATRE PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY LEIGH SILVERMAN FEATURING BILLY CRUDUP WEST COAST PREMIERE RODA THEATRE TICKETS NOW ON SALE Tony and ...
Bulrusher
10/27 - 12/3/2023
BY EISA DAVIS DIRECTED BY NICOLE A. WATSON A CO-PRODUCTION WITH MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER PEET’S THEATRE OCT 27–DEC 3, 2023 TICKETS NOW ON SALE ...
BY SELINA FILLINGER DIRECTED BY ANNIE TIPPE RODA THEATRE SEP 16–OCT 22, 2023 TICKETS NOW ON SALE Berkeley Rep brings you this gleefully feminist satire just in ...
Out of Character
6/23 - 7/30/2023
Before he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ( The Band’s Visit ), Ari’el Stachel grew up in Berkeley, an ...
Goddess
7/5 - 9/27/2022
book: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; lyrics: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; music: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; dir: Saheem Ali....
Goddess
8/13 - 9/25/2022
book: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; lyrics: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; music: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; dir: Saheem Ali....
Swept Away
1/9 - 2/13/2022
Swept Away
6/14 - 7/26/2020
Happy Days
5/26 - 7/5/2020
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
3/19 - 5/3/2020
Paulina, the reigning Queen Bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant. But the mid-year arrival of ...
Culture Clash (Still) in America
2/20 - 4/5/2020
Becky Nurse of Salem
12/12 - 1/26/2020
Sarah Ruhl; dir: Anne Kauffman. World Premiere...
White Noise
9/26 - 11/10/2019
Suzan-Lori Parks; dir: Jaki Bradley....
The Great Wave
9/12 - 10/27/2019
Francis Turnly; dir: Mark Wing Davey. American Premiere...
Kiss My Aztec!
5/28 - 7/14/2019
This fresh, irreverent musical comedy could only spring forth from the clever and culturally savvy mind of John Leguizamo (who seriously schooled Berkeley Rep audiences ...
The Good Book
4/25 - 6/9/2019
Denis O?Hare, Lisa Peterson; dir: Lisa Peterson....
HOME
3/22 - 4/21/2019
Roda Theatre: Geoff Sobelle; dir: Lee Sunday Evans....
Metamorphoses
1/24 - 3/10/2019
Peet's Theatre: trans: David R. Slavitt; dir: Mary Zimmerman....
Paradise Square
12/27 - 2/17/2019
Marcus Gardley, Larry Kirwan, Craig Lucas; lyrics: Nathan Tysen; dir: Moises Kaufman. World Premiere...
Fairview
10/4 - 11/4/2018
In Fairview, the Frasier family is gearing up for Grandma's birthday, and Beverly needs this dinner to be perfect. Plus, the radio's on the fritz, ...
A Doll's House, Part 2
9/6 - 10/21/2018
Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring ...
Angels in America Parts 1 and 2
4/17 - 7/22/2018
Roda Theatre: Tony Kushner; dir: Tony Taccone....
Office Hour
2/22 - 3/25/2018
Julia Cho; dir: Lisa Peterson. Peet's Theatre:...
Imaginary Comforts
10/5 - 11/19/2017
Daniel Handler; dir: Tony Taccone. World Premiere...
Ain't Too Proud
8/31 - 10/8/2017
The musical which is set against the tumultuous era of the 1960's, begins in Birmingham, Alabama, where the group's founding members, Eddie Kendricks and Paul ...
Roe
3/3 - 4/2/2017
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated over forty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa ...
Hand to God
2/3 - 3/25/2017
The good children of Cypress, Texas are taught to obey the Bible in order to evade Satan’s hand. But when students at the Christian Puppet ...
946:The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips
12/2 - 1/29/2017
adapt: Michael Morpurgo, Emma Rice; dir: Emma RIce. American Premiere...
946:The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips
12/2 - 1/29/2017
adapt: Michael Morpurgo, Emma Rice; dir: Emma RIce. American Premiere...
The Last Tiger in Haiti
10/14 - 11/27/2016
Jeff Augustin; dir: Joshua Kahan Brody....
The Last Tiger in Haiti
10/14 - 11/27/2016
Jeff Augustin; dir: Joshua Kahan Brody....
It Can't Happen Here
9/23 - 11/20/2016
adapt: Bennett Cohen, Tony Taccone; dir: Lisa Peterson....
It Can't Happen Here
9/23 - 11/20/2016
adapt: Bennett Cohen, Tony Taccone; dir: Lisa Peterson....
FOR PETER PAN ON HER 70th birthday
5/20 - 7/3/2016
Sarah Ruhl; dir: Les Waters ....
TREASURE ISLAND
4/22 - 6/19/2016
adapt: Mary Zimmerman from Robert Louis Stevenson; dir: Mary Zimmerman....
MACBETH
2/19 - 4/3/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: Daniel Sullivan....
AUBERGINE
2/5 - 3/20/2016
A man shares a bowl of berries, and a young woman falls in love. A world away, a mother prepares a bowl of soup to ...
DISGRACED
11/6 - 12/20/2015
Ayad Akhtar; dir: Kimberly Senior....
THE HYPOCRITES?__ PIRATES OF PENZANCE
10/16 - 12/20/2015
adapt: Sean Granery, Kevin O' Donnell; book: W. S. Gilbert; music: Arthur Sullivan; dir: Sean Granery, Thrisa Hodits....
AM?_LIE, A New Musical
8/28 - 10/4/2015
book: Craig Lucas; lyrics: Daniel Mess?, Nathan Tysen; dir: Pam MacKinnon....
One Man, Two Guvnors
5/8 - 6/21/2015
One Man, Two Guvnors delighted both critics and audiences during its hugely popular debut at UK’s National Theatre and its subsequent productions in London’s West ...
Head of Passes
4/10 - 5/24/2015
Tarell McCraney; dir: Tina Landau....
Tartuffe
3/13 - 4/12/2015
adapt: David Ball from Moli...
X's and O's (A Gridiron Love Story)
1/16 - 3/1/2015
Jenny Mercein, KJ Sanchez; dir: Tony Taccone....
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
11/21 - 1/4/2015
A fiercely independent journalist and a born hell-raiser, Molly Ivins was a tireless advocate for social justice. Writing for publications such as The Texas Observer ...
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
5/16 - 6/29/2014
Winner of two Tony Awards, three Obies, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Kushner returns to Berkeley Rep for the West Coast premiere of ...
Tribes
4/11 - 5/11/2014
When three smart siblings move back home with their opinionated parents, the cacophony of their family hits a new high—even for Billy who’s deaf. Nina ...
Tristan & Yseult
11/22 - 1/6/2014
Kneehigh is back! Britain’s beloved theatre company returns to the Bay Area with a glorious story of love. King Mark rules with his head, until ...
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
10/25 - 12/8/2013
Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of Lisa Jura, a young ...
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
9/20 - 10/20/2013
Christopher Durang—Obie Award winner of such rollicking comedies as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Marriage of Bette & Boo—turns Chekhov ...
No Man's Land
8/3 - 8/31/2013
Is what you remember ever what really happened? With this enigmatic tumble through time, two men circle each other in the limbo of logic, recovering ...
No Man’s Land
8/3 - 8/31/2013
Internationally acclaimed for their performances on stage, screen and television, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will star at Berkeley Rep in a revival of Harold ...
Dear Elizabeth
5/24 - 7/7/2013
Roda Theatre: - adapt: Sarah Ruhl from Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell; dir: Les Waters....
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
4/12 - 5/26/2013
Thrust Stage: - William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Wing-Davey....
Fallaci
3/8 - 4/21/2013
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was larger than life. Her childhood courage resisting the Nazis fueled her work as a war correspondent with an antiauthoritarian zeal ...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
3/7 - 4/20/2013
A bank gets bombed, a suspect dies in custody and the police inquiry turns into…a masterpiece of comedy? Steven Epp returns to Berkeley Rep for ...
The House that will not Stand
1/31 - 3/16/2013
Berkeley Rep proudly presents the world premiere of a new play commissioned from an Oakland native: The House that will not Stand by Marcus Gardley ...
The Wild Bride
1/19 - 2/10/2013
Roda Theatre: - adapt: Emma Rice; book: Carl Grose; lyrics: Carl Grose; music: Stu Barker; dir: Emma Rice....
Get ready for Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright. Only Berkeley Rep could unleash this wild world premiere, commissioned from hot young ...
Black n Blue Boys
5/25 - 6/24/2012
Big, bold, beautiful, and fierce—Dael Orlandersmith delivers a riveting performance in Black n Blue Boys. This world premiere introduces us to children and adults forging ...
In Paris
4/25 - 5/13/2012
Red
3/16 - 4/29/2012
A Doctor in Spite of Himself
2/10 - 3/25/2012
“Playing doctor” takes on a whole new meaning as a marital squabble escalates into comic pandemonium. The spirited Martine exacts revenge on her scoundrel of ...
Ghost Light
1/6 - 2/19/2012
How to Write a New Book for the Bible
10/7 - 11/20/2011
Every family creates a sacred story out of love. In Bill Cain’s poignant new play, a man moves in with his mother when she becomes ...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
1/23 - 2/27/2011
In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Daisey dives into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions profoundly affect ...
The Last Cargo Cult
1/12 - 2/20/2011
With The Last Cargo Cult, Daisey travels to a remote island in the South Pacific whose inhabitants actually worship America and its goods. He observes ...
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