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AURORA THEATRE COMPANY


Berkeley, CA

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About the Theatre

As the storyteller for our community, Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an immediacy that makes for exhilarating theatre. By telling profoundly relevant stories, we’re building a new culture of theatregoing in the Bay Area and contributing to a revitalization of theatre nationwide, challenging all of us to think deeper, laugh louder, and engage more purposefully and profoundly with our neighbors and our world.

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Ensemble Theatre Company Presents THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Beginning This Week


by A.A. Cristi - April 01, 2024

Join Ensemble Theatre Company for the opening night of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Oahn Nguyen, on April 6 at New Vic Theatre, Santa Barbara....

BLUE DOOR Comes to Aurora Theatre Company Next Month


by Stephi Wild - March 05, 2024

Aurora Theatre Company will launch the penultimate show of its 32nd season with Tanya Barfield’s BLUE DOOR. BLUE DOOR will be presented in-person on Aurora’s mainstage from April 19-May 19....

Central Works Season Opens With BOSS MCGREEDY in March


by Stephi Wild - January 26, 2024

Central Works Season opens March 2 with Boss McGreedy (Mar 2–Mar 31) by Gary Graves, at the historic Berkeley City Club....

Center Theatre Group to Present 2024 L.A. Writers' Workshop Festival


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 19, 2023

Los Angeles audiences will have the opportunity to experience six brand new plays—thanks to Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival which will take place January 26 to 28, 2024 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. ...

Aurora Theatre Company Continues Season With 1984


by Stephi Wild - October 12, 2023

Aurora Theatre Company continues its 32nd season with the Bay Area premiere of Michael Gene Sullivan’s internationally acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Learn more about the production here!...

Aurora Theatre Company Opens its 32nd Season With BORN WITH TEETH


by Stephi Wild - August 09, 2023

Aurora Theatre Company opens its 32nd season with Liz Duffy Adams’ Edgerton Award-winning play, BORN WITH TEETH. Aurora Artistic Director Josh Costello (Cyrano, This Much I Know, Eureka Day, The Importance of Being Earnest) directs Dean Linnard and Brady Morales-Woolery in this dangerous and sexy tw...

Aurora Theatre Company Closes 31st Season with Obie-Winning HURRICANE DIANE


by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2023

Aurora Theatre Company ends its 31st season with Madeleine George’s HURRICANE DIANE. HURRICANE DIANE will be presented in-person on Aurora’s mainstage from June 16 - July 16....

Center Theatre Group's L.A. Writers' Workshop Selects New Cohort


by Blair Ingenthron - April 01, 2023

Since 2005, more than 100 playwrights have had their work fostered through Center Theatre Group's L.A. Writers' Workshop and more are set to join. This new cohort for the L.A. Writers' Workshop includes six local playwrights who will spend a year researching and writing a new work with the feedback ...

Rolling World Premiere of COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHO IS DELICIOUS Starts This Month at Chance Theater


by Blair Ingenthron - March 11, 2023

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, has announced the Rolling World Premiere of “Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious.” Written by Dustin H. Chinn and directed by Oánh Nguyễn, this exciting new comedy will preview from March 31 through April 7, with regular performa...

Disney+ Star Frankie A. Rodriguez To Lead CALVIN BERGER, A MUSICAL At The Colony Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - December 16, 2022

Cast and designers have been set for The Colony Theatre's new production of the musical Calvin Berger, it was announced by producer Heather Provost. ...

Past Shows

Three Tall Women
11/2 - 12/6/2020


Three Tall Women was written shortly after the death of Edward Albee’s adoptive mother, and it remains his most personal play. Wickedly funny, and told ...

Sex with Strangers
6/19 - 7/19/2020


Laura Eason Aurora Theatre Company...

The Children (Kirkwood)
1/31 - 3/1/2020


Lucy Kirkwood Aurora Theatre Company...

Splendour
6/23 - 7/23/2017


Abi Morgan; dir: Barbara Damashek....

Temple
4/14 - 5/14/2017


Steve Waters; dir: Tom Ross. American Premiere...

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