Berkeley?s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company proudly announces the lineup for its 20th anniversary season. Paying homage to Aurora?s beginnings at the Berkeley City Club, and to its growth, both artistically and physically, over the past 19 seasons, the 2011-12 season is a true celebration of Aurora Theatre Company?s artistic past, present, and future.
The SF Playhouse is proud to announce that Amy Glazer will direct a cast of SF favorites,
including Joy Carlin*, Susi Damilano, Richard Frederick*, Monique Hafen, Michael Keys Hall*, John Mercer and Daniel Redmon in the West Coast Premiere, and second U.S. presentation of Harper Regan by Simon Stephens.
The SF Playhouse is proud to announce that Amy Glazer will direct a cast of SF favorites,
including Joy Carlin*, Susi Damilano, Richard Frederick*, Monique Hafen, Michael Keys Hall*, John Mercer and Daniel Redmon in the West Coast Premiere, and second U.S. presentation of Harper Regan by Simon Stephens.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company, now celebrating its 18th season, lit up the night on Monday, May 3 with an evening of heavenly wining and dining at Aurora Borealis, the company's 12th annual benefit, held at the newly-renovated historic Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley. Over 200 guests attended the sold-out fundraising fête, chaired by Deborah Goodman, which raised upwards of $180,000. Funds raised at the gala event will support Aurora Theatre Company's outstanding live performances, innovative education program, and the Global Age Project new works program.
This year's Critics Circle Awards, sponsored by Actor's Equity Association, today announced is nominees for excellence in San Francisco Bay area theater. Berkeley Rep's production of American Idiot, which played in the fall of 2009, leads with 12 nominations and will open on Broadway this spring.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the first Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield begins his second season as host for this moderated discussion series.
Due to popular demand, Aurora Theatre Company has added an additional performance of its 18th season opener, Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama Awake and Sing!, to the existing performance schedule - there will be an additional performance on Saturday, September 26 at 2pm. Awake and Sing! plays now through September 27 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.
Aurora Theatre Company sets the tone for its 18th season, a season focusing on ?family and fortune,? opening with Clifford Odets? classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! First produced in 1935 by the Group Theatre, AWAKE AND SING! covers a year in the life of an extended Jewish family that does whatever it takes to survive life in the Bronx.
Aurora Theatre Company opens its 18th season, focusing on 'family and fortune,' with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Jack Goes Boating, Hysteria, The Price), who first directed this play for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 24 years ago, revisits this landmark drama for Aurora.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company celebrated the official completion of the company's Addison Street expansion wing, The Nell and Jules Dashow Wing, named in honor of lead donor Deborah Ruth's parents, at a special opening event held in the new space on August 17.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the first Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield begins his second season as host for this moderated discussion series.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company announced today the official completion of the company's Addison Street expansion wing, The Nell and Jules Dashow Wing, named in honor of lead donor Deborah Ruth's parents.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company announced today the official completion of the company's Addison Street expansion wing, The Nell and Jules Dashow Wing, named in honor of lead donor Deborah Ruth's parents.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company is proud to announce a call for submissions for its fifth season of the Global Age Project (GAP) festival of new works. The company will choose four new plays to be presented as staged readings with professional directors and actors during the GAP festival in February of 2010; the festival will coincide with the company's fully-staged World Premiere of 2009 GAP finalist Joel Drake Johnson's new play, The First Grade.
Critics and audiences agree: JACK GOES BOATING hits a pitch-perfect high note. Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will add four additional performances of its current Bay Area Premiere of Bob Glaudini's Off-Broadway hit JACK GOES BOATING.
Aurora Theatre Company opens its 18th season, focusing on 'family and fortune,' with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Jack Goes Boating, Hysteria, The Price), who first directed this play for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 24 years ago, revisits this landmark drama for Aurora.
Critics and audiences agree: JACK GOES BOATING hits a pitch-perfect high note. Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will add four additional performances of its current Bay Area Premiere of Bob Glaudini's Off-Broadway hit JACK GOES BOATING.
Closing Aurora Theatre Company's 17th season is the Bay Area Premiere of Bob Glaudini's (A View from 151st Street) Off-Broadway hit JACK GOES BOATING. Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Hysteria, Bosoms and Neglect, The Price) helms this quirky romantic comedy, featuring Amanda Duarte, Gabriel Marin, Beth Wilmurt, and Danny Wolohan. JACK GOES BOATING plays at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley June 12 through July 19.
Closing Aurora Theatre Company's 17th season is the Bay Area Premiere of Bob Glaudini's (A View from 151st Street) Off-Broadway hit JACK GOES BOATING. Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Hysteria, Bosoms and Neglect, The Price) helms this quirky romantic comedy, featuring Amanda Duarte, Gabriel Marin, Beth Wilmurt, and Danny Wolohan. JACK GOES BOATING plays at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley June 12 through July 19
Berkeley?s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the final Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield hosts this moderated discussion about what we do while we wait/live and what?s worth waiting/living for, examining the upcoming Aurora Theatre Company production of Bob Glaudini?s Off-Broadway hit Jack Goes Boating, written in 2007, and Beckett?s absurdist masterpiece, penned in 1948.