Peter Callender News

TheatreFIRST today announced that Old Times will run for an additional 4 performances, Wednesday-Saturday April 22-25 at 8pm at the Gaia Arts Center in Berkeley. After selling out most of the first 5 performances, it became clear that demand for the show was strong, as was audience feedback.

TheatreFIRST today announces it will present Harold Pinter's gripping and mysterious 'Old Times', featuring one of the Bay Area's foremost actors, L. Peter Callender as Deeley, at the Gaia Arts Center in Berkeley in April.

TheatreFIRST announces its 15th Anniversary Season running from January 2009 to June 2009, comprised of a staged reading series and revival of a Pinter masterpiece. TheatreFIRST continues its active pursuit of a permanent Downtown Oakland location, a space that will serve as home for TheatreFIRST and for other Oakland-based arts organizations. Each day we grow closer to this goal. TheatreFIRST looks forward producing to a full season of 3 shows beginning Fall 2009 to Summer 2010.

Long-time East Bay-based actor and director Michael Storm will take over as Artistic Director of TheatreFIRST with immediate effect.

Marin Theatre Company extends MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!, Now through February 15 By Athol Fugard | Directed by Josh Costello Starring L. Peter Callender, Laura Morache, and Lloyd Roberson II MILL VALLEY, CA- Due to high ticket demand, Marin Theatre Company has extended its hit production of My Children! My Africa! by renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard. The show extends an extra week with eight additional performances through February 15, 2008. 'Hope is alive. . . in the afterglow of President Obama's inauguration, the drama's fatal conflict in a battle of entrenched racism packed an enormous punch,' says Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle. And from Jerry Friedman of KGO, 'I was extremely impressed with the dynamic ensemble cast . . . Fugard's writing is magnificent and it's all complemented with a great set, lighting and sound, and brilliantly directed . . . This is a powerful, must-see production.' Set in 1985 South Africa, during a period of intense and often violent anti-Apartheid protests and boycotts, My Children! My Africa! follows the friendship of two teenagers. Thami, a gifted and independent black student, and Isabel, a white prep school student, participate in a rare interracial debate at Thami's school. Against the backdrop of an education system in crisis, Fugard's hopeful, seasoned teacher Mr. M struggles to lift his students above the strife and violence that is boiling in their black township. My Children! My Africa! premiered at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989 and has been performed since then worldwide.

TheatreFIRST today announces it will present Harold Pinter's gripping and mysterious 'Old Times', featuring one of the Bay Area's foremost actors, L. Peter Callender as Deeley, at the Gaia Arts Center in Berkeley in April.

Marin Theatre Company extends MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!, Now through February 15 By Athol Fugard | Directed by Josh Costello Starring L. Peter Callender, Laura Morache, and Lloyd Roberson II MILL VALLEY, CA- Due to high ticket demand, Marin Theatre Company has extended its hit production of My Children! My Africa! by renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard. The show extends an extra week with eight additional performances through February 15, 2008. 'Hope is alive. . . in the afterglow of President Obama's inauguration, the drama's fatal conflict in a battle of entrenched racism packed an enormous punch,' says Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle. And from Jerry Friedman of KGO, 'I was extremely impressed with the dynamic ensemble cast . . . Fugard's writing is magnificent and it's all complemented with a great set, lighting and sound, and brilliantly directed . . . This is a powerful, must-see production.' Set in 1985 South Africa, during a period of intense and often violent anti-Apartheid protests and boycotts, My Children! My Africa! follows the friendship of two teenagers. Thami, a gifted and independent black student, and Isabel, a white prep school student, participate in a rare interracial debate at Thami's school. Against the backdrop of an education system in crisis, Fugard's hopeful, seasoned teacher Mr. M struggles to lift his students above the strife and violence that is boiling in their black township. My Children! My Africa! premiered at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989 and has been performed since then worldwide.

Marin Theatre Company continues its 2008-09 season with My Children! My Africa! by renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard in its Boyer Theatre.

Marin Theatre Company continues its 2008-09 season with My Children! My Africa! by renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard in its Boyer Theatre.

TheatreFIRST announces its 15th Anniversary Season running from January 2009 - June 2009, comprised of a staged reading series and revival of a Pinter masterpiece.

TheatreFIRST announces its 15th Anniversary Season running from January 2009 to June 2009, comprised of a staged reading series and revival of a Pinter masterpiece. TheatreFIRST continues its active pursuit of a permanent Downtown Oakland location, a space that will serve as home for TheatreFIRST and for other Oakland-based arts organizations. Each day we grow closer to this goal. TheatreFIRST looks forward producing to a full season of 3 shows beginning Fall 2009 to Summer 2010.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, proudly presents the regional premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's final masterpiece RADIO GOLF to the Bay Area. The last of Wilson's ten play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, this hustling comedy-drama set in the 1990's tells the story of an Ivy League-educated lawyer seeking to redevelop a rundown area of a Pittsburgh neighborhood while preparing his campaign to become the city's first black mayor. A brilliant and bittersweet look at the forces of change in a neighborhood and a people caught between history and the looming 21st century, RADIO GOLF captures the essence of alienation and assimilation occurring throughout America.

The Aurora Theatre Company completes its 14th season with the Bay Area premiere of 'Permanent Collection.' This provocative tale continues playwright Thomas Gibbons' examination of racial politics in America.

The California Shakespeare Theater will host a number of summer theater camps, and is seeking campers