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Oakland Theatre Project

1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Oakland , CA 94612

Oakland Theatre Project is a theatre in San Francisco / Bay Area.

Upcoming Shows

King Lear

Oct 7 – Oct 18, 2026

King Lear is Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Michael Socrates Moran, in which a king divides his kingdom among his three daughters but, mistaking flattery for love, ushers in a new reign of domination, cruelty, and collapse. Stripped of title, authority, and comfort, Lear is...

She Se Puede (A Chorus of Huertas)

Nov 20 – Dec 6, 2026

She Se Puede (A Chorus of Huertas) is a world premiere play by Lisa Ramirez, directed by Karina Guiterez, about Dolores Huerta and her lifelong fight for labor rights and true freedom. This theatrical portrait explores how Huerta's perseverance, collective vision, and radical...

Articles

Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Berkeley Playhouse

Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Berkeley Playhouse

by Kelly Rogers Flynt · September 26, 2026

LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center

by Steve Murray · September 25, 2026

What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…

Review: NORTH BY NORTHWEST at American Conservatory Theatre

Review: NORTH BY NORTHWEST at American Conservatory Theatre

by Steve Murray · September 24, 2026

From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…

Review: CRUSHING at A.C.T. Strand

Review: CRUSHING at A.C.T. Strand

by Steve Murray · September 11, 2026

Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…

Review: THE COOK at Berkeley Rep

Review: THE COOK at Berkeley Rep

by Steve Murray · September 10, 2026

A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season.  In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…

Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Masquers Playhouse

Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Masquers Playhouse

by Kelly Rogers Flynt · September 5, 2026

VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …

Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre

Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre

by Steve Murray · September 3, 2026

 Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully exec…

Past Shows

13 total · showing 11–13

The Crucible

The Crucible

Sep 2 – Sep 25, 2022

Based on the Salem Witch Trials of 169293, this Tony Award-winning allegoryoriginally inspired by Millers own experiences with McCarthyismresonates anew in the dynamics of a decentralized, digital society. Reimagined for a contemporary world, the production draws on dance and...

Mojo and The Sayso

Mojo and The Sayso

Jun 5 – Jun 26, 2022

Oakland Theater Project presents the first-ever Bay Area production of the 1989 play The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman, a writer, professor and active participant in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Based on the 1973 killing of a 10-year-old boy by the New York City...

Endings

Endings

Apr 14 – May 1, 2022

On the remote island of Man-Jae, Korea, three elderly women spend their dying days free diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. These haenyeossea womenare the last practitioners of their millennium-old tradition. On the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright...

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