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Jon Tracy’s wildly theatrical outdoor production examines how fear, loyalty, and the stories nations tell can shape the course of history.
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FeaturedPickleball
From award-winning playwright and beloved actor Jeff Daniels—known to millions for his acclaimed television roles in The Newsroom and Dumb and Dumber —comes a witty new comedy about pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in America. When a group of fiercely competitive neighbors...
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King Lear
William Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Michael Socrates Moran, is a co-production between Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions. In the twilight of his rule, a king sets out to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, but in mistaking flattery for...
Eureka Day
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. Every week over artisanal scones, the school’s five board members work to preserve a culture of inclusivity. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka...
King Lear
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...
The Fall Show
Long-lasting love is marked by both comfort and conflict. In The Fall Show , an older couple’s unexpected romance unfolds against a maelstrom of memory and movement. Lovers collide, chaos erupts, and tenderness persists in an intimate examination of love ‘til the very end.
Betrayal
Harold Pinter's taut, thought-provoking drama laced with laconic wit illuminates an illicit seven-year affair told backwards and forwards in time, beginning two years after the end of the affair and ending with the first clandestine kiss. Directed by Carey Perloff, American...
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors By Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen Directed by Becca Wolff October 25 – November 15, 2026 “The lovechild of Mel Brooks and Monty Python, a side-splitting, rib-tickling, neck-biting, hysterically racy show. You’ll be screaming with laughter!”...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a San Francisco premiere comedy by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer, the creators of The Play That Goes Wrong. The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempts their most ambitious production yet, complete with flying rigs, sword fights, and a...
The Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is presented in Michael Cavanagh's production, directed by Shawna Lucey, with Sebastian Weigle making his Company debut on the podium. The cast features Peter Kellner, Slávka Zámečníková, Thomas Mole, Olivia Smith, Simone McIntosh...
The 1940s Radio Hour
It’s December 21, 1942, and The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade is broadcasting live from the Hotel Astor. Join the studio audience for a delightful, musical trip back in time, featuring “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “I’ll Be Seeing You” and other ‘40s favorites. All the while...
The Death of Meyerhold
Our country has a fever. We must look to it!
Based on a Totally True Story
Meet Ethan Keene, a struggling young playwright whose day job is writing The Flash for DC Comics. Then his world flips upside down when a Hollywood producer wants to turn one of his plays into a big-budget horror movie. With that tasty carrot clouding his vision, Ethan struggles...
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, follows an aristocratic family and their servants grappling with the imminent loss of their beloved estate. Their country faces radical, irreversible change as the story unfolds...
Good Night, Oscar
Set during a single unforgettable night of live television in 1958, Good Night, Oscar shines a spotlight on the brilliant and complicated entertainer Oscar Levant. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Doug Wright, the play centers on Levant's legendary appearance on The...
Arsenic and Old Lace
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. It turns out Abby and Martha already knew about the dead man in their parlor: They put him there. Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a...
Dream Hou$e
Two Latina sisters are appearing on a reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their neighborhood. As they perform for the camera, this comedy with a twist starts to slip into the surreal. One sister grapples with turmoil in their...
Life of Pi
Life of Pi is a Bay Area premiere adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti, based on the novel by Yann Martel. Sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself adrift on a lifeboat in the vast Pacific, forced to survive alongside unlikely companions including a Bengal tiger. The production...
William Shakespeare's Antony+Cleopatra
Set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire and Egypt, Antony and Cleopatra examines the conflict between duty and desire, and the impact of personal
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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William Shakespeare's Antony+Cleopatra Red Morton Park (8/15-8/31) |
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The Fall Show Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25) |
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Dev Cuny’s Assigned at Birth: My Funeral Part 1 The Marsh Berkeley (8/19-8/22) |
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Steel Magnolias Town Hall Theatre (9/10-10/03) |
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Fences by August Wilson Santa Cruz Shakespeare (7/28-8/28) |
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Sherry Glaser’s Life & Death: A Love Story The Marsh Berkeley (8/21-8/22) |
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DRACULA ORINDA STARLIGHT VILLAGE PLAYERS (9/04-9/26) |
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THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST Terra Nova Theater (8/23-8/30) |