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The Marsh Berkeley

2120 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
Berkeley, CA 94704

Upcoming Shows

Small Batch, Artisanal Comedy

Sep 19 – Oct 17, 2026

A new solo show about love, loss, and the search for something handmade in an algorithmic age, written and performed by Alicia Dattner. Poking fun at the gourmands and the gauche alike, Dattner composts a season of stories into a self-deprecating comedy that turns the mundane...

Our Loving Companions

Oct 22 – Oct 25, 2026

An immersive theater experience celebrating the bond between people and their pets, featuring 14 plays and poems selected through a nationwide competition. Directed by Pamela Hollings, audiences choose their own adventure through stories of laughter, devotion, joy, and grief...

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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…

Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre

Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre

by Steve Murray · September 2, 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 execut…

Review: RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals

Review: RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals

by Kelly Rogers Flynt · August 31, 2026

RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals is full of laughs and gaffs, and is a jolly good time. Set in a posh New York townhouse, RUMORS is Neil Simon’s only full length farce. From half truths to utter nonsense and mistaken identities to outright charades, this production will ensnare you in a strea…

Review: PICKLEBALL at Hillbarn Theatre

Review: PICKLEBALL at Hillbarn Theatre

by AJ Jaffari · August 24, 2026

Pickleball at Hillbarn Theatre, written by Jeff Daniels, takes one of the country’s fastest-growing sports and serves it up as an unabashedly silly comedy filled with eccentric players, romantic entanglements, and plenty of physical humor. …

Review: FALLEN ANGELS at Altarena Playhouse

Review: FALLEN ANGELS at Altarena Playhouse

by Kelly Rogers Flynt · August 22, 2026

Altarena Playhouse brings Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS to life with wit and charm. When the sardonic writing of a genius playwright meets the witty interpretation of a theater, it produces a night full of laughs and insights. …

Past Shows

18 total · showing 1–10

Holly Shaw’s ROAR!

Holly Shaw’s ROAR!

Aug 29 – Aug 30, 2026

In ROAR! – A solo dramedy ghost story, Shaw asks a haunting question: What happens when a loved one dies, but they won’t stop talking? After her boyfriend dies, Holly makes an unexpected discovery about his true feelings and enters a mysterious game of lost and found with the...

Roar!

Roar!

Aug 29 – Aug 30, 2026

Holly Shaw, a writer, performer and comedian, asks us, “What happens when a loved one dies, but they won’t stop talking?” With that, away we go on a journey that is funny, emotional, spiritual – and, yes, a little bit spooky! Shaw shares the story of losing her father, who was...

Robyn DeGuzman’s Enough Free

Robyn DeGuzman’s Enough Free

Aug 28 – Aug 30, 2026

Robyn DeGuzman’s Enough Free transforms generational trauma into radical healing through this visceral blend of drama, movement, and song. Selected for the 2024 Asian American Psychological Association Convention, Enough Free takes audiences on a journey from Spanish...

Hannah Gould’s Divorced: The Musical!

Hannah Gould’s Divorced: The Musical!

Aug 27 – Aug 29, 2026

Divorced: The Musical is a radically honest tragicomedic journey of healing and fresh pain after divorce. Hannah, a bi-sexual woman in her late 30s, spirals into deeper and deeper self-awareness in the year following separation from her husband. The process is messy and filled...

Joyful Raven’s Tactical Frivolity

Joyful Raven’s Tactical Frivolity

Aug 27 – Aug 29, 2026

Born into a radical theater company, Joyful Raven was tasked from the tender age of 5 with the daunting mission to save the world from impending doom… using theater. Forced into animal-print unitards and political positions long before she was a consenting adult, she never had a...

Catherine Debon’s Lullaby of a Partisan

Catherine Debon’s Lullaby of a Partisan

Aug 22 – Aug 23, 2026

Courage and resilience saw her mother through the Nazi occupation of France and the struggles of raising a child alone—singing resistance songs as lullabies. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, her daughter searches for her own path to resilience—and less fraught...

Lauren Mayer’s I Didn’t Come From Your Rib

Lauren Mayer’s I Didn’t Come From Your Rib

Aug 21 – Aug 23, 2026

As a woman in her late 60s who grew up with a feminist mother (who had an abortion before they were legal), Lauren is shocked at how rights she thought were established are now under attack. But Lauren responds to this with humor as well as righteous outrage. This show uses a...

Natacha Ruck’s Death & Dad Jokes

Natacha Ruck’s Death & Dad Jokes

Aug 20 – Aug 23, 2026

At 7:59 AM on February 3rd, 2026 Natacha receives a phone call from France. The kind of call we all get one day, whether we want it or not. And most of us don’t wanna get that call. Will she be able to break the bad news to her goofy father, handle family politics, and face her...

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Gutenberg! The Musical! in San Francisco / Bay Area Gutenberg! The Musical!
Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01)
The Fall Show in San Francisco / Bay Area The Fall Show
Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25)
Company in San Francisco / Bay Area Company
City Lights Theater Company (7/15-8/22)
“HOME” in San Francisco / Bay Area “HOME”
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bowes Center (4/09-4/09)
The Legend of Robin Hood in San Francisco / Bay Area The Legend of Robin Hood
Hillbarn Theatre (1/21-2/14)
Disney's Frozen in San Francisco / Bay Area Disney's Frozen
Berkeley Playhouse (11/13-12/23)
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors in San Francisco / Bay Area Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Lesher Center for the Arts (10/25-11/15)
Hadestown (Non-Equity) in San Francisco / Bay Area Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (1/07-1/10)
POTUS in San Francisco / Bay Area POTUS
Live Oak Theater (9/11-9/26)