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BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

2025 Addison St Berkeley CA 94704
Berkeley, 94704

Galileo
Galileo
5/5 - 6/16/2024


BOOK BY DANNY STRONG  MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MICHAEL WEINER & ZOE SARNAK  CHOREOGRAPHED BY DAVID NEUMANN  DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MAYER    WORLD PREMIERE    ...

Mexodus
Mexodus
9/13 - 10/20/2024


History meets hip-hop in MEXODUS , an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real-time by multi-talented writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson . MEXODUS explores ...

THE MATCHBOX MAGIC FLUTE
THE MATCHBOX MAGIC FLUTE
10/18 - 12/8/2024


Theatrical powerhouse Mary Zimmerman ( Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, The White Snake ) triumphantly returns to Berkeley Rep with the West Coast premiere of THE ...

JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING


Direct from a twice-extended run on Broadway, Berkeley Rep will next present the West Coast premiere of Jocelyn Bioh ’s new comedy, JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR ...

THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH


Kicking off the new year, Berkeley Rep will present the world premiere of THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH , based on the New York Times bestselling ...

UNCLE VANYA
UNCLE VANYA
2/14 - 3/23/2025


Berkeley Rep will present Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson ’s stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece, UNCLE VANYA . When the distinguished elderly owner of a ...

 HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES


In spring 2025, Berkeley Rep will present Tectonic Theater Project’s HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES  , written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich and conceived and ...

the aves
the aves
5/2 - 6/8/2025


Closing out the 2024/25 season, Berkeley Rep will present the world premiere of Jiehae Park’s the aves . In the summer, an old man and ...


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COMPANY & More Lead San Francisco / Bay Area's June 2024 Top Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - June 03, 2024

San Francisco / Bay Area is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for June 2024 include the Company national tour and more....

Review Roundup: GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL World Premiere at Berkeley Rep


by Joshua Wright - May 17, 2024

The world premiere of Galileo: A Rock Musical is now on stage Berkeley Rep now through Sunday, June 23, 2024. ...

Review: GALILEO At Berkeley Repertory Theatre


by Steve Murray - May 16, 2024

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Video: Watch an All New Trailer For GALILEO at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Starring Raul Esparza


by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2024

An all new trailer has been released for GALILEO:  A ROCK MUSICAL, starring  Raúl Esparza, Jeremy Kushnier, and more, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Check out the video here!...

TodayTix Extends Bay Area Theatre Week


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2024

TodayTix extends Bay Area Theatre Week, offering more opportunities to enjoy top local productions. Learn how to purchase tickets....

The Magic Theatre and Campo Santo Announce the World Premiere of GARUDA'S WING


by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2024

Experience the world premiere of GARUDA’S WING, a groundbreaking performance brought to you by MAGIC THEATRE and CAMPO SANTO. Catch the latest in innovative theatre in San Francisco....

GALILEO & More Lead San Francisco / Bay Area's Summer 2024 Top Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - May 10, 2024

San Francisco / Bay Area is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for May 2024 include Galileo, Evita and more!...

GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL Starring Raúl Esparza Extends at Berkeley Rep


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 09, 2024

Due to popular ticket demand, Berkeley Repertory Theatre has extended the world premiere musical, Galileo: A Rock Musical. Learn how to purchase tickets!...

EXTREME ACTS Comes to the Marsh This Weekend


by Stephi Wild - May 09, 2024

 The world premiere of Extreme Acts by award-winning playwright Lynne Kaufman, which was originally announced as a two-play production at The Marsh San Francisco has now been updated to a 60-minute standalone performance....

Marin Theatre Announces Two U.S. Premieres And More For 2024/25 Season


by A.A. Cristi - May 07, 2024

Marin Theatre reveals its 24/25 season featuring two U.S. premieres and more....

Past Shows

Cult of Love
Cult of Love
1/26 - 3/3/2024


WRITTEN BY LESLYE HEADLAND  DIRECTED BY TRIP CULLMAN  IN ASSOCIATION WITH RED YES STUDIO, RACHEL SUSSMAN, AND SEAVIEW    RODA THEATRE  TICKES NOW ON SALE ...

Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke
11/15 - 12/23/2023


BY DAVID CALE THE VINEYARD THEATRE PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY LEIGH SILVERMAN FEATURING BILLY CRUDUP WEST COAST PREMIERE RODA THEATRE TICKETS NOW ON SALE Tony and ...

Bulrusher
Bulrusher
10/27 - 12/3/2023


BY  EISA DAVIS DIRECTED BY  NICOLE A. WATSON A CO-PRODUCTION WITH MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER PEET’S THEATRE OCT 27–DEC 3, 2023 TICKETS NOW ON SALE   ...

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive


BY SELINA FILLINGER DIRECTED BY ANNIE TIPPE RODA THEATRE SEP 16–OCT 22, 2023 TICKETS NOW ON SALE Berkeley Rep brings you this gleefully feminist satire just in ...

Out of Character
Out of Character
6/23 - 7/30/2023


Before he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ( The Band’s Visit ), Ari’el Stachel grew up in Berkeley, an ...

Goddess
Goddess
7/5 - 9/27/2022


book: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; lyrics: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; music: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; dir: Saheem Ali....

Goddess
8/13 - 9/25/2022


book: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; lyrics: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; music: Mkhululi Z. Mabija, Michael Thurber; dir: Saheem Ali....

Swept Away
1/9 - 2/13/2022

Swept Away
6/14 - 7/26/2020

Happy Days
5/26 - 7/5/2020


Paulina, the reigning Queen Bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant. But the mid-year arrival of ...

Becky Nurse of Salem
12/12 - 1/26/2020


Sarah Ruhl; dir: Anne Kauffman. World Premiere...

White Noise
9/26 - 11/10/2019


Suzan-Lori Parks; dir: Jaki Bradley....

The Great Wave
9/12 - 10/27/2019


Francis Turnly; dir: Mark Wing Davey. American Premiere...

Kiss My Aztec!
5/28 - 7/14/2019


This fresh, irreverent musical comedy could only spring forth from the clever and culturally savvy mind of John Leguizamo (who seriously schooled Berkeley Rep audiences ...

The Good Book
4/25 - 6/9/2019


Denis O?Hare, Lisa Peterson; dir: Lisa Peterson....

HOME
3/22 - 4/21/2019


Roda Theatre: Geoff Sobelle; dir: Lee Sunday Evans....

Metamorphoses
1/24 - 3/10/2019


Peet's Theatre: trans: David R. Slavitt; dir: Mary Zimmerman....

Paradise Square
12/27 - 2/17/2019


Marcus Gardley, Larry Kirwan, Craig Lucas; lyrics: Nathan Tysen; dir: Moises Kaufman. World Premiere...

Fairview
10/4 - 11/4/2018


In Fairview, the Frasier family is gearing up for Grandma's birthday, and Beverly needs this dinner to be perfect. Plus, the radio's on the fritz, ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
9/6 - 10/21/2018


Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring ...


Roda Theatre: Tony Kushner; dir: Tony Taccone....

Office Hour
2/22 - 3/25/2018


Julia Cho; dir: Lisa Peterson. Peet's Theatre:...

Imaginary Comforts
10/5 - 11/19/2017


Daniel Handler; dir: Tony Taccone. World Premiere...

Ain't Too Proud
8/31 - 10/8/2017


The musical which is set against the tumultuous era of the 1960's, begins in Birmingham, Alabama, where the group's founding members, Eddie Kendricks and Paul ...

Roe
3/3 - 4/2/2017


Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated over forty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa ...

Hand to God
2/3 - 3/25/2017


The good children of Cypress, Texas are taught to obey the Bible in order to evade Satan’s hand. But when students at the Christian Puppet ...


adapt: Michael Morpurgo, Emma Rice; dir: Emma RIce. American Premiere...


adapt: Michael Morpurgo, Emma Rice; dir: Emma RIce. American Premiere...

The Last Tiger in Haiti
10/14 - 11/27/2016


Jeff Augustin; dir: Joshua Kahan Brody....

The Last Tiger in Haiti
10/14 - 11/27/2016


Jeff Augustin; dir: Joshua Kahan Brody....

It Can't Happen Here
9/23 - 11/20/2016


adapt: Bennett Cohen, Tony Taccone; dir: Lisa Peterson....

It Can't Happen Here
9/23 - 11/20/2016


adapt: Bennett Cohen, Tony Taccone; dir: Lisa Peterson....


Sarah Ruhl; dir: Les Waters ....

TREASURE ISLAND
4/22 - 6/19/2016


adapt: Mary Zimmerman from Robert Louis Stevenson; dir: Mary Zimmerman....

MACBETH
2/19 - 4/3/2016


William Shakespeare; dir: Daniel Sullivan....

AUBERGINE
2/5 - 3/20/2016


A man shares a bowl of berries, and a young woman falls in love. A world away, a mother prepares a bowl of soup to ...

DISGRACED
11/6 - 12/20/2015


Ayad Akhtar; dir: Kimberly Senior....


adapt: Sean Granery, Kevin O' Donnell; book: W. S. Gilbert; music: Arthur Sullivan; dir: Sean Granery, Thrisa Hodits....

AM?_LIE, A New Musical
8/28 - 10/4/2015


book: Craig Lucas; lyrics: Daniel Mess?, Nathan Tysen; dir: Pam MacKinnon....

One Man, Two Guvnors
5/8 - 6/21/2015


One Man, Two Guvnors delighted both critics and audiences during its hugely popular debut at UK’s National Theatre and its subsequent productions in London’s West ...

Head of Passes
4/10 - 5/24/2015


Tarell McCraney; dir: Tina Landau....

Tartuffe
3/13 - 4/12/2015


adapt: David Ball from Moli...


Jenny Mercein, KJ Sanchez; dir: Tony Taccone....


A fiercely independent journalist and a born hell-raiser, Molly Ivins was a tireless advocate for social justice. Writing for publications such as The Texas Observer ...

The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures


Winner of two Tony Awards, three Obies, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Kushner returns to Berkeley Rep for the West Coast premiere of ...

Tribes
Tribes
4/11 - 5/11/2014


When three smart siblings move back home with their opinionated parents, the cacophony of their family hits a new high—even for Billy who’s deaf. Nina ...

Tristan & Yseult
Tristan & Yseult
11/22 - 1/6/2014


Kneehigh is back! Britain’s beloved theatre company returns to the Bay Area with a glorious story of love. King Mark rules with his head, until ...

The Pianist of Willesden Lane
The Pianist of Willesden Lane
10/25 - 12/8/2013


Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of Lisa Jura, a young ...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike


Christopher Durang—Obie Award winner of such rollicking comedies as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Marriage of Bette & Boo—turns Chekhov ...

No Man's Land
8/3 - 8/31/2013


Is what you remember ever what really happened? With this enigmatic tumble through time, two men circle each other in the limbo of logic, recovering ...

No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land
8/3 - 8/31/2013


Internationally acclaimed for their performances on stage, screen and television, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will star at Berkeley Rep in a revival of Harold ...

Dear Elizabeth
5/24 - 7/7/2013


Roda Theatre: - adapt: Sarah Ruhl from Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell; dir: Les Waters....

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
4/12 - 5/26/2013


Thrust Stage: - William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Wing-Davey....

Fallaci
3/8 - 4/21/2013


Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was larger than life. Her childhood courage resisting the Nazis fueled her work as a war correspondent with an antiauthoritarian zeal ...

Accidental Death of an Anarchist


A bank gets bombed, a suspect dies in custody and the police inquiry turns into…a masterpiece of comedy? Steven Epp returns to Berkeley Rep for ...

The House that will not Stand


Berkeley Rep proudly presents the world premiere of a new play commissioned from an Oakland native: The House that will not Stand by Marcus Gardley ...

The Wild Bride
1/19 - 2/10/2013


Roda Theatre: - adapt: Emma Rice; book: Carl Grose; lyrics: Carl Grose; music: Stu Barker; dir: Emma Rice....


Get ready for Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright. Only Berkeley Rep could unleash this wild world premiere, commissioned from hot young ...

Black n Blue Boys
5/25 - 6/24/2012


Big, bold, beautiful, and fierce—Dael Orlandersmith delivers a riveting performance in Black n Blue Boys. This world premiere introduces us to children and adults forging ...

In Paris
4/25 - 5/13/2012

Red
3/16 - 4/29/2012

A Doctor in Spite of Himself
2/10 - 3/25/2012


“Playing doctor” takes on a whole new meaning as a marital squabble escalates into comic pandemonium. The spirited Martine exacts revenge on her scoundrel of ...

Ghost Light
1/6 - 2/19/2012


Every family creates a sacred story out of love. In Bill Cain’s poignant new play, a man moves in with his mother when she becomes ...

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs


In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Daisey dives into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions profoundly affect ...

The Last Cargo Cult
The Last Cargo Cult
1/12 - 2/20/2011


With The Last Cargo Cult, Daisey travels to a remote island in the South Pacific whose inhabitants actually worship America and its goods. He observes ...

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