BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

During the last week of summer vacation, 12-year-old Suzy Swanson learns that her best friend Franny has drowned. Desperate to make sense of Franny’s death, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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   ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Sarah Ruhl; dir: Les Waters ....

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

William Shakespeare; dir: Daniel Sullivan....

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 ...

Ayad Akhtar; dir: Kimberly Senior....

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

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

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 ...

Tarell McCraney; dir: Tina Landau....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...