As they gather to await the death of their hard-charging, ambitious stage mother, three sisters, and then a fourth, estranged sister, parse through their past in playwright Jez Butterworth's 'The Hills of California,' now playing at Berkeley Rep.

Berkeley Rep's 2025-26 season opened this week with playwright Jake Brasch's semi-autobiographical play 'The Reservoir,' which is an unconventional, mostly unsentimental examination of the parallels between severe alcoholism and dementia.

Sometimes a great cast and a great director coalesce around a particular play and make it sing in ways it only rarely can, and such is the case with the current production of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' playing at Berkeley Rep.

'Steel Magnolias' first showed the theatrical and storytelling potential of the hair salon. And Jocelyn Bioh's 2023 play 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' adapts the concept to a modern-day hair-braiding shop in Harlem, where most of the characters are African immigrants.

Berkeley Rep kicked off its new season this week with a new musical piece by a pair of talented performers and musicians that delves into a mostly untold piece of pre-Civil War history.

In the new musical 'Galileo,' which had its world premiere Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway star Raul Esparza commands the stage as the maverick Seventeenth Century astronomer, in a rock musical that is at turns both audacious and confounding.

The holidays are a fraught time for any family, and for the Dahls, the fictional family in Leslye Headland's new play 'Cult of Love' that just opened at Berkeley Rep, Christmas requires a lot of negotiations, and singing.

It's no small thing to get an audience standing and dancing, lost in the psychedelic/surf groove of a Cambodian-style rock band from the 1970s, in the wake of a story largely about torture and genocide.

On its surface, the summary blurb on Lynn Nottage's Tony-nominated play 'Clyde's' — five formerly incarcerated people grapple with day-to-day struggles in the kitchen of a truck stop diner — doesn't sound like a setup for comedy.

British theater director Emma Rice, whose work has delighted Bay Area audiences for over a decade, has brought her latest work to Berkeley Repertory Theater, and its as visually stunning, emotionally rich, and intricately staged as everything Rice has done previously.

Berkeley Rep likely has another hit on its hands with a world-premiere musical that it has helped nurture since the pre-pandemic times, and Goddess seems assured to be another Broadway-bound show the theater can take credit for launching on its way.