Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Reopens With Charles Mee's Delightfully Odd 'Wintertime' It was an emotional night at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater on Wednesday, as the theater officially reopened its doors and had an opening night for the first time in 20 months.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Joy and Pandemic' Premiere Postponed at Magic Theatre; Berkeley Rep Delays Reopening Two Bay Area theaters announced surge-related postponements today, joining a parade of events and performers that are moving dates further into the future due to the ongoing pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment 'Paradise Square,' a Musical About 19th Century New York That Played at Berkeley Rep In January 2019, Heads to Broadway A musical that was in development over the last decade and was last seen by an audience here in the Bay Area, 'Paradise Square,' is planning a Broadway run starting next February.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Debuts 'The Waves in Quarantine,' a Musical Film Adaptation of a Virginia Woolf Classic On Thursday night Berkeley Rep is premiering an original musical film piece based on Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves' shot in performers' own homes, featuring some serious Broadway talent.
Arts & Entertainment Fox Theater and Bill Graham Hoping for August Shows, Symphony and Berkeley Rep Aim For September Bay Area performance venues are moving hesitantly but optimistically toward scheduling live shows later this year, after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that checking vaccination cards will allow venues to open without capacity limits starting in mid-June.
Arts & Entertainment All You Need to Know About Virtual Theater in the Bay Area This Fall It will be a while before we’ll be able to come together and sit shoulder-to-shoulder to enjoy the shared experience of live theater, but in the meantime, several Bay Area theater companies are refusing to go completely dark and are producing shows that can be enjoyed at home.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Repertory Theater Announces 2021 Season, Banking on Late-Winter Reopening In a video address to theater subscribers, Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer announces that the theater has put together its 2021 show season, optimistically hoping that theaters like Berkeley Rep will be allowed to reopen by late winter.
Arts & Entertainment ACT Offers Video Streams Of Two Productions; Berkeley Rep to Follow American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Tale of Despereaux' Is a Delightful Musical Fairy Tale Fit for the Holidays Much like it did in seasons past with productions like 'The Wild Bride' and 'The Composer Is Dead, Berkeley Rep' has brought a jolly, family-friendly bit of entertainment to its main stage for this holiday season complete with a few puppets.
Arts & Entertainment 'Gatz,' the Acclaimed Six-Hour Theater Adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby' Comes to Berkeley Rep in February A legendary production that originated over a decade ago with New York's Elevator Repair Service theater company that takes on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby in its entirety is coming to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in February for a special ten-day run.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Good Book' Explores The Bible As Complicated, Human-Made Mess Taking on a topic as enormous and fraught as the Bible, from a historical and intellectual perspective in our modern era, is an admirably ambitious feat. And in 'The Good Book,' playwrights Lisa Peterson and Dennis O'Hare make an impressive attempt.
Arts & Entertainment 'Imaginary Comforts' At Berkeley Rep Delights In The Stories We Tell To Comfort (And Scare) Ourselves Writer Daniel Handler, best known for his children's books under the nom de plume Lemony Snicket, was scribbling ideas after the death of his father, ideas and characters that would ultimately coalesce into
Arts & Entertainment The Temptations Get The Biographical Jukebox Treatment They Needed With 'Ain't Too Proud' Berkeley Rep appears set to send another world-premiere hit to Broadway (the short-lived Amelie musical notwithstanding) with Ain't Too Proud, a biographical jukebox musical that traces the history of famed Motown quintet The
Arts & Entertainment New Daniel Handler Play 'Imaginary Comforts' To Premiere At Berkeley Rep In October A new play by local author Daniel Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, by the name of Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be having its world
Arts & Entertainment 'Monsoon Wedding' Extended Another Week At Berkeley Rep By Popular Demand The world-premiere musical adaptation of the film Monsoon Wedding (see my SFist review here), now playing at Berkeley Rep, has just been extended for the third time, and there is now a new
Arts & Entertainment Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' Becomes An Exuberant, Big-Hearted Musical At Berkeley Rep "There's so much music at an Indian wedding! It makes perfect sense as a musical," said director Mira Nair when she was trying to sell Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone on her
Arts & Entertainment 'Roe' At Berkeley Rep Tells The Frustratingly Real Story Behind The Landmark Abortion Case In the world of legal activism, there may be no such thing as a perfect plaintiff. But in the landmark court case that opened the door to legal abortion in the United States,
Arts & Entertainment 'Hand To God' Is A Raucous, Irreligious Riot At Berkeley Rep Robert Askins's somewhat frightening, wholly hilarious black comedy Hand to God is less likely to scare off too many unsuspecting Christians unclear about its blasphemous premise in its run at Berkeley Rep as
Arts & Entertainment Video: Carrie Fisher's Berkeley Rep Show Remembered In Interview In 2008, the late Carrie Fisher told local news station ABC7 that she was "a better writer than an actor," before demonstrating her way with words by joking that people always told her
Arts & Entertainment '946: The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips' Brims With Inventive Energy At Berkeley Rep In what's become a welcome, holiday-season tradition at Berkeley Rep, Britain's Kneehigh Theatre company has returned once more for their fourth production on a Berkeley stage, a new piece adapted from a World
Arts & Entertainment <i>Last Tiger In Haiti</i> Eats You Up With Suspense At Berkeley Rep You ever see a show that just seems like a bunch of random, disparate plot points, but then those random, disparate plot points all come together to form an unexpected, harrowing climax that
Arts & Entertainment <i>John Leguizamo: Latin History For Morons</i> Is A Funny, If Rough, Sketch Of Colonial History Veteran comedian and performer John Leguizamo is back at Berkeley Rep this summer performing a world premiere of his latest one-man show, a comical history class on Latin America titled Latin History for
Arts & Entertainment Mary Zimmerman's <i>Treasure Island</i> At Berkeley Rep Is A Dazzling And Smart Adventure Ride Director and playwright Mary Zimmerman is something of a legend at Berkeley Rep, having brought her stunning Metamorphoses there in 1999 before going on to win a Tony Award for direction after taking
Arts & Entertainment John Leguizamo To Preview 'Latin History For Dummies' At Berkeley Rep This Summer In what's likely to be the pre-Broadway trial run of his latest one-man show, Obie and Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo is bringing Latin History For Dummies to Berkeley Rep for a world
