Arts & Entertainment 'Macbeth' At Berkeley Rep Is A Quiet Triumph For Frances McDormand I'm never fully on board with productions of Shakespeare that offer little in the way of visual or conceptual updates to The Bard's 400-year-old dialogue and poetry much like I have no patience
Arts & Entertainment 'Aubergine' at Berkeley Rep Is A Melancholy, Food-Obsessed Look At Death Julia Cho's new play Aubergine, a world premiere that also marks the first production in the newly rechristened Peet's Theatre, is a thoughtful and fairly traditional play centered on two essential aspects of
Arts & Entertainment From Macbeth to Coward: A Bay Area Winter Theater Preview Now that the holidays are behind us, we can focus on the ongoing and upcoming seasons of our best local theater companies. And assuming you like live theater and don't always know what's
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's Renovated Thrust Stage Getting Named After Peet's Coffee Berkeley Repertory Theater has been undergoing a major renovation project in their original, three-quarter round Thrust Stage space, which is set to be unveiled to the public with a grand opening celebration on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Pirates of Penzance</i> At Berkeley Rep Strict traditionalist fans of Gilbert and Sullivan how many of you are there, really? are probably going to be put off by The Hypocrites' new production of Pirates of Penzance, which has arrived
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Amélie, A New Musical</i> at Berkeley Rep I knew going into the new musical version of one of my favorite films, Amélie, that I was going to struggle with the adaptation. Could it work? Was it necessary? Would I miss
Arts & Entertainment Director Talks About <i>Amélie</i> The Musical, Premiering Soon At Berkeley Rep The beloved French film Amélie (2001) has been turned into a musical which will be having its world premiere in September at Berkeley Rep. The book is by acclaimed playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude
Arts & Entertainment Frances McDormand Coming To Berkeley Rep Next Season In <em>Macbeth</em> Oscar winner and all around terrific actress and person Frances McDormand will be starring as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dark and murderous Macbeth, next season at Berkeley Rep. The addition to the 2015-2016
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: One Man, Two Guvnors at Berkeley Rep As the local theater season winds to a close at two of our major companies, Berkeley Rep and A.C.T., there are two fun and splashy productions closing out their mainstage schedules.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tartuffe' at Berkeley Rep You don't need to be a scholar of theater to have heard of Tartuffe, or its acclaimed playwright Molière. Molière, like Shakespeare before him, was both an actor and playwright and has come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kathleen Turner in 'Red Hot Patriot' at Berkeley Rep Biographical one-person shows aren't always the stuff of thrilling drama. But if you take a legendary actress and give her some witty material written by one of our country's great political columnists, it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'An Audience With Meow Meow' At Berkeley Rep Now in its world premiere at Berkeley Rep is a show that defies easy categories, but here it goes: It's part post-modern cabaret, part meta performance art, part satire of cabaret cliches, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The House That Will Not Stand' at Berkeley Rep Plays about race are often tough sells, especially when the play has a didactic motive around a racially relevant moment in history. But even though The House That Will Not Stand, in a
Arts & Entertainment Audience Member At 'No Man's Land' Passes Out, Refuses To Go To Hospital Until He Sees The End An 80-year-old man who attended opening night of No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep on Sunday reportedly passed out with about 30 minutes left in the second act of the play. He was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'No Man's Land' at Berkeley Rep It's not often enough that the Bay Area gets treated to bona fide stars and theater talents on our stages, and we hope that the pre-Broadway tryout of a new production of Harold
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Dear Elizabeth' At Berkeley Rep A book or play in letters is not a new concept see A.R. Guerney's 1989 play Love Letters as one popular example of the form, or Alice Walker's The Color Purple but
Arts & Entertainment Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Will Take The Stage At Berkeley Rep Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart — two of the greatest actors on this planet, Middle Earth or the final frontier — will grace the stage in Berkeley for four weeks this summer theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Pericles' at Berkeley Rep In the hands of certain directors, contemporary productions of Shakespeare can become something far greater than the sum of their parts. Mark Wing-Davey is one of those directors, and his take on Pericles,
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's New Season to Kick Off With 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Excellent news for Christopher Durang fans: The absurd comic playwright's latest Broadway hit, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will be the opening play of Berkeley Rep's 2013-14 season, fresh off of
Arts & Entertainment Spring Theater Preview Spring is officially here, after a very spring-like winter, and now it's time to bring you a roundup of theater happenings around the Bay Area as our local theater companies wind down their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Fallaci' At Berkeley Rep In their valiant efforts to produce new work, Berkeley Rep occasionally has some misses, and their latest mainstage play, Fallaci, is one of them. The play centers on the life and provocative persona
Arts & Entertainment Tony Kushner, Kneehigh Theatre Both Returning for Berkeley Rep's New Season This week, Berkeley Rep announced six of the plays in the upcoming 2013-14 season, and among them will be the acclaimed Tony Kushner play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
Arts & Entertainment Get Tickets For Berkeley Rep's Annual Gala On Sunday, April 20, the fine folks of Berkeley Repertory Theater cross the bay for their annual fundraising gala, Ovation, at the Four Seasons. If you have the means, it's likely to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Troublemaker' At Berkeley Rep Over the last couple of decades, Berkeley Rep has become a hotbed for new work, where young playwrights are not only sought out but cultivated, nurtured, and given room to grow. Such was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Chinglish' at Berkeley Rep Are you an American? Do you speak a foreign language with any fluency? Of course not. This assumption forms one of the core jokes in David Henry Hwang's new play Chinglish, which comes