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The acting program that trained Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Elizabeth Banks is closing because of financial difficulties.
Sarah Ruhl's "Smile" and "Melancholy Play" offer gems of lyricism and spiritual solace in a grief-riven era.
"Your job as a director is to know the play well enough to identify when someone else has a better idea," he says.
The press secretary is representing someone else, playing a part, telling a story, and the media isn't just an audience, but representatives, too.
Playwright Karen ZacarÃas and director KJ Sanchez make remarkable choices in adapting Shakespeare's classic into a queer, bilingual tale of colonial California.
Adam Bock's play anatomizes our tethers to the world around us and exposes their fragility.
Ãrpád Schilling's play seeks to delineate how just a couple small disturbances can fester, eating away our social fabric.
It's a refreshing return to pre-pandemic numbers when many others' output remains reduced.
AÌrpaÌd Schilling doesn't think of himself as Hungarian. "I'm European, or I'm a human," he says.
Sam Chanse's world premiere collects a bunch of finely etched fragments but lets each crumble just as it begins to glimmer.
Yes, the Oakland theater artist, poet and stylist, 30, really dresses this way all the time, seven days a week.
Jessica Huang's play painstakingly diagrams the human-sized ripple effects of racist U.S. immigration policy.
Berkeley Rep has a long, proud history of developing and launching musicals that go on to have great success on larger stages.
"Paradise Square," about a Black and Irish Manhattan neighborhood during the Civil War, had its world premiere at Berkeley Rep.
Longtime ACT artistic director's new book is a personal examination of the two writers who have most deeply influenced her, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
The Texas law deputizing ordinary citizens as bounty hunters of those who aid and abet abortions recalls the witch hunt in "The Crucible."
With under $200,000 of investment, the nearly 100-year-old venue is up and running after years of disrepair.
Composer Dave Malloy makes the internet take musical form in this Berkeley production, which runs through May 29.
"We have dreams coming to this country, but we start realizing we don't know when we'll be able to hug our parents again."
Students created "Womyn" from interviews they conducted with participants in the successful protest against the administration's decision to go coed.
The Cal Performances production takes pains to make the arguments that slavery is bad, that power corrupts, that "violence begets violence."
Eight years in, as Mark wants to take their relationship to the next level, Maggie's sexual life flashes before her eyes.
At its best, Cleavon Smith's world-premiere commission is both academic boxing match and artistic playground.
The 2022-23 lineup of music, dance, theater and more includes new stage works by William Kentridge and Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon.
The musical, which comes to Berkeley for one night only, is a fully staged work that recasts the slave trade as a parable about gods and humans.
