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Directed by Les WatersRead by Charles Shaw RobinsonFrom a perch beyond this life, an actor observes as a group of masked people finally return to the courtyard of Berkeley Rep — to the theatre, the place we made to gather, breathe together,
It's 1959, and tobacco smoke snakes across the bustling café from its prized corner table, where artists and students debate political treatises, muse on philosophy, and share thrilling new poetry.
Read by Steven Anthony Jones and BD WongOn a chilly autumn night, an old fisherman makes his way to the lake in the dark. He casts a line...and reels in the ghost he's been seeking.
Straddling the worlds of her divorced parents, Yasmine doesn't feel fully at home in either. Desperate to see her best friend in San Francisco, she embarks on the voyage across the Bay alone, exhilarated at her newfound independence.
How do you find your people in middle school — especially when you don't quite fit the mold? A girl experiments, assimilates, adapts, and journeys towards genuine self-love and community.
Bored, lost, and lonely, a teenager stumbles into a café. While eating a cup of soup, he hears a wondrously inscrutable sonata, and begins to sense that being lost might not be such a lonesome condition after all.
Sometimes music becomes indelibly linked to specific memories, invoking the people with whom we shared them. Songs by Isaac Hayes, Peter Tosh, Stevie Wonder, the Doors, the Knight Brothers, and Patti LaBelle conjure a deep friendship, one that
Hope, fear, excitement, and a dizzying array of possibilities unspool across an expectant dad’s imagination, as he and his partner navigate medical uncertainties and rediscover each other as almost-parents.
A young oboist kisses a pianist on a street corner. At long last! But the kiss unlocks pressures, expectations, dreams, and fears. Can we learn to live with uncertainty? To ask for what we need?
A neighborhood park — its playground, sloping hillside, and basketball court; its tunnel to a rose garden and many paths — bears witness to a boy, growing up and growing old.
This is the last Repisode in the 19/20 season! This is Part Two of our special two-part Core series on SCHOOL GIRLS. In this series, Berkeley Rep directing fellow Nailah Harper-Malveaux, who also worked as the assistant director on the show, sp
In a grand finale to our prematurely closed play, we are launching a special two-part CORE series around SCHOOL GIRSLS: OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY. In this series, Berkeley Rep directing fellow Nailah Harper-Malveaux, who also worked as th
For the Audio Program portion of Repisodes, we read out loud from the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. It's like we are reading y
As many of you know, we very sadly had to close our show CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA early. But we still had two conversations with our cultural partners outstanding and ready to roll...so the art continues!This Core episode, where we co
Yes, performances for Jocelyn Bioh's SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY were cancelled. Which makes us incredibly sad. but if you are a Berkeley Rep subscriber or already bought an e-ticket, you received a link to a video of the one
As many of you know, the theaters are all closed. We very sadly had to close our show CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA early. But we still had two conversations with our cultural partners outstanding and ready to roll...so the art continues!T
For the Audio Program portion of Repisodes, we read out loud from the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. It's like we are reading y
In this Repisode we talk with Culture Clash - the legendary Latino performance troupe made up of Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza - about what it was like to update material from their 20+ year catalog of interviews and cr
For this edition of The Core for BECKY NURSE OF SALEM, we speak with local Wiccan priestess Carolyn Hunt about witchcraft today, her part in the creation of Becky Nurse, and her reactions to the play. Our playwright, dramaturg, director, and
In this Repisode we talk with Sarah Ruhl, the playwright of BECKY NURSE OF SALEM, about what has changed in her thinking about the play as it has moved from development to the stage, and how current world events have permeated the play.Becky
For the Audio Program portion of Repisodes, we read out loud from the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. For the BECKY NURSE Prog
For this edition of The Core for WHITE NOISE we highlighted selections from our Wednesday Night Speaker Series, in which we interviewed some of the Bay Area's leading thinkers on what they saw in the play. How does Brandi Wilkens Catanese, a
In this Repisode we talk with Suzan-Lori Parks, the playwright of WHITE NOISE, about play’s four contrasting perspectives, and how it anchors difficult topics in love and laughter.Suzan-Lori Parks was named one of time magazine’s “100 Innovat
For the Audio Program portion of Repisodes, we read out loud from the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. For the WHITE NOISE Progra
Yes, the events of THE GREAT WAVE really happened. In this Repisode, lead actress Jo Mei (who plays Hanako) talks with Robert S. Boynton, who wrote the authoritative book about the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, The Invitation-On
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