The 45-unit complex includes classrooms, a gallery and studio space, offices, storage and outdoor courtyards.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
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Young politico falls for jazz-singing ‘Goddess’ in jubilant Berkeley Rep musical
Ten years in the making, this world premiere at Berkeley Rep combines a Kenyan myth with a modern twist.
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Review: ‘Sanctuary’ is elusive for DREAMers in Berkeley Rep play
Playwright Martyna Majok’s ‘Sanctuary City’ is an unsentimental drama that will seep into your soul.
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Tom Parrish appointed Berkeley Rep’s new managing director
For 19 years, he has been a theater executive or senior leader in organizations ranging from multi-venue performing arts centers to Tony Award-winning theater companies.
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Remembering Carol Suveda, volunteer, community leader, music lover with colorful style
An active volunteer at Freight and Salvage and multiple Berkeley theater companies, Suveda loved attending music festivals, choral singing and participating in Jewish life.
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‘Dana H.’ is the real-life recitation of a kidnap victim’s horrifying experience: Berkeley Rep
The true story is not theater to be lightly enjoyed but rather intensely, sorrowfully, and deeply felt.
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Remembering Judy Holland, Berkeley Rep development director who lived in a ‘castle of love’
Holland also worked as a substitute teacher at Berkeley public schools and was renowned for her vivacious spirit and sense of humor.
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Whaling crew is shipwrecked and ‘Swept Away’ in spellbinding Berkeley Rep musical
The world premiere Berkeley Rep production, long delayed by the pandemic, is set to music by folk/rock band The Avett Brothers.
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Berkeley Rep managing director Susie Medak is stepping down after 3 decades
A self-described “animal of the theater,” Medak will depart Berkeley Rep in August. She’ll pursue executive coaching.
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‘Civic trauma’ of pandemic brings East Bay arts community together
A new coalition of East Bay arts organizations is making joint funding requests of Alameda County and cooperating on a regional “return to the arts” campaign.
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Remembering Peggy Love, mother of the ’60s who broke race barriers while struggling with family secrets
Peggy Love opened one of the first unsegregated coffee houses in downtown Atlanta, and turned her Berkeley home on Elmwood Avenue into an oasis of poetry readings, sunbathing, pot smoking, political meetings, and “hookups” of all sorts.
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Remembering Dorothy Snodgrass, playwright, activist, radio broadcaster for the blind
Dorothy Snodgrass was an administrative assistant at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, and an active member of the UC Berkeley Retirees’ Board of Directors.