Door-slamming lovers are adrift in ‘Wintertime’ as live theater returns to Berkeley Rep
Charles L. Mee’s ‘Wintertime’ is the Berkeley Rep’s first live production since the beginning of lockdown.
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Oakland Theater Project pulls Joan of Arc into the tumultuous present
The world premiere of playwright Lisa Ramirez’s one-act reimagining of the Joan of Arc story spans seven centuries.
‘Gum,’ not ‘gun’: Asylum seeker subjected to absurd interrogation in Shotgun Players’ ‘The Claim’
Language barriers, indifference and ignorance by civil servants lead a Congolese refugee’s interview for asylum to disastrous results.
Bubble wrap, water fights, Nina Simone’s voice: ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ chronicles what makes life worth living
The Oakland Theater Project’s extraordinary one-person show, lets the audience commemorate the beauty of life along with the play’s narrator.
Aurora Theatre’s ‘stoop stories’ of sex, drugs and library books are intimate and memorable
Playwright Dael Orlandersmith’s filmed one-person creation, “Stoop Stories,” is now streaming via the Aurora Theatre through Oct. 2.
Buffoonery, tragedy, live theater: Cal Shakes’ ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is a delight
‘The Winter’s Tale’ is the California Shakespeare Theater’s first live, in-person performance since October 2019.
In brief
Berkeley Rep delays its reopening due to rise of COVID-19 cases
The Berkeley Rep is pushing back its opening one month until November.
Berkeley playwright dreamed up tale of post-human robot museum curators during walks in the Rose Garden
Miyoko Conley, a grad student at Cal, was selected to have her play performed at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival the weekends of July 16 and 25.
Here’s a look ahead at live performances as local theaters prepare to reopen
After months of being entertained through livestreaming, artists are eager to return to the stage, so pull up a seat, sit back and enjoy.
A quartet of one-act vignettes from overlooked Black playwright Kathleen Collins
Playgoers drive into the parking lot of the Flax Art and Design store in downtown Oakland, watch through the windshields of their cars and listen through their FM radios.
TheatreFirst virtually presents the creative and entertaining ‘Magic Fruit’
Two women cook elaborate meals for each other: One fixes the Persian dishes her grandparents savored, while the other finally learns to love the Mexican cuisine of her roots.
Free from Berkeley Rep: ‘The Waves in Quarantine,’ six short, evocative films
The six-part series is patterned after the 1990 musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental novel, ‘The Waves.’
