"Like ballplayers, theaters sometimes get hot, rapping out hits with unlikely regularity, and the Rep, 41 this year, is on fire. Since 2006, seven shows that originated or were revised there have moved to New York." The New York Times, 10/25/09
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- Tiny Kushner
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Friday, October 16 at 8:00pm - American Idiot
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Tuesday, November 3 at 9:55pm - Aurélia's Oratorio
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Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm - Coming Home
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Friday, January 15 at 8:00pm - Concerning Strange Devices fro...
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Friday, February 26 at 8:00pm - Girlfriend
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Friday, April 9 at 8:00pm - The Wake
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Friday, May 14 at 8:00pm
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As if being a hit on Broadway wasn’t enough, Wishful Drinking star Carrie Fisher is also a bestselling writer once again. The paperback edition of the book version of her autobiographical show, not coincidentally called Wishful Drinking, zoomed up the New York Times bestseller chart to No. 7.Car...
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Every year the challenge is put forth, and every year, that challenge is clobbered.The mission is this: photographer Kevin Berne spends a day at Berkeley Rep shooting the entire staff of Berkeley Rep, one department at a time. The challenge is for each department to come up with an idea, a gimmic...
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As much as we'd love to share the bounty of brilliant writing, great laughs, and incredible performances contained in Tiny Kushner (which closes on Sunday, November 29) right here on the blog, alas, we cannot. Live theatre needs to be seen live. And in a theatre.But, through the wonder of ...
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre Last week, Playbill.com published a good interview with Tony Taccone (our Artistic Director). He talks about developing Passing Strange, American Idiot, and more:
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Tony Taccone may very well be the most prominent artistic director in America right now.
Take a peek inside some of San Francisco's most beautiful high-altitude homes this weekend and raise money for Berkeley Rep.You are invited to an exclusive viewing of the Millennium Towers Condos in San Francisco during their Icons of Design event, which features 25 of the Bay Area’s finest...
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There's actually nothing tiny about Tony Kushner. The legendary writer won a Pulitzer prize for his play Angels in America, and was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing Steven Spielberg's movie, Munich. Now Kushner returns to Berkeley Rep to team up with Artistic Director Tony Taccone, who also staged Angels in Americ...a, Brundibar, Homebody/Kabul and Slavs! Kushner brings his brilliance and humor to bear in a sparkling string of one-act plays—and his gilded language is guided, as always, by an unwavering moral compass. Don’t miss these gems from a theatrical giant. Don’t miss Tiny Kushner.
Rob Hurwitt of The San Francisco Chronicle says "Tiny Kushner delights!"
The New York Times says Tiny Kushner is "A thinking person’s comedy…Berkeley Rep is on fire."
Featuring: J.C. Cutler, Kate Eifrig, Jim Lichtscheidl, and Valeri Mudek.
The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.Read More
Rob Hurwitt of The San Francisco Chronicle says "Tiny Kushner delights!"
The New York Times says Tiny Kushner is "A thinking person’s comedy…Berkeley Rep is on fire."
Featuring: J.C. Cutler, Kate Eifrig, Jim Lichtscheidl, and Valeri Mudek.
The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.Read More
(Ooohhh...deviousness is sweet...) Without question, this is, hands down, my new favorite job responsibility. Late last week Carmel Dean, American Idiot's musical director, stopped by my desk with a funny look on her face, and a question. "When Steven comes back next week, where is he ...
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We probably shouldn't be surprised by the fact that two American idiots won the post-show American Idiot costume contest Halloween night. Audience members arrived in a festive mood for the night's show, and it probably didn't hurt that dressing up got you a free pre-show drink.Afte...
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From Facilities Director Christopher Dawe:One recent rainy Tuesday afternoon, we lost power on our blockof Addison Street. The outage forced us to cancel American Idiot that night because we wereadvised by the PG&E street crew that we wouldn’t have power again untilmidnight — or later. Before...
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In Tiny Kushner, a collection of five short plays by Tony Kushner, Jim Lichtscheidl takes a memorable turn through East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis: a little teleplay in tiny monologues. Jim plays nearly two dozen characters in a fast-paced story about a real-life tax-evasion scheme born in the Mi...
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre At most theatres (including ours), during "preview" performances, playwrights and directors often make daily changes to the script and staging, which can be challenging for the actors. This NYT piece asks, "should actors should be judged harshly if they need prompting for their lines?"
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Although line prompters once played a part in theater, audiences now expect that actors will know their parts.
Don't they know not to cry fire in a crowded theatre? For the third time this month, one of our shows garnered a great review in the New York Times. On October 5, Ben Brantley wrote a rave review for the Broadway production of Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, which was staged by Artistic Di...
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There are Halloween parties, and then there's the American Idiot Halloween party.You can get your Halloween off to a rock-and-roll start at Berkeley Rep! See Green Day’s American Idiot this Saturday, October 31, and start the party early. Come in costume and your first drink before the show...
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre Celebrate the holidays with Aurélia’s Oratorio, where the impossible happens before your eyes. Aurélia Thierrée literally grew up in the circus and has charmed audiences around the world with this dazzling display of stage illusion. Behind her velvet curtain lies a surreal world of surprises, a topsy-turvy time of tricks and transformations.
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Get your Halloween off to a rock-and-roll start at Berkeley Rep! See Green Day’s American Idiot on Halloween and start the party early. If you’re under 30, your ticket is half-price! Come in costume and your first drink before the show is on us. Bar specials include a Bloody Mary, the St. Jimmy, the Letterbomb and othe...rs, as well as an outstanding selection of local brews. Stick around after the show, too. As soon as the curtain falls around 9:30pm, we’ll be giving away prizes for the best costume of the night, and the winner will receive a Levi’s American Idiot tote bag containing a souvenir book, limited edition commemorative poster, the American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums and an American Idiot T-shirt.
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