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New West Berkeley mural is a repeated Hindi prayer
Berkeley artist Amrita Singhal recently finished the mural — her first — on the side of the building that once housed Sam’s 58 Club.
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Defiant teen gets caught up in all-out fairy battle in this enchanting free...
'Faeries of the Moonlight,' a modern musical fairy tale set in the airy amphitheater at John Hinkel Park, is suitable for all ages.
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Young boy given away by his adopted parents thinks he’s a wolf and yearns for...
The Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Stage is a "gut punch," director Elizabeth Carter said. A puppet custom-made for the play represents part of the child's character.
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‘Born With Teeth’ imagines the relationship when Shakespeare and Marlowe meet
The idea for the production sprang instantly when playwright Liz Duffy Adams learned that the two giants of Elizabethan theater might have collaborated on Shakespeare's Henry VI.
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Never-before-seen photos of post-war Berlin and Jerusalem after the Six-Day...
The renowned Russian-Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac's poignant photos are on view at the Magnes Collection.
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Berkeley Rep’s ‘POTUS’ is a vulgar, mostly comic romp
The title, 'POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,' sets the tone for the play's silly brand of political humor.
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Funny new Berkeley play takes aim at tech bros, AI and the ethical void in...
'The Engine of Our Disruption,' a world premiere at Berkeley's Central Works, will have you thinking while you chuckle.
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Berkeley Rep’s ‘Bulrusher,’ set in 1950s Booneville, is an evocative but...
Eisa Davis’ Pulitzer-winning play, written partly in the dying Boontling dialect of Anderson Valley, follows an 18-year-old girl with the power to tell fortunes though a town full of secrets.
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Classic drag rock musical ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ makes for fabulous...
The Shotgun Players production of the now 25-year-old hit musical is as fun and outrageous as ever.
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This ‘Cinderella’ is a struggling Berkeley artist who finds happily ever...
The Berkeley Playhouse production of the age-old tale has a few local touches, such as allusions to Cheese Board and the Butcher's Son in the set.
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Aurora Theatre’s ‘1984’ disturbs as authoritarian peril looms
The adaptation of George Orwell's classic tale of thought police, hidden cameras and the crushing power of the state resonates strongly in our current political moment.
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Billy Crudup is a devious inveigler in Berkeley Rep’s ‘Harry Clarke’
The award-winning actor plays a timid Midwesterner who insinuates himself into a wealthy and gullible family in this one-man psychological thriller.
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A tender college romance stirs to life on Ashby Stage in ‘Babes in Ho-lland’
The world premiere Shotgun Players production from Deneen Reynolds-Knott is set to nostalgia-steeped '90s music.
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All’s not as merry as it seems in Berkeley Rep’s ‘Cult of Love’
The humorous, insightful tale from playwright Leslye Headland slowly sucks viewers into the dark undercurrents of a family at Christmas time.
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Aurora Theatre’s ‘Manahatta’ links 17th century’s rapacious capitalists to...
The same actors play the greedy 17th-century Dutch East India Company bigwigs who “purchased” Manhattan and the power-hungry 21st-century investment bankers about to go under.
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Strong performances spark Central Works’ ‘Boss McGreedy’
Michael Ray Wisely plays a corrupt political boss in Berkeley Central Works Theater Company's premiere of Gary Graves' play.
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Oakland Theater Project explores the toll of disability in ‘Cost of Living’
Directed by Emilie Whelan, 'Cost of Living' explores the lives and relationships of two disabled people and their caregivers in modern-day New Jersey.
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‘The Far Country’ lyrically explores the complexity of the Chinese American...
Lloyd Suh's play universalizes three generations of one family’s immigration story in its West Coast premiere at the Berkeley Rep.
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Funny and fast-paced, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ inspires love and harmony
Featuring a multi-tier, colorful set and a mix of period and modern costumes, Shotgun Players' Berkeley production is imaginative and cheerful.
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