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Berkeley Repertory Theatre
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| Address | 2025 Addison Street Berkeley, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°52′16.06″N 122°16′9.47″W / 37.8711278°N 122.2692972°W / 37.8711278; -122.2692972Coordinates: 37°52′16.06″N 122°16′9.47″W / 37.8711278°N 122.2692972°W / 37.8711278; -122.2692972 |
| Public transit |  Downtown Berkeley |
| Type | Regional theater |
| Capacity | Thrust Stage: 401 Roda Theatre: 600 |
| Opened | 1968 (company) 1980: Thrust Stage 2001: Roda Theatre |
| Website | |
| www.berkeleyrep.org | |
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. It runs seven productions each season from its two stages in Downtown Berkeley.
Contents
1 History
2 Premieres
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
The company was founded in 1968, as the East Bay's first resident professional theatre. Michael Leibert was the founding artistic director, who was then succeeded by Sharon Ott in 1984. The company won the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 1997. The theater added the 600-seat proscenium Roda Theatre next door to its existing 400-seat asymmetrical thrust stage in 2001, as well as opening its Berkeley Rep School of Theatre the same year. Its current artistic director is Tony Taccone who has been the artistic director since 1997. Managing Director Susan Medak is the current president of the League of Resident Theatres.
Productions are a mix of classic modern plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Terrence McNally's Master Class, the latter featuring Rita Moreno as opera diva Maria Callas, significant recent plays with many West Coast premieres such as Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project and Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and even world premieres such as Kushner's Hydriotaphia and Charles Mee's Fetes De La Nuit.
The Roda Theatre
In the past decade alone, Berkeley Rep has premiered new works by Culture Clash, David Edgar, Francesca Faridany, Leigh Fondakowski, Lillian Groag, Jordan Harrison, Geoff Hoyle, Naomi Iizuka, Charles Mee, and Stew. The Theatre has recently created a string of successes that transferred from Berkeley to Manhattan: Artistic Director Tony Taccone staged Sarah Jones' Tony Award-winning Bridge & Tunnel on Broadway in 2006, and helmed Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's Brundibar in 2007. That summer, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice and Stew's Passing Strange both enjoyed extended off-Broadway runs. Passing Strange opened on Broadway in March 2008.
Berkeley Rep bolsters its commitment to new works through The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep's Center for the Creation and Development of New Work)[1] and year-long Fellowship Program [2] aimed at training the next generation of theatre professionals.
In 2001, the theatre opened Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, which offers training in various theatrical disciplines for all ages and abilities.[3] Located next door to Berkeley Rep's two stages, the School of Theatre also provides a home base for the company's outreach education programs with local teachers and classes.[4] The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre also has a Teen Council made for bay area high school students interested in theatre. The Berkeley Rep Teen Council is most noted for its annual Target Teen One Acts Festival, completely written, directed, produced, and acted by students.[5]
Recently, the theatre opened their 2009-10 season with the first stage production of Green Day's 2004 rock opera American Idiot. The hugely popular show was originally scheduled to run from September 4 through October 11, but was extended twice, finally ending on November 15, 2009.[6] The show subsequently opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 20, 2010.
Recently, the theater partnered with convicted felon Garth Drabinsky to produce a new work. Drabinsky went to jail for fraud and causing the failure of Livent in 1998.
Premieres
1994
The Woman Warrior[7]
1995
- Ballad of Yachiyo
1998
- Hydriotaphia
2002
- Mennochio
2003
- Continental Divide
2005
- Fetes de la Nuit
- The People's Temple
2006
- Passing Strange
2009
- American Idiot
- In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
2010
- Girlfriend
- Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead
Compulsion (co-production with Public Theatre)
2011
How to Write a New Book for the Bible (co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre)- Rita Moreno:Life Without Makeup
2012
Ghost Light(co-production with Oregon Shakespeare Festival)- Emotional Creature
The White Snake (co-production with Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
Black n Blue Boys (co-production with Goodman Theatre)
2013
- Fallaci
- Troublemaker, or the Freakin Kick A Adventures of Bradley Boatright
2014
The House that will not Stand (co-production with Yale Repertory Theatre)- An Audience with Meow Meow
2015
- X's and O's (A Football Love Story)
- 'Amélie, A New Musical
2016
- Aubergine
See also
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco
Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, California
- San Jose Repertory Theatre
TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, California
San Francisco Playhouse, San Francisco, California
- Aurora Theatre (Berkeley)
References
^ "The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep's Center for the Creation and Development of New Work". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2015-06-06..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Berkeley Rep Fellowship Program". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
^ "School of Theatre: Classes". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-21. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
^ "School of Theatre: Classroom Visits". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
^ "School of Theatre: Teen Council!". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
^ Crooks, Peter. "Green Day to debut American Idiot at Berkeley Rep" Diablo Magazine, March 2009.
^ https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/theater/theater-it-s-tough-to-get-ghosts-to-be-human-on-stage.html
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Berkeley Repertory Theatre. |
- Official website
Berkeley Repertory Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
- Theatre Bay Area website
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