What strange devices? And what distant West? Or is it East? Find out as we go on location to the Berkeley ...

Things aren’t always what they seem.

A photographer disagrees. Grumbling, he notes that most people are what they seem. Such a disappointment that is.

If disappointment is evaluated using this criteria, then Naomi Iizuka, in her World Premiere of Concerning ...

Today, Berkeley Rep announced their 2010-11 season. The slate of eight new shows includes one written by Artistic Director Tony Taccone, two “audacious” monologues including one about Steve Jobs, and a new look at Lemony Snicket’s The Composer ...

Berkeley Rep looks to continue its strong season (American Idiot, Tiny Kushner, Aurelia’s Oratorio, Coming Home) when Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West opens Wednesday night at the Roda Theatre.

Taking its title from a treatise on photography ...

You might think AIDS and South Africa aren’t exactly a romantic combination for an enjoyable night on the town. But in Coming Home playwright Athol Fugard tells us a heartbreaking story with such patience, earnest and utter charm ...

Two heavyweight openings tonight in the San Francisco Bay Area. Phèdre, starring Seanna McKenna, who according to the National Post “holds the Canadian patent on greek tragedy” opens at the American Conservatory Theatre. While across the Bay Bridge, ...

In Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of Coming Home, two enthusiastic local children are enjoying their stage debuts. Five-year-old Kohle Thomas Bolton and 11-year-old Jaden Malik Wiggins share the role of Mannetjie, playing the plucky boy in two different scenes because ...

Berkeley pride hits the Big Apple again. This time it’s the hugely successful American Idiot musical—based on the smash Green Day album of the same name—which, according to a post on Broadwayworld.com will open on Broadway, ...

Loni dons the costume, but can she play the part at the opening of Aurelia’s Oratorio at Berkeley Rep?

Now I know what a French earthquake would look like at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley.

Last night when the majestic red drapes start swaying back and forth, the entire rig threatens to collapse. We hold our collective breath. ...

Not exactly fall off your chair news, everyone has seen this coming for many, many months. Maybe even most of 2009. It has to be the most talked about on- or off-Broadway show of 2009. That, of course, ...

Tony Kushner’s mantel is a crowded place—a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obies, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama—and he shows why in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s reunion production of Tiny ...

Last night, after Club One, we had a great time at Berkeley Rep. Check out Loni’s crayola work.

Tiny Kushner ...