Berkeley Rep

Eduardo Machado's play follows a devoted cook who spends forty years guarding her aristocratic employers' Havana mansion after they flee to Miami on the eve of Castro's revolution, only for old loyalties to fracture when the family's daughter finally returns. Berkeley Rep's Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal directs.

Fresh off its Broadway run, Bess Wohl's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play makes its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep. Set in 1970s Ohio, it follows Lizzie and a group of women who gather in a rec center basement to change their lives and maybe the world, revisited decades later through her daughter's search for answers. Whitney White (Jaja's African Hair Braiding) directs this bitingly funny memory play about what we inherit and what we're still fighting to understand.

York Walker's West Coast premiere unfolds in a superstition-steeped Georgia town, where a woman ready to leave is pulled back in when her once-awkward childhood friend returns as a smooth-talking blues star rumored to have made a dark deal of his own.

Sara Bareilles writes music and lyrics for this world-premiere musical adapting Meg Wolitzer's bestselling novel, with Wolitzer co-writing the book alongside Sarah Ruhl and two-time Tony winner Michael Arden directing. Six teenagers who bond at a 1970s arts camp carry that friendship into adulthood in New York City, even as everything else about their lives changes.

Ryan J. Haddad writes and performs this West Coast premiere solo show about his search for sex, intimacy, and love as a gay man with cerebral palsy, developed at Berkeley Rep's own Ground Floor program and directed by Danny Sharron.

Talene Monahon's West Coast premiere, a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist co-produced with Huntington Theatre Company, jumps between a 1920s Armenian American man's legal fight for the right to belong and his descendant's clash on the set of a reality show a century later.

Tom Stoppard's Tony and Olivier-winning final play traces one Jewish family through sixty years of Viennese history, from the 19th century's glittering promise to the Holocaust's shattering aftermath. Longtime Stoppard collaborator Carey Perloff directs, working in close partnership with Stoppard before his death.