Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1968, the company runs seven productions each season from its two stages in Downtown Berkeley. It won a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater 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. Download high resolution version (1548x928, 310 KB)Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California Photo taken by Kirk Abbott 4/9/05. ... Regional theatres (also called resident theatres) in the United States are professional theatre companies outside of New York City that produce their own seasons. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Downtown Berkeley in the foreground, with San Francisco seen across the Bay. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... A proscenium theater is a theater space whose primary feature is a large archway (the proscenium arch) at or near the front of the stage, through which the audience views the play. ... In theater, a thrust stage is one that extends into the audience on three sides and is connected to the back stage area by its up stage end. ...

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). Photo of Henrik Ibsen in his older days Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 – May 23, 1906) was an influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama (dubbed the father of modern drama). It is said that Ibsen is the most frequently performed... Ghosts (in Norwegian, Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1881 and first staged in 1883. ... Terrence McNally is an openly gay American playwright. ... Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is an Academy Award-winning and the first and only Hispanic actress in history to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. ... Maria Callas on book cover Maria Callas (Greek name: Μαρία Καλογεροπούλου) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. ... Moisés Kaufman (born 1964) is a playwright and director. ... The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia (see the Shepard article for more on the incident). ... Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America. ...

Additional regional theatre companies

• American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
• Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California.
• San Jose Repertory Theatre.
• California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, California.
• San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.

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External links

• Berkeley Repertory Theatre website
• Theatre Bay Area website
• Follow a Berkeley Rep production from conception to opening night on KQED's Spark program