Berkeley Rep Subscription Series - Six Great Friday Night Plays
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704)
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- $282.00
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- $141.00*
The Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents a subscription series featuring six extraordinary shows from its 2006/07 season. Spend six Friday evenings enjoying the delights of live professional theatre produced by one of the nation's most respected, most adventurous companies. Purchase a subscription package and you will see: Passing Strange, All Wear Bowlers, The Pillowman, To the Lighthouse, The Blue Door and Oliver Twist.
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All offers for Berkeley Rep Subscription Series have expired.
The last date listed for Berkeley Rep Subscription Series was Friday October 27, 2006 / 8:00pm.
1 Goldstar Member Review
Kathleen F.
"Passing Strange" was the 1st of 6 plays we subscribed to thru Goldstar for the 2006-7 season. We enjoyed the show's premise, casting, and performance, tho the acoustics (and/or our aging ears) prevented hearing some of the clever lyrics. The musicians drowned out Stew -- lowering their volume would help, I think. Ticket pick-up was smooth, even with the request to fill out a card at the theatre with information not provided Berkeley Rep by Goldstar.Written on Oct 30 2006
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<p>Ticketholders will be seated in best available seats for each performance, although seats will vary from show to show. Patrons can exchange their tickets for free -- no fees -- by calling the box office prior to 7:00pm the night before the performance.</p> <p>Performances included in this subscription series are: </p>
- Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:00pm – Passing Strange
- Friday, December 1, 2006 at 8:00pm – All Wear Bowlers
- Friday, January 19, 2007 at 8:00pm – The Pillowman
- Friday, March 2, 2007 at 8:00pm – To the Lighthouse
- Friday, April 13, 2007 at 8:00pm – The Blue Door
- Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:00pm – Oliver Twist
Book & lyrics by Stew / Music by Stew & Heidi Rodewald / Created in collaboration with and directed by Annie Dorsen / Choreography by Karole Armitage</p> <p>The world premiere of Passing Strange takes musical theatre on a whole new trip. It’s the heartfelt and hilarious story of a young bohemian who charts a course for “the real” through sex, drugs and rock and roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, the show takes us from black, middle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin and beyond on a journey towards personal and artistic authenticity. See it now before it goes to New York City.</p> <p>Reviews:
“Music this smart and tart, fussy and funny, will never hit the mainstream.” --Village Voice
“Perhaps the finest collection of songs an American songwriter has come up with this year." --New York Times
“Yes, he’s good! We named Stew’s last two LPs Albums of the Year; how many times must you be told?” --Entertainment Weekly
</p> <p>All Wear Bowlers - Friday, December 1, 2006 at 8:00pm
Created by Geoff Sobelle & Trey Lyford / Directed by Aleksandra Wolska </p> <p>In the tradition of Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett, All Wear Bowlers is brimming with hilarious entertainment. These clowns may come from the era of silent films, but they’ve left a deafening trail of laughter across Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. See what happens when they tumble out of their movie and into a wacky world without gravity.</p> <p>Reviews:
“The show features a constant parade of classic slapstick, elegant pratfalls and rigorous sleight of hand...easily the most funny and original show of the year." --New York Times
</p> <p>The Pillowman - Friday, January 19, 2007 at 8:00pm
By Martin Mcdonagh / Directed by Les Waters
Get ready for an edgy and enthralling evening with The Pillowman, which blends black comedy and mystery until “whodunit” is the least of your concerns. A man tells ghost stories to entertain his mentally challenged brother—but then grisly murders that mirror these tales slice through town, and two cops come knocking. Author Martin McDonagh won a Tony Award for his play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and an Oscar for his short, Six Shooter.</p> <p>Reviews:
“A spellbinding stunner. The laughs trail into gulps and gasps.” --New York Times
</p> <p>To the Lighthouse - Friday, March 2, 2007 at 8:00pm
Adapted from Virginia Woolf by Adele Edling Shank / Directed by Les Waters
To the Lighthouse is an ambitious adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s visionary novel, a captivating collaboration from Obie-winning director Les Waters, acclaimed composer Paul Dresher and accomplished playwright Adele Edling Shank. It illuminates the life of a house—where a couple live, argue, love and endure; where children play, cry and grow up; where a woman paints. She paints the sea. She paints the lighthouse. And, finally, she paints the stage.</p> <p>Reviews:
"Obie Award-winning director Les Waters brought Berkeley Rep sold-out runs of Yellowman and The Glass Menagerie. Composer Paul Dresher has been turning the business of eclecticism on its head.” --San Francisco Chronicle
</p> <p>The Blue Door - Friday, April 13, 2007 at 8:00pm
By Tanya Barfield / Directed by Delroy Lindo </p> <p>When he refuses to attend the Million Man March, an African-American professor finds his life thrown into turmoil. Unable to sleep in the bed abandoned by his wife, he’s visited by his ancestors—men who fought to be free, to vote, to obtain justice. The Blue Door is a searing examination of identity that will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to live with—or escape—the past.</p> <p>Oakland’s Delroy Lindo came to prominence with Broadway performances in Master Harold and the Boys and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. He reinforced his reputation with major roles in films such as The Cider House Rules, Get Shorty and Malcolm X. Now on respite from his new TV series, Kidnapped, Lindo turns his hand to directing on Berkeley Rep’s intimate Thrust Stage.
</p> <p>Oliver Twist - Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:00pm
Adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett’s staging of Oliver Twist uses the original language of Charles Dickens’ novel to dramatize one of the most deeply felt stories ever written about childhood. A cast of unforgettable characters brings the underworld of 19th-century London to thrilling life—a city teeming with danger and fear—all seen through the eyes of an astonished child. By turns comic and tragic, musical and dramatic, Bartlett’s Twist was a runaway success in London.</p> <p>Reveiews:
“Dickens in all his dark, gaudy glory... Truly stunning theatre.” --London’s Daily Telegraph
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About the Ticket Supplier: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Known for its amazing and adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a home for emerging and established artists since 1968. With two stages and a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep premieres exhilarating new plays and reimagined classics. In the last five years alone, the company has helped send five shows to Broadway: Green Day's American Idiot, Bridge & Tunnel, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passing Strange and Wishful Drinking. Come see tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep.
Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a state-of-the-art 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. The Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Berkeley's arts district, just a half block from the Berkeley BART station, near lots of restaurants, cafe, pubs, and cool retailers.