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<p>Director Lisa Peterson won an Obie Award at the famed New York Theatre Workshop. “Working at Berkeley Rep is like playing with the smart kids,” she says. “There is a unique alchemy of audience, artists and staff.”</p> <p>The show features a spectacular new score by Gina Leishman, who creates music for theatre, opera, film and the Mr. Wau-Wa band, a quintet dedicated to Brecht’s songs.</p> <p>Broadway star Ivonne Coll has been tapped to play Mother Courage. The former Miss Puerto Rico’s stage and screen credits include the Tony-nominated Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Godfather II, Nip/Tuck and Six Feet Under.</p>

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.