Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street Berkeley CA 94704- Phone:
- 510-843-4822
- Website:
- http://www.auroratheatre.org
- Capacity:
- 150
A defining characteristic of the Aurora Theatre is its intimate performance space and its emphasis on subtlety, shadings of feeling and ensemble responsiveness. Aurora is often referred to as "chamber theatre." In 18 years of operation, it has won 20 awards from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle in the areas of acting, directing, ensemble and costume work.
Aurora Theatre is uniquely positioned in downtown Berkeley is surrounded by a diverse urban community. Audiences consist of theatregoers from the East Bay and San Francisco, and is quickly expanding in the Greater Bay Area.
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Current Events on Goldstar
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Past Events on Goldstar
Anatol: Six Comic Episodes in the Life of a Philanderer
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $44.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.00
Aurora Theatre Company founding Artistic Director Barbara Oliver returns for the company's 20th anniversary season to direct Arthur Schnitzler's first theatrical work for the stage, Anatol. This world... Learn More.
Body Awareness, an Off-Broadway Comedy by Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $44.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents the hit off-Broadway comedy Body Awareness by Obie Award-winning playwright Annie Baker. It's Body Awareness Week at a small Vermont college, and feminist professor Phyllis,... Learn More.
The Soldier's Tale: An Enchanting Dance, Music and Theater Work
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $44.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $22.00
Set to a score by Igor Stravinsky, this ground-breaking 1918 theatrical work designed "to be read, played, and danced" receives a creative re-imagining by the Aurora Theatre as part of its 20th anniversary... Learn More.
Edward Albee's Searing Comedy of Manners A Delicate Balance
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $44.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $22.00
Tobias and Agnes are a long-married, suburban couple who, with several bedrooms and a well-stocked liquor cabinet, often provide refuge and a measure of comfort to friends and family. Over the course of two... Learn More.
Franz Kafka's Delightfully Grotesque Metamorphosis Makes its American Premiere
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $22.50
Adapted by David Farr and Gísli Örn Gardarsson and directed by Mark Jackson, Metamorphosis is a masterful mix of horror and absurdity, telling the story of a traveling salesman's bizarre transformation... Learn More.
Aurora Theatre Company Presents The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $22.50
Known as "the nightingale of the Delta," Alma Winemiller is a lonely, sensitive misfit hemmed in by her stern, puritanical father and her unstable mother. Rebellious, with an artistic temperament that her... Learn More.
New Comedy Collapse from Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $22.50
Aurora Theatre Company presents Collapse, a new comedy where Hannah's husband has been calling in sick every day while she's on the verge of being laid off...and they're both struggling with infertility.... Learn More.
Naughty & Nice: Holiday Cabaret with Meg Mackay and Billy Philadelphia
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Naughty & Nice is a holiday musical showcase filled with good humor starring Bay Area husband and wife cabaret duo, Meg Mackay and Billy Philadelphia. It mixes Great American Songbook standards and rarities... Learn More.
Palomino: David Cale's Acclaimed Show About a Central Park Carriage Driver
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50
In Palomino writer/performer David Cale plays seven roles in this tale of Kieren McGrath, a handsome and literate Central Park carriage driver who dreams of writing a great novel and ends up as an escort to... Learn More.
Alice Childress' Powerful Play Trouble in Mind at the Aurora
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50
Aurora Theatre Company presents Alice Childress' humorous yet heartbreaking look at racism through the lens of the theatre. Trouble in Mind follows a cast of black and white actors attempting to mount a... Learn More.
Dark Comedy Speech & Debate: Sex, Secrets and Blackmail
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50
Sex. Secrets. Performance-art blogs and blackmail. It's a typical day for a teenager in Salem, Oregon. In Speech & Debate, three teenage misfits discover they are linked by a sex scandal that's rocked their... Learn More.
Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in a Powerful New Production
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50
Written in 1896 and recently revived at London's Donmar Warehouse with this chilling new version by David Eldridge, John Gabriel Borkman is Ibsen's pointed indictment of capitalism and greed. This fiercely... Learn More.
The First Grade World Premiere at the Aurora
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50
Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson explores the risks and rewards of engaging in personal relationships. The First Grade follows the sometimes humorous, sometimes perilous attempts by a schoolteacher to... Learn More.
The Coverlettes Cover Christmas: 1960s Girl Group-Style Music
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents The Coverlettes Cover Christmas. This special holiday show features local singers Darby Gould, Katie Guthorn, and Carol Bozzio Littleton as the members of a fictional girl... Learn More.
Neil LaBute's Comedy Fat Pig at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $22.50
Traditionally handsome Tom falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy woman who also happens to be plus-sized. Pressured to explain his new relationship to his perplexed friends, Tom must come to terms with his... Learn More.
Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!: Depression-Era Drama at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $22.50
Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!, written at the height of the Great Depression, is a beautifully realized tribute to the American working class. The play tells the passionate and ultimately hopeful story of... Learn More.
Jack Goes Boating: Quirky Romantic Comedy from Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents the Bay Area premiere of Bob Glaudini's Off-Broadway hit Jack Goes Boating. This delightful romantic comedy tells the story of a man who enlists the aid of his two best... Learn More.
Miss Julie: Strindberg's Famed Play from Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents August Strindberg's Miss Julie. This explosive drama, which caused controversy upon its 1888 premiere, tells the story of a dangerous affair between a nobleman's daughter and... Learn More.
Betrayed: A Drama About Working for the Americans in Iraq
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Betrayed is a theatrical adaptation of journalist George Packer's eye-opening essay in New Yorker magazine. A Sunni and Shi'a Muslim build a rare bond as they face the daily dangers of working for the... Learn More.
George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Shaw's melodrama, set in a village during the Revolutionary War, was his only full-length play set in America and the work that cemented his career as a playwright. The Devil's Disciple is a witty story of... Learn More.
The Best Man: Gore Vidal's Classic Political Satire at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $21.00
Aurora Theatre presents Gore Vidal's The Best Man. This sophisticated comedy tells the story of two men battling for the Presidential nomination, both of whom must choose between mudslinging and campaigning... Learn More.
Off-Broadway Hit The Busy World Is Hushed at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Episcopalian minister and Bible scholar Hannah contracts a ghostwriter to help her pen a book about a newly discovered gospel. As they set to work putting her thoughts into print, her troubled gay son, fresh... Learn More.
Anti-War Drama The Trojan Women at Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $21.00
Inspired by Euripides' classic anti-war tragedy, Ellen McLaughlin's The Trojan Women vividly recounts the final moments of Trojan civilization in the aftermath of the city's sacking by the invading Greeks.... Learn More.
Off-Broadway Hit Satellites at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Diana Son (Stop Kiss, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) raises challenging questions about parenting, racial identity and community in this Off-Broadway hit. When a young family moves into a predominantly black... Learn More.
Mae West's Seductive and Sassy Broadway Play Sex
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Populated by sailors, socialites, pimps and prostitutes, Sex chronicles the trials and tribulations of an upwardly mobile lady of the night as she travels the world looking for love. Full of salty songs,... Learn More.
Hysteria, A Clever Farce About Sigmund Freud
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $21.00
Hysteria reimagines the last days of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Set in London in 1938, this clever speculation showcases a dying Freud as he handles several unexpected encounters with his... Learn More.
Award-Winning Comedy Hysteria from Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $42.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00 - $21.00
Winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Hysteria re-imagines the last days of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Set in London in 1938, this clever speculation showcases a dying Freud as he deals... Learn More.
Love and Psychotherapy in Pre-Prozac Comedy Bosoms and Neglect
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $19.00
Bosoms and Neglect is acclaimed playwright John Guare's (Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves) pre-Prozac comedy about love and psychotherapy, in which two patients meet in the waiting room of... Learn More.
Biting Academic Satire Private Jokes, Public Places at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
Private Jokes, Public Places offers a disturbing yet humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture. Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis for a public swimming pool... Learn More.
Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright's Mystery-Thriller The Birthday Party at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
In this modern-day classic that peels back the thin veneer of civility on everyday life, Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party follows an evening gone terribly wrong: When two... Learn More.
Cole Porter's Holiday Cheer in A Little Cole in Your Stocking
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
It's a yuletide treat when jazzy, soulful duo Meg Mackay and Billy Philadelphia bring A Little Cole in Your Stocking to the intimate Aurora Theatre. From beloved songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "So... Learn More.
West Coast Premiere of Romantic Comedy Ice Glen at Aurora Theatre Company
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
Ice Glen offers a humorous look at the connections between the worlds of art, society and Mother Nature. Set in 1917 in a soon-to-be-sold mansion in the Berkshires, the play traces a dance of love and... Learn More.
Oscar Wilde's Salome at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
Written in 1891 and banned during rehearsals, Salome is Oscar Wilde's own wild take on the infamous Biblical temptress and her unrequited love for the prophet Jokanaan. A dizzyingly sensual poetic adaptation... Learn More.
Permanent Collection, a Compelling Play about Art
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00 - $19.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents the Bay Area premiere of Permanent Collection. Inspired by the true controversies surrounding Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, this entertaining and explosive new play... Learn More.
Small Tragedy: OBIE Award-Winning Best New American Play
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00 - $19.00
Aurora Theatre Company presents Craig Lucas's Small Tragedy, winner of the 2004 OBIE award for Best New American Play. Called "a play full of interest, intelligence, amusement, and spine-chilling verity... Learn More.
Ibsen's The Master Builder at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
On the anniversary of Ibsen's death, Aurora is presenting Ibsen's most autobiographical drama. The Master Builder examines the life of architect Halvard Solness, once ruthlessly ambitious, but now, in his... Learn More.
Holiday Cabaret Show A Little Cole In Your Stocking
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company jazzes up the holidays with A Little Cole In Your Stocking, a new show by Bay Area husband and wife cabaret duo Meg Mackay and Billy Philadelphia. Mixing classic... Learn More.
Marius: First Play of Pagnol's Famous Marseille Trilogy
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $38.00
- Our Price:
- $19.00
Originally produced in Paris in 1929, Marius is the first play of Pagnol's famous Marseille trilogy featuring Panisse, Fanny and Cesar, the characters after whom legendary chef Alice Waters and her... Learn More.
Arthur Miller's The Price at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00 - $38.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00 - $19.00
In this Arthur Miller classic, a formerly wealthy family, destroyed by the Great Depression, has now been reduced to two estranged brothers and an attic full of their father's possessions. Miller wrote The... Learn More.
One Man, Thirty-Eight Roles: Ron Campbell in The Thousandth Night
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00
An entertainer in 1943 is being transported to a concentration camp when his train derails, giving him one last chance at freedom. In this remarkable play written especially for him, solo performer virtuoso... Learn More.
Bay Area Premiere of Blue/Orange at Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00
Recent winner of England's coveted Olivier, Critics' Circle, and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play, this incendiary tale is a personal and ideological struggle about race, class, mental illness, and... Learn More.
Theatrical Spellbinder Dublin Carol at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere of Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol. Exploring the gap between blarney and real human emotion, Dublin Carol is a subtle portrayal of... Learn More.
Jane Austen's Emma, Live on Stage
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00
The Aurora Theatre presents the West Coast Premiere of a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, the classic novel about the pitfalls of romance that is a joy for the whole family! Learn More.
Aeschylus' The Persians with a Modern Sensibility
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
The Aurora Theatre presents the West Coast Premiere of Aeschylus' The Persians, a Greek tragedy with modern parallels. Learn More.
All the World's a Stage Benefit for Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
This is a one-time only benefit event, which will feature SF Chronicle columnists Jon Carroll, Leah Garchik and C.W. Nevius. The event will be hosted by noted Bay Area academic Bob Osserman. Sure to cover a... Learn More.
Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
Long before Seinfeld did it, Howard Pinter wrote a play that unfolds in reverse chronological order. See the captivating drama Betrayal, a sly and witty look at marital infidelity. Learn More.
"Arresting Drama" Antigone Falun Gong at the Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $18.00
Antigone Falun Gong, performed by the Aurora Theatre Company, is the "engaging," world premiere adaptation of Sophocles's great tragedy, re-set in contemporary China. Learn More.
Off-Broadway Hit Lobby Hero
Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $34.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- $17.00 - $18.00
Drama, comedy, romance -- what more could you ask for? Lobby Hero, the toast of Off-Broadway, from Oscar-nominated writer Kenneth Longergan, at the Aurora Theatre. Learn More.
Map and Directions
Located in the heart of the Downtown Arts District, the Theatre is very accessible.
Aurora Theatre Company is located at 2081 Addison Street, between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Jazz School.
The Berkeley BART station is only a few steps from the front door, and nearby parking. The theatre is also within easy walking distance of Berkeley's best restaurants.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.