Live Oak Theatre
Live Oak Theatre
1301 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley CA 94709- Phone:
- 510-841-5580
- Capacity:
- 143
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Currently, there are no events available at this venue through Goldstar.
Past Events on Goldstar
A Hot Day in Ephesus: Musical Reboot of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Two sets of twins, masters and servants each with the same names (Antipholus and Dromio), are continuously mistaken for each other in all sorts of wacky ways. Sound familiar? But in the world premiere of the... Learn More.
Staged Reading Series Includes The Comedy of Errors, Talley's Folley, Pseudolus
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $5.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Presented by the Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, this staged reading series features three classic plays performed with scripts in hand and minimal costumes and staging. These inexpensive performances are a... Learn More.
The Streetlight People Make It All Up in Spring Improv at AE
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $5.00
The Bay Area's own Streetlight People take the stage at Live Oak Theatre for Spring Improv at AE. Formed in 2008, the Streetlight People perform script-free improv in a variety of modes. For this show they'... Learn More.
Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Performed in Hebrew
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $23.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00
Jewish Circle Productions stages a bold new production of Eve Ensler's play, performed in Hebrew (with English subtitles), and accompanied by an original musical score. This version of The Vagina Monologues... Learn More.
Tom Stoppard's Modern Masterpiece Arcadia
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents Tom Stoppard's acclaimed comic drama Arcadia. This modern classic is set in an English country house in both the early 19th century and the present day, skipping between... Learn More.
Classic Plays Presented in One Night Only Staged Readings by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $5.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, which has produced acclaimed live theater for more than 50 years, presents a series of one-night-only staged readings of classic plays. Performed on the intimate stage at the... Learn More.
Improv at AE, with The Streetlight People and The Five Deadly Improvisers
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $5.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley hosts a pair of local improv groups. The Streetlight People, founded in 2008, present a series of short-form improv scenes and games. They're joined by The 5 Deadly Improvisers,... Learn More.
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: Suspicion and the Search for Truth
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, the search for truth exacts a high cost from those who pursue it. Sister Aloysius, principal of a Catholic school in 1960s Bronx,... Learn More.
Communicating Doors: Comedic Time-Travel Thriller by Alan Ayckbourn
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Murder, mystery, comedy and time travel come together in one of Alan Ayckbourn's wildest plays. A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her traveling back in time. She... Learn More.
Staged Reading of Fortinbras: Lee Blessing's "Sequel" to Hamlet
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $8.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
A staged reading of Fortinbras, which finds the new King of Denmark facing a royal family of ghosts in this comic Hamlet sequel, will be the only entry in the Actors Ensemble of Berkley's summer staged... Learn More.
Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley at Live Oak
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, a profound yet lighthearted meditation on the meaning of devotion, identity and performance. Hailed by The New... Learn More.
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley Presents a Staged Read of the Off-Broadway Hit, Lobby Hero
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents a staged reading of Lobby Hero by playwright and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me). A luckless young security guard is drawn into a local murder... Learn More.
Abbott and Costello Update: Staged Reading of Hu's on First, Shakespeare
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Part of Actors Ensemble of Berkeley's spring staged reading series, Martha Luehrmann directs Hu's on First, Shakespeare. An update of the classic zany skit by Abbott and Costello, Hu features The Avon... Learn More.
Staged Reading of Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Howard Korder's Sea of Tranquility
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Ben and Nessa sell their house in Connecticut to make a new start in New Mexico. But soon their new life is overrun by house guests who won't leave, runaway teens, upset Native Americans and echos from a... Learn More.
George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House at Live Oak Theatre
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Actor's Ensemble of Berkeley opens its 54th season with George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. On the eve of World War I, a weekend in the English countryside becomes a tangle of unlikely attachments and... Learn More.
Dear Liar: A Staged Reading by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents a one-night-only staged reading of Dear Liar, by Jerome Kitty, a comedy-drama adapted from the witty correspondence between playwright George Bernard Shaw and the famous... Learn More.
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: A Staged Reading by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents a one-night-only staged reading of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a 1607 comedy by Shakespeare-contemporary Francis Beaumont. Said to be the first English-language... Learn More.
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley Presents Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Live Oak Theatre
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Star-crossed lovers, a banished child, a loyal servant, a clever thief -- all of these are featured in Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy, loss, love and reconciliation. The jealous King Leontes of... Learn More.
Noel Coward's Classic Comedy Blithe Spirit Comes to Live Oak Theatre
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a hit in London and on Broadway, comes to Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre. This hilarious comedy is the tale of a man, a medium, and his two wives -- one living, one deceased -- both... Learn More.
Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents Curse of the Starving Class, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. The darkly funny yet ultimately tragic story of a struggling farm family in 1970s... Learn More.
Antigone: Jean Anouilh's Translation of Sophocles' Classic Play
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Written in 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, Jean Anouilh's translation of the Greek tragedy Antigone revolves around the conflict between the idealist Antigone and her rigid uncle, Creon, over the... Learn More.
Spiritual Drama As It Is in Heaven from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $8.00
Set in 1838, As It is in Heaven explores issues of faith through the eyes of nine women in a Shaker village. When a newcomer to the community begins experiencing visions, the older members, who have seen... Learn More.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: Hit Musical Based on Peanuts
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Based on Charles Schulz's classic comic strip Peanuts, this tuneful, witty musical has been enjoyed by generations. This production is... Learn More.
Luv - A Twisted Tale of Romance from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
Luv is the age-old story where one partner falls out of love with their current and in love with their wanna-be-current and schemes to painlessly shift currents. Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents twisted... Learn More.
Exit the King, a Timely Political Drama from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
In a nod to President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration earlier that week, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley heralds its 2009 season with Eugene Ionesco's timely masterpiece Exit the King. Exit the King chronicles... Learn More.
Doctor Faustus: Marlowe's Tragedy from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $6.00
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe's grand tragedy about a scholar who makes a deal with the Devil for ultimate knowledge and power. His dilemma highlights the rise of... Learn More.
Thorton Wilder's Farce The Matchmaker from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00
The Matchmaker is a farce with a lot of heart--along with slamming doors, mistaken identities, and hiding in closets and under tables--as the irrepressible Dolly Levi schemes to match the penny-pinching... Learn More.
Tumbleheart's Spontaneous Storytelling at Live Oak Theater
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Unscripted and unpredictable, Tumbleheart offers vivid and spontaneous storytelling with words and the body. They perform improvised, autobiographical, physical theater in solo, duet and ensemble forms as a... Learn More.
All in the Timing, Surreal Short Comedies at the Live Oak Theater
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00
David Ives' All in the Timing, winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award, is a collection of short one-act plays on topics ranging from monkeys trying to write Shakespeare to the death of Leon Trotsky.... Learn More.
The Shotgun Players Present The Death of Meyerhold
Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
- Full Price:
- $12.00 - $18.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00 - $9.00
The Shotgun Players present an intense, exciting new drama: The Death of Meyerhold at the Live Oak Theater. Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Live Oak Theatre is located at 1301 Shattuck Avenue at Berryman.
From the North, South or West exit Highway 80 at University Avenue in Berkeley. Proceed East to Shattuck. Turn Left on Shattuck; stay right when the street splits after Vine.
From the East, exit Highway 24 at Berkeley. Proceed West down Tunnel Road and Ashby to Shattuck. Turn Right on Shattuck and go through downtown Berkeley to University Avenue. Continue as above.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating may be available.
Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.