2012/13 season
2012/13 Season
Welcome! Please follow the links below to learn more about each show.
main season
Chinglish
- August 24–October 21, 2012 (see calendar)
- David Henry Hwang is back with a comedy of cross-cultural errors. An American businessman heads to Asia to score a lucrative contract for his family’s firm—but the deal isn’t the only thing getting lost in translation when he collides with a Communist minister, a bumbling consultant and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat.
The White Snake
- November 9–December 30, 2012 (see calendar)
- Mary Zimmerman is mesmerizing. From Metamorphoses to The Arabian Nights, audiences have embraced her enchanting adaptations of epic tales. Now the Tony Award-winning director casts a spell with The White Snake, a classic romance from Chinese legend.
Fallaci
- March 8–April 21, 2013 (see calendar)
- Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci gained fame by grilling Kissinger, Castro, Khomeini, Qaddafi and other public figures who squirmed under her ferocious questioning. With Fallaci, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright turns the spotlight on a fellow reporter and her fascinating contradictions.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- April 12–May 26, 2013 (see calendar)
- Action, adventure, emotion and awe…Expect that and more when Mark Wing-Davey delivers a riveting look at Pericles, Prince of Tyre. A virtuous man clings to the mast of a storm-tossed ship as his family reels from palace to brothel to a sacred Greek temple. Knights and pirates, villains and kings…Discover the excitement of Shakespeare all over again.
Dear Elizabeth
- May 24–July 7, 2013 (see calendar)
- Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters, acclaimed collaborators who created Eurydice, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and Three Sisters, return to Berkeley Rep with another tale of love and longing. Dear Elizabeth follows the beautiful and bittersweet friendship between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
limited season
An Iliad
- October 12–November 18, 2012 (see calendar)
- An ancient tale comes roaring back to life in a compelling new telling filled with contemporary wit and wisdom. The clash of swords and shields, the broken hearts and broken oaths, the bonds of friendship and family—An Iliad arises on a bare stage, told by an old man who’s seen too much.
Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright
- January 4–February 3, 2013 (see calendar)
- Only Berkeley Rep could unleash this wild world premiere, commissioned from hot young playwright Dan LeFranc. It’s nineteen mighty-four. In working-class Rhode Island, Bradley and his bestest friend tangle with rich kid Jake Miller and his middle-school goons. And their nemesis has help from a bunch of zombies and grown-ups!
special presentations
Selected Shorts
- December 8–9, 2012
- The hit public-radio series and podcast, Selected Shorts, is back at Berkeley Rep with a program of hilarious and cozy holiday tales, performed by Tony and Emmy nominee Kate Burton, Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli, multiple award-winner Linda Lavin and Tony Award winner René Auberjonois.
The Wild Bride
- January 26–February 17, 2013 (see calendar)
- Kneehigh Theatre’s The Wild Bride is back! The smash hit that ran away with hearts last winter returns for a honeymoon engagement in 2013.
Broadway Idiot
- May 4, 2013
- The blockbuster musical that traveled from Berkeley Repertory Theatre to Broadway, Britain and beyond comes home with an exclusive screening of a new documentary about its making.
George Gershwin Alone
- June 8–July 7, 2013 (see calendar)
- The irresistible music of America’s favorite composer comes alive—along with exciting insights into his brief and brilliant life. Hershey Felder brings his hit show to Berkeley Rep after successful runs on Broadway, in London’s West End and in cities across the country.
The American Songbook Sing-Along
- June 17, 2013
- Nobody throws a musical theatre party like Hershey Felder, so don’t miss your chance to revel in the greatest show tunes that America has produced with one of the greatest showmen of our time.
No Man’s Land
- August 3–31, 2013 (see calendar)
- Internationally acclaimed for their performances on stage, screen and television, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will star at Berkeley Rep in a revival of Harold Pinter’s celebrated play No Man’s Land.
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Discover the 2012/13 season
Artistic Director Tony Taccone takes us on a tour of five of the seven plays.
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