2024/25 season subscriptions

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Introducing Theatre Explorers
A fun, creative experience for kids while you enjoy the shows!
Parents, we’ve got something special just for you. Theatre Explorers is a brand-new subscription series offering engaging, educational workshops for children in grades K–5 during select Saturday matinees throughout the 2024/25 season. While you enjoy the performances, your kids will have a blast learning theatre games and crafting art projects led by Berkeley Rep’s talented teaching artists — all right next door at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre. Workshops are just $25 per child, per performance date. Give your child a creative adventure while you enjoy your own!

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2024/25 season

The Matchbox Magic Flute
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY MARY ZIMMERMAN | BASED ON MOZART’S OPERA | IN ASSOCIATION WITH GOODMAN THEATRE | WEST COAST PREMIERE | RODA THEATRE | OCT 18–DEC 15, 2024
Theatrical powerhouse Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, The White Snake) triumphantly returns to Berkeley Rep with a mesmerizing English language adaptation of Mozart’s iconic Magic Flute, using only 10 singers and five musicians. Join Tamino on a daring quest to rescue the captive princess Pamina. Encounter dragons, birdmen, and trials by fire in this enchanting microcosm of wonder where magic and music intertwine. Hailed as “a box of treasures, a haze of marvels, a banquet of dreams,” by The Chicago Reader, The Matchbox Magic Flute will transport you to realms of imagination and wonder.

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
BY JOCELYN BIOH | DIRECTED BY WHITNEY WHITE | IN ASSOCIATION WITH MADISON WELLS LIVE & LACHANZE | A CO-PRODUCTION WITH ARENA STAGE, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER, AND LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | WEST COAST PREMIERE | PEET’S THEATRE | NOV 8–DEC 15, 2024
Step into the vibrant world of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a beloved Harlem hotspot where West African immigrant braiders work their magic on the locals’ locks. Amidst the lively buzz of a scorching summer, love ignites, dreams soar, and secrets unravel. But beneath the surface lies a current of uncertainty, pushing this close-knit community to confront the challenges of being outsiders in their own neighborhood. From the pen of Tony Award-nominated Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (Goddess, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play) and directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is “a play that is equally affecting as it is hilarious,” hails Entertainment Weekly.

The Thing About Jellyfish
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ALI BENJAMIN | ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY KEITH BUNIN | DIRECTED BY TYNE RAFAELI | IN ASSOCIATION WITH MADISON WELLS LIVE | WORLD PREMIERE | RODA THEATRE | JAN 31–MAR 9, 2025
During the last week of summer vacation, 12-year-old Suzy Swanson learns that her best friend Franny has drowned. Desperate to make sense of Franny’s death, Suzy immerses herself in her own imagination, where she can circumnavigate the globe, plunge into the terrifying depths of the ocean, explore the collapsed stars of the most distant galaxies, and perhaps even solve the mysteries of the universe. Adapted from the best-selling novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is a visually stunning and deeply emotional coming-of-age tale about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit.

Uncle Vanya
BY ANTON CHEKHOV | ADAPTED BY CONOR MCPHERSON | DIRECTED BY SIMON GODWIN | A CO-PRODUCTION WITH SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | PEET’S THEATRE | FEB 14–MAR 23, 2025
When the distinguished elderly owner of a rural estate returns with a new, young wife, chaos erupts. Tensions run high, marriages reach their limits, confessions — and vodka — flow freely, and weapons are drawn. Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) plays Uncle Vanya in this heartbreaking comedy about the eternal battle between futility and change.

TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT’S
Here There Are Blueberries
BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN AND AMANDA GRONICH | CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN | BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT, BRIAN & DAYNA LEE, AND SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS | RODA THEATRE | APR 5–MAY 11, 2025
In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unraveled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs — what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.

the aves
BY JIEHAE PARK | DIRECTED BY KNUD ADAMS | WORLD PREMIERE | PEET’S THEATRE | MAY 2–JUN 8, 2025
In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor, surrealism, and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift, meditating on themes of human connection, memory, and growing older.

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You and a friend save up to 30% on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday evening performances on seats in sections A or B, or seats in any section at preview performances. Proof of eligibility is required for each discounted subscription ordered.

Special performances

Theatre Explorers
Berkeley Rep’s School of Theatre will offer age-appropriate educational workshops (grades K–5) concurrent with select Saturday matinees so parents can enjoy grownup time at the theatre! $25 per child, per performance date. Subscribe with Theatre Explorers.

Audio description
Live narration of the onstage visual elements in the performance is provided by our partner, Gravity Access Services, via individual headphones. Available select Saturday matinees. Subscribe with audio description.

Why subscribe?

• Secured seats in advance of the general public
• Access to premium seating in advance of the general public
• Unlimited free exchanges*
• First dibs on special events
• 10% off School of Theatre classes
• New for 2024/25 season: 20% off additional ticket purchases and waived service fees

* Subscribers may exchange tickets to a different performance of the same show with no fee until 7pm the evening before their scheduled performance (or by 7pm Sunday for Tuesday performances). Day-of-show exchanges available with a $15 per-ticket fee. Price differences may apply to all exchanges; no refunds or credits for exchanges to a lower-priced performance date or seating section.

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In the 2024/25 season, proof of vaccination will not be required for audiences.

Masks will be required in our theatres on Sunday and Tuesday performances for the first three weeks of a show’s run. Masks are encouraged but will be optional in our theatres on all Wednesday through Saturday performances, as well as Sundays and Tuesdays after the first three weeks of performances.

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