Crushing is a genre-defiant live show where multidisciplinary artists—playwrights, actors, novelists, poets, comedians—perform true stories from their love lives onstage. Co-directed by Megan Calfas and Carly Steyer, and executive produced […]

Theater legend Emma Rice (A.C.T.’s Brief Encounter, Berkeley Rep’s The Wild Bride) returns to the Bay Area with her inventive take on the Alfred Hitchcock 1959 classic North by Northwest in a production hailed as “an undoubted triumph” (WhatsOnStage). This thrilling tale of mistaken identity sees us fleeing from a cornfield in the middle of […]

In a one-stoplight town in Georgia, in a high school AP English class, five young women begin questioning the stories and the heroes they’ve been taught to believe in, against a soundtrack of pop music and fury. As their class dissects a canonical work of literature, the parallels between the play and their own lives […]

This team still sucks—but now they sing! Based on the beloved 1976 Paramount Pictures film written by Bill Lancaster, this new musical follows a washed-up baseball player who takes a job coaching a ragtag team of Little League misfits, including his ex-stepdaughter. Through practice, persistence, and some good luck, they just may find victory in […]

A never-ending war that no one wants. Military leaders more interested in macho posturing than diplomatic solutions. Women caught in the middle and traded like property. Queer soldiers scapegoated and treated with suspicion. None of this sounds familiar, right? In Shakespeare's cynical tragicomedy, he takes us into the nitty-gritty daily grind of an unpopular war, […]

This hilariously chaotic new play follows five generations of Assyrian women attempting to reclaim their story as it’s being narrated by some British guy (said British guy being played with sharp-elbowed satire by playwright Atra Asdou). Marching through time and space, this journey from the Ottoman Empire to modern-day USA portrays a gritty reality that’s […]