2026/27 season subscriptions

The Cook

By Eduardo Machado
Directed by David Mendizábal
Peet’s Theatre
Sep–Oct 2026

An aristocratic Cuban family flees from Havana to Miami on the eve of Castro’s revolution, entrusting their mansion to their devoted cook Gladys who vows to protect it until their return. For forty years, she keeps her promise, enduring loss, upheaval, and the slow unraveling of a country’s dreams. But when the aristocrats’ daughter returns, Gladys finds she has sacrificed everything for a bond that has been forgotten. Berkeley Rep’s Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal (All My Sons, Mexodus) directs Eduardo Machado’s sharp, funny, and quietly devastating play where two worlds are held in tension: the life carefully preserved, and the life that had to be lived.

Liberation

By Bess Wohl
Directed by Whitney White
A co-production with Geffen Playhouse and Studio Theatre
West Coast premiere
Roda Theatre
Oct–Nov 2026

It’s 1970s Ohio, and Lizzie has gathered a group of women in a rec center basement to change their lives and maybe the world. Decades later, Lizzie’s daughter delves into her mother’s history to find answers to the feminist revolution’s unanswered questions, reliving those necessary, messy, and impassioned meetings that asked: What does it mean for a woman to be free? Direct from its acclaimed Broadway run, Tony Award nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and director Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) bring ferocious wit and emotional precision to this intensely relevant and bitingly funny memory play about what we inherit, what we forget, and what we’re still fighting to understand.

“An unadulterated pleasure. Powerfully moving and funny. When these women talk, we want to hear every word.” — Critic’s Pick, The New York Times

Covenant

By York Walker
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
West Coast premiere
Peet’s Theatre
Nov–Dec 2026

In a small Georgia town, superstitions and rumors abound. The graveyard, the church, the neighbors, their families — there seems to be a secret within everything, and Avery wants out. But when her once-awkward childhood friend Johnny returns to town as a smooth-talking blues star, raising suspicion he’s made the darkest of deals, a series of secrets emerges to envelop them all. Hailed by The New York Times as “a striking Southern Gothic work,” York Walker’s Covenant unravels truth from myth in a haunting and gripping reckoning with what we choose to believe and what we cannot escape.

The Interestings

Music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Book by Meg Wolitzer and Sarah Ruhl
Based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer
Directed by Michael Arden
Music supervision by Nadia DiGiallonardo
Produced in association with Matt Ross
World premiere
Roda Theatre
Jan–Mar 2027

Six teenagers meet at an arts summer camp in the 1970s and form a lifelong bond over their shared dream of leading creative and inspiring lives. Decades later in New York City, that bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. Featuring music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning and Emmy and Tony Award-nominated artist Sara Bareilles (Waitress), a book by The New York Times best-selling novelist Meg Wolitzer and Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl (Eurydice, In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)), and direction by Tony Award-winner Michael Arden (Parade, Maybe Happy Ending), The Interestings explores friendship, love, envy, class, art, money, and power — and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a life.

Hold Me in the Water

By Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by Danny Sharron
West Coast premiere
Peet’s Theatre
Mar–Apr 2027

When Ryan falls for a man he just met, he’s ready for the romance of his dreams. But as their connection grows, he learns that new heights of joy can bring deep insecurities to the surface. Written and performed by Ryan J. Haddad and directed by Danny Sharron, Hold Me in the Water is a playfully provocative and disarmingly vulnerable solo play about the passion and intimacy of first love.

“A deliciously funny romantic comedy.” — The New York Times

Meet the Cartozians

By Talene Monahon
Directed by Loretta Greco
A co-production with The Huntington
West Coast premiere
Peet’s Theatre
May–Jun 2027

In the 1920s, an Armenian American man wages a quiet legal battle for the right to belong. A century later, a group of Armenian Americans wage a different type of battle on the set of his descendant’s reality television show. Talene Monahon’s boldly imaginative new play stitches together historical drama and scorching satire in what The New York Times calls “wildly funny” and “pure entertainment.” At once hilarious and haunting, Meet the Cartozians exposes a little-known chapter of American history while asking a question that refuses to stay in the past: Who gets to be American, and at what cost?

Leopoldstadt

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
West Coast premiere
Roda Theatre
Jun–Jul 2027

Renowned dramatist Tom Stoppard’s most personal, sweeping masterwork traces one Jewish family through sixty years of Viennese history — from the 19th century’s glittering promise to the Holocaust’s shattering aftermath. Winner of the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Play, Leopoldstadt moves with the rhythm of memory itself: vibrant, then fractured, then hauntingly still. Directed by Stoppard’s long-time collaborator Carey Perloff in close partnership with Stoppard before his death, this monumental drama paints a deeply human portrait of what families carry, what they lose, and what they must fight to remember.