2025/26 season subscriptions

Stories of wonder, courage, and connection

The 2025/26 season is here! Seven extraordinary productions illuminate the threads connecting us all. Subscribe to all seven shows for the best seats at the lowest prices. Or curate your own season — choose any four or more shows that speak to you. Your subscription offers more than great seats and exclusive benefits — it’s a commitment to the power of storytelling and to a community that seeks not just to witness art, but to be transformed by it. Your seat is waiting.

2025/26 season

The Reservoir
BY JAKE BRASCH
DIRECTED BY MIKE DONAHUE
PEET’S THEATRE | SEP 5–OCT 12, 2025
Josh is a hot mess of a queer twenty-something. He’s dropped out of school to get his life together — but can’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess and memory loss, he finds unlikely allies in his four hilarious grandparents. Desperate for a sense of purpose, Josh sets out to bring them along on his road to recovery. He drags them to Jazzercise at the JCC. He makes them play memory games. He insists they eat spinach by the handful. Eventually, he slams up against the limits of his quest. When he can no longer help his grandparents, they begin to help him. The Reservoir is Jake Brasch’s sharply funny and deeply heartfelt new comedy about family, memory, and the path toward healing.

The Hills of California
BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH
DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE HUNTINGTON | WEST COAST PREMIERE | RODA THEATRE | OCT 31–DEC 7, 2025
Internationally renowned Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth (The Ferryman, Jerusalem) weaves the compelling, tender, and savagely funny tale of the Webb sisters’ return to their childhood home in an English seaside town. As girls, their fierce and ambitious mother trained them for a singing career à la The Andrews Sisters. Now, past and present collide within the once-vibrant guesthouse as memories resurface with haunting clarity. The Hills of California explores how sibling bonds both sustain and suffocate, and how songs of youth echo through life. Loretta Greco returns to the Bay Area to direct the West Coast debut of this masterwork, following its acclaimed West End and Broadway productions.

Mother of Exiles
BY JESSICA HUANG
DIRECTED BY JAKI BRADLEY
WORLD PREMIERE | PEET’S THEATRE | NOV 14–DEC 21, 2025
In 1898, on Angel Island, a pregnant Eddie Loi faces deportation amid America’s tightening immigration laws. A century later, her grandson Braulio, through his role in the Miami border patrol, inadvertently conjures her spirit — unleashing a witty, opinionated ancestor. By 2063, their descendants, beset by climate catastrophe, embark on a perilous oceanic journey seeking sanctuary. From detention to diaspora, Mother of Exiles follows a single family’s century-and-a-half odyssey — tracing their flight, fight, and the futures they dare imagine. Jessica Huang’s multigenerational triptych blends historical drama with supernatural encounters, weaving moments of surprising humor into a powerful portrait of belonging and resilience.

How Shakespeare Saved My Life
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY JACOB MING-TRENT
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH FOLGER THEATRE AND RED BULL THEATER | WORLD PREMIERE | PEET’S THEATRE | JAN 23–MAR 1, 2026
“America tried to take my life, and somehow a five-hundred-year-old white dude saved it.” In an autobiographical and music-filled tour-de-force, award-winning performer Jacob Ming-Trent dares to rescue himself from the “slings and arrows” of his past. Born with a gift for poetry but rejected as unfit to play the poet, his search for home yields results both hilarious and tragic. Invoking artistic geniuses like Biggie, Tupac, and Basquiat, he takes us on a propulsive ride that reaffirms the power of language and music. Directed by Tony Taccone, How Shakespeare Saved My Life begins with the Bard but becomes a ritual of communal salvation.

All My Sons
BY ARTHUR MILLER
DIRECTED BY DAVID MENDIZÁBAL
RODA THEATRE | FEB 20–MAR 29, 2026
The American Dream comes at a price. But who truly pays it? Arthur Miller’s searing indictment of moral compromise erupts with new urgency in this groundbreaking production. Reimagined around a Puerto Rican family’s hard-won success, a father’s fateful decision sends aftershocks that ripple far beyond his own home and community. Berkeley Rep’s Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal reexamines this American classic through a lens of race, ethnicity, and class, honoring Miller’s original text while sharpening its existing themes of justice and inequity. This powerful revival reveals a tragedy where the pursuit of prosperity collides with the reality of who America was built to serve.

The Monsters
BY NGOZI ANYANWU
DIRECTED BY TAMILLA WOODARD
WEST COAST PREMIERE | PEET’S THEATRE | MAR 27–MAY 3, 2026
For years, LIL has observed her estranged brother from the shadows — watching, waiting, studying every punch he throws. BIG, an aging but respected force in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit, remains unaware his little sister has been tracking his career from afar…until she appears unexpectedly on his doorstep. Award-winning playwright Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love Letters) writes and stars in this West Coast premiere of a sibling love story that grapples with reunion and buried resentments. Raw and riveting, The Monsters delivers an emotional knockout and wrestles with the demons we must face to reconnect, rebuild, and forgive.

The Lunchbox
BOOK AND CO-LYRICS BY RITESH BATRA
MUSIC AND CO-LYRICS BY THE LAZOURS
DIRECTED BY RACHEL CHAVKIN
WORLD PREMIERE | RODA THEATRE | MAY 17–JUN 28, 2026
Rediscover the profound power of human connection in The Lunchbox — a new musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s internationally acclaimed film that overflows with heart, humor, and hope. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox system connects a lonely housewife to a jaded office worker, setting off an exchange of handwritten notes. Tucked in the folds of fragrant chapatis, amidst the vibrant pulse of Mumbai, their words blossom into a connection that might save them both. Directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown) and featuring a sweeping and intimate score by Daniel and Patrick Lazour, The Lunchbox is a tale of the beauty of small gestures — one that will leave you believing in the bravery of opening your heart to the unexpected.

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Pre-K–12 educator and employee
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.

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
• 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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Health and safety

In the 2025/26 season, proof of vaccination will not be required for audiences.

Masks will be required in our theatres on select Sunday and Tuesday performances (see calendar). Masks are encouraged but will be optional in our theatres for all other performances.

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