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Welcome to the third Repisode of our Audio Program. For the Audio Program, we’ll be reading out loud the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. Here we read the Origin Story and two essays, one that provides a history of The Five Points neighborhood and one that gives more information about the life and music of songwriter Stephen Foster.

Paradise Square is now playing December 27-February 17. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the fourth Repisode of our "In Conversation" series for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In this part of the series, we talk to members of the creative team to learn more about their process and the world of the play. An abridged version of the conversation is included in print as part of the show's written program.

Here, we talked with virtuoso solo performer Nilaja Sun about creating PIKE ST, now running November 17–December 16, 2018. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the third Repisode of our "In Conversation" series for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In this part of the series, we talk to members of the creative team to learn more about their process and the world of the play. An abridged version of the conversation is included in print as part of the show's written program. Here, we talked to playwright Marcus Gardley and director Moisés Kaufman about their new musical Paradise Square.

Paradise Square runs December 27–February 17. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the second Repisode of The Core for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In The Core, we talk to members of the community to see where the onstage and offstage worlds of our season intersect. In this Repisode, we talked to Dr. Brandi Wilkins Catanese, a professor of Theatre at UC Berkeley, and Dr. Simone Browne, a sociology professor at University of Texas at Austin. SPOILER ALERT: Only listen to this Repisode after you have seen Fairview. Our conversation includes reactions to key moments within the play, positioning Fairview within the canon of American theatre and breaking down themes and ideas that are sprinkled throughout Jackie Sibblies Drury's innovative new play.

Fairview is running now through November 4. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the second Repisode of our "In Conversation" series for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In this part of the series, we talk to members of the creative team to learn more about their process and the world of the play. An abridged version of the conversation is included in print as part of the show's written program. Here, we talked to playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury and director Sarah Benson about the inspiration behind Fairview.

As a heads up, this play is so hard to talk about without giving something away, so we recommend that folks come see the show before listening to this Repisode. Fairview runs October 4-November 4. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the second Repisode of our Audio Program. For the Audio Program, we’ll be reading out loud the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. Here we read the Origin Story and an essay that places Fairview within a cohort of structurally innovative plays.

Fairview is now playing October 4-November 4. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the first Repisode of The Core for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In The Core, we talk to members of the community to see where the onstage and offstage worlds intersect. In this Repisode, we talked to Professor Alexandra Solomon at Northwestern and Professor Melissa Murray at NYU, investigating what marriage looked like at the time of Ibsen's A Doll's House, how cultural norms have shifted around marriage, and what the future of the institution might look like.

A Doll's House, Part 2 is running now through October 21. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the first Repisode of our "In Conversation" series for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In this part of the series, we talk to members of the creative team to learn more about their process and the world of the play. An abridged version of the conversation is included in print as part of the show's written program. Here, we talked to playwright Lucas Hnath and director Les Waters about their collaborative relationship and the work behind Berkeley Rep's production of A Doll's House, Part 2.

A Doll's House, Part 2, by Lucas Hnath is running now through October 21. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Welcome to the first Repisode of our Audio Program. For the Audio Program, we’ll be reading out loud the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. Here we read the Origin Story and an essay about the history of Ibsen's A Doll's House.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 runs September 6-October 21. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org!

Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.

Music credit to James Dinneen.

Three descendants of immigrants who were detained at Angel Island Immigration Station reflect on reclaiming the buried history of Chinese Exclusion.

Guests:

Felicia Lowe is an independent television producer, director, and writer. Her films include "Chinese Couplets", "Chinatown: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco", and "China: Land of My Father". Several clips from her documentary on Angel Island Immigration Station "Carved in Silence" were used in this podcast episode.(http://www.lowedownproductions.com/)

Judy Yung is professor emerita of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her pioneering histories of Angel Island Immigration Station include "Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America", co-authored with Erika Lee, and "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island", co-edited with Him Mark Lai and Genny Lim.

Katherine Toy is the chair of the board of directors of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation(https://www.aiisf.org/). She also served as the first Executive Director of the AIISF where she championed the restoration and interpretation of the site.

Get tickets to 'Angels in America' at berkeleyrep.org