Protecting Artists from Harm in the CA Arts Community

ADA Accessible Venue

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Serivces

Ticket price(s): General Admission: $322.50

Event Information Link: https://na.eventscloud.com/website/81703/home/

ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, April 10-13, 2025 with an exhilarating program of captivating works including acclaimed repertory from ODC Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way and Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada. Guest Choreographer and bi-coastal dance veteran Sidra Bell makes her first work for ODC/Dance; a World Premiere set to a score by Mary Halvorson and performed live by local musicians.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation.

Tickets: $30 - $100

For tickets and more info, click here.

Strength, precision, and passion remain the hallmarks of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater more than 65 years after its inception. The company’s legendary dancers return to Berkeley with vibrant programs of new and classic works that showcase and synthesize a dazzling range of cultural influences, from spirituals and church hymns, jazz, R&B, and hip-hop, to African dance and classical ballet. Many of the earliest Ailey works and the newest company creations share a common focus: illuminating the rich panorama of Black American experience.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Stay tuned for details about the Haptic Tour.
Access Services Provider Contact: Guillermo Cornejo, gcornejo@calperformances.org, 510-642-9988

Tickets: $45–$158 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. Learn more about student discounts and other discounts.

Click here for more information.

Hadestown, where a song can change your fate is inspired by classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz. Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning musical is a modern retelling of an ancient Greek myth, intertwining the tales of young singer-songwriter Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice, along with King Hades and his wife Persephone, this captivating production will take you on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and back.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Ticket price(s): $15-$20

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Dancing works beyond language, facts, and numbers to make meaning, think through experience, and build worlds. Mills Dance Alumnae are currently busy at work, as some of the most influential and riveting dance makers in the Bay Area. We are delighted to invite you to witness the dances they are making NOW!

Performance by:
Moriah Costa
Rachael Dichter
Ye Feng
Garth Grimball
Megan Nicely (April 5 only)
Kim Ip
Dana Lawton
Claudine Naganuma
Musical design: Kevin Lo

The performance will be conducted in the round on the floor of the stunning, historic Lisser theater.

Lisser theater is ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible.
Audio description and haptic tour (time TBA) provided April 5.
ASL interpretation provided April 6.

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required. Seating is limited.

Critically acclaimed playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with his new drama, Fat Ham. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet’s woes. What’s different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 1pm, performance begins at 2 pm.
Click here to sign up for the haptic tour.

Tickets: $30-$130

Dancing works beyond language, facts, and numbers to make meaning, think through experience, and build worlds. Mills Dance Alumnae are currently busy at work, as some of the most influential and riveting dance makers in the Bay Area. We are delighted to invite you to witness the dances they are making NOW!

Performance by:
Moriah Costa
Rachael Dichter
Ye Feng
Garth Grimball
Megan Nicely (April 5 only)
Kim Ip
Dana Lawton
Claudine Naganuma
Musical design: Kevin Lo

The performance will be conducted in the round on the floor of the stunning, historic Lisser theater.

Lisser theater is ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible.
Audio description and haptic tour (time TBA) provided April 5.
ASL interpretation provided April 6.

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required. Seating is limited.

"Just a Shadow" is a performance journey that celebrates life, and honors memories of lost loved ones. 7 powerful artists—AJ "Dopey Fresh" Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Megan Lowe, Marica Petrey, Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, and Shira Yaziv—gather together to share their unique strengths and creative modalities, including contemporary dance, site-specific dance, turf dance, contact improvisation, vertical dance, and live music, fostering connections that transcend individual stories and unite us in a shared journey toward solace and healing.

ADA Accessible Venue
ASL Interpretation provided
Access Service Provider and Contact Info: Pilar Marsh, wpminterpreting@gmail.com

Ticket price(s): Pay-what-you-can

Event Information Link: http://www.meganlowedances.com/justashadow-2025
Box Office Link, telephone, TTY etc.: https://odc.dance/justashadow

What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives. [ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

'ART' by Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton, Directed by Emilie Whelan. A long friendship between three men implodes when one purchases an expensive piece of modern art. What is it all worth? Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, Art is renowned for its sharp, witty dialogue, but underneath its celebrated wordplay lies a core of raw, primal humanity.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.

Tickets: Pay What You Can thru $80

For more information and to purchase your ticket, click here.

Singh's Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink merges dance, poetry, and live music to chronicle the Bay Area's Ghadar Party, a revolutionary force in India's fight for independence from British rule. Rooted in Bhangra and Giddha, traditional Punjabi dances embodying both celebration and resistance, Singh intertwines her diverse dance vocabulary to describe the enduring legacy of anti-colonial struggles. Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink serves as a bridge connecting generations through the rhythm of struggle and the enduring quest for liberation, revealing the living connections that bind our history to the present.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Haptic Tour at 2 PM
Audio Described performance at 3 PM

Tickets: Free, registration required

Box Office: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives. [ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio description provided by Gravity Access Services
Haptic tour begins at 6:50 PM
Audio described performance begins at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $0 - $80

Singh's Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink merges dance, poetry, and live music to chronicle the Bay Area's Ghadar Party, a revolutionary force in India's fight for independence from British rule. Rooted in Bhangra and Giddha, traditional Punjabi dances embodying both celebration and resistance, Singh intertwines her diverse dance vocabulary to describe the enduring legacy of anti-colonial struggles. Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink serves as a bridge connecting generations through the rhythm of struggle and the enduring quest for liberation, revealing the living connections that bind our history to the present.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpreation

Tickets: Free, registration required

Box Office: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
info@jesscurtisgravity.org

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Internationally acclaimed for his visual art and theater productions, South African artist William Kentridge returns to UC Berkeley with his latest creation for the stage, a chamber opera set on a 1941 sea voyage from Marseille to Martinique. Conceived in collaboration with theater maker Phala Ookeditse Phala and choral conductor and dancer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, The Great Yes, The Great No fictionalizes the historic wartime escape from Vichy France by, among others, the surrealist André Breton, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam—and imaginatively adds a distinguished and colorful cast of characters to the passenger list, like Aimé Césaire, Josephine Baker, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 2:15, audio described performance begins at 3:00.
Reserve your headsets and space on the tour by contacting the Cal Performances Ticket Office at (510) 642-9988 or tickets@calperformances.org.
Additional information about services available for patrons with disabilities can be found at calperformances.org/accessibility.

Tickets: $48–$120 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. Learn more about student discounts and other discounts.

Click here for more information.

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

HotHouse is a commentary on confinement and an exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the greater systemic failures of America. In this evening-length duet, props and clothing are suspended inside of a plastic arena. The enclosed environment serves as an adaptable canvas, transforming into a medical isolation unit, a slaughterhouse, a prison cell, a church. As the narrative unfolds, audiences are witness to the trauma of isolation and the myth of White Jesus.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Adapted from the novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is an emotional coming-of-age story about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit. During the last week of summer vacation, Suzy learns that her best friend has drowned, and she immerses herself in her own imagination. Follow her as she plunges into the depths of the ocean, explores collapsed stars, and perhaps even solves the mysteries of the universe.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Live Audio Description provided by Berkeley Repertory Theater

Tickets: $74 - $134

Box Office: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7pm

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Adapted from the novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is an emotional coming-of-age story about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit. During the last week of summer vacation, Suzy learns that her best friend has drowned, and she immerses herself in her own imagination. Follow her as she plunges into the depths of the ocean, explores collapsed stars, and perhaps even solves the mysteries of the universe.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $61 - $134

Box Office: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7pm

What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

Adapted from the novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is an emotional coming-of-age story about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit. During the last week of summer vacation, Suzy learns that her best friend has drowned, and she immerses herself in her own imagination. Follow her as she plunges into the depths of the ocean, explores collapsed stars, and perhaps even solves the mysteries of the universe.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $61 - $134

Box Office: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7pm

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

A whimsical, time-traveling adventure that uncovers the truth about MSG, the mysterious and misunderstood ingredient getting all the kids hooked!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 1pm, performance begins at 2 pm.

Tickets: $30-$130

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Adapted from the novel, The Thing About Jellyfish is an emotional coming-of-age story about love, loss, friendship, and the profound expansiveness of the human spirit. During the last week of summer vacation, Suzy learns that her best friend has drowned, and she immerses herself in her own imagination. Follow her as she plunges into the depths of the ocean, explores collapsed stars, and perhaps even solves the mysteries of the universe.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $61 - $134

Box Office: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7pm

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.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Tickets: $102-188

Box Office: 510 647-2949
Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm