Berkeley Repertory Theater (Venue Partner)
2025 Addison Street
1 888 4BRT Tix (1 888 427–8849)
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Theatre
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
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(l to r) At Berkeley Rep, Valeri Mudek and Kate Eifrig star in the West Coast premiere of Tiny Kushner, a series of short scripts by Tony Kushner. Photo courtesy of mellopix.com
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- When
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Oct 16, 2009 – Nov 29, 2009
Tuesdays (8pm)
Wednesdays (7pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (2 & 8pm)
Sundays (2 & 7pm)
- Where
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Directions: BART to downtown Berkeley station. From San Francisco, take the Bay Bridge, onto I-80 East towards Berkeley. Take the University Ave exit. Go east 2 miles to Shattuck Avenue. Turn right on Shattuck, go one block to Addison.
- Price
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$27 - 71 (1/2 off if you're under 30 for most performances)
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE
There’s really nothing tiny about Tony Kushner. The legendary writer won a Pulitzer Prize for Angels in America, and received an Oscar nomination for Stephen Spielberg’s Munich. Now Kushner returns to Berkeley Rep and brings his brilliance and humor to bear in the West Coast premiere of a sparkling string of one-act plays.
The San Francisco Chronicle says “Broad reach and Kushner’s eclectic, wicked wit make for a great deal of charm and excitement in Tiny Kushner, an anthology of five short plays…it’s impressive how well the five plays fit together, because they were written at different times for different purposes…Hefty political and moral issues dance with buoyant shtick [as] penetrating comedy and theatrical strokes light up the stage, fully exploited by director Tony Taccone and four versatile actors…Tiny Kushner delights!”
The New York Times calls Tiny Kushner “A thinking person’s comedy…the West Coast premiere of Tiny Kushner took place on Wednesday at Berkeley Repertory Theater, where so much of the nation’s talked-about dramatic product seems to come from these days…the five entries here are snacks in the Kushner canon. However, that doesn’t make them non-nourishing or the evening unsatisfying; Mr. Kushner’s fierce liberal conscience, colossally fanciful imagination and virtuosic gift for composing verbal arias are too much in evidence for that.”
