Berkeley Reperatory Theatre
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE:
ORIGINAL LOCATION
1968
Berkeley Repertory Theatre was founded in 1968 by U.C.
Dramatic Art student Michael Leibert, who wanted to create
an East Bay professional repertory company. Its first pro-
duction, "Woyzek," initially staged at the International
House, soon moved to a commercial space formerly on
this site. The intimate interior housed numerous produc-
tions created by a company of local theatre artists. Ar-
chitect Gene Angell, an Elmwood resident, planned sets
for many of them. In 1980 he designed the new thrust-
stage theatre which evoked the original location's intimacy
in a larger Addison Street location.
In 2001, under Artistic Director Tony Taccone, the successful
Berkeley Repertory Theatre company added a proscenium
stage, the Roda, and a School of Theatre at the downtown
location. A leader in innovation, the Rep received a Tony
Award for Best Regional Theatre in 1997, and a number
of its premieres have had successful runs on Broadway
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