This is the 20th Anniversary of Mr. Mamet’s seminal work about higher education, sexual politics and power in America. Oleanna runs April 21 – May 13, 2012, at the Berkeley City Club Oleanna, a powerful two-character drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, is TheatreFIRST’s initial production of 2012. Following up the success of last [...]

The show opens May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., May 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that award-winning playwright Julie Marie Myatt will attend the opening weekend for the Bay Area premiere of her play, Welcome Home, [...]

The third show of TheatreFIRST’S 10/11 season will open May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., April 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that Domenique Lozano will direct the third and final show of its 10/11 season, the [...]

The second show of TheatreFIRST’s 10/11 season will open January 28 at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theater, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., December 21, 2010 — Michael Barrett Austin and Danielle Levin lead an ensemble cast of Bay Area actors in TheatreFIRST’s upcoming production [...]

The second show of TheatreFIRST’S 10/11 season will open January 28 at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theater, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., November 23, 2010 Renowned Bay Area director Jon Tracy will direct TheatreFIRST’s second show of the season — a unique production of [...]

TheaterFIRST, Oakland’s resident professional theatre company, today announced its 2010-2011 season featuring a contemporary comedy steeped in Russian theatre history, a Tony Award-winning theatrical version of a classic American novel, and the Bay Area premiere of the story of a wounded Marine returning to her home in California. Oakland, Calif., July 15, 2010—TheatreFIRST today announced [...]

The Drawer Boy, will feature two of the most prominent Bay Area Actors: Howard Swain and Warren David Keith   Oakland, Calif. – Warren David Keith, an accomplished stage and screen actor with extensive Bay Area theater credits and roles in major motion pictures such as the Coen brothers’ Fargo, The Big Lebowski and A [...]

The third show of TheatreFIRST’S 09/10 season will open June 12th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., April 6, 2010 – TheatreFIRST today announced that Domenique Lozano will be directing the third show of their 09/10 season, Michael Healey’s [...]