Theater at Cal Performances

Our 2024–25 season features the Bay Are premieres of William Kentridge’s The Great Yes, The Great No, a chamber opera set on a 1941 sea voyage from Marseille to Martinique, and SLAM!, a theatrical wrestling show created by Cirque FLIP Fabrique & Ex Machina/Robert Lepage. Also on the Theater events lineup are Story Boldly’s Defining Courage, an immersive live event through vivid cinematography, stirring live music, eyewitness interviews, and deft storytelling, and the 50th anniversary of delightful Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz.

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2024–25 Theater Events Calendar

Theater

SLAM!

A theatrical wrestling show created by Cirque FLIP Fabrique & Ex Machina/Robert Lepage
Bay Area Premiere

Oct 4–6, 2024
Theater, Family

Mummenschanz

50 Years

Oct 26–27, 2024
Theater, Illuminations: "Fractured History"

William Kentridge’s
The Great Yes, The Great No

Bay Area Premiere

Mar 14–16, 2025
Theater, Illuminations: "Fractured History"

Story Boldly’s Defining Courage

An Immersive Live Event

Apr 4, 2025, 8pm