Press Room
Mick Mize in Blastosphere, 2009 (photo: Jay Yamada)
Jan 30, 2026 · Central Works Opens 2026 Season With AFTER HAPPY By Patricia Milton (Download PDF)
Mar 18, 2022 · Central Works reopens March 19 with Escape from the Asylum by Patricia Milton! (Download PDF)
Jan 9, 2020 · Central Works opens its 30th Anniversary Season with THE HUMAN OUNCE by Nicole Parizeau (Download PDF)
Jul 16, 2019 · Central Works’ 2019 Summer Offering, ROAN @ THE GATES, OPENS JULY 20 (Download PDF)
May 12, 2019 · Central Works Season 29 continues with Patricia Milton’s cheeky thriller, THE VICTORIAN LADIES DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE – now extended through June 9! (Download PDF)
May 26, 2018 · Central Works 2018 Summer Offering: Cristina García’s KING OF CUBA (Download PDF)
Apr 16, 2018 · Central Works Season 28 continues with Gary Graves comic thriller, PALACE WRECKERS (Download PDF)
Feb 6, 2018 · Central Works opens 28th season with BAMBOOZLED by Patricia Milton (Download PDF)
Nov 26, 2017 · Central Works announces Season 28 (Download PDF)
Sep 1, 2017 · Central Works 27th season concludes with Strange Ladies (Download PDF)
May 29, 2017 · Central Works 27th Season Continues with the Rolling World Premiere of WINTER (Download PDF)
Apr 13, 2017 · EDWARD KING, Central Works new comedy about finding your roots opens May 13 (Download PDF)
Jan 29, 2017 · Central Works opens 27th season with YEARS IN THE HUNDREDS (Download PDF)
Jan 5, 2017 · Central Works announces 2017 Season (Download PDF)
Oct 9, 2016 · Central Works concludes season with a NNPN Rolling World Premiere, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH (Download PDF)
Apr 11, 2016 · Central Works completes a “Gothic Thrillogy” with Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde (Download PDF)
Jan 25, 2016 · Central Works launches Season 26 with an utterly ridiculous, deadly serious, Oedipal family drama (Download PDF)
Dec 15, 2015 · Central Works Announces 2016 Season of 4 world premieres (Download PDF)
Aug 24, 2015 · Central Works 25th Season concludes with world premiere #49, “Ada and the Memory Engine” by Lauren Gunderson
Jun 16, 2015 · Central Works presents world premiere #48, the new musical PROJECT AHAB; or, Eye of the Whale (Download PDF)
Apr 9, 2015 · Central Works 25th Season continues with adaptation Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting story, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (Download PDF)
Dec 15, 2014 · Central Works 25th Season opens with world premiere #46, Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (Download PDF)
Nov 10, 2014 · Central Works 25th Season Marks 25 Years of Making Plays (Download PDF)
Oct 10, 2014 · Central Works presents world premiere #45, Recipe, by Michael Gene Sullivan (Download PDF)
Jun 26, 2014 · Dracula Inquest opens July 12 (Download PDF)
Apr 1, 2014 · The Crazed, opening May 17, marks 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Download PDF)
Jan 17, 2014 · The Lion and the Fox opens February 22 at Central Works (Download PDF)
Jan 13, 2014 · 2014 SEASON at the Berkeley City Club (Download PDF)
March 2020: California Magazine profiles Central Works
Jan 2020: Central Works 30th Anniversary Season Announced in American Theater
Jan 2019: American Theater Announces Central Works 2019 Season
Feb 2018: SF Chronicle features Central Works new play “Bamboozled”
Nov 2017: American Theatre Announces Central Works 28th Season of New Plays
Sept 2017: Central Works wins 2017 ICWP 50/50 Applause Award for gender parity
Jan 2017: American Theatre announces Central Works 27th Season
Sept 2016: American Theatre names Gunderson and Zacarias as top most produced playwrights in 2016
Dec 2015: TheatreStorm’s Memory List for 2015 includes “Yellow Wallpaper” and “Project Ahab”
Nov 2015: TBA Names “Enemies: Foreign and Domestic” Outstanding World Premiere Play for 2015
July 2015: Captain Ahab turns Greenpeace warrior on SF Gate
Oct 2014: Playwright salutes older women in political farce on SF Gate
June 2013: CBS San Francisco, Best theater companies in the East Bay
Press photos for After Happy
Brenda Barrow (Jan Zvaifler) is ready to lead the Lake Charles Pirate Festival Parade!
Central Works presents world premiere #79: After Happy by Patricia Milton, Feb 28-Mar 29 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.
Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Climate Commandos Katherine Freeport (Lauren Dunagan, l) and her associate Steph (Rezan Asfaw) are ready to lead the charge in protest of the Lake Charles Pirate Festival and its sponsor, Noble Oil, which Katherine’s family owns.
Central Works presents world premiere #79: After Happy by Patricia Milton, Feb 28-Mar 29 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.
Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Brenda Barrow (Jan Zvaifler, l) adores her niece, Katherine (Lauren Dunagan, r),but they’ve never seen eye to eye on their views around the family owned oil company, Noble Oil.
Central Works presents world premiere #79: After Happy by Patricia Milton, Feb 28-Mar 29 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.
Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Are climate activists Steph (Rezan Asfaw, l) and Katherine Freeport (Lauren Dunagan, r) her in Lake Charles, LA to disrupt the annual Pirate Festival, sponsored by Katherine’s aunt (Jan Zvailfer, c), owner of the Noble Oil Company?
Central Works presents world premiere #79: After Happy by Patricia Milton, Feb 28-Mar 29 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.
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