Press Room

Mick Mize in Blastosphere, 2009 (photo: Jay Yamada)

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)

Press photos for Boss McGreedy

Convicted on over 200 counts of fraud and corruption, Boss McGreedy (Michael Ray Wisely*) fears he may spend the rest of his days in the slammer…in spite of being”held” in the warden’s quarters.

Central Works presents world premiere #73: Boss McGreedy by Gary Graves, Mar 2 – Mar 31 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Photo by Robbie Sweeny

The attorney general’s special counsel, O’Brian Bryant (Anna Ishida*), offers a proposal to the “Boss” for how to have his sentence remanded.

Central Works presents world premiere #73: Boss McGreedy by Gary Graves, Mar 2 – Mar 31 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Photo by Robbie Sweeny

After being shipwrecked, Bill “Boss” McGreedy (Michael Ray Wisely*), wakes up in a different prison , and is interrogated by a Portuguese mercenary (Anna Ishida*).

Central Works presents world premiere #73: Boss McGreedy by Gary Graves, Mar 2 – Mar 31 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

Photo by Robbie Sweeny
* all actors appear through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Bill “Boss” McGreedy (Michael Ray Wisely*) and his lawyer, Dudley Townsend (Brian Herndon*), scheme how the Boss can get “back in the game.”

Central Works presents world premiere #73: Boss McGreedy by Gary Graves, Mar 2 – Mar 31 at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

More photos HERE

Photo by Robbie Sweeny