IN THE MEDIA

Oakland theater at TEDX

On May 5, 2019, Company Members from the Oakland Theater Project took the stage at TedX Palo Alto for a performance and talk exploring how theater can bridge divides in a broken America.

Watch the full talk here!


AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE

A Pay-As-You-Can Season
by Ashley Lee, October 2018

Amid the dense arts scene of California’s Bay Area, Ubuntu Theater Project has proudly distinguished itself with a mission statement of being “radically inclusive.”

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HOWLROUND Theatre commons

What We Talk about When We Talk about Ensemble Theatre
Corey Fischer, December 2015

As I learned more about Ubuntu from talking with its leadership, I began to see this three-year-old company as an heir to the movement in American theater that began in 1931.

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bay area PRESS

“One of the most exciting young companies to emerge in the Bay Area in the past decade”
Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle
February 2020

“The Ubuntu Theater Project’s absolute belief in community leads them into strange and revelatory productions… Oakland’s most dynamic theater company
John Wilkins, The Free Audience
January 2019

“Smart and scrappy”
Leslie Katz, San Francisco Examiner
April 2018

“One of the leading art theatres in the Bay area, and, quite possibly, in the entire United States of America”
Charles Kruger, TheatreStorm
September 2018