Sponsor Berkeley Playhouse's 23/24 Season


Berkeley Playhouse sponsorship is a great way to get your business seen by an array of customers. Our audiences are diverse in age, gender, and ethnicity, and are eager to shop local in Berkeley or surrounding cities. Berkeley Playhouse welcomes around 6,500 patrons per show in the season.

With the purchase of sponsorship for the 23/24 Season, sponsors receive:
• One half-page horizontal ad in the 4 MainStage season playbills AND in the YouthStage Spotlight Show playbill
• Your business's name and logo prominently displayed:
        • in print playbills for all five of the season's musicals
        • on the homepage of Berkeley Playhouse's website
        • on a digital slideshow in the lobby for the entire season
• Your business listed as a season sponsor in pre-show announcements
• Four complimentary tickets to each production in the season
• Four complimentary drink vouchers to each production

Sponsorship: $1,900 for the season

To become a sponsor, contact:
Anna Hecht, Marketing Communications Manager, at anna@berkeleyplayhouse.org .

THE 23/24 SEASON SHOWS
 

 

Kinky Boots
September 8 – October 15, 2023

Kinky Boots is the big-hearted musical extravaganza that won six Tonys including Best Musical, the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre album and London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical. Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein. Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father's shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized...and discover that when you change your mind, you can change your whole world.

  Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella Enchanted
November 3 – December 22, 2023

Inspired by the acclaimed 1997 teleplay starring Brandy and Whitney Houston, this version of the magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. The prince is having a ball and all eligible young women in the kingdom are invited for a chance at their happily ever after. After meeting the beautiful Cinderella, the two share a dance but Cinderella runs away before her fairy godmother’s magic wears off, leaving a single glass slipper. The prince must seek out the owner of the shoe and be reunited with his true love so they can both achieve an enchanting fairytale ending.

 

Rent
February 23 – March 31, 2024

Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon. Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.
  Head Over Heels
May 24 – June 30, 2024

From the visionaries behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening comes this bold and hilarious love story set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s. With songs like “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” and “Vacation,” you’ll get swept up into this 16th-century prose romance where one royal family journeys to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.


YouthStage Spotlight Show's Mean Girls
July 13-21, 2024

Adapted from Tina Fey's hit 2004 film, Mean Girls was nominated for a staggering 12 Tony Awards. This queen-bee took Broadway by storm and has joined the musical in-crowd! Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady and her friends devise a "Revenge Party" to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.


Playbill Ad Specs:
1/2 Page Horizontal 5.5” hz x 4.25” vt +.125” bleed
Ads must be sent as pdf or jpg files and need to be at least 300dpi resolution. Ads can be in full color or black and white.

Website Logo Specs:
Your business' logo should be at least 300 pixels, can be in color or b/w, and a transparent background is ideal.
Please submit as a PNG file, and include the website url to be linked with.


Ready to become a sponsor?
Please Contact:
Anna Hecht, Marketing Communications Manager, at
anna@berkeleyplayhouse.org .

THANK YOU TO OUR SEASON SPONSORS