LILY JANIAK’S THEATER PICKS
“Office Hour”: 2017 Glickman Award winner Julia Cho (“Aubergine”) returns to Berkeley Rep with a drama about a fraught encounter between a well-meaning professor and her unforthcoming student. 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28; 8 p.m. ThursdayFriday, March 1-2; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3. Through March 25. $30-$97, subject to change. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org
“Transitions”: In John Fisher’s world premiere for Theatre Rhinoceros, a relationship between a Republican and a drag queen first scandalizes the world, then saves it from disaster. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, March 1-2; 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3. Through March 17. $15-$40. Gateway Theatre, 215 Jackson St., S.F. (800) 838-3006. www.brownpapertickets. com/event/3181511
“Rabbit Hole”: For Breach Once More, Michael Barr directs David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize winner about grieving parents and the teenager who accidentally killed their son. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3. Through March 24. $15$45. Young Performers Theatre, Fort Mason, Building C, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. www.breachoncemore.org
“The Secret in the Wings”: Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents Mary Zimmerman’s take on lesser-known Grimm fairy tales, each broken in half, so that you hear a series of grisly cliffhangers, then a series of miraculous resolutions. 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25; 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 2-3. Through March 11. $11-$30. Contra Costa Civic Theatre, 951 Pomona Ave., El Cerrito. (510) 524-9012. www.ccct.org
“Woman in Mind”: Suzie Shepard stars in Town Hall Theatre’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about a housewife whose humdrum reality and glamorous fantasies meet head-on when she steps on a rake. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3. Through March 24. $18-$30. Town Hall Theatre Company, 3535 School St., Lafayette. (925) 283-1557. www.townhalltheatre.com