Amy Oppenheimer’s
Looking For Justice
(In All The Wrong Places)
The Marsh Berkeley Theater
March 1 – March 29, 2026
Sundays at 5:00 pm
Opening Night Post Show Reception March 1
Written & Performed by: Amy Oppenheimer
Director: David Ford
Performance Coach: Julia McNeal
Ticket Information
Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
75 Minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
A hippie, activist, lesbian, feminist, lawyer, judge’s search for identity & justice.
The at times humorous and at times deadly serious show begins when Amy moves to Berkeley in the early 1970’s during second wave feminism. Amy finds her identity as a lesbian feminist, goes to law school to fight for women’s rights, represents coal miners and battered women in Appalachia and returns to California to open a lesbian feminist law practice. She is representing women who had been sexually harassed – pre-Anita Hill – but keeps seeing all sides of things, becomes an administrative judge and starts a law firm to do mediation and impartial investigations of harassment and discrimination. She adopts two children – both biracial – and experiences racism up close and personal.
In the meantime, she can’t stop revisiting her first experience with the criminal justice system in 1970 when she accompanied a friend to a rape trial. Her (white) friend had been raped by a (Black) boyfriend. The friend wanted him to get help, rather than serve a decade in prison. This restorative justice solution was not an option. Amy wonders about her role in the verdict and if real justice is possible in an unjust world.
Content Advisories: The content of this production includes topics and events that may be triggering to some people including sexual violence/rape, sexual harassment, racism and familial violence.
Special Events
Sunday March 1: A benefit for Equal Rights Advocates (Equalrights.org) featuring an after-show discussion about sexual assault and harassment in school environment between Amy and Maha Ibrahim, ERA’s Managing Attorney for Ending Sexual Violence in Education program.
Sunday March 8: A benefit for Women’s Foundation California (womensfoundca.org) in honor of International Women’s Day, to celebrate feminist philanthropy and building community power across gender justice movements.
Sunday March 15: A benefit for the Ella Baker Center (ellabakercenter.org) featuring an after show discussion between Amy and EBC Director of Programs James King (policy strategist, writer, and formerly incarcerated organizer), about restorative justice and alternatives to prison.
Sunday March 22: A benefit for SF Women Against Rape (SFWAR.org) featuring an after-show discussion between Amy and Executive Director Janelle White about transformative justice for rape survivors.
Sunday March 29: A benefit for the Marsh featuring an after-show discussion between Amy and Performance Coach Julia McNeal about the making of Amy’s show.
Amy Oppenheimer, a lesbian feminist lawyer and retired judge, has spent her 45-year legal career advocating for women and people of color and speaking truth to power. She is co-author of Investigating Workplace Harassment: How to be Fair, Thorough and Legal (SHRM 2002). amyuponstage.com
Artist Biography
“ Hers is a heartbreaking, intimate, and memorable story. I recommend it.” “Oppenheimer has put together a nuanced, thought-provoking show about the grayscale nature of justice.” https://www.theatrius.com/reviews/2026-3-6/looking-for-justice-at-the-marsh Press & Media
– DC THEATER ARTS
– Lavender Magazine
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