Two longstanding Peninsula theater corporations have introduced their 2022-23 seasons.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 52nd season contains three musicals and two world premieres, whereas Mountain View’s Pear Theatre has introduced its twenty first season of seven productions, with 4 of them taking part in in repertory.
Pear Theatre’s twenty first season opens Sept. 9 with the primary two repertory performs, “Bull in a China Store” by Bryna Turner, impressed by actual letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks from 1899 to 1937, and “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” by Jen Silverman, a play about 5 ladies named Betty. They run by means of Oct. 2.
The campy hit musical “Little Store of Horrors” opens TheatreWorks’ season on Nov. 30 and runs by means of Dec. 24 at Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto. However this “Little Store” has been reset in San Francisco’s Chinatown, giving it a really completely different vibe.
Pear Theatre’s Christmas providing is Terrence McNally’s “Frankie and Johnny within the Claire de Lune,” which runs Dec. 1-18. The play takes place in a walk-up condominium on Manhattan’s West Aspect.
TheatreWorks’ first manufacturing of 2023 would be the West Coast premiere of “In Each Technology” by Ali Viterbi, a time-traveling voyage by means of 4 millennia of Passover seders previous, current, and future. It runs Jan. 18-Feb. 12 on the Mountain View Middle for the Performing Arts.
Pear’s second repertory choices are “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea” by Nathan Allan Davis, about an 18-year-old who ventures into the Atlantic Ocean in quest of an ancestor misplaced through the Center Passage, and a brand new “bodily” adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” from the Pear’s Playwrights Guild. They run Feb. 3-26.
Award-winning actor Greta Oglesby returns to TheatreWorks to star within the title position in “Fannie: The Music and Lifetime of Fannie Lou Hamer.” Written by Cheryl L. West (“Akeelah and the Bee”), “Fanny” runs March 8-April 2 at Lucie Stern Theater.
Only a few days later, TheatreWorks opens Kareem Fahmy’s “A Distinct Society,” which was a part of the New Works Pageant that TheatreWorks produced on-line in 2021. It’s a joint manufacturing with Salt Lake Metropolis’s Pioneer Theatre and runs April 5-30 on the Mountain View Middle for the Performing Arts.
Pear Theatre’s annual manufacturing of “Pear Slices” runs April 21-Might 14. This standard compilation options brief performs written by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild.
Subsequent up for TheatreWorks might be a manufacturing of the beloved comedian drama “Metal Magnolias,” directed by actor/director Elizabeth Carter. It runs June 7-July 2 on the Mountain View Middle for the Performing Arts.
To shut its 2022-23 season, the Pear will provide “Falsettos,” a musical written by William Finn and James Lapine that mixes the final two installments in a trio of one-act musicals. “Falsettos” runs June 30 -July 23.
For its final manufacturing of the season, TheatreWorks additionally s/howcases a musical: the world premiere of “Alice Bliss,” which had developmental readings in 2021 on the TheatreWorks Writers Retreat. The present runs July 12-Aug. 6 at Lucie Stern Theater.
For extra data on the Pear Theatre’s twenty first season, go to https://www.thepear.org.
For extra data on TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 52nd season, go to TheatreWorks.org.