TheatreWorks Silicon Valley on Monday introduced a brand new season that options Sondheim, August Wilson and a San Jose playwright.
“It’s a season of turning factors,” inventive director Tim Bond mentioned in saying the corporate’s 2023-24 season. “The characters on this season’s works are dealing with watershed moments of their lives, deciding what sort of individuals they need to grow to be – one thing we will all determine with.
“This season additionally celebrates a few of the world’s biggest authors and composers and welcomes residence a few of TheatreWorks’ favourite artists and dearest buddies.”
Bond, who directed Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” for TheatreWorks in spring 2022, will helm the playwright’s “How I Discovered What I Discovered” Jan. 17- Feb. 11. Steven Anthony Jones, who starred within the at Oregon Shakespeare Competition’s manufacturing below Bond’s route, will reprise his position within the one-man theatrical memoir following Wilson’s journey from struggling younger author to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Bond’s predecessor, TheatreWorks’ founding inventive director Robert Kelley, is collaborating with resident musical director William Liberatore on “Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration,” a world premiere musical tribute honoring Stephen Sondheim. TheatreWorks has offered 20 productions of Sondheim’s work in its earlier 52 seasons, making him the corporate’s most produced composer. “Celebration” is ready to run June 5-30, 2024.
Previous this musical tribute is one other new work, “Queen,” written by San Jose-born playwright and filmmaker Madhuri Shekar and produced in collaboration with Sunnyvale-based EnActe Arts. This satire follows feminine PhD candidates poised to disclose details about the fast world honeybee demise. The present runs March 6-31, 2024.
The season opens with the West Coast premiere of Heidi Armbruster’s “Mrs. Christie” Oct 4-29. Giovanna Sardelli, TheatreWorks’ inventive affiliate and director of latest works, helms the present, through which an Agatha Christie superfan investigates the creator’s 11-day disappearance in 1926. Sardelli directed the play’s world premiere at Dorset Theatre Competition in Vermont.
The season is rounded out by “The twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” working Nov. 29-Dec. 24, and Mike Lew’s “Tiger Model!” April 3-28, 2024. “Bee,” the Tony-winning musical, might be directed by TheatreWorks alumnus and Tony-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart. Directed by TheatreWorks casting director Jeffrey Lo, “Tiger Model!” is a satire of tiger parenting.
Reveals might be staged at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Highway, Palo Alto, and the Heart for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. For ticket info, go to theatreworks.org.