List of TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) productions
TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) is a non-profit, professional theater company based in Menlo Park, California. Over its four decade history the company has produced more than 350 shows.
1970s
1970 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Popcorn |
World premiere |
1971 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Garden of Delights |
World premiere |
Triad |
World premiere |
Elements |
World premiere |
Dreameaters |
World premiere |
The Bungleberry Statement |
World premiere |
Adventures Underground |
World premiere |
1972 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Gramdu |
World premiere |
Bits |
World premiere |
A New Song |
World premiere |
Garden of Delights (Revival) |
|
Theatre of Marvels |
World premiere |
The Children's Crusade |
World premiere |
Collaboration |
World premiere |
The Comedy of Errors |
1973-1974 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Celebration (MusicAL) |
|
Cry, Wolf |
World premiere |
Odd Bodkins |
World premiere |
An Italian Straw Hat |
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As You Like It |
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The Theatre of Marvels |
World premiere |
Odd Bodkins (Revival) |
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Cabaret |
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Sideshow |
World premiere |
Sliding Down the Rainbow |
World premiere |
1974-1975 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Spoon River Anthology |
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A Man's A Man (Musical) |
World premiere |
Chantecler (Musical) |
World premiere |
The Country Wife (Musical) |
World premiere |
The Tempest |
|
Theatre of Marvels |
World premiere |
Under Milk Wood |
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Sideshow II |
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Memyself the Wicked Elf |
World premiere |
1975-1976 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
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The Hostage |
|
Story Theatre (Musical) |
World premiere |
Don Juan (Musical) |
World premiere |
Romeo and Juliet |
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Everyman (Musical) |
World premiere |
Macbeth |
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The Zoo Story |
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The World of Carl Sandburg |
1976-1977 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill |
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Ah, Wilderness! |
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The Gibson Girl |
World premiere |
Thieves Carnival |
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Two Gentlemen of Verona |
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Godspell |
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Kennedy's Children |
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She Stoops to Conquer |
1977-1978 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
The Fantasticks |
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The Mound Builders |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Robber Bridegroom |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Much Ado AbOUT Nothing |
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Scapino |
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The Crucible |
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Oliver! |
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Twelfth Night |
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The Goodbye People |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1978-1979 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Carnival |
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The Misanthrope |
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The Servant of Two Masters (Musical) |
World premiere |
Vanities |
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The Merchant of Venice |
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Hold Me! |
|
Voices |
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The Wizard of Oz |
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The Tavern |
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead |
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Uncommon Women and Others |
1979-1980 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
The Country Wife (Revival) |
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Charley's Aunt |
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Side by Side by Sondheim |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
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The Time of Your Life |
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The Comedy of Errors (Musical) |
World premiere |
Cold Storage |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
La Ronde |
1980s
1980-1981 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Working |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Misalliance |
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We're in the Money |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Hamlet |
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Festival |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Salt Lake City Skyline |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Sly Fox |
1981-1982 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Man of La Mancha |
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The Fireworks Rag |
World premiere |
Whose Life Is It Anyway |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Merry Wives of Windsor |
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On Golden Pond |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Down River |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Pippin |
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Da Night of the Iguana |
1982-1983 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Company |
|
Ain't Misbehavin' |
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To Grandmother's House We Go |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
As You Like It |
|
Strider |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Oliver! |
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The Woolgatherer |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Great White Hope |
1983-1984 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
A Little Night Music |
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The Belle of Bourbon Street |
World premiere |
They're Playing Our Song |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Spokesong |
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Oliver! (Revival) |
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''Children of a Lesser God |
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All's Fair |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Through the Wilderness to the Stars |
World premiere |
1984-1985 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
On the Razzle |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Catsplay |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Eubie |
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Romeo and Juliet |
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Tintypes |
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Oliver! (Revival) |
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The Elephant Man |
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A Life |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Saturday, Sunday, Monday |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1985-1986 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
...And A Nightingale Sang |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Baby |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Foxfire |
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Twelfth Night |
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Anything for a Laugh |
World premiere |
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Oliver! (Revival) |
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Baby (Revival) |
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Duet For One |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
"MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys |
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Merrily We Roll Along |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander |
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Catchpenny Twist |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1986-1987 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Little Shop of Horrors |
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Home |
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Isn't It Romantic |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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Talking With... |
Stage II |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
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Brighton Beach Memoirs |
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Oliver! (Revival) |
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84 Charing Cross Road |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Casualties |
World premiere |
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Sunday in the Park with George |
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Taking Steps |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1987-1988 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
A...My Name is Alice |
Stage II |
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You Can't Take It With You |
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The Rink |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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The Learned Ladies |
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Benefactors |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
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Cat's-paw |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Peter Pan! |
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Eleemosynary |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Rough Crossing |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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Pacific Overtures |
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In the Sweet Bye & Bye |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1988-1989 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Pump Boys and Dinettes |
Stage II |
|
Two Gentlemen of Verona |
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Stepping Out |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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Dreamgirls |
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T Bone N Weasel |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Front Page |
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Peter Pan! (Revival) |
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
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Rags |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
The Boys Next Door |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1989-1990 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Candide |
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A Walk in the Woods |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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The Tempest |
||
The Voice of the Prairie |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Broadway Bound |
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Fraulein Dora |
Stage II |
World premiere |
Oliver! (Revival) |
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Tea |
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No Way To Treat A Lady |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Big River |
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I'm Not Rappaport |
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Our Lady of the Desert |
Stage II |
World premiere |
1990s
1990-1991 Season
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1991, with TheatreWorks producing 5 shows in the venue. The company also built their own black box theatre at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto.
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Galileo |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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My Children! My Africa! |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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The Miser |
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Brilliant Traces |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Emerald City |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Into the Woods |
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De Donde |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Steel Magnolias |
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Rashomon |
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Vital Signs |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Go Down Garvey |
World premiere |
1991-1992 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
The Good Doctor |
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Miami Lights |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
O Pioneers! |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Hi-Hat Hattie! |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
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Peter Pan! (Revival) |
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A Rosen by Any Other Name |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Interpreters |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Sweeney Todd |
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Talk-Story |
Stage II |
World premiere |
Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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New Business |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1992-1993 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Prelude to a Kiss |
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The Human Comedy |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
M. Butterfly |
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Love Letters |
Stage II |
|
God's Hands |
Stage II |
World premiere |
Jar the Floor |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Into the Woods (Revival) |
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A Normal Life |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Theme and Variations |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Once on This Island |
||
Mrs. Klein |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Royal Hunt of the Sun |
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Our Lady of the Tortilla |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1993-1994 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
La Bête |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
The Heidi Chronicles |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Josephine |
World premiere |
|
Sparks |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Skin of Our Teeth |
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Almost September |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Marvin's Room |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Tiny Tim is Dead |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The World Goes 'Round |
||
Scotland Road |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Honor Song for Crazy Horse |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
A Small Delegation |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1994-1995 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Ain't Misbehavin' |
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Ah, Wilderness! |
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A...My Name is Still Alice |
Stage II |
|
Nagasaki Dust |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Old Boy |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Into the Woods (Revival)'' |
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As You Like It |
||
Conversations with My Father |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
The Lady from Havana |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Secret Garden |
1995-1996 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
If We Are Women |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
She Loves Me |
||
Broken Eggs |
Stage II |
|
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Tapestry, A Musical Revue of the Music of Carole King |
Stage II |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
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Under Milk Wood |
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Two Trains Running |
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Wrong For Each Other |
Regional premiere |
|
Passion |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1996-1997 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Equus |
|
Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
You Never Can Tell |
|
Cabaret |
|
Holiday Memories |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Voir Dire |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Another Midsummer Night |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Camping With Henry and Tom |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1997-1998 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Heart Land |
World premiere |
Once in a Lifetime |
|
Blues for an Alabama Sky |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Kiss of the Spider Woman |
|
Moon Over Buffalo |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Night of the Iguana |
|
Putting It Together |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Romeo & Juliet |
1998-1999 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Talley's Folly |
|
Raisin |
|
An American Daughter |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Side Show |
Regional premiere |
Present Laughter |
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Amadeus |
|
Psychopathia Sexualis |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Joy Luck Club |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
1999-2000 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Sunday in the Park with George |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
As Bees in Honey Drown |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Pride's Crossing |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Violet |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
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You Can't Take It With You |
||
Everything's Ducky |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
Fences |
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The Cripple of Inishmaan |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
2000s
2000-2001 Season
Title |
Notes |
|---|---|
Gypsy |
|
The Old Settler |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Master Class |
|
Grapes of Wrath (play) |
|
Triumph of Love |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Last Night of Ballyhoo |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Far East |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Floyd Collins |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
2001-2002 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Summer of '42 |
World premiere |
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Over the River and Through the Woods |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Pacific Overtures |
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Spinning Into Butter |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Charley's Aunt |
||
Old Money |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Oo-Bla-Dee |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Kept |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
2002-2003 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Smokey Joe's Cafe |
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Be Aggressive |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Ragtime |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
The Syringa Tree |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
On Golden Pond |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
|
Book of Days |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Legacy Codes |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
World premiere |
''Jane Eyre (musical) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
2003-2004 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Proof (play) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
Bat Boy: The Musical |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Nickel and Dimed |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
A Little Night Music |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
The Fourth Wall |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Memphis (musical) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
All My Sons |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
|
My Antonia |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
2004-2005 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Arcadia |
||
Red |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
A Little Princess |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
Living Out |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Striking 12 |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Shakespeare in Hollywood |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Vincent in Brixton |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
|
Crowns |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
2005-2006 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Dolly West's Kitchen |
Regional premiere |
|
Harold & Maude: The Musical |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Intimate Apparel |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Baby Taj |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
Into the Woods |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
|
The Clean House |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Anna in the Tropics |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Sisters Rosensweig |
2006-2007 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Vanities, A New Musical |
World premiere |
|
Brooklyn Boy |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
M. Butterfly |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
Dessa Rose |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Ambition Facing West |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Trying |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Merrily We Roll Along |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
2007-2008 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
The Elephant Man |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
Theophilus North |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Regional premiere |
Emma |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
World premiere |
Golda's Balcony |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
|
Twelfth Night |
||
Third (play) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Regional premiere |
Southern Comforts |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Regional premiere |
Caroline, Or Change |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
2008-2009 Season
Title |
Venue |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Snapshots |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Doubt: A Parable |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
|
Grey Gardens (musical) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Northern California or West Coast Premiere |
Radio Golf |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Regional premiere |
Long Story Short |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
World premiere |
Twentieth Century (play) |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Regional premiere |
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
Regional premiere |
Distracted |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
Regional premiere |
2009-2010 Season
Title |
Venue |
Dates |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Tinyard Hill |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
July 15–August 16, 2009 |
World premiere |
Yellowface |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
August 26–September 20, 2009 |
Regional premiere |
The Chosen |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
October 7–November 8, 2009 |
|
A Civil War Christmas |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
December 2–27, 2009 |
West Coast premiere |
Daddy Long Legs |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
January 20–February 14, 2010 |
World premiere |
Sunsets and Margaritas |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
March 10–April 4, 2010 |
West Coast premiere |
To Kill A Mockingbird |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
April 7–May 2, 2010 |
|
Opus |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
June 2–27, 2010 |
Regional premiere |
2010s
2010-2011 Season
Title |
Venue |
Dates |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Auctioning the Ainsleys |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
July 14-August 8, 2010 |
World premiere |
The Light in the Piazza |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
August 25-September 19, 2010 |
|
Superior Donuts |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
October 6–31, 2010 |
Regional Premiere |
A Christmas Memory |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
December 1–26, 2010 |
World Premiere |
The 39 Steps |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
January 19-February 20, 2011 |
|
The North Pool |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
March 9-April 3, 2011 |
World Premiere |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
March 30-April 24, 2011 |
Regional Premiere |
[title of show] |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
June 1–26, 2011 |
Regional premiere |
2011-2012 Season
Title |
Venue |
Dates |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Fly By Night |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
July 13-August 13, 2011 |
World premiere |
Sense and Sensibility |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
August 24-September 18, 2011 |
American Premiere |
Clementine in the Lower 9 |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
October 5–30, 2011 |
World Premiere |
The Secret Garden |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
November 30–December 31, 2011 |
|
The Pitmen Painters |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
January 18-February 12, 2012 |
West Coast Premiere |
Now Circa Then |
Lucie Stern Theatre |
March 7-April 1, 2012 |
West Coast Premiere |
Of Mice and Men |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
April 4-29, 2012 |
|
Wheelhouse |
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts |
June 6-July 1, 2012 |
World premiere |