TheatreWorks’ 2018-19 season
Regional premieres by Rajiv Joseph, Jeanne Sakata and Karen Zacarías along with new and hit musicals will make up TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2018-19 lineup. The company announced the season, its 49th under Artistic Director Robert Kelley, on Monday, Feb. 12.
The season begins with two regional premieres. Sakata’s “Hold These Truths,” running July 11-Aug. 5 at Lucie Stern Theatre, is about Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Gordon Hirabayashi, who resisted Japanese internment during World War II. Zacarías’ “Native Gardens,” about an established Washington, D.C., family against its new Latino neighbors, plays Aug. 22-Sept. 16 at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
The Tony-winning “Fun Home,” adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel’s lyrical, comingof-age graphic memoir, runs Oct. 3-28 at the Mountain View center. On its heels is “Tuck Everlasting,” about a girl who must choose between a simple life and immortality. Adapted from the novel by Natalie Babbitt, the musical performs Nov. 28-Dec. 23 at the Lucie Stern. Also performing during the holidays (Dec. 5-23 at Los Altos Hills’ Lohman Theatre) is a return engagement of “The Santaland Diaries.”
Next year brings Peter Morgan’s “Frost/Nixon,” about the televised interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon. It runs Jan. 16-Feb. 10, 2019, at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Next up is the West Coast premiere of “Marie and Rosetta,” George Brant’s gospel-infused musical about the collaboration between Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight, March 6-31, 2019.
From April 3 to 28, 2019, the company will produce the world premiere of “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story — Featuring the Music of Claude Debussy.” The season winds down with the Northern California premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke,” which finds parallels between the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and our own political moment. It runs June 5-30, 2019, at the Mountain View center.
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Lily Janiak is The San Francisco Chronicle’s theater critic. Email: ljaniak@ sfchronicle.com Twitter: @LilyJaniak