Hershey Felder world premiere is coming to TheatreWorks.
Company’s new season also features ‘Fun Home,’ new Rajiv Joseph play
Maestro Hershey Felder and playwright Rajiv Joseph return, and “Fun Home” gets revived as part of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2018-19 season.
Felder, who just closed a hit run of “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” will try to sweep audiences away with “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story” (April 3-28, 2019). Written and performed by Felder, who has regaled audiences as composers from Gershwin and Berlin to Beethoven, now inhabits the life and music of Claude Debussy. Trevor Hay directs this world premiere.
The Tony Award-winning “Fun Home” (Oct. 3-28), a poignant musical based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, celebrates and mourns the dysfunctional family that made the artist who she is today. Robert Kelley will direct the moving musical, which has a magical score by Jeanine Tesori (“Caroline, or Change”) and Lisa Kron (“Well”).
The Pulitzer-nominated Rajiv Joseph, who thrilled audiences with “The North Pool,” returns with “Archduke” (June 5-30, 2019), a comic drama about three revolutionaries left adrift in the wake of the assassination that launched World War I. Longtime collaborator Giovanna Sardelli directs.
The season also includes Jeanne Sakata’s “Hold These Truths” (July 11-Aug. 5), the story of a man who refused to go to an interment camp; Karen Zacarías’ “Native Gardens” (Aug. 22-Sept. 16), the tale of a Latino family buying a home in a posh Washington, D.C., neighborhood; “Tuck Everlasting” (Nov. 28-Dec. 23), a musical about the search for eternal life; Peter Morgan’s political drama “Frost/Nixon” (Jan. 16-Feb. 10, 2019); and George Brant’s “Marie and Rosetta” (March 6-31, 2019), a celebration of the music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight.
For the holidays, TheatreWorks pays another visit to “The Santaland Diaries” (Dec. 5-23), David Sedaris’ whimsical experience working as an elf at Macy’s during the height of the holiday chaos. Jeffrey Lo directs and Max Taxis stars again.
Subscriptions, ranging $143-$583, are on sale now. Single tickets go on sale in the spring. For details, call 650-463-1960 or go to www.theatreworks.org.