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Frost/Nixon at Theatreworks Encore Arts San Francisco N O X I N T S O R F STANFORD HEALTH Palo Alto’s best address. Located steps from downtown Palo Alto and University Avenue and just blocks from Stanford, Webster House offers you world-class community living. The area is perfect for exploring by foot with museums, performances, dining, shopping, and galleries all close at hand. An intimate Life Plan Community, Webster House makes it easy for you to stay connected to the culture, academia, and vibrancy of Palo Alto while enjoying convenient services and security for the future. Explore your options and learn more about moving to Webster House. For information, or to schedule a visit, call 650.838.4004. covia.org/webster-house 401 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301 A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 435202504 COA# 328 January 2019 Volume 50, No. 5 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 49th season of award-winning theatre! Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Executive Director Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions and programming throughout the region. Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity Paul Heppner of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing President great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new Mike Hathaway works for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 70 world Senior Vice President premieres and over 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2018/19 season, Kajsa Puckett we add the world premiere of Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story and five Vice President, Sales & Marketing more regional premieres to our résumé. Genay Genereux TheatreWorks’ 2017/18 season included the world premieres of The Four Accounting & Office Manager Immigrants: An American Musical Manga and The Prince of Egypt, as well as Production regional premieres of Constellations, Our Great Tchaikovsky, Skeleton Crew, Susan Peterson and Finks. In the course of the year, shows that debuted here were produced Vice President, Production at theatres around the world. Jennifer Sugden Assistant Production Manager With an annual operating budget of $9 million, TheatreWorks produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto and the Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and a special add-on holiday production at the Lohman Theatre on the campus of Foothill College in Sales Los Altos. Seventeen years ago, we launched the New Works Initiative, Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed dedicating ourselves to the development of new plays and musicals. The San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives ENCORE Initiative has since supported over 160 new works through retreats, work- Palo Alto’s best address. Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, Ann Manning shops, staged readings, developmental productions, and the annual New Seattle Area Account Executives Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us ”a premiere breeding Carol Yip ground for new musicals, which has put the company on the national map.” Located steps from downtown Palo Alto and University Avenue and Sales Coordinator TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley Marketing just blocks from Stanford, Webster House offers you world-class community. Our Education Department reaches on average 20,000 students Shaun Swick community living. The area is perfect for exploring by foot with museums, Senior Designer & Digital Lead from 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that include the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, performances, dining, shopping, and galleries all close at hand. Ciara Caya the Young Playwrights Project, specially-priced student matinees, extensive Marketing Coordinator school tours, post-show discussions, theatre camps, and programs for youth. An intimate Life Plan Community, Webster House makes it easy for you to Encore Media Group For more information on our 2018/19 season, New Works Initiative, and stay connected to the culture, academia, and vibrancy of Palo Alto while 425 North 85th Street Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. Seattle, WA 98103 enjoying convenient services and security for the future. p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and [email protected] operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors Explore your options and learn more about moving to Webster House. For www.encoremediagroup.com and stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of the information, or to schedule a visit, call 650.838.4004. National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, the Mountain View Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly Chamber of Commerce, and the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2018/19 Season is presented by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in cooperation with the City of Mountain View and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights Division of Arts and Sciences. reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. The director and choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. The scenic, lighting, costume, and sound designers are mem- bers of United Scenic Artists. This season is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a proud home company of the Mountain View covia.org/webster-house Center for the Performing Arts. 401 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Garden Court is the official J. LJo. hLro ihsr tihse t hoeff iocfiafilc wiailn we ine hotel of TheatreWorks. of Tohf eTahtreeaWtreoWrkosr.ks. The Mercury News is TheatreWorks’ 20178/189 Season Media Sponsor. Heennggeehhoolldd TTrruucckkss iiss tthhee ooffffiicciiaall ttrruucckkiinngg pprroovviiddeerr ooff TThheeaattrreeWoorrkkss.. A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 435202504 COA# 328 encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 In this Issue From the Board Chair About TheatreWorks Here we are again—a new calendar year and another opportunity 3 to ponder, through theatre, the challenges our social and political Silicon Valley environment present. Frost/Nixon, based in a past era and yet so poignantly connected to the current one, plunges, rather Get 3 Plays for $120* 5 3 Play Mini Subscription than tiptoes, into the issues of presidential power, its limits and excesses, and the role of the media—heroes or villains, seeking Last chance to get the best price for TW Education Camps truth or ratings? 7 When did the characterization of liberals versus conservatives become so stark? Hershey Felder’s new show! From the Artistic Director How did television influence the nature of journalism and blur the lines between 9 entertainment and investigation? Do we watch to satisfy our need for information 10 About the Play and Playwright or a need for emotional fulfillment? Does reality happen only offline, off-screen, See the final three plays of where things like cameras and makeup and lucrative contracts aren’t part of the process? When Richard Nixon crossed a line, did the line move? this season for just $40 per ticket Frost/Nixon makes it clear that motives matter—they influence the decisions, with premium seating in Section A. participation, and preparation of both interviewer and interviewee, and in the end, the public perception is measured in ratings and reputation. There are winners and losers in the games of media and politics; but these intertwined gameplayers PHOTO COURTESY OF HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS seem a necessary evil, one that may confirm our prior beliefs or reveal new truths that change our perspective, and possibly our lives. ROOF-RAISING GOSPEL OF ROCK THE MUSIC OF ROMANCE SENSATIONAL COMIC DRAMA Frost/Nixon is an entertaining examination of truth, justice and the ”American Way.” We hope you will find it thought-provoking, perhaps a little disturbing— Hershey Felder ARCHDUKE in the way an echo is fun to hear and yet a little eerie. MARIE AND By Rajiv Joseph We will be announcing our 50th anniversary season soon, and we promise it ROSETTA A PARIS Directed by Giovanna Sardelli too will be full of opportunities to learn, laugh, and bask in music and memories. By George Brant NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Playwright Peter Morgan It’s Robert Kelley’s last season as founding Artistic Director—the capstone of Directed by Robert Kelley LOVE STORY Can one man, one moment, derail a century? 50 years guiding TheatreWorks to become the meaningful experience it is. WEST COAST PREMIERE Featuring the music of Pulitzer Prize finalist and OBIE winner Rajiv 11 The Scandal that Brought You absolutely will want to be there! Tap your feet and shake the rafters with Claude Debussy Joseph takes us back to the flash that this music-filled saga of a soul singer who Written and performed by ignited World War I in this equal parts dark Down the Presidency Sincerely, inspired Elvis and Ray Charles on her way Hershey Felder and comic new play. “First-rate! Humor with a global to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Directed by Trevor Hay LA Times “Hip-shaking!” The NY Times conscience.” Director’s Notes Judy Heyboer WORLD PREMIERE 12 March 6–31, 2019 June 5–30, 2019 Virtuoso pianist and actor Hershey Felder Mtn View Ctr for the Performing Arts Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto takes us on a personal journey though the 13 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley BOARD OF TRUSTEES life and music of Impressionist composer Claude Debussy in a soaring tribute.
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