Business Listing - Theater

TheatreWorks

PO Box 50458
Palo Alto, CA 94303 map
district: Palo Alto

Tel. 650-463-1963
Website

About TheatreWorks

2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Third Place

Best Theater Company

Almost 40 years old, TheatreWorks maintains its status as the top theater company on the peninsula, with a nonstop season that mixes major dramas with frothy comedies, revivals and musicals—many of them regional premieres. The nonprofit company also helps develop and nurture young playwrights with its New Works Initiative.

-- Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 24, 2008

2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Honoree

Best Local Theater Company

— Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007

With a national reputation for artistic innovation and integrity, TheatreWorks is now in its 35th year of presenting outstanding regional theatre on the San Francisco Peninsula and was named BEST REPERTORY THEATRE in the Bay Area by prestigious San Francisco magazine. The company offers a year-round season of musicals, comedies and dramas staged in the state-of-the-art Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and in the graceful, California Mission-style Lucie Stern Theatre complex in Palo Alto.

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Editorial Review

Distracted

TheatreWorks presents Lisa Loomer's play about a mother and her struggle to understand her troubled child

By Ben Marks (04/07/2009)

" Like a child with ADD, Lisa Loomer’s "Distracted," presented by TheatreWorks, darts impulsively from scene to scene. Actors abruptly enter ongoing monologues, which they interrupt with fast-paced dialogue, before exiting, their services no longer required. Chairs are wheeled into view from offstage before being hustled into position by the actors themselves. "

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