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Sergio Lopez on February 9, 2022
It’s nighttime in Memphis and rain is pouring. Inside the Lorraine Motel, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lies with a fever and sore throat. Earlier—unknowingly, hours before his death—he had given his final speech, telling the audience at Mason Temple: “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” While the speech became one of King’s…
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Grace Stetson on November 17, 2021
In 2021, it’s important to acknowledge that Thanksgiving’s history isn’t necessarily one to be celebrated. At Mountain View’s Pear Theatre, playwright Larissa FastHorse brings that fact to life in her new production “The Thanksgiving Play.” The play follows three “woke” white thespians as they put on an elementary school play about the…
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Jay Edgar on September 29, 2021
The demand for “wholesome” entertainment has been higher than ever recently, but sometimes you have to confront the darkness. Set in a future where nearly all insects are extinct—causing untold ecological devastation—Somewhere follows two sibling scientists tracking the last monarch butterflies in the world to the west coast, and run into a…
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Jay Edgar on August 18, 2021
After becoming the hit show in Pear Theatre’s 2019 “Pear Slices” showcase, playwright Meghan Maugeri expanded “Mothers of the Bride” into a full-length play. The comedy follows a bride-to-be as she navigates her close relationships with her mother and stepmother, and they in turn negotiate their own complicated relationship and common bonds,…
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Jay Edgar on July 21, 2021
Those who’ve missed mingling with fellow theatre-lovers now finally have a chance again: Mountain View’s Pear Theatre is throwing a free 20th season soiree for patrons both returning and prospective. Among the festivities (and margaritas), you’ll also get your first chance to subscribe to the upcoming season of terrific productions, the institution’s…
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Mike Huguenor on July 14, 2021
As an author, Italo Calvino favored what he called ‘thoughtful lightness,’ his writing playing out like the waft of a particularly poetic breeze. Late Wedding, by San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, takes Calvino as inspiration to tell a mind-bending tale of love, longing and marriage through a variety of “interconnected fables” spanning…
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Metro Staff on March 11, 2020
When Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s dog dead with a garden fork sticking out of its body, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in an act of animal cruelty he did not commit. A mathematically gifted 15-year-old, Boone is at once highly intelligent and unable to interpret everyday life. On his journey…
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Jeffrey Edalatpour on October 23, 2019
Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama takes place during the Great Recession of 2008. A group of co-workers, friends and family members struggle to find jobs or cling to the ones they have. When someone is given a chance to move off of the backbreaking factory floor and into a management position,…
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Metro Staff on January 23, 2019
The premise is simple enough. With 12 hours left to live, how would you choose to spend your time? With friends? With family? How about swiping through potential matches on your handset? In outline, Spending the End of the World on OK Cupid, sounds similar to Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers—albeit with a…
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Nick Veronin on August 29, 2018
Based on Jane Austen’s first novel completed for publication, Northanger Abbey follows 17-year-old Catherine Morland as she learns that life is seldom as glamorous and intriguing as the lives of the characters in her beloved Gothic novels. This production, adapted for the stage by Pear Theatre founder Diane Tasca, kicks off the…
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