San Jose Rep Adds 'A Picasso' to Season
By: BWW News Desk
One of America's most widely produced playwright's, Jeffrey Hatcher, blends fiction with fact in the provocative and witty A Picasso. This play is in the fourth show slot and will run January 24-Febuary 22, 2009.
"It's Paris, a city renowned for its artistic freedom. But its 1941 and the German occupation has established a paranoid culture at its most oppressive. Pablo Picasso has been brought to a storage vault to authenticate three painting that have been recently 'acquired' by the Germans. The beautiful, mysterious and art obsessed Miss Fischer, an adjunct to the Ministry of Culture in Berlin, has the arduous and compelling task of interrogating the man who painted Guernica. When the true purpose of Miss Fischer's mission is revealed, they enter into an intense and passionate game of cat-and-mouse. This provocative and witty play, by one of America's most widely produced playwrights, sizzles under the scrutiny of art, politics, sex and censorship, as the artistic genius is forced to justify his creativity," press notes state. The 2008-09 season will feature world premiere of the stage adaptation of the award-winning novel, The Kite Runner, presented by Hitachi Data Systems, written by Khaled Hosseini and adapted by Matthew Spangler, the Broadway Tony award-winning hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the West Coast premiere of Splitting Infinity. The season opens with the regional premiere of The Foreigner and followed by the spectacular adventures of Phileas Fogg's race around the world in the family-friendly Around the World in 80 Days.
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The Secret Garden Warren Theater at Sonoma State University (6/12-6/28) |
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West Side Story—Film with Live Orchestra Davies Symphony Hall (7/09-7/10) |
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The Still Point: An Immersive Experience SOMArts Cultural Center (7/16-7/25) |
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark SPARC (7/03-7/26) |
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Broadway Under the Stars - Radio Recall: The Soundtrack of Your Life Transcendence Theatre Company (7/10-7/12) |
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L’Anima Napoletana San Francisco Conservatory of Music (6/25-6/25) |
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An Evening with a Mentalist: Jay Alexander's Mind Tricks Live San Francisco Magic Theater (w/Jay Alexander) at the Marrakech (8/07-8/09) |
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Disney''s Beauty and the Beast San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (9/08-9/13) |
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James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash Native Sons Hall (6/26-6/26) |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Sat July 18 8pm Quinn's Lighthouse (7/18-7/18) |