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Familiar Strangers - World Premiere

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

March 2-March 18, 2012

Set in Los Angeles during the Iranian festival of No Rooz (“new day”), this wonderful new play explores the generational and cultural conflicts of an Iranian family split by revolution. With insight and humor, Slices alumna Margy Kahn portrays the struggle between an Iranian woman and her Americanized teen-aged daughter. Adolescent excesses charge the force field of cultural conflict, as each character comes to understand that neither Iranian nor American society has all the

Bach at Leipzig

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

April 6-April 22, 2012

Six men in wigs and knee breeches—all named either Johann or Georg--converge on Leipzig in 1722. Each Johann/Georg has his eyes on the prize position of organmeister of the Thomaskirche. Madness of a comically German variety ensues, as witty barbs and historical allusions zip around the stage like nobody’s business. It’s a possenhaft lustspiel (laff riot)!

Pear Slices

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

May 11-June 3, 2012

In this ninth serving of Pear Slices, see what the talented and versatile writers in the Pear Playwrights Guild are up to, this time around. Fresh and ripe, these short new plays are sure to surprise and delight the audience.

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

June 22-July 15, 2012

The tenth season concludes with the first play produced at the Pear: Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's stunning and ageless indictment of hypocrisy. As she did in the 2002 production, Pear Artistic Director Diane Tasca will appear in the title role.

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

January 13-February 5, 2012

This play revisits a member of O’Neill’s iconic Tyrone family (last seen in Long Day’s Journey at the Pear). Irish immigrant Phil Hogan, along with his coarse and wanton daughter, Josie, work a farm rented from James Tyrone, an alcoholic, washed-up actor. In a scheme to buy the farm, Josie aims to seduce James. But as their entanglement grows, they open up to each other about their dreams, their fears, and their disappointments, realizing how much they have in common

Mauritius

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

November 4-November 20, 2011

The seemingly genteel bequest of a stamp album fans the flames of greed and sibling rivalry, as two half-sisters and several shady characters fight over an extremely pricey pair of stamps (we’re talking seven figures). Crackling dialogue, black humor, psychological complexity, and a tense, surprising plot make Mauritius a “ripping good play.” Stamp collecting as a blood sport... who knew?

Josh Kornbluth - Benefit Performance

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at Community School of Music and Arts

October 23, 2011

Mountain View's Pear Avenue Theatre celebrates its 10th anniversary with a benefit performance by Josh Kornbluth , a comedic monologuist who has toured internationally, written and starred in several feature films, and starred in his own show on KQED. Josh and his brother Jake (director/screenwriter) have made a film called Love & Taxes based on Josh's highly acclaimed one-man show of the same name.

Josh will perform excerpts and they will show clips of the film (to be

The Fifth of July

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

September 16-October 9, 2011

This compassionate, funny play is Lanford Wilson’s valedictory to the 1960s. Friends and family, lovers and strangers hang out on a porch in Lebanon, Missouri, in July 1977, as the nation begins its third century and the Talley family tries to figure out what’s next for them. If Chekhov had been born a century later (and a few thousand miles westward), he might have written this beautiful play.

A Raisin in the Sun

Presented by The Pear Avenue Theatre at The Pear Avenue Theatre

June 24-July 10, 2011

The Pear's Americana season ends with a play about beginnings -- Lorraine Hansberry's startlingly fresh masterpiece about an African-American family claiming their piece of the American Dream: a home of their own. The first play by an African-American woman ever to be produced on Broadway, this resilient, moving, witty work breathes fire and radiates hope, today more than ever.