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The Pitmen Painters - West Coast Premiere

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

January 18-February 12, 2012

From the writer of the mega-hit film and musical Billy Elliot comes another absorbing London/Broadway success! A funny play that asks big questions, it tells the rousing, true story of a hardscrabble group of 1930's miners who take up painting and become sensations of the British art world. Their exhilarating journey from pit to pinnacle overflows with spirit and laughter, as rich and intriguing as the art it unveils.

Now Circa Then - West Coast Premiere

Presented by TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Community Theatre and Center

March 7-April 1, 2012

In this delightfully quirky comedy, two mismatched historical re-enactors play an immigrant couple from the 1890's at New York’s famed Tenement Museum. Opposites attract, romance blooms and, with hilarious results, each tumultuous turn of their private lives is reflected in their public reenactments. As their on and offstage personas intertwine, they soon discover the perils of living too long in the past.

Advisory: Contains mature language.

Of Mice and Men

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

April 4-April 19, 2012

Crafted for the stage by John Steinbeck himself, this beloved drama is a deeply moving tribute to the strength of friendship and the depth of the American dream. Protective George and his gentle giant of a friend Lennie are migrant workers on a Salinas Valley ranch during the Great Depression. Their hopes for a place of their own come close to fruition, but fate intervenes in a powerhouse saga of conscience and character.

Wheelhouse - World Premiere Musical

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

June 6-July 1, 2012

In a comically touching ode to the road, a traveling rock band cuts back on expenses, hitting the highway in a well-worn Winnebago. When their plan backfires with a bang, it threatens the sweet harmonies that hold them together.

The pop-rock trio GrooveLily, creators of the popular TheatreWorks/Off-Broadway hit Striking 12, star in this irresistible autobiographical musical about traveling tunesmiths in desperate need of a tune-up.

The Secret Garden

Presented by TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Community Theatre and Center

November 30-December 31, 2011

In this enchanting Broadway hit (winner of three Tony Awards), the delightful novel springs to life in a soaring musical about the healing power of love. This holiday treat weaves mystery, magic, and a melodic score into the quest of an orphaned English girl to revive a once glorious Victorian garden. In the process, she rekindles lost hopes and weary spirits, dispelling the ghosts of a troubled past with an indomitable joy of life.

Clementine in the Lower 9 - World Premiere

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

October 5-October 30, 2011

Rebuilding a house, a love, a family, and a soul is the task of this powerfully human drama set in post-Katrina New Orleans. Here the legacy of the past haunts the realities of the present. Here the bluesy sounds of an onstage jazz band accompany a saxophonist and his wife as they struggle to reconnect the electricity, the plumbing, and the relationships devastated by the flood of a lifetime.

Advisory: Contains brief nudity and mature language.

Sense and Sensibility - American Premiere

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

August 24-September 25, 2011

Fortune lost to fate, romance lost to folly, two charming sisters sail the unpredictable seas of courtship in this captivating, intimate adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. Sensible, reserved Elinor and passionate, impulsive Marianne find the course of true love beset with scandalous secrets, shocking betrayals, dashing suitors, and devious rivals, all brought to glorious life in a delicious, period-perfect tribute to everything Austen.

Fly By Night

Presented by TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Community Theatre and Center

July 13-August 13, 2011

Ignored by his wannabe starlet wife, attracted by her sweetheart of a sister, a hapless sandwich maker discovers a well of courage and a wealth of romance during New York’s knockout blackout of 1965. In this charming, darkly comic indie musical, the promise of change begets anxiety and hope, devastation and delight.

[title of show] - Regional Premiere of New Musical

Presented by TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

June 1-June 26, 2011

Imagine a funny new musical by a pair of terrifically talented writers about a pair of terrifically talented writers writing a funny new musical. A love letter to musical theatre, this hit Broadway comedy chronicles four theatre geeks struggling to escape a run-down rehearsal hall and scale the heights of the Great White Way.

Advisory: Contains mature language.