Robert Kelley, founding artistic director of TheatreWorks, announced yesterday that the current production They Promised Her the Moon will soon be available for video viewing — at a price of your choosing. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Iglehart and Jue are among those who've returned to TheatreWorks over the years.With its New Works Festival and Writers’ Retreat, TheatreWorks has also helped foster some major writing talents, including Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Joe DiPietro and Beth Henley.“He was so passionate and committed to the community from the get-go,” says Carey Perloff, who is stepping down from her role as longtime artistic director of ACT at the end of next season. A letter from Robert Kelley. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has found its successor to artistic director Robert Kelley Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) He was artistic director at Syracuse Stage Company and the Syracuse University Drama Department in New York (2007-16), and assistant director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland (1996-2007), where he created the FAIR Program to foster greater diversity in theater production.Early in his career, Bond worked extensively with the adventuresome, diversity-oriented Seattle Group Theatre, eventually becoming its artistic director from 1991-96 and curating the company’s Multicultural Playwrights Festival.
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Will one of these ideas become San Jose’s new landmark? Dear Friends, To ensure the safety of everyone in our TheatreWorks family, we’ve made significant adjustments to this 50th season and to our plans for the upcoming 20/21 mainstage lineup. "I still very much love making theater," Kelley says. South Bay father-daughter duo making fairy doors to help the hungry TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has just done something for the first time in its 50-year history — hired a new artistic director.Robert Kelley, who has led the Palo Alto company since founding TheatreWorks in 1970, has announced he is stepping down after the current performance season ends next spring. TheatreWorks was founded by Stanford grad Robert Kelley in 1970, charged by the City of Palo Alto with developing new work by local youth in reaction to the unsettled times. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, TheatreWorks named his successor — Tim Bond, an award-winning theater administrator and director who, like Kelley, is known for championing new plays and musicals and presenting theater that reflects the faces and themes of the community it serves.In other words, though he will be “veering in my own aesthetic direction,” Bond plans to largely stay the course for TheatreWorks, which this year won a Tony Award as best American regional theater company.“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to continue Robert Kelley’s great work, and to lead this spirited company into its next exciting phase,” said Bond, who will come on board with TheatreWorks next March.In his more than three decades, Bond has been involved in almost in almost every aspect of theater. But that doesn’t mean we stopped creating art!
“Particularly its good vibes and deep connection to the community.”“I don’t think the company could have made a better choice,” said Kelley of his successor. Robert Kelley, the founder and artistic director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley who has served in his role since 1970, will retire in 2020 when the theater marks its … Sunnyvale resident Christine Oliver, whose specialty is watercolors, is among those who have stepped into the breach. A Lauren Gunderson regional premiere, “Ragtime” and a new “Pride and Prejudice” musical are among the highlights of TheatreWorks’ upcoming 2019-20 season, the company’s 50th and its final under founding artistic director Robert Kelley. The two teamed up to make fairy door kits in return for a $10 donation to Second Harvest food bank "I hope I'll continue with the company in lots of different ways -- as a director, as a cheerleader, and in any way that our new leadership wants to use me. Artists affiliated with Silicon Valley Open Studios have arrived at a possible solution to this angst. Robert Kelley, the company’s founding artistic director, was at the Tony Awards in New York to accept the award, and thanked “generations of collaborators who have grown TheatreWorks for … SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
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An art major in college,... Bond says Wilson would regularly visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and seek him out.“He’d ask if I had a few minutes.