Past Seasons at The Pear

SEASON 1: 2002/03

Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

Jeanie Forte (director), Sara Betts (Vivie), Joe Higgins* (Sir George Crofts), Steven Lone (Frank Gardiner), Nicolae Muntean (Praed), John Musgrave (Rev. Sam Gardiner), Diane Tasca (Mrs. Warren)

The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder and Col. Partridge's Pear Oil Radio Show by the Pear Playwrights Ensemble

Neva Marie (director), Paul Braverman, Brett Gaynor, Kim Jiang, Julie Masterson, Chris McCarty, Nicolae Muntean, Rebecca Schenone, James Stillian, Jennifer Sundberg, Eric Swartz, and Kristin Walter

Show and Tell by Anthony Clarvoe

Rebecca Ennals (director), Michael Barr (Farsted), Wiliam Church* (Seth), Maureen Coyne (Iris/ Lucy), Jennifer Erdmann (Corey), Patricia Tyler (Sharon/Erinn), Gloria Wang (Ann/Gail)

High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian and We Had a Very Good Time by David Auburn

Diane Tasca (director); Pat Tyler (Woman on High Dive)

We Had a Very Good Time

William Kenney (director), Kurt Gravenhorst (Paul/Dima), Diane Tasca (Nicole/Anna)

Vehicle by Elyce Melmon

Jeanie Forte (director), Patrick Brady (Jason Cantor), Paz Hilfinger-Pardo (Kim Cantor), Neva Marie* (Christina Cantor), Martha Stookey (Claudia Hurwitz)

 

SEASON 2: 2003/04

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (translation by Tom Stoppard)

And the World Goes Round by John Kander and Fred Ebb

Approaching Zanzibar by Tina Howe

A Beautiful Home for the Incurable by Ian Walker

A Fair Country by Jon Robin Baitz

Pear Slices, The Pear Playwrights Group

 

Season 3 2004/2005

Veracruz by John Levin

A MID(WINTER)SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder

PEAR SLICES 2005 by The Pear Playwrights Guild

THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF SAVAGES by Amy Freed

What the Birds Carry by Elizabeth Gjelten

THE BELLE OF AMHERST by William Luce

 

Season 4 2005/06

The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Master Class by Terrence McNally

Pear Slices 2006 Once again variety will spice the Pear as we present eight short and highly diverse new works by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild.

Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon

Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw

Deuce by Sharmon Hilfinger

The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

 

Season 5 2006/07

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'niell

The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Pear Slices 2007 by The Pear Playwrights Guild

The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge

Space Is Blue and Birds Fly in It by Gregory Meyer

 

Season 6 2007/08

Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov New translation by Craig Lucas 
September 7 - 30

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee October 26 – November 18

True West by Sam Shepard January 17 – February 3

Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel February 22 – March 16

Pear Slices 2008 by the Pear Playwrights Guild April 4 -27

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen New Dramatization by Diane Tasca May 16 – June 8

Homeland Prayer by Jeff Carter World Premiere June 27 – July 13

 

season 7 2008/09

Eccentricities of a Nightingale 9/12/08 -  

Nickel and Dimed 10/24/08 - 11/09/08 

The Circle 1/09/09 -02/01/09 

Pick Up Ax 2/27/09 - 03/15/09

Pear Slices 2009 4/10/09 - 4/26/09 

The Way of the World 5/08/09 - 05/31/09

Metamorphoses 6/26/09 - 7/12/09 

 

season 8 2009/10

Tell It Slant
by Sharmon Hilfinger
September 11 -27

Hay Fever
by Noel Coward
October 23 – November 8

Speed-the-Plow
by David Mamet
January 8 – 24

Pear Slices 2010
by the Pear Playwrights Guild
February 12 - 28

The Illusion
by Pierre Corneille, Adapted by Tony Kushner
March 19 – April 4

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
May 7 – 30

The Shaker Chair
 by Adam Bock
June 25 – July 11

Season 9 2010/11

Angels in America (Part One): Millennium Approaches  by Tony Kushner

  • September 17 –October 16

Our Town  by Thornton Wilder

  • September 24 – October 17 

For the first time (ever), two American theatrical treasures will be teamed: Angels in America and Our Town  will be performed at the Pear in repertory, with the same cast and stage setting.  These brilliantly contrasting works embody ideas about our nation at different times in its history. Wilder’s beloved Our Town leads us gently back to a quieter, steadier America.  Kushner’s searing Angels in America propels us to a time of upheaval, but also tentative hope. Two iconic plays brought together in a bold and startling way.
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CTRL + ALT + DELETE  by Anthony Clarvoe

  • November 5 - 21

At the beginning of a new century, Silicon Valley’s prime mover and shaker is looking to market the Next New Thing. A young man pitches what seems to be a tantalizing but impossible concept: a miraculous “gizmo” that is part cell phone, part computer, addictive as all get out. Never mind that such a contraption cannot be made. (Or can it?) A wildly funny play by the author of Pick Up Ax. 
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No Good Deed  by Paul Braverman

  • January 14 - 30

The year is 1962.  Boston may be celebrating "Camelot", but under the surface, there's another, grittier world filled with greed, lust, and violence.  That's Frankie Payne's world.  She is a female private detective but, as one character notes, "Frankie Payne is no lady."  Gin-soaked but not quite washed up, Frankie fights demons both inside and out to find redemption.  Set in the midst of the Irish gang war, this stunning new play is told with a classic film noir feel.
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  • February 25 – March 20

This iconic and moving work, widely regarded as THE defining American drama, is the heartbreaking story of an ordinary man with extraordinary, and ultimately self-destructive, expectations. Called a “working –class Oedipus Rex,” Miller’s play led all others in a recent nationwide survey of playwrights, scholars, and educators asked to name the ten most important American plays.
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Pear Slices 2011  by the Pear Playwrights Guild 

  • April  8 - 24

More Pear Slices, please!  This new batch of deliciously varied short plays will work their magic on the season’s Americana theme. And there’s one more reason to celebrate:  Slices 2011 will mark the Pear’s sixtieth production—celebrate with us! 
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Dramatized by Diane Tasca)

  • May 13-29

Twain's wisecracking hero finds himself zapped from 1880 to the Middle Ages, from industrial America to medieval England. Yankee can-do spirit enables this crafty time-traveler to drag a backward culture kicking and screaming into the modern era--but only for a while. Breathtaking, hilarious-- and shockingly relevant to 21st century America.
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

  • June 24 - July 10

Our 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.
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