When times are hard and it’s difficult to imagine a light at the end of the tunnel we put our heads down, dig our heels in, and forge ahead—and rarely take a moment to look back. Looking back at times like that is often too difficult, too painful. It reminds us of things that we’ve lost. But in this moment as we are emerging on the other side of the tunnel, we can raise our eyes up to the sun, look to the future and breathe in a sigh of relief.
Now is the time to look back over our shoulder and remind ourselves of where we have come from, while we simultaneously set our eyes on the future. The plays that I have chosen for this upcoming season lean on the traditions of the past while asking us questions the challenge our understanding of what the future may bring. Pieces that entertain and allow us to laugh, and love, and see the humanity in one another and also pieces that ask us to take a hard look at who we are as a society and where we are going. I hope that you will join me on this journey this year.
—Jonathan Rhys Williams,
Executive Artistic Director, The Tabard Theatre Company
Six Play Mainstage Subscription
Our Mainstage Subscription includes admission to all six of our Mainstage shows. Mainstage subscribers save considerably over single-ticket pricing and receive the following other benefits:
- Save 23% to 39% off single tickets.
- Attend the performance of your choice (does not always have to be the “2nd Sunday”, for example).
- Acknowledgment in each program.
- We will strive to seat subscribers as reasonably near your preferred seats as possible.
- FREE ticket exchange with 12-hour notice, depending on availability.
- All tickets held at Will Call.
- Discounted admission to Tabard-produced concerts and special performances.
- Personal Subscriber Support at 408-679-2330 and BoxOffice@ TabardTheatre.org
Three Play Livestream Subscription
Our Livestream Subscription includes access to the three of our Mainstage shows that will be available via livestream: The Turn of the Screw, Swift Justice, and A Merry Little Christmas Cabaret. At checkout, you also have the option to add our Top of the Stairs show, Kate. Livestream subscribers save considerably over single-ticket pricing.
Top of the Stairs Shows
We are offering two optional add-ons to your Mainstage season, Cry of Curs and Kate. Both of these shows are rated PG-13 for more mature themes and language. Read more about them below.
Returning to Familiar Pricing
The Subscription packages for this upcoming year are the same ones you are accustomed to at Tabard from pre-pandemic years. Cabaret Subscribers receive front-row seating in our cabaret section. Adult is our basic, non-discounted subscription for adults aged 18 to 64. We also offer discounted subscriptions for Seniors over 65, Youth under 18 and adult, full-time Students.
MAINSTAGE SHOWS
OCT 8 – 24, 2021
By Jeffrey Hatcher, from the story by Henry James
A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children and soon discovers spectres haunting her young charges. She must find a way to stop the fiends, but one frightening question tortures the would-be heroine: Are the ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination?
“A dazzling act of the imagination.”
—NY Times
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NOV 5 – 21, 2021
By TOM MCENERY
In 1933 Brooke Hart was abducted and murdered. Two men confessed to the crime, and their subsequent lynching in St. James Park set off a national debate about mob rule and vigilante justice. This tale of murder, vengeance, and hope in San Jose’s not-so-distant past returns to Tabard in a new re-working by San Jose’s former Mayor.
“A very moving story…powerful and timely.”
—Americeltic.net
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DEC 10 – 19, 2021
Directed by
Doug Baird
with music by NINETEEN Jazz Orchestra
It’s 1964 and the head of the recording label decides to go for a tried and true strategy to boost the numbers… a Christmas album. Who cares if it’s the middle of July in Los Angeles? It’s time to get into the Christmas spirit. This madcap adventure includes yuletide cocktails, Hawaiian shirts, and all your favorite holiday songs!
“Love the singing… Excellent entertainment”
—Uptown Holiday Swing patron
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FEB 15 – MAR 13, 2022
As winter thaws, the days lengthen and the tickles of spring start peeking around the corner, what better time to get a little music going? We are putting together a lineup of fantastic Bay Area musicians in a variety of genres for four weekends in February and March. Check our Box Office page for the full schedule.
“No winter lasts forever;
no spring skips its turn.”
—Hal Borland
APRIL 1 – 24, 2022
by Doris Baizley
It’s 1955, and Dot must decide if she wants to be declared the ideal married woman— assessed by her skill with an iron, and ability to set a table— or if it’s better to do what’s right than play by the rules. This light and clever comedy pokes wicked fun at the feminine rules of yesteryear, and will have you in stitches the whole time.
“ wonderfully funny and witty… often hilarious and sometimes cutting.”
— Los Angeles Star-News
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MAY 20 – JUN 12, 2022
by Neil Simon
Neil Simon’s classic comedy is still just as hilarious as it ever was. When Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak news writer, is thrown out by his wife, moving in with his also-divorced best friend Oscar Madison, a slovenly sportswriter, seems like an ideal plan. However, it does not take long for the pair’s catastrophic incompatibility to come crashing down on their lives, to hilarious effect.
“Wildly, irresistibly, incredibly and continuously funny.”
– The New York Post
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TOP OF THE STAIRS
SEP 2 – 12, 2021
A Re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Adapted & Directed by Ken Kelleher
A country in crisis. An enemy who emerges from fear of “the other.” And a powerful woman who deftly transforms her soldier son into the perfect made-to-order politician. But when they decide they don’t need him any more, they—and he—must deal with the consequences.
“close, mesmerizing and impactful.”
— Monterey Herald
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JAN 21 – 30, 2022
by Rick Foster
Starring Janis Stevens
Directed by Benjamin Ismail
It is New Year’s Eve, 1999, and Katharine Hepburn, powerhouse of stage and screen, wheelchair-bound at age 92 tries to create a map for how the rest of her life should go. She reflects on her past, on the vagaries of aging, on her family, on lost loves, on her battles as a producer and as a woman. A night in intimate conversation with one of Hollywood’s most fascinating people.
“one you will long remember…
[Stephens] doesn’t just play Hepburn, she is Hepburn.”
— Bev Sykes
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All titles and dates subject to change.
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