Morning Family Matinee & Talkback — MV Center
- Family matinee performance with a post-show Q&A where audience members can ask the cast and production staff questions. - Scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on April 24 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. - Event listing: eastbaytimes.com.
A family matinee with a post-show talkback is set for 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 24, at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Mountain View. (eastbaytimes.com) The event appears on the East Bay Times calendar for April 24-30 and matches the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts schedule for that morning. The venue is at 500 Castro St., Mountain View. (eastbaytimes.com) (mvcpa.com) (tickets.mvcpa.com) The 9:30 a.m. performance is one of three Friday student matinees tied to Peninsula Youth Theatre’s production of “Hansel & Gretel,” with additional matinees at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday public performances are listed for 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on April 25. (tickets.mvcpa.com) (pytnet.org) Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts describes the show as a world-premiere modernized adaptation by Karen Simpson for Peninsula Youth Theatre’s “Stories on Stage” program. The production is based on the Brothers Grimm tale of two siblings abandoned in a forest who encounter a witch with an edible house. (tickets.mvcpa.com) (mvcpa.com) The talkback is built into the event, not a separate add-on. The venue and Peninsula Youth Theatre both say audience members can ask questions of the cast and production staff after the performance. (mvcpa.com) (pytnet.org) Peninsula Youth Theatre lists the Friday school matinees at $7 per ticket for student groups of 10 or more. It lists Saturday general-admission tickets at $17, and the venue says most tickets also carry a $2 or $3 facility use fee depending on the event. (pytnet.org) (mvcpa.com) The setup makes the April 24 matinee part performance and part classroom-style conversation. For families and school groups, the morning show offers a short run time of about one hour, with no intermission and questions immediately afterward. (pytnet.org) By Friday morning, the audience will be seeing more than a calendar listing. They will be walking into a live children’s theater production with the cast still on hand to explain how the show got made. (eastbaytimes.com) (mvcpa.com)
