Aurora Theatre’s next season to feature premieres by Jonathan Spector, Cleavon Smith If all goes well in the world, our first production will open in person on Addison Street, says Josh Costello.
Lily Janiak May 6, 2021Updated: May 6, 2021, 4:19 pm
Playwright Jonathan Spector (left) with director Josh Costello during rehearsals on the set of “Eureka Day,” which premiered at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley. Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2018
Bay Area playwrights are well represented in Aurora Theatre Company’s 2021-22 season, with two of its five slots going to new plays by Jonathan Spector and Cleavon Smith, the Berkeley company announced Thursday, May 6.
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Yetta Gottesman (left) and Elena Estér in “Don’t Eat the Mangos” at Magic Theatre. Photo: Jennifer Reiley, Magic Theatre
“Don’t Eat the Mangos,” Ricardo Pérez González’s play produced at the Magic Theatre in 2020, won the 2021 Will Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area last year.
Theatre Bay Area, the nonprofit that administers the award with funding from the Will Glickman Foundation, announced the winner Friday, April 16.
“Mangos,” which centers on a Puerto Rican family with three grown sisters, drives toward the revelation of a horrible secret. Reviewing the show with The Chronicle’s top rating, theater critic Lily Janiak wrote that the show’s honesty “is so unsparing it’s contagious: When such truth is before you, you can’t help but lo