The Employee Dharma Handbook
Geetha Reddy
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Kathryn Smith-McGlynn & Ranjita Chakravarty
In the heart of a Valley where the next IPO can birth hundreds of new millionaires and where many companies are founded, run, and heavily populated by Indian immigrants and Indian Americans, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley commissions and opens a fantastically engaging, intriguing, and often funny world premiere full of both grit and heart in which corporate and heritage norms and cultures collide and explode on a rocket’s launch pad to Jupiter. With a keen eye for perfectly timed pacing of multiple scenes packed with increasing tensions and conflicts — those of discrimination, class, relationship, family, and personal identity (not to mention also IPO or no-IPO) — Snehal Desai deftly directs Geetha Reddy’s The Employee Dharma Handbook as the opening production of TheatreWorks fifty-sixth season.
Please proceed to Talkin’Broadway for the rest of my review.
Rating: 5-E
A Theatre Eddys Best Bet Production
The Employee Dharma Handbook continues through August 2, 2026, in a one-hour, forty-minute (no intermission) world premiere production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road Palo Alto CA. Tickets are available online at www.theatreworks.org, by email at boxoffice@theatreworks.org, or by phone Tuesday – Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. at 1-877-662-TWSV (8978).
Photo Credit: Kevin Berne
