Pianist/playwright breaks his own box office record at TheatreWorks

Box office smash

Pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder broke his own box office record for single ticket sales pre-opening night for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s current production of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.” The show is the last in Felder’s series of composer plays, which have seen him portray musicians from Beethoven to Irving Berlin.

“Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” is a first in another way, as Felder is appearing opposite another actor for the first time: British-Italian Jonathan Silvestri as Russia’s last tsar...