12th Annual Playwrights' Festival

Festival

Key City Public Theatre

Port Townsend
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/9/08
Emerging Jefferson County playwrights Judith Glass Collins, Sandy Diamond and DD Wigley premiere their awardwinning plays from the 2007 One Act Play Competition. Three one acts, three directors, three casts!

All About Albee: Zoo Story & Finding the Sun

Drama

Stone Soup Theatre

Opening Night: 2/13/08
Closes: 3/9/08
An Evening Of Albee: Zoo Story & Finding the Sun Director Mary Machala brings Albees obscure oneact, Finding the Sun, and his wellknown The Zoo Story to the Stone Soup stage.

Barefoot in the Park

Comedy

Village Theatre

Issaquah
Opening Night: 1/23/08
Closes: 3/2/08
One of Neil Simon's best comedies, Barefoot in the Park is a breezy delight, loaded with laughs as Paul and Corrie learn about life, love, and surviving wedded bliss.

BFE by Julia Cho

Drama,Comedy

SIS Productions

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/16/08
SIS Productions presents the West Coast premiere of B.F.E., a panoramic view of self identity and relationships written by awardwinning Korean American playwright Julia Cho.

By the Waters of Babylon

Drama

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 1/31/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Robert Schenkkan has created a passionate, tender and bittersweet love story in By the Waters of Babylon.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Comedy

Renton Civic Theatre

Renton
Opening Night: 2/15/08
Closes: 3/2/08
All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fastpaced romp through the Bard's plays

COWGIRLS

Musical Theatre,Comedy

Paradise Theatre

Gig Harborw
Opening Night: 2/29/08
Closes: 3/16/08
If practice is the way to get to Carnegie Hall, how could one possibly end up at Hiram Hall, a country music palace, in Rexford, Kansas?

Curses! Foiled Again! by Jeff Smith

Comedy

UPAC Theatre Group

Ballard,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/29/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Set in 1935 somewhere in rural America, this Little Rascalsinspired play follows a mischievous gang of kids as they learn some important lessons after they steal then lose the deed to Granny's General Store & playground.

Festival of Northwest Plays

Festival

Northwest Playwrights Alliance

Tacoma
Opening Night: 2/21/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Festival of Northwest Plays

Gibraltar

Drama

University of Washington School of Drama

University District,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/24/08
Closes: 3/9/08
Gibraltar

He Tried to Be Good

Tommie Powell

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 2/16/08
Closes: 3/2/08
A soldier boy keeps getting in trouble by trying to be good.

How the Other Half Loves

Comedy

Lakewood Playhouse

Lakewood Towne Center (Lakewood),Lakewood
Opening Night: 2/8/08
Closes: 3/2/08
This hilarious farce tells the story of three couples, a hidden affair, and crazy antics required to cover up the mischief.

How? How? Why? Why? Why?

Drama

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
1st Event: 3/13/08
Opening Night: 3/19/08
Closes: 4/19/08
Kevin Kling, a regular NPR contributor, uses his great skill for riveting and hilarious storytelling to examine how tragedy can positively define a persons lifeand a culture.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Musical Theatre,Comedy

Burien Little Theatre

Burien
Opening Night: 2/8/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Laugh at love's foibles with this witty exploration of everything you thought about love, sex and marriage, but were afraid to admit. The show, written by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, was the surprise hit of the 1996 97 Off Broadway season.

Improv Specialty Classes

Drama,Improv

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 3/2/08
Closes: 3/30/08
Hone your improvisation skills! The Grab Bag: 5 different teachers, 5 different Sundays! Work on your improv scenes and get critiqued by the best! Beginning of the End: It can be difficult getting a scene started then having it lead to a great ending.

Intimate Apparel

Drama

Harlequin Productions

Opening Night: 2/28/08
Closes: 3/22/08
The story of Esther, a 35 year old single black seamstress in ragtimeera New York, stitches together a life making exquisite lingerie for wealthy socialites and women of illrepute.

Kirkland Performance Center presents: Barrage

Performance Art,Dance

Kirkland Performance Center

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),KIRKLAND
One Night Only: 3/2/08
Kirkland Performance Center presents: Barrage

Mame

5th Avenue Theatre

Opening Night: 2/9/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Starring three time Tonyaward nominee Dee Hoty, Mame is a story about an eccentric socialite in the Roaring '20s finds her madcap Manhattan lifestyle turned upside down when she is appointed guardian of her orphaned nephew.

Mr. Marmalade

Comedy

Washington Ensemble Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/16/08
Lucy is a fouryearold girl with a very active imagination. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade doesnt have much time for her.

MY ONE & ONLY, The Gershwin Musical

Musical Theatre

Tacoma Musical Playhouse

Tacoma
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/16/08
Song and dance and glorious Gershwin!

Persuasion

Comedy

Book-It Repertory Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
1st Event: 2/5/08
Opening Night: 2/8/08
Closes: 3/2/08
Jane Austen's romantic tale of love, perseverance, and rejuvenation, Persuasion pits desire against convention, cutting to the heart of the social and gender issues of early nineteenth century England.

Pine Leaf Boys

Music

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts

Tacoma
One Night Only: 3/2/08
Help yourself to authentic and traditional Louisiana Cajun, Creole and Zydeco rhythms with this oneofakind concert.

Romeo & Juliet

Drama,Comedy

Balagan Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/28/08
Closes: 3/22/08
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy

RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Drama

Open Circle Theater

Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/22/08
So once the robots outnumber us, what happens when humanity starts arising within the robots? Is it merely a glitch to be eradicated or are we the glitch.

StoryBook Theater Presents 3 PIGS

Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre

StoryBook Theater / Studio East

View Ridge (Sand Point/Magnuson Park),Renton
Opening Night: 1/26/08
Closes: 3/2/08
StoryBook Theater presents the hilarious musical adaptation of THREE PIGS for young audiences

subUrbia

Drama

Eclectic Theater Company

Capitol Hill,Seattle
1st Event: 2/12/08
Opening Night: 2/15/08
Closes: 3/8/08
SubUrbua, by Eric Bogosian, is a story of high school friends trapped in smalltown America. A night of partying dissolves into violence and conflict with the return of an old friend.

The Gypsy Princess

Musical Theatre

Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/29/08
Closes: 3/2/08
The Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society Presents 'The Gypsy Princess'

The Hundred Dresses

Drama,Childrens Theatre

Seattle Children`s Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 4/6/08
Based on the book by Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses is a story of courage and friendship. When immigrant Wanda is teased so badly her family leaves town, Maddie is wracked with guilt. Can she find the courage to stand up to her bullying friends?

The Imaginary Invalid

Drama,Comedy

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 2/21/08
Closes: 3/22/08
Quicktongued, lively, fastpaced Moliere at his best.

THE SWEETEST SWING IN BASEBALL

Drama,Comedy

ArtsWest

Opening Night: 2/20/08
Closes: 3/15/08
SEATTLE PREMIERE! A riveting, funny tale about an artist who plunges into a slump and takes inspiration (and a new identity) from troubled baseball star Darryl Strawberry. The moral? Be all that you can be. Even when you're being someone else. My oh my.

The Wizard of Oz

Musical Theatre

Northwest Savoyards Musical Theater Society

Everett
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/9/08
THE WIZARD OF OZ...classic and timeless musical theater

THEATRESPORTS - the Original Improv Show

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 8/3/07
Closes: 12/31/09
HAPPY 25TH ANNIVESARY SEATTLE THEATRESPORTS!! Get ready to watch two teams of improvisers duke it out in a fastpaced, comedy battle royale.