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.

DIRTY HARRY: MAGNUM FARCE

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/21/08
Closes: 4/3/08
Dirty Harry is back! He's cleaning up the mean streets of Seattle in a very UNEXPECTED way!

Gibraltar

Drama

University of Washington School of Drama

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

Hello Penis: a man-ifesto

Drama,Performance Art

Little Red Studio

Cascade (South Lake Union),Seattle
Opening Night: 3/5/08
Closes: 3/9/08
Hello Penis: a manifesto is a dynamic two man play that explores the complexities of masculinity in contemporary American society.

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.

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.

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.

Reefer Madness

Musical Theatre,Comedy

RK Productions

Ballard,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/22/08
a tongueincheek look at the hysteria caused when cleancut kids fall prey to marijuana

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.

Seattle Shakespeare Company: "The Miser"

Drama

Kirkland Performance Center

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),KIRKLAND
Opening Night: 3/6/08
Closes: 3/8/08
Kirkland Performance Center presents: Seattle Shakespeare Company The Miser By Moliere

SPF:2 - Sweatproof!

Festival

Theatre Off Jackson

International District,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/29/08
Closes: 3/15/08
SPF: 2Sweatproof! is Seattle's annual solo performance theatre festival, and is dedicated to presenting fearless, cuttingedge, diverse performances by solo theatre artists.

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 Irish Wake

Improv,Comedy

Wing-It Productions

University District,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/28/08
Closes: 4/18/08
The best party of your life happens after you die: A beloved scion of the Emerald Isle has passed on. Friends and family have gathered in their quant thatchroofed home to honor them. Songs will be sung. Fights will break out. Bottles will be broken.

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.

Unexpected Theatre

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 1/31/09
Explores movie, theatre, and literary genres unscripted as well as a multitude of improvisational formats from satire to spoof, from silly to serious! Improv doesn't get any better than this!

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Comedy

On the Boards

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 3/6/08
Closes: 3/9/08
A blunt and hilarious take on Korean American heritage and colliding cultures by a rapidly emerging NY playwright.