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.

An Evening with Groucho Starring Frank Ferrante

Comedy

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts

Tacoma
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/8/08
Mixing singing and piano with clever oneliners, PBS star Frank Ferrante keeps the character Groucho relevant and hilarious across generations.

Barefoot in the Park

Comedy

Village Theatre

Everett
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/23/08
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.

Be Aggressive

Drama,Comedy

Artattack Theater Ensemble

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/29/08
Be Aggressive is like this totally hysterical comedy about kids and parents, loss and friendship and like all that other really heavy stuff.

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.

Cinderella

Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre

SecondStory Repertory

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/22/08
How could dreary little Cinderella, locked into a closet by her Ugly Stepsisters, possibly become the Belle of the Ball? Oh, it could happen

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?

Gibraltar

Drama

University of Washington School of Drama

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

Group Mind

Improv,Comedy

SOS Productions & Eclectic Theater Company

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/28/08
An exciting evening of improvised comedy.

GUM WALL RALLY

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Seattle
Opening Night: 1/20/08
Closes: 1/25/09
Spontaneous theater that mixes the shorter games associated with Theatresports with an edgier, story based long form comedy!

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.

Jet City Improv

Improv,Comedy

Wing-It Productions

University District,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/4/08
Closes: 12/27/08
Seattle's Best Comedy.

KEEP THE LIGHT ON

Drama,Comedy

Annex Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/8/08
Closes: 3/8/08
Short tales of postapocalypse set in a world without electricity

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!

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

Sex in Seattle Re-Runs

Comedy,Staged Reading

SIS Productions

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 3/15/08
Our audiences keep asking, so we're finally offering a chance to catch up on past Sex in Seattle episodes they've missed. Playing latenights after B.F.E., SIS will offer readings of Episodes 4 through 11.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell

Drama,Comedy

The New Space Theatre

Northern Cities (of Seattle)
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/29/08
In this one woman show, a desperate English housewife breaks out of her (chips 'n egg) shell(s).

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.

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 Exile Project

The Exile Project

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/16/08
What is forgiveness? What is justice?

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 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 Sisters Rosensweig

Drama,Comedy

Olympia Little Theatre, Inc.

Olympia
Opening Night: 3/7/08
Closes: 3/30/08
A captivating portrait of three sisters reuniting after a lengthy separation and coming to terms with their differences and their love for one another.

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.

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.