Alecto: Issue #1

Comedy

Annex Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/22/10
Closes: 2/20/10
A new play about superheroes and the villians who love to hate them

Alice in Chains

Music

Seattle Theatre Group

Seattle
Opening Night: 2/4/10
Closes: 2/5/10
ALICE IN CHAINS is touring in support of its critically acclaimed new album BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE (Virgin/EMI), which entered Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart at No. 5, with first-week sales exceeding 126,000 copies.

Arcadia

Drama,Comedy

Edmonds Driftwood Players

Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/5/10
Closes: 2/21/10
The Tom Stoppard classic

Clues

Improv,Comedy

Wing-It Productions & Clues

Opening Night: 1/7/10
Closes: 2/12/10
A thrillingly improvised murder mystery where you decide the killer. Each show, six visitors to the stately Howell Manor gather together only to find their host for the evening dead. Over the course of the evening, clues will be provided to the actors by the audience that will ultimately point to the identity of the murderer.

Dog Sees God

Comedy

Central Theatre Ensemble

Ellensburg
Opening Night: 2/4/10
Closes: 2/6/10
by Bert V. Royal

Edmond by David Mamet

Drama

Balagan Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/21/10
Closes: 2/6/10
A white, middle-class, heterosexual male adrift in the jungles of Times Square, Edmond Burke doesn't have a clue to where he belongs or even, really, who he is.

End Days

Drama,Comedy

Harlequin Productions

Olympia
Opening Night: 1/28/10
Closes: 2/21/10
An apocalyptic comedy by Deborah Zoe Laufer

Glengarry Glen Ross

Drama

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Queen Anne,Seattle
1st Event: 2/5/10
Opening Night: 2/10/10
Closes: 2/28/10
A gripping comedydrama about a group of toughtalking Chicago real estate agents who will do anything to win a highstakes sales competition.

HUNTER GATHERERS

Drama,Comedy

Washington Ensemble Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/7/10
Closes: 2/8/10
A living room play about sex, love and meat...

Jet City Improv

Improv,Comedy

Wing-It Productions

University District,Seattle
1st Event: 1/2/10
Opening Night: 1/4/08
Closes: 12/30/10
Seattle's Best Comedy.

Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes

Comedy

Theater Schmeater

Opening Night: 1/14/10
Closes: 2/13/10
A trip into the heart of darkness, Yussef El-Guindi’s Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes takes a hilarious look at how Hollywood can repackage the most basic reactionary knee-jerk impulses into sure-fire box office magic.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Musical Theatre

Capital Playhouse

Olympia
Opening Night: 1/28/10
Closes: 2/20/10
The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this enchanting musical parable. An Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice favorite , Joseph is set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles and is both timely and timeless.

Lost in Yonkers

Drama,Comedy

Village Theatre

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),I
Opening Night: 1/21/10
Closes: 2/28/10
The winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Play, and the Pulitzer Prize, Lost in Yonkers is a remarkable coming of age story.

Love Song

Drama,Comedy

ArtsWest

West Seattle,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/27/10
Closes: 2/21/10
Oddball Beane is a modern day hermit, avoiding everyone, until the night a beautiful thief breaks into his apartment. His blissful transformation baffles his sister Joan, who tries to unravel the story behind Molly, Beanes mysterious new love.

Mr. Angelo

Drama

Theatre Verity

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/14/10
Closes: 2/7/10
When Clay Stephens is arrested for statutory rape after getting his sixteen year old girlfriend pregnant, he pleads with his sister, Isabelle, to help him fight the charges by using her influence as a popular local pastor to persuade the district attorney to drop the case. Yet, the district attorney, a new appointee named Mr. Angelo, has his own nefario

Perô

Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre

Seattle Children`s Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
1st Event: 1/14/10
Opening Night: 1/15/10
Closes: 2/14/10
A sweet, funny love story with brilliant music and innovative puppetry. Called "the most delightful 60 minutes in town" by the London Times. A co-production with Speeltheater Holland.

RENT

Drama,Musical Theatre

Tacoma Musical Playhouse

South Sound,Tacoma
Opening Night: 1/22/10
Closes: 2/14/10
TMP presents the exciting REGIONAL PREMIERE of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boheme, RENT tells the poignant story of how mankind began to deal with AIDS.

Smothers Brothers

Comedy,Music

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts

Tacoma
One Night Only: 2/5/10
Entertaining Generations, the Smothers Brothers Are Headed to Tacoma for an Evening Event that Will Having You Falling Over with Laughter!

South Pacific

Musical Theatre

5th Avenue Theatre

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/29/10
Closes: 2/21/10
Lincoln Center Theatre's TonyWinning Reinvention

Speech & Debate

Drama,Comedy

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Queen Anne,Seattle
1st Event: 1/15/10
Opening Night: 1/20/10
Closes: 2/21/10
A ragtag bunch of misfits starts an afterschool Speech and Debate team to expose a possible scandaland sparks more debate than their high school ever bargained for.

The Belle of Amherst

Drama

Sound Theatre Company

Wallingford,Seattle
1st Event: 1/21/10
Opening Night: 1/22/10
Closes: 2/6/10
Acclaimed solo-performer Maria Glanz portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in Sound Theatre Company’s production of The Belle of Amherst, by William Luce.

THE CRUCIBLE

Drama

Paradise Theatre

Gig Harbor
Opening Night: 1/22/10
Closes: 2/7/10
The Salem Witch Trials

The Great Divorce

Drama

Taproot Theatre Company

Greenwood,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/27/10
Closes: 2/27/10
C.S. Lewis' fantastical work springs to life in this electrifying regional premiere. It’s a bus ride through heaven and hell that, in the grand C.S. Lewis tradition, leaves you breathless and wanting more.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Drama,Comedy

University of Washington School of Drama

University District,Seattle
1st Event: 1/31/10
Opening Night: 2/3/10
Closes: 2/14/10
In a hilarious dissection of historys most legendary betrayal, Pontius Pilate, Mother Teresa, and Sigmund Freud are called to testify in the trial of Judas Iscariot.

The Trial of Ebeneezer Scrooge

Comedy

Bellevue Civic Theater

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Bellevue
Opening Night: 1/29/10
Closes: 2/6/10
If only every trial were as funny as this National Shakespeare Awardwinning play!

The Violet Hour

Drama

Seattle Public Theater

Greenlake,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/29/10
Closes: 2/21/10
A beautifully crafted and brilliantly worded puzzle play

The Wrestling Season

Drama

Olympia Family Theater

Olympia
Opening Night: 2/5/10
Closes: 2/20/10
"You think you know me, but you don't."

THEATRESPORTS

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 8/3/07
Closes: 12/31/11
HAPPY 25TH ANNIVESARY SEATTLE THEATRESPORTS!! Get ready to watch two teams of improvisers duke it out in a fastpaced, comedy battle royale.

Two By Pinter

Drama

Shadow and Light Theatre

Downtown,Seattle
1st Event: 1/21/10
Opening Night: 1/22/10
Closes: 2/7/10
Shadow and Light Theatre, a new, independent company dedicated to the plays of Harold Pinter, announces its inaugural production