Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 4/9/10
Closes: 4/25/10
Try to cheat the IRS and look what happens! A wild comedy with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities, and hilarious comic situations. Don’t miss it!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/15/09
Albert Einstein explains the special and general theories of Relativity in a fun and engaging way.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/18/08
Edmonds Driftwood Players throws a Victorian Halloween Party hosted by the notorious Lizzie Borden and her friends.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/21/08
Closes: 9/29/08
The inaugural play for the Wade James Theatre opens our Alternative Stages Season!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
One Night Only: 9/14/08
A great way to experience the classics in a theatre setting once again, our Classic Movies Series offers a little something for everyone...and tickets are just $5!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
One Night Only: 9/5/08
Kick off the season in style with the Driftwood Players Golden Anniversary Gala Celebration!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 8/22/08
Closes: 8/23/08
The Driftwood Players presents Missoula Childrens Theatre's original adaptation of the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/20/07
Join The Driftwood Players for Fall Treats after the matinee performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on Saturday October 20th.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/16/07
Closes: 9/24/07
It's another day in the life of a group of criminally damaged young ladies.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/7/07
Closes: 9/23/07
The Driftwood Players open their 49th season with an Agatha Christie classic!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 7/27/07
Closes: 7/29/07
A new comedy about navigating the divide between the hearth and the toolshed.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 12/3/06
Closes: 12/11/06
Billy Shakespeare's Christmas Extravaganza and Traveling Freak Show is a most unusual holiday comedy...
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
Opening Night: 11/24/06
Closes: 12/17/06
The beautiful story of an eight year old girl's letter to The New York Sun just might make you believe again...
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 10/27/06
Closes: 10/29/06
A reading of Halloween frights served with a delectable 3 course dinner.
Opening Night: 10/22/06
Closes: 10/24/06
Zack Hoffman's one man play, Tuxedo Man, is a poignant and humorous character study. It's the story of Nick Sands, an Italian lounge singer who is a few drinks past his prime. He's been given another chance to sing at Mandolin's in Cleveland.
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Edmonds
1st Event: 10/19/06
Opening Night: 10/20/06
Closes: 10/29/06
After sellout crowds in 2005, The Driftwood Players are pleased to announce the Headless Horseman will ride again!
Northern Cities (of Seattle),Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 9/18/06
Closes: 9/19/06
A reading of two new plays served with a delectable 3 course dinner.
Edmonds
Opening Night: 4/16/06
Closes: 4/24/06
By Elaine May
Forget reality television for a night. Life is a whole lot like a TV game show in this wild comedy that twists and turns down man’s journey from birth to death. A host and two assistants take Phil Benson all the way through to ...
choose neighborhood,Edmonds
One Night Only: 4/9/06
Ryan O'Neal, Barbra Streisand, Madeline Kahn
Warner Bros.; Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Rated G; 1972
Screwy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) and oddball Judy Maxwell (Barbra
Streisand) get caught up in a world of secrets, spies, and sto ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 4/7/06
Closes: 4/30/06
By Agatha Christie
A snow storm, a mansion in the English countryside, a group of strangers stranded...one of whom is a murderer. The most-famous of First Lady of Mystery, Dame Agatha Christie's who-dunnits.
Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/19/06
Closes: 2/27/06
By Amanda Aikman & Romney Gibson
Here is a fresh, original comedy by two Puget Sound playwrights in a script that originated in our very own playwright's lab. Emily is about to meet Jake's closest friends and announce their plans to be married. But ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 2/12/06
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
MGM/UA; Directed by Billy Wilder 1960
An incisive comedy, THE APARTMENT is the story of a young office worker (Jack Lemmon) who moves up in status by lending his apartment to his bosses for illicit rendezv ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/10/06
Closes: 2/26/06
by Steve Martin
If Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso met in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism, anything could h ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 12/18/05
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Warner Bros.; Directed by Peter Godfrey 1954
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 12/3/05
Closes: 12/13/05
By Barbara Robinson
The annual Christmas pageant seems doomed when the horrible Herdmans are cast as Mary, Joseph, the three wise men and the angel of the Lord. But somewhere amidst the mayhem, the most awful kids ever finally meet Christmas. Back by ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 11/20/05
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball
RKO; Directed by Mark Sandrich 1935
Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) would love to be "Dancing Cheek to cheek" with Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) from the moment he sets eyes on her. Even though Dale initially-and, ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 11/18/05
Closes: 12/18/05
Book, Music & Lyrics by Lionel Bart
Please, sir, may I have some more? Charles Dickens' characters spring to life in this beloved tale of an orphan who wants more from life. Traveling to London to find it, he meets Dodger, Fagin, Nancy and the ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/30/05
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren
Universal Pictures; Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1963
The residents of Bodega Bay are suddenly confronted with a malicious, full-scale attack by birds of all shapes and sizes. Hitchcock's purest expression of an arbitrary unive ...
Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 10/28/05
Closes: 10/29/05
"Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows." --Edgar Allan Poe
Ode to Poe
Our tribute to America’s preeminent author of the horrific. A Halloween dinner theatre style r ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/23/05
Big Purple Undies started off as a book but has grown into a hilarious clean comedy show for ladies performed by the co-authors and sisters Suzanne & Louise Kelman. The Show incorporates fun stories in comical verse about marriage, men, motherhood, flying ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 10/20/05
Closes: 10/30/05
Dramatized by Kathryn Schulz Miller
Here is the spooky classic story by Washington Irving, presented with all the thrills, chills and laughs that keep audiences young and old on the edge of their seats. A Halloween treat for the whole family.
Alt ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/17/05
Closes: 9/19/05
AN ADVENTURE WITH TEDDY ROOSEVELT
By Jerome Alden
Told with great humanity and humor, here is a thrilling romp through the life and times of our 26th and most colorful President. Don't miss this perfect companion to Arsenic and Old Lace. An excitin ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 9/11/05
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; Directed by Howard Hawks 1938
Wealthy socialite Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) will do anything to get her man. She must act fast, however, because the man she wants, paleontolog ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/9/05
Closes: 9/25/05
by Joseph Kesselring
Mortimer returns to his boyhood home and finds his innocent and charming Aunts have taken up a new hobby...which includes private funerals in the basement. Throw in their brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and Mortimer's b ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 7/30/05
Closes: 7/31/05
By Jerome Kilty
adapted from the correspondence between
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The turbulent relationship between a gifted writer and a talented actress makes a strange and intriguing love story in this biographic play.
Re ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 7/29/05
Animated Feature
Voices of Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson
Universal Pictures; Directed by Don Bluth
Rated G
From the creators of AN AMERICAN TAIL comes
this enchanting animated family adventure that
follows the journey of five young dinosaurs a ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 7/22/05
Eddie Albert, Ray Milland
Walt Disney; Directed by John Hough
Rated G
In this thriller full of magic, dangerous escapes
and spectacular special effects, two mysterious
young orphans with supernatural powers escape
from a ruthless millionaire in t ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 7/15/05
Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette
Walt Disney; Directed by Robert Stevenson
Rated G
An amusing tale of the notorious pirate whose
spirit is cursed to wander to limbo until he performs
a good deed. When the local college's harried
trac ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 7/14/05
Closes: 7/31/05
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale leaps to the stage in this dynamic adaptation by Edward Mast. As Mowgli the mancub grows up under the watchful care of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, he learns the value of friendship and loyalty. But the dangero ...
Everett
One Night Only: 7/8/05
Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk
Walt Disney; Directed by Charles Barton
Rated G
Young Wilby Daniels utters the magic words from
the inscription on an ancient ring and ...presto!
He's a shaggy dog! From that day forward, the
world is chaos for the Dani ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 6/12/05
Closes: 6/20/05
By James McLure
The not-so-better halves of those gals from Maynard, Texas hang out together behind a bar drinking beer and bragging about their conquests. An uproarious evening with two Texas "good ole boys" on a Saturday night.
Alternative Stages ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 6/5/05
Claire Trevor, John Wayne
1939 Warner Studios; Directed by John Ford
This landmark 1939 Western became the standard for all subsequent Westerns. The story about a cross-section of troubled passengers unraveling under the strain of Indian attack contain ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 6/3/05
Closes: 6/26/05
A romantic comedy by Neil Simon
A conservative young lawyer and his irrepressible bride struggle with marital discord after the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping…in an overpriced apartment, up a wheezing six f ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 4/3/05
Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall--1971 Walt Disney Pictures; Directed by Robert Stevenson --Rated G----There`s a special sorcery in this film for all ages as a prim and proper amateur witch (Angela Lansbury), a phony magician, and three En ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 4/1/05
Closes: 4/24/05
A ghostly comedy by Noel Coward -- --Escape into the crazy world of a seemingly well-mannered British couple whose decision to entertain a local eccentric named Madame Arcati changes their lives forever. Catfights and catastrophes ensue in this clash betwe ...
Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 3/23/05
Closes: 3/24/05
A reading of two new plays accompanied by a delectable 3-course dinner!----The genius of the bard from Stratford on Avon is undeniably real, but how real is the man himself? Who was the man behind the wit, the poetry, and the drama that has come down to us ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/4/05
Closes: 2/27/05
A classic comedy by Moliere, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur----It`s funny! It`s farce! It`s French! ----Hypocrisy is the stuff of great comedy in this hilarious classic. Tartuffe pretends to be a religious, aristocratic hermit while trying ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 12/19/04
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire--1942 Universal Pictures; Directed by Mark Sandrich-- --With music by Irving Berlin, singing by Bing Crosby and dancing by Fred Astaire, HOLIDAY INN is one of the most delightful and memorable musicals of all time. It`s an unforg ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 12/5/04
Closes: 12/14/04
Barbara Robinson`s stage adaptation of her beloved book. ----The annual Christmas pageant seems doomed when the horrible Herdmans are cast as Mary, Joseph, the three wise men and the angel of the Lord. But somewhere amidst the mayhem, the most awful kids e ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 11/22/04
Closes: 11/23/04
by Marion L. Bishop----It`s Christmas Eve at the Sunny Oaks Rest Home and the residents are celebrating the holidays in their own way. Directed by Angela Marie Fava, a fine cast of women brings the holiday tale--to life in a reader`s theatre format.----Rea ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 11/21/04
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour--1940 Universal Pictures; Directed by Victor Schertzinger ----Here`s the first trip in what would become one of Paramount Pictures` most profitable film series of the `40s. The script establishes what would be a const ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 11/19/04
Closes: 12/19/04
A musical comedy with book by Michael Stewart, --Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Lee Adams ----When `50s Rock & Roll star Conrad Birdie is drafted into the military, the teen nation is united by a contest in which the winner bestows a farewell kiss up ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 10/30/04
The Bride of Frankenstein ----Boris Karloff, Colin Clive--1935 Universal Pictures; Directed by James Whale -- --James Whale`s wild gothic concoction is generally acknowledged as the best film in the Frankenstein series. The Monster has never been more symp ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 10/29/04
Closes: 10/31/04
The Turn of the Screw --By Jeffrey Hatcher, from the story by Henry James -- --Based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. When a new governess begins to see ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 9/12/04
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O`Sullivan--1934 Turner/MGM; Directed by W.S. Van Dyke ----The chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy was so right that this film spawned five sequels. The pair plays Nick and Nora Charles; he is a veteran detect ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/10/04
Closes: 10/10/04
--Angel Street (Gaslight) -- --A Victorian thriller by Patrick Hamilton -- --Pretending to be caring and concerned, Mr. Manningham of Angel Street is mentally torturing his wife into insanity. When a kindly police inspector visits her about an unsolved m ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 7/18/04
Closes: 7/26/04
High Noon in the Styrofoam----By Jeff Irvin-- --An evening of old-fashioned Melodrama with a Wild-West shoot-em-up, nasty villain, brave hero, and delectable heroine, followed by a King Arthur slice-em-up when the villainous King kidnaps the beautiful Prin ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 7/11/04
Charlotte`s Web----Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson,Paul Lynde--Directed by Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto----An animated feature about the special relationships between Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, and Templeton the rat is endearing, touching, a ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 7/9/04
Closes: 7/25/04
Winnie-the-Pooh --Lyrics by A.A. Milne, Music by Allan Jay Friedman,--Adapted by Kristin Sergel ----The famous bear of “very little brain” but a very big heart is here with all his lovable cohorts in a charming musical that recreates the special wo ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 6/13/04
Closes: 6/21/04
The American Dream --By Edward Albee --A cynically innocent story that makes for much laughter amid all the irony. Join Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, and their "bumble" of joy. -- --Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with d ...
Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 6/10/04
Closes: 6/24/04
Brides & Bagpipes--by Amanda Aikman----It just wouldn’t be summer in Washington without June weddings, brides, and …um … bagpipes? What happens when a real working-class Scotsman attends the Highland Games and Scottish Faire in Mt. Vernon, Washington ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 6/6/04
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short--Orion; Directed by John Landis --Three of the most popular comedians (Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short) saddle up as gun-slinging silent screen heroes. After a series of box office flops, the trio travels to ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 6/4/04
Closes: 6/27/04
The fantasy comedy that has been told all over the world. As passengers board an airplane bound for the Hereafter, a young prizefighter, Joe Pendleton, arrives to check in...sixty years early! Until a new body can be found for Joe to return to earth in, th ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 4/11/04
Closes: 4/19/04
An uproariously funny satire that aims its barbs at organized religion and strikes home with hilarious results. For mature audiences. -- --Alternative Stages productions are special, limited engagements with dessert theatre performances. Tickets are $10 fo ...
Edmonds
One Night Only: 4/4/04
Another classic movie night!----Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries--MGM/UA; Directed by Ken Hughes --Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), a wacky inventor, creates a magical flying car in this children’s fantasy musical. Caractacus whisks his ...
Mountlake Terrace
Opening Night: 3/24/04
Closes: 3/25/04
A READING OF A NEW COMEDY SERVED WITH A DELECTABLE 3-COURSE DINNER!----Suppose the angel of death made a mistake?--...Could happen. After all, how can we expect him to keep track of 6.4 billion people in the world and not slipup sometime? The Driftwood Pla ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/15/04
Closes: 2/23/04
A touching and very funny study of an arranged date between a woman and a would-be mortician. From the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter of "Tender Mercies", "The Trip to Bountiful", and the screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mock ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 2/6/04
Closes: 2/29/04
(The Double Inconstancy) by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux--Adapted by Stephen Wadsworth --A brilliant comedy about finding love. Sylvia loves Harlequin, the Prince loves Sylvia, and Harlequin loves Flaminia. In a stunning modern translation of the classic pla ...
Edmonds
Opening Night: 9/12/03
Closes: 10/5/03
Happy Birthday, Big Daddy. On his 65th birthday, a plantation patriarch’s dysfunctional family is forced to deal with deception and hypocrisy when they gather to celebrate. From the deep South comes this sultry drama about man’s struggle for truth, lov ...