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Showing all events for August, 2009

The Physicists by Friedrich Durrematt Staged Reading FREE or PWYC EVENT!! New Century Theatre Company Queen Anne,Seattle One Night Only: 8/24/09 The Pipeline@NCTC is a new reading series aimed at fostering a community of artists and audience as we develop the aesthetic of Seattle's most dynamic new theatre company. Readings are held the third Monday of every month(generally) at 7:30 pm.	"High Button Shoes" Musical Theatre,Outdoor Theatre Kitsap Forest Theater (Mountaineers Players) Bremerton Opening Night: 8/1/09 Closes: 8/23/09 Take a peek back at the Model T era in this fast moving musical comedy that the whole family will enjoy!
A Vampire Story Drama,Childrens Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Seattle Public Theater Greenlake,Seattle Opening Night: 7/24/09 Closes: 8/1/09 A darkly comic look at identity, acceptance and survival by SPT's 14 to 18 yearolds.	All That I Will Ever Be Drama,Staged Reading FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct) Pioneer Square,Seattle One Night Only: 8/30/09 ReAct presents a fully staged reading of Alan Ball's controversial new gay play ALL I WILL EVER BE.
Annie, Jr. Comedy Evergreen Family Theatre Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond Opening Night: 8/14/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Orphans storm the Eastside.Evergreen Family Theatre presents their youth cast in Annie, Jr.	ARSENIC & OLD LACE Comedy Paradise Theatre Gig Harbor Opening Night: 9/19/08 Closes: 10/5/08 Its 1941, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mortimer Brewster, a New York critic of both drama and marriage, is finally getting hitched to Elaine Harper, the girl next door. Before heading off for an evening at the theatre with his new bride to be, Mortimer st
As You Like It Childrens Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Seattle Public Theater Greenlake,Seattle Opening Night: 8/21/09 Closes: 8/29/09 Shakespeare's comdey of life and love as performed by SPT's 14 to 18 yearolds	As You Like It Outdoor Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Island Stage Left Northern Cities (of Seattle),Friday Harbor 1st Event: 7/9/09 Opening Night: 7/17/09 Closes: 8/22/09 Shakespeare's perennially popular play, full of diguise, enchantment, revelation, rivalry and, of course, Love in all its forms
BURN Drama Young Americans` Theatre Company Ballard,Seattle Opening Night: 7/30/09 Closes: 8/9/09 Young American's Theatre Company's mainstage production of their second season!	Criminal Hearts Comedy Artattack Theater Ensemble Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/24/09 Closes: 8/15/09 2 women. 1 crime.
Dandelions and Daydreams Outdoor Theatre,Childrens Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Redwood Theatre Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond One Night Only: 8/25/09 Dandelions and Daydreams	Dandelions and Daydreams Childrens Theatre,Fundraiser FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Redwood Theatre Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond Opening Night: 8/28/09 Closes: 8/29/09 Dandelions and Daydreams
Das Barbecu Musical Theatre,Comedy ACT - A Contemporary Theatre Downtown,Seattle 1st Event: 7/31/09 Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 9/6/09 ACT Theatre Presents Das Barbecu	Demetri Martin Comedy Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/22/09 Demetri has performed in most Englishspeaking countries (not in South Africa or New Zealand, though). He won trophies for comedy in America, Scotland and Australia. He has appeared on latenight television shows, both onstage and in the audience.
Dinner with Friends Drama,Staged Reading FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct) Pioneer Square,Seattle One Night Only: 8/23/09 The Pulitzer Prizewinning Drama about relationships and friendships.	Dirty Laundry Improv,Comedy Wing-It Productions Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 9/18/09 A comedic look at love, lust and marriage
Disney's Beauty & the Beast Musical Theatre Paradise Theatre Gig Harbor Opening Night: 8/7/09 Closes: 8/23/09 Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a YOUNG PRINCE lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind.	Duo Comedy Showcase Improv,Comedy Unexpected Productions Downtown,Seattle Opening Night: 1/15/09 Closes: 2/25/10 Come and see double! Funny twosomes from all over Seattle take the stage performing comedy, sketch, and improv! You can sign up too!
Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen Drama,Comedy Pony World Theatre Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 8/29/09 NEW THEATRE COMPANY BRINGS NEW MYTHOLOGY TO SEATTLE: Pony World Launches with Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen	Funbucket Improv,Comedy Wing-It Productions Opening Night: 2/28/09 Closes: 3/15/10 We supply the bucket, YOU supply the show.
God's Pottery Comedy,Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 11/5/09 Gideon and Jeremiah first met at Christ Our Leader College when they were paired as freshman roommates.Though school was important to them, they spent most of their time strummin' and singin'.	How to be Cool Comedy Ursa Major Theatre Company Seattle Opening Night: 7/23/09 Closes: 8/8/09 We all want to know how to be cool. Meet the one man who really truly believes he can teach us how.
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Performance Art,Staged Reading Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Downtown,Seattle Opening Night: 8/17/09 Closes: 8/18/09 The third annual Icicle Creek Theatre Festival makes its staged readings of new plays available to ACT theater goers.	Instaplay Improv,Comedy Unexpected Productions Downtown,Seattle Opening Night: 7/31/09 Closes: 8/30/09 Full set, full costumes, full make up... no scripts!
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.	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre Knutzen Family Theatre South Sound,Federal Way Opening Night: 8/7/09 Closes: 8/16/09 Joseph, sold as a slave by his brothers, has the ability to explain people's dreams. When the pharaoh calls on him to breakdown his dream, Joseph predicts a famine and is made the pharaoh's secondhand man.
King John Drama,Outdoor Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! GreenStage Opening Night: 7/10/09 Closes: 8/15/09 King John is part of GreenStage's 21st annual Shakespeare in the Park series! This year's shows will tour to eleven locations in the Seattle area, and as always, all performances are presented free of charge.	Last of the Red Hot Lovers Comedy SecondStory Repertory Opening Night: 8/28/09 Closes: 9/19/09 He questions wether or not his life is all it can be.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers Drama,Comedy SecondStory Repertory Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond Opening Night: 8/27/09 Closes: 9/19/09 It's the Swingin' Sixties, and middleaged Barney Cashman wants just one wild, groovy, extramarital fling before life passes him by.	Last Summer At Bluefish Cove Drama,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Woman Seeking... a theatre company Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/16/09 Closes: 8/1/09 Jane Chambers' Landmark Play is coming to Seattle for the first time! Bluefish Cove is a funny and moving story revolving around a 'family of friends' who come together to spend one last summer on a Long Island Beach resort.
Little Red Studio - the Aquamarine Show Party,Performance Art Little Red Studio Cascade (South Lake Union),Seattle Opening Night: 6/20/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Join us as Little Red Studio explores the exotic underwater experience of The Aquamarine Show!	Little Red Studio - The Gold Show Party,Performance Art Little Red Studio Cascade (South Lake Union),Seattle Opening Night: 9/28/07 Closes: 12/18/09 Our classic show at The Little Red Studio is an intimate, interactive theatrical event with an erotic theme held at our sumptuous venue here in Seattle.
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST by W. Shakespeare Shakespeare NorthWest Opening Night: 7/29/09 Closes: 8/9/09 LOVES LABOURS LOST by W. Shakespeare, presented by The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival.	Mating Dance of the Werewolf Drama,Comedy Harlequin Productions Opening Night: 8/20/09 Closes: 9/12/09 This romantic thriller promises passion, deceit, delusion, integrity and murderwith a love story thrown in.
Midsummer Dreamin' : Pop music and Shakespeare Musical Theatre,Comedy Bellevue College Bellevue Opening Night: 7/30/09 Closes: 8/1/09 Midsummer Dreamin' is a modern musical fantasia on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream	MURDER AL DENTE - Musical Murder Mystery Dinner Musical Theatre,Dinner Theatre Tacoma Musical Playhouse Tacoma Opening Night: 8/15/09 Closes: 8/16/09 TMPs everpopular musical murder mystery dinner series returns for an encore performance of MURDER AL DENTE. Two shows only. Reservations Required.
Nobody Don't Like Yogi by Tom Lysaght Drama,Comedy Merc Playhouse Twisp Opening Night: 8/21/09 Closes: 9/5/09 A portrait of Yogi Berra in a funny, poignant oneman show. Starring Bradley Goodwill as Yogi. Directed by Carolanne Steinebach.	OCTV does Growing Pains Comedy Open Circle Theater Opening Night: 8/21/09 Closes: 8/22/09 As part of Open Circle Theater's range of fantastic latenight offerings, the last weekend of each month will be OCTV where we will perform an episode of a classic TV show live on stage.
Oklahoma! Musical Theatre,Outdoor Theatre Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Fall City Opening Night: 7/25/09 Closes: 8/30/09 Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater is proud to present the classic, awardwinning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! A BBQ dinner of steak, salmon or chicken is also available on the evenings of Saturday and Sunday performances.	Othello Drama INTIMAN Theatre Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle 1st Event: 7/2/09 Opening Night: 7/8/09 Closes: 8/2/09 Intiman presents the acclaimed Theatre for a New Audience production of Othello, directed by Arin Arbus.
Penguins:Episode One- Heaven The Hard Way Comedy Annex Theatre Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 8/14/09 Closes: 8/28/09 It's allout ecumenical war when the priests & nuns go to the mattresses!	Ratdog Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/23/09 Bob Weir already has a secure place in rock history as the Grateful Dead's covocalist and what Andrew Clarke (in one of England's leading newspapers, The Independent) called the genre's greatest, if most eccentric rhythm guitarist.
Return To Camp Death: The Returnining Part 3 Comedy Eclectic Theater Company Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/11/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Blood Squad presents fully improvised shows live onstage in the style of horror films based on a madeup title from the audience. For this run they will perform in the style of teen slasher movie sequels.	Richard III Drama,Outdoor Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Seattle Shakespeare Company Opening Night: 7/9/09 Closes: 8/2/09 The ruler everyone loves to hate brings his country to the edge of ruin until a bright young leader brings hope to the land.
Robin Hood Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre Knutzen Family Theatre South Sound,Federal Way Opening Night: 7/31/09 Closes: 8/2/09 Impoverished citizens led by Robin Hood are waging a battle against the evil Prince John. It's up to Robin to defeat a nasty sheriff and secure Nottingham for the King's return.	Romeo & Juliet-Together (and Alive) at Last! Childrens Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Seattle Public Theater Greenlake,Seattle Opening Night: 8/14/09 Closes: 8/16/09 A new twist on an old Shakespeare favorite by SPT's 11 to 14 yearolds.
Scenes from Ye Tragick Tale--Pyrates! Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Umbrella Theatre Queen Anne,Seattle One Night Only: 8/4/09 Scenes from the Pirate Comedy at Uptown Alliance's Neighborhood NIght Out; Pirates of the Caribbean meets Dilbert Comic Strip; an action packed comedy of bad manners and a treasure of a tale you'll be talking about round ye old water barrel at work.	Seattle Cold Readers 3rd Thursdays Drama,Staged Reading Seattle Cold Readers Downtown,Seattle Opening Night: 7/16/09 Closes: 12/17/09 Seattle Cold Readers presents entertaining screenplays submitted by seasoned local writers and performed as cold reads by a cast of professional actors in front of a live audience. The event occurs every 3rd Thursday at the Spitfire Grill in Belltown.
Shakespeare in the Park: Outdoor Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Key City Public Theatre Port Townsend Opening Night: 8/7/09 Closes: 8/23/09 Key City Public Theatre presents The Comedy of Errors, directed by Denise Winter. The outdoor performances are Fri, Sat and Sun at 6 p.m. at Chetzemoka Park, Jackson & Blaine streets, Port Townsend. Dress warmly. No advance tickets.	Show Boat - Everett Drama,Musical Theatre Village Theatre Everett Opening Night: 7/10/09 Closes: 8/2/09 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Romantic Musical Masterpiece
Sixties Chicks Musical Theatre Harlequin Productions Olympia Opening Night: 6/18/09 Closes: 8/1/09 SIXTIES CHICKS is a date with the women who helped to reinvent the American Dream in another time of tremendous change and challenge. It's time to hear them again.	SketchFest Fundraiser 09'? Oh Nein! Comedy,Fundraiser SketchFest Seattle International District,Seattle One Night Only: 8/13/09 SketchFest Fundraiser 09? Oh Nein!
Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming Musical Theatre,Comedy Taproot Theatre Company Greenwood,Seattle Opening Night: 7/8/09 Closes: 8/8/09 The bluegrass, folk and gospel tunes in this Sanders family story will set your hands clappin' and your feet tappin'.	Some Girl(s) Drama,Staged Reading FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct) Pioneer Square,Seattle One Night Only: 8/9/09 Don't miss this outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the American male by American theatre's master provocateur.
Souvenir Musical Theatre,Comedy SecondStory Repertory Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Redmond Opening Night: 7/24/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Souvenir: A Fantasia in the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, by Stephen Temperley	Souvenir: On The Life of Florence Foster James Comedy SecondStory Repertory Opening Night: 7/24/09 Closes: 8/15/09 In the 1930's, people flocked to see her sing stupendously horridly!
StoryBook Theater presents 3 PIGS! Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre StoryBook Theater / Studio East Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Kirkland Opening Night: 8/1/09 Closes: 8/2/09 SPECIAL SUMMER SHOWING BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!	Summer Musical 2009: BOBOS Musical Theatre Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center Central District,Seattle Opening Night: 8/17/09 Closes: 8/23/09 Fantastic urban opera about the tough choices facing youth in the streets of Philadelphia.
The 2nd Annual Shakespeare Iron Man Shakespeare NorthWest One Night Only: 8/8/09 The 2nd Annual Shakespeare Iron Man, one day, three productions!	The Avett Brothers with: The Heartless Bastards Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/28/09 The songs are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the energy with which they are sung, is really why people are talking, and why so many sing along.
The Comedy of Errors Outdoor Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! GreenStage Opening Night: 7/10/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Comedy of Errors is part of GreenStage's 21st annual Shakespeare in the Park series! This year's shows will tour to eleven locations in the Seattle area, and as always, all performances are presented free of charge.	THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WLLM SHKSPR...(ABRIDGED), Outdoor Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Shakespeare NorthWest Opening Night: 7/12/09 Closes: 8/9/09 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WLLM SHKSPR...(ABRIDGED), presented by The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival
The Cult Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/26/09 The Cult, born out of the musical and social upheaval of the late Seventies, were Britain's premier rock band of the Eighties and early Nineties no argument.	The Dead Weather Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/20/09 Another project founded by Jack White, Dead Weather began after the Raconteurs toured the U.S. with the Kills in summer 2008.
The Elephant Man Drama Strawberry Theatre Workshop Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/9/09 Closes: 8/9/09 Featuring MJ Sieber and David Pichette, directed by Julie Beckman, written by Bernard Pomerance.	The Flaming Lips with: Stardeath, White Dwarfs Music Seattle Theatre Group Redmond One Night Only: 8/21/09 Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands were so brave, so frequently brilliant, and so deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips.
The Fray Music Seattle Theatre Group Seattle One Night Only: 8/6/09 By pitching their music somewhere between the arenafriendly style of U2 and the mature poprock of bands like Better Than Ezra and Counting Crows, the Fray rose to commercial prominence with their 2005 debut, How to Save a Life.	The Job Stress Comedy Show Comedy Bill Bernat Seattle One Night Only: 8/28/09 Certified Office Survival Antiguru Bill Bernat explains the primordial underpinnings of cubicle pressures and personalities.
The Magnetick Lady by Ben Jonson Outdoor Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Outsider`s Inn Collective Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 8/27/09 Closes: 8/30/09 Ben Jonson's play from 1632 in its North American Premiere.Children switched at birth,a maiden with a substantial inheritance, greedy suitors, scheming servants,and you have the ingredients for trouble.	The Maids Drama,Comedy Theatre Machine Seattle Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 8/22/09 The Maids is Jean Genets oneact play about the relationship between two maidssisters who imagine and construct elaborate rituals and roleplaying that always involves the murder of their upperclass mistress
The Masters Drama,Comedy The Masters Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 8/30/09 This is the World Premiere of The Masters, an original play by local playwright Jesse Putnam.	The Music Man Musical Theatre Twelfth Night Productions West Seattle,Seattle Opening Night: 8/7/09 Closes: 8/23/09 The Music Man marches into West Seattle August 7th through August 23rd. Twelfth Night Productions presents Meredith Willsons ode to Americana, The Music Man, book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey.
The Odd Couple (Female Version) Comedy Woodinville Repertory Theatre Kenmore Opening Night: 7/30/09 Closes: 8/15/09 Neil Simons mismatched couple is butting heads again but this time with a new twist in The Odd Couple, Female Version.	The Rainmaker Comedy UPAC Theatre Group 1st Event: 7/30/09 Opening Night: 7/31/09 Closes: 8/15/09 The Rainmaker, a romantic comedy by N. Richard Nash
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life Drama,Comedy Balagan Theatre Opening Night: 8/6/09 Closes: 8/29/09 A wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart, this onewoman satire stars the delightful Terri Weagant.	The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival Drama,Comedy Shakespeare NorthWest Mount Vernon Opening Night: 7/31/08 Closes: 8/10/08 Shakespeare NorthWest presents, The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival
The Sorcerers Apprentice Outdoor Theatre FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Theater Schmeater Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/11/09 Closes: 8/9/09 The Sorcerers Apprentice, by Mary Hall Surface,	The Star Spangled Girl Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Tacoma Little Theatre Tacoma Opening Night: 8/28/09 Closes: 9/27/09 The Star Spangled Girl at Tacoma Little Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew Outdoor Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Seattle Shakespeare Company Opening Night: 7/10/09 Closes: 8/2/09 A comic courtship and a noholds barred battle of the sexes set in a forgotten corner of rural America.	THE TEMPEST, by W. Shakespeare Festival,Comedy Shakespeare NorthWest Northern Cities (of Seattle),Mount Opening Night: 7/24/09 Closes: 8/9/09 THE TEMPEST by W. Shakespeare, presented by The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival
The Twilight Zone: LIVE Drama,Comedy Theater Schmeater Opening Night: 7/2/09 Closes: 8/8/09 In a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of the classic Rod Serling inspired cult classic The Twilight Zone, Theater Schmeater is delighted to present The Twilight Zone: LIVE!	The Weddin' Sangers by Purty Mouth Comedy,Music ACT - A Contemporary Theatre Downtown,Seattle Opening Night: 8/14/09 Closes: 9/5/09 ACT's Central Heating Lab Presents The Weddin' Sangers by Purty Mouth
THE WIZARD OF OZ Musical Theatre Tacoma Musical Playhouse Tacoma Opening Night: 7/10/09 Closes: 8/2/09 Come join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and all the other characters from the classic MGM movie as they travel to a world only she could have imagined. Includes all of the songs that you loved from the film and a few more.	The Year of Magical Thinking Drama INTIMAN Theatre Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle 1st Event: 8/21/09 Opening Night: 8/26/09 Closes: 9/20/09 Hailed by critics as honest, exhilarating, compassionate and unexpectedly funny, Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking looks at how grief can make you crazy, and what it means to come out on the other side.
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.	Three Night Stand: A Dance Concert Dance Little Red Studio Cascade (South Lake Union),Seattle Opening Night: 8/7/09 Closes: 8/9/09 Three Night Stand will offer a wide array of dance formats everything from Jazz and Modern to Tango and Waltz.
Twisted Flicks Film,Improv Wing-It Productions University District,Seattle 1st Event: 1/31/10 Opening Night: 1/25/07 Closes: 12/31/10 A classic BMovie, redubbed live and improvised right before your very eyes.	Unexpected Theatre Improv,Comedy Unexpected Productions Downtown,Seattle 1st Event: 2/22/08 Opening Night: 9/4/09 Closes: 9/26/09 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!
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Childrens Theatre,Comedy FREE or PWYC EVENT!! Open Circle Theater Capitol Hill,Seattle Opening Night: 7/12/09 Closes: 8/8/09 FREE IN VOLUNTEER PARK! The fairy tales run amok in this hilarious show for kids and adults alike.	WOMEN Drama,Comedy Katie Johann Seattle Opening Night: 8/1/09 Closes: 8/2/09 One show. One woman. Three stories.