Moonlight and Magnolias
Intiman Theatre
Sunday, September 24th at 12:30pm
Hollywood, 1939: Producer
David O. Selznick has shut down production on the film everyone
tells him can’t be made, Gone With the Wind. Desperate, but
also determined, he brings in rewrite man
Ben Hecht and director
Victor Fleming to save the big-budget epic. Out of this
scenario, playwright Ron Hutchinson creates a delicious comedy that
takes us behind-the-scenes for a look at how entertainment, power
and politics came together to create one of America’s legendary
films.
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Moon Over Buffalo
Tacoma Actors Guild
Sunday, October 1st at 12:30pm
If you enjoyed
last season’s Noises Off, you’ll be head over heels for Moon Over
Buffalo. Written by the author of Lend Me A Tenor, this backstage
farce brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway as Charlotte Hay, an
aging thespian longing for a shot at the big screen. She endures a
love/hate relationship with her husband and acting partner George,
who has delusions of grandeur in his head and often a bottle of
alcohol in his hand. Fate gives these two one last shot at
performing for Frank Capra in the hopes of landing starring roles in
Hollywood’s The Scarlett Pimpernel. In true farce, no one knows if
George will show up drunk, if Charlotte will stay or run off with
her agent, if Frank is really Frank and if the troupe will perform
Cyrano de Bergerac, Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the
two! Moon Over Buffalo is bursting with mistaken identities, madcap
misadventures and hilarious misunderstandings. "Hilarious ...
building up its laughs methodically shtick by shtick ... Ludwig
stuffs his play with comic invention, running gags ... and a neat
sense of absurdity. ... Go and enjoy." N.Y. Post.
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Doubt
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Saturday, October 21st at 6:00pm
John Patrick
Shanley’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt (it also won the Tony
Award as best play that same year) is a riveting exploration of
paranoia and suspicion in the Catholic Church. Set in a Bronx
parochial school in 1964—just as the Vatican II reforms begin to
transfigure the Church—evidence of a priest’s wrongdoing comes to
light. Sister Aloysius, a strict school principal and traditionalist
nun, faces the decision of a lifetime: Does she openly accuse a
priest and give voice to her fear of his sinful actions, or does she
bury her suspicions and leave room for doubt? This intense and
personal power struggle between Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn
ultimately calls into question both faith and justice in the shadows
of this cloistered institution.
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The Underpants
A Contemporary Theatre
Sunday, November 5th at 6:00pm
The
Underpants, concocted by comic genius Steve Martin, is a hilarious,
sophisticated adaptation of Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce
about a housewife who becomes an overnight celebrity when she
accidentally loses her underpants in public. Chaos follows in this
witty comedy that explores fidelity, sexuality and hidden desire.
A tour de force for some of Seattle's funniest guys and gals that
will win your heart and tickle your funny bone.
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Black Nativity
Intiman Theatre
Saturday, December 2nd at 6:30pm
Join us
during the holiday season for our annual production of Black
Nativity: A Gospel Song Play, directed by Jacqueline Moscou and
choreographed by Kabby Mitchell III. Black Nativity encompasses
thrilling musical performances led by Seattle's own "Gospel Queen,"
Pastor Patrinell Wright; resonant observations on our world by the
Reverend Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, pastor emeritus of the Mount Zion
Baptist Church; and the beautiful poetry of Langston Hughes, one of
our foremost American artists and an impassioned voice for social
justice. Featuring an on-stage band, electrifying modern dancers and
the vocal talents of some of the region's most awe-inspiring gospel
singers, Black Nativity is a hand-clapping, roof-raising musical
celebration and holiday favorite for audiences of all ages and
faiths.
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Note: All summaries are the intellectual property of the theatres
performing the show, republished here in original form. Please
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Spring 2006
Radio Golf at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Plainsong at Book-It Theatre
Private Lives at Seattle Repertory Theatre
The Who's Tommy at The University of Washington Professional
Drama
Tuesdays with Morrie at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Fall 2005
Intimate Apparel at Intiman
Theatre
Vincent in Brixton at ACT
Don Quixote at Book-It Theatre
The King Stag at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Grapes of Wrath at Intiman Theatre
Purgatorio at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Black Nativity at Intiman Theatre
Summer 2005
Bach at Leipzig at ACT
Three Sisters at Intiman
Born Yesterday at ACT
The Tricky Part at Intiman
The Night of the Iguana at ACT
Spring 2005
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Seattle Repertory
Theatre
The Chosen at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Rebecca at Book-It
The Constant Wife at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Giant at Book-It
The Mystery of Irma Vep at Intiman
Fall 2004
Jumpers at ACT
Good Boys at ACT
Our Town at Intiman
The Mystery of Irma Vep at TAG
Take Me Out at the Rep
Black Nativity at Intiman
Summer 2004
Travels with Charley: In Search of America at
Book-It
The Play's the Thing at Intiman
Enchanted April
at ACT
The Singing Forest at Intiman
Spring 2004
Pride and Prejudice at Book-It
Time of Your Life
at Seattle Repertory Theatre
(L)imitations of Life
at Empty Space
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues at Seattle Repertory Theatre
As You Like It at TAG
Fall 2003
Topdog/Underdog at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Omnium-Gatherum
at ACT
Misalliance
at Seattle Repertory Theatre
The Syringa Tree at ACT
Over the Moon at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Forbidden Christmas at TAG
Summer 2003
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia at ACT
The Light in
the Piazza: A Musical at Intiman
In Flagrante Gothicto at Empty Space
Spring
2003
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings at Book-It
A Lie of the Mind at ACT
Boy Gets Girl at Seattle Rep
Nora at Intiman
2 Pianos, 4 Hands at Seattle Rep
Fall 2002
Hay Fever at TAG
Copenhagen at Seattle Rep
BFG at Seattle Children's Theater
Loot at Intiman
Forbidden Christmas at TAG
Christmas Carol at ACT
Spring 2002
Fully Committed at ACT
I Do! I Do! at TAG
Don Juan at Seattle Rep
Obon at Seattle Rep
Holes at Seattle Children's Theater
Mourning Becomes Electra at ACT
Texts for Nothing at Seattle Rep
Fall 2001
Lady of the Sea at Intiman
Sunshine Boys at TAG
Proof at Seattle Rep
Inspecting Carol at Seattle Rep
Christmas Carol at ACT
Spring 2001
Morning Noon and Night at The Pantages
Beauty Queen of Lenanne at TAG
Midsummer Night's Dream at Seattle Rep
Spinning Into Butter at Seattle Rep
Art at Seattle Rep
Raisin In The Sun at Intiman
Fall 2000
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at
Seattle Rep
In the Penal Colony at ACT
Picasso at the Lapin Agile at TAG
Measure for Measure at Intiman
New Patagonia at Seattle Rep
Christmas Carol at ACT