Lend Me a Tenor

April 11 - April 27, 2008
Set in 1934, the farce revolves around renowned tenor Tito Merelli, known to his fans as "Il Stupendo," who is scheduled to sing the lead in Otello, produced as a gala fundraiser for the Cleveland Opera Company. Unfortunately, even before the star leaves his hotel room, everything begins to unravel. Chaos ensues when a "Dear John" letter is left by his wife, who has mistaken an autograph-seeker hidden in his closet for a secret lover. The distraught Merelli accidentally is given a double dose of tranquilizers to calm him and passes out. Saunders, the company's General Manager, is determined the show must go on (for his own financial sake), so he enlists the aid of his assistant Max to impersonate the opera star. Max is succeeding admirably . . . until Merelli awakens and heads for the stage. What follows is a chain-reaction of confusion, plot twists, double entendres, innuendoes, and constant entrances and exits through many doors.

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Friday, April 11, 2008	8:00 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2008	8:00 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2007	2:00 PM
Friday, April 18, 2008	8:00 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2008	8:00 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2007	2:00 PM
Friday, April 25, 2008	8:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2008	8:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2007	2:00 PM

Seussical the Musical

November 16 - December 2, 2007
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On This Island, and Ragtime) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all of the Whos of Whoville! These classic, colorful tales are seamlessly brought together by Jojo, a young boy and “thinker of strange and wonderful thinks”! As each story unfolds, you will marvel at how relevant and profound Seuss’s subtle themes are; making this musical one that appeals to all ages. The score emerges as a Seussian gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk!

Friday, November 16, 2007	8:00 PM
Saturday, November 17, 2007	8:00 PM
Friday, November 23, 2007	8:00 PM
Saturday, November 24, 2007	8:00 PM
Sunday, November 25, 2007	2:00 PM
Thursday, November 29, 2007	7:30 PM
Saturday, December 1, 2007	8:00 PM
Sunday, December 2, 2007	2:00 PM

Birth by Karen Brody

August - October, 2007

Karen Brody's play, BIRTH, tells the true story of eight powerful women giving birth in America today. A theatrical experience not to be missed, BIRTH will be presented on Labor Day weekend and throughout the month of September, locally and around the world, to benefit mother-friendly maternity care. Puget-Sound-area BOLD events are made possible thanks to our event sponsors, Seattle Midwifery School and Baby Diaper Service, sponsorships by other Puget Sound-area businesses and organizations and our amazing BOLD cast, including our gala performance special guest, Penny Simkin!

August 31, 2007	Edmonds Center for the Arts
September 7, 2007	The Bathhouse Theatre
September 8, 2007	The Bathhouse Theatre
September 9, 2007	The Bathhouse Theatre
September 16, 2007	New Everett Theatre
September 21, 2007	Rainier Valley Cultural Center
September 22, 2007	Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
September 28, 2007	Vashon Island Park District
September 29, 2007	Tacoma's Theatre on the Square

365 Days/365 Plays by Susan Lori-Parks

July 2007

Susan Lori-Parks and 365 Days/365 Plays in The New York Times:

There are your everyday whims, and then there are the whims of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. The writer in this case is Suzan-Lori Parks, who decided one afternoon in 2002 that she would write a play a day for a year. Ha! Neat idea. Well, four years later those plays are about to be presented in what may be the largest and most elaborate theatrical premiere ever, involving some of the most prominent institutional theaters in the country as well as summer-stock theaters in Montana, community ensembles on the South Side of Chicago, a nursing home in Atlanta and an abandoned movie house in the valley of the Rio Grande.

365Seattle in The Stranger:

365 Days is structurally intriguing—little artistic bombs that will pop off in unexpected places in cities across America. But, according to local 365 Days organizer (and Seattle Rep producing director) Nick Schwartz-Hall, the project transcends the level of gimmick by being a serious piece of work, one that Parks originally wrote thinking it would be impossible to produce. [...] The accumulated weight of 365 tiny plays, synchronized and repeated throughout the country, gives the project a mythic quality.

He Tried to be Good by Tommy Powell

June 2007

Tommy Powell on writing his play:

"Maehring was a tiny US Army spy outpost on the Iron Curtain, and the mutiny there occurred about a week after President Kennedy's assassination. It's an amazing story, and quite true, but what I truly love about this play is the characters I've created."

From the prologue:

"A week after President Kennedy's assassination, a small US Army spy outpost on the Iron Curtain mutinied. It's quite possible that, if that mutiny hadn't happened, none of us here would be alive today, because that mutiny at Maehring may have prevented a nuclear war.

"Of course, the mere fact that the mutiny happened makes it impossible to know what would have happened if it hadn't. All we can be sure of is that there'd have been no mutiny if one particular soldier boy had not been there.

"This is the story of how he came to be there, and of how he came to be the sort of soldier who could and would engineer that mutiny."

June 20, 2007

Odd Duck Studio

The Twilight Zone Created by Rod Serling

Directed by Tim Gonzalez-Wiler
November 24, 2006 - December 16, 2006

The ZONES are BACK, with two classic episodes:

A Most Unusual Camera
Object known as a camera, vintage uncertain, origin unknown. But for the greedy, the avaricious, the fleet of foot who can run a four-minute mile so long as they're chasing a fast buck, it makes believe that it's an ally, but it isn't at all. It's a beckoning come-on for a quick walk around the block in the Twilight Zone.

What You Need
You're looking at Mr. Fred Renard, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt. This is a sour man, a friendless man, a lonely man, a grasping, compulsive, nervous man. This is a man who has lived thirty-six undistinguished, meaningless, pointless, failure-laden years and who at this moment looks for an escape - any escape, any way, anything, anybody - to get out of the rut. And this little old man is just what Mr. Renard is waiting for.

Late night fun, and a full bar! Won't you join us, at the boundaries of imagination?