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| Cast of A Raisin in the Sun at Taproot Theatre (Robert Wade) |
Playwright Lauren Yee brings us a comic view of the fall of the Soviet Union! Evgeny and Dmitri are just two average guys who dream of joining the KGB—but when the fall of the Soviet Union puts hiring on hold, they find jobs surveilling a former pop star instead. As they bumble their way through the assignment, both spy work and life under capitalism prove harder than they thought. When old systems and strongmen fall away, and we let the free market decide—freedom might not taste as good as we thought it would.
www.seattlerep.org
A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S. elections. Reality subsequently received a record-breaking sentence. The verbatim FBI transcript of her interrogation is the heart of Is This a Room, conceived as a play by Obie Award-winner Tina Satter, in which an extraordinary human drama unfolds between the complex and witty Reality, and the agents who question her. As Reality’s autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges, asking what it is to have honor in this American moment, and how the personal can reverberate globally.
www.harlequinproductions.org
Sarah Treem’s razor-sharp play brings together two evolutionary biologists -- one an up-
and-coming graduate student, the other an established scholar -- who meet for the first time on the eve of a national conference. Both women share a passion for science and a bold contrarian approach to their male-dominated field even as one challenges the other with a radical new theory. As mysteries unfold about their relationship, the two scientists clash over differing views on evolution, feminism, and the difficult choices facing women of every generation.
https://TheHowandtheWhy.eventbrite.com
Sara Bareilles's pop-rock musical is filled with scrumptious pie--so much pie--and is one of the most famous musicals from the past decade. It's a story of friendship, chosen family, and embracing love from unexpected places. Jenna dreams of leaving behind a life she didn't imagine for herself, and the announcement of a baking contest could be her ticket out. Supported by her best friends, Jenna chooses to open her heart to the messier parts of life, which certainly don't come with a recipe.
www.5thavenue.org
The game is now a fun-filled musical that brings the world’s best-known suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room, and with what weapon. The audience receives forms to help them deduce the solution from clues given throughout the fun-filled evening. Only one hard-nosed female detective is qualified to unravel the merry mayhem. Comic antics, witty lyrics, and a beguiling score carry the investigation from room to room. Even after the culprit confesses, a surprise twist delights the audience.
www.edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org
They were just four guys from Jersey but they had a sound nobody had ever heard… and the radio just couldn’t get enough of. While their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story. Go behind the music and inside the world of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the true-life musical phenomenon. This scintillating new production promises electrifying performances of chart-topping hits including: “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Dawn,” “My Eyes Adore You,” and so many more!
www.villagetheatre.org
A life insurance payout provides a path for Lena Younger to move her family from their cramped apartment on the south side of Chicago to an affordable home in a historically white neighborhood. But racial intolerance threatens to turn their American dream into heartbreak. This 1959 masterpiece by Lorraine Hansberry reopens Taproot’s newly renovated theater space.
www.taproottheatre.org
Playwright Christine Deavel asks, “What do you do when your mother dies, your father decides to mail random boxes of her things, and Emily Dickinson poems begin appearing in everyone’s pockets?” If you’re Beryl, you head to your job at the coffin-making shop and look for guidance from the two-person Greek chorus that now accompanies your changed life.
www.annextheatre.org
A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced to share her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn, she has no choice but to get rid of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A seemingly harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a dangerous game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of these worthy opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather remain hidden.
www.asiftheatre.com
Reboot will put their signature twist on this classic 1960s musical to explore themes of social inequality, exploitation, and youthful rebellion in Victorian London’s gritty underworld. This fresh, edgy interpretation highlights identity, found family, and resilience as orphan Oliver navigates a world of pickpockets and criminals, finding unexpected friendship amidst danger.
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/reboottheatre/oliver
This hilarious reimagining of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic stars Dynasty Handbag - the peerlessly subversive, wacky, and dystopian alter ego of LA-based artist Jibz Cameron. The performance wields animation, soundscapes and a stunning video backdrop by filmmaker Mariah Garnett to address issues of class, mortality and runaway consumer-driven climate disaster.
www.ontheboards.org
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in the 1960s, this play centers on a power struggle between Sister Aloysius, a stern and uncompromising principal, and Father Flynn, a charismatic young priest. When Sister Aloysius begins to suspect that Father Flynn may have engaged in inappropriate behavior with a young African-American student, a battle of wills ensues, filled with doubt, accusation, and the weight of faith.
www.secondstoryrep.org
Taking place entirely in a rehearsal space in an old New York theatre, Trouble in Mind brings us up close and personal with a group of artists working to open a new Broadway show. Themes of race, class, gender, and whether and when to separate the art from the artist are as poignant and critical now as they were when the show was first written. Alice Childress’ beautiful and insightful play was denied a rightful Broadway run in 1955 because she refused to change the ending. Over 60 years later, it was finally given the justice it deserved.
www.centerstagetheatre.com
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