Thunderbolts and Dunderheads (Washington State premiere)
Written by: Todd McGinnis
Directed by: Roy Arauz
Produced by special arrangement with the author and Playing After Dark, Ltd.
October 9-October 24, 2009
Iris, the Goddess-Of-Rainbows, goes to “head office” on Mount Olympus looking for a promotion. Instead, she is threatened with being permanently down-sized! Her only hope of survival is to take on the one job no one else wants: Personal Assistant to the most dangerous employer of all time, Zeus himself! When Zeus wants Iris to help him make a “love connection” with a visiting Nordic Goddess, Zeus’s wife, the Queen of the Gods, orders Iris to ruin Zeus’s fun… what’s a poor goddess to do? Find out… in the Washington state premiere of this Myth-sterically funny, Award-Winning farce… breathing hilarious new life into the Ancient Myths.
The Seven Year Itch
Written by: George Axelrod
Director: ShawnJ West
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
February 12-27, 2010
Richard Sherman roams restlessly around his empty apartment, bemoaning the fact that his wife of seven years, and their son, have just walked out on him. Then, without warning, a gigantic flower pot tumbles down from an overhead balcony, nearly putting him permanently out of his misery. The jarring event has a strange effect on Richard. He now sees his marriage as wasted time and feels it necessary to exercise his libido as quickly as possible. Suddenly reborn, he invites the delectable doll who lives on the floor above down for an evening of temptation. The night doesn’t quite go the way he thought it would, as morality and guilt sneak into his head. In his conscience—literally following him about the apartment—a soul-struggle of heroic and hilarious proportions ensues.
A … My Name Will Always Be Alice
Conceived by: Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd
Directed by: Art Anderson
Musical Direction by: Kim Dare
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
April 23-May 8, 2010
A…My Name Will Always Be Alice is a combination of the 1984 award winning Off-Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice and its 1992 sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice. Originally produced by the Women’s Project at the American Place Theatre in New York, A…My Name is Alice enjoyed a long run at the Village Gate Off Broadway. This slick and lively revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists and composers offers a marvelous kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the numbers portray friends, rivals, sisters and even members of an all women’s basketball team. Winner of the Outer Critics’ Circle Award, Best Musical. The sequel continues to explore contemporary women, this time in the 1990s. The music ranges from gospel to country western to rock.
