ArtsWest Fine Arts Center in West Seattle has released their 2009-10 Season featuring six plays including 4 Seattle Premieres, the World Premiere of “Sunlight” and the return of the smash holiday hit Plaid Tidings in December.
ArtsWest’s new season of shows include the following:
DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE (Seattle Premiere)
by Sarah Ruhl, Directed by Carol Roscoe
September 9 – October 3, 2009
a wildly imaginative new work from the playwright behind The Clean House and Eurydice. When Jean answers the cell phone of the corpse at the next table, she unwittingly embarks on a quirky odyssey that takes her from grief to the black market to the afterlife. With unfailing empathy, she sets the dead man’s bizarre life to rights and on the way resurrects her own.
MEASURE FOR PLEASURE (Seattle Premiere)
by David Grimm, Directed by Christopher Zinovitch
October 21 – November 14, 2009
Lady Vanity loves Sir Lustforth…who loves Hermione Goode…who loves Captain Dick Dashwood…who loves…well, just about everyone (male and female) before the intermission. A deliciously naughty Restoration romp meets modern sex farce, MEASURE FOR PLEASURE chases rakes, romantics, and transvestite prostitutes through mistaken identities, duels, and double-dealings galore on their way to learning that, whatever else it may be, love is rarely pure and never simple. Recommended for ages 17 and older – adult situations.
PLAID TIDINGS: THE FOREVER PLAID CHRISTMAS SHOW
by Stuart Ross, Directed by Jeff Church and Jeannette LeGault
December 2 – 27, 2009
The Plaids are back, and ArtsWest has ’em! The cast of last year’s smash holiday hit returns, singing swingin’ jingle bell ringin’ favorites. Frankie, Sparky, Jinx, and Smudge are transported from the ethereal cosmos to croon heavenly harmonic renditions of musical hits from the ’50s and ’60s.
LOVE SONG (Seattle Premiere)
by John Kolvenbach, Directed by Kate Witt
January 27 – February 21, 2010
Nick DeSantis as Harry in LOVE SONG.Photo by Nichole DeMent.
Oddball Beane is a modern day hermit, avoiding everyone but his career-focused sister and her cynical husband. His life is a shrinking, darkening world, until the night a beautiful thief breaks into his apartment. Suddenly all of the love songs make sense. Funny, enchanting and tender, LOVE SONG is the latest off-beat romantic comedy from a hot young playwright whose work has been produced from New York to London’s West End.
SUNLIGHT (National New Play Network World Premiere)
by Sharr White, Directed by Vanessa Miller (Well)
March 10 – April 3, 2010
It’s the middle of the night on a campus in turmoil and at the center of the storm a college president poised for retirement is combating one last scandal. Back at his residence the political battle turns fiercely personal, pitting his family against his legacy. Sharr White is a storyteller with uncommon insight into his characters and his searing new play spotlights an influential American family struggling to make right out of many wrongs.
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Don Black and Richard Maltby, Jr. (Miss Saigon)
Directed by Christopher Zinovitch and Starring Jessica Skerritt
April 28 – May 23, 2010
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s one-woman tour de force in song, tells the story of fierce young designer Emma, an ordinary English girl who journeys to New York City in search of love. By turns wry, sly, and very funny, dozens of Lloyd Webber’s best songs take us through Emma’s romantic misadventures as they lead her from Manhattan to Hollywood and back again, returning older and wiser.
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery is located at 4711 California Avenue SW in West Seattle. Visit www.artswest.org for more info.
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