Theater
‘Cipher of the Unseen’
Stage combat, dance, comedy, juggling and acrobatics with headliner, NANDA from Port Townsend, in a show that includes music, singing and dangerous stunts by several north Puget Sound performing groups, “Cipher of the Unseen” will be presented at Old Arlington High School Theater, 135 N. French Ave., in Arlington, 7:30 p.m. Sat. April 24. The show also includes Captain Rev. Chumleigh, of Camano Island, and META, from Skagit County. Tickets are available from the Arlington Boys & Girls Club and brownpapertickets.com.
For information see myspace.com/captaintrendo & nandatown.com.
Paradise Lost
Intiman Theatre 2010 is Kate Whoriskey’s first season as artistic director and it’s designed to showcase her priorities, including a commitment to exciting early career artists, new works, and collaborations that cross artistic disciplines.
• Running through April 25, “Paradise Lost”
by Clifford Odets, directed by Dámaso Rodriguez conjures a time when gangsters, dreamers, agitators and idealists were the hopeful heart of the American Dream, inspired by the Depression, with actors from Seattle and Los Angeles.
• “The Thin Place”
by Sonya Schneider and directed by Andrew Russell is based on interviews conducted for Intiman by KUOW reporter Marcie Sillman, with stories of people who reached a point of crisis in their lives and made the bold choice to wrestle with a higher power, May 14 to June 13. The one-person play stars Gbenga Akinnagbe, who played Chris Partlow on “The Wire.”
• The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize, Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined,”
runs July 2 - Aug. 8, under Whoriskey’s direction as the first production of Intiman’s new five-year International Cycle. “Ruined” is co-produced with the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and will travel to South Africa’s Market Theatre to be shared with Congolese refugees in Johannesburg.
• Director Christopher Bayes directs with Steven Epp, Molière’s “A Doctor
in Spite of Himself,”
Sept. 3 - Oct. 10, a timely and satirical look at the medical profession, starring Tony Award-nominated actor Daniel Breaker.
• The season concludes with Intiman’s American Cycle production, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet
Letter,”
Oct. 22 - Dec. 5, newly adapted by awardwinning playwright Naomi Iizuka and directed by Lear deBessonet.
Located at the Seattle Center on Mercer Street, Intiman tickets are available at www.intiman.org or 206- 269-1900.
‘Two Gentlemen
of Verona’
Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre Arts will present “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” directed by WWU Theater professor Maureen O’Reilly, April 22-25 and April 28 to May 2 in the Old Main Theater. One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays “Two Gentlemen of Verona” takes place in Verona and Milan, but the setting of this production is in the American West, where the values of a pioneering spirit and rugged individualism parallel those in the original play. Tickets are available at the WWU Box Office 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and one hour prior to the performance. For information, call the WWU Theatre Department at 360- 650-3876 or see www.wwu. edu/theatre.
‘Getting Away with Murder’
Anacortes Community Theater presents “Getting Away with Murder” April 2-24, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, at 10th and M streets, in Anacortes. For tickets call 360-293- 6829. For information go to www.acttheater.com.
