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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE End Date: June 26, 2011
TACOMA LITTLE THEATRE
Announces its 92nd season
Tacoma, WA, Tacoma Little Theatre is pleased to announce its 92nd Season for 2010-2011. The main-stage season begins August 27th, 2010 with SLEUTH, continues with ELEEMOSYNARY, ANNIE, FROST/NIXON, A FLEA IN HER EAR, and concludes with The Who’s TOMMY in May of 2011. Additionally, TLT is producing a number of “second-stage” shows including a new play by Tacoma playwright Rosalind Bell commissioned by Northwest Playwrights Alliance, A TRANSYLVANIAN CLOCKWORK, by Don Nigro (a co-production with The Outfit) and David Auburn’s PROOF. Season Subscriptions can be purchased by calling the TLT box office at 253-272-2281.
Sleuth
by Anthony Shaffer
August 27th through September 26th 2010
The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke's love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim. Revenge is devised and murders plotted as the two plan the ultimate whodunnit. Winner of the Tony and Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play.
*That Ain't that Kosher
A new play by Rosalind Bell - commissioned by Northwest Playwrights Alliance
September 30th through October 10th 2010
Tacoma Little Theatre is teaming up with Northwest Playwrights Alliance to present the world premiere of a new play by Tacoma Playwright Rosalind Bell. *working title
Eleemosynary
by Lee Blessing
October 22nd through November 14th 2010
Eleemosynary probes into the delicate relationship of three women: the grandmother, Dorothea, who has sought to assert her independence through strong-willed eccentricity; her brilliant daughter, Artie, who has fled the stifling domination of her mother; and Artie's daughter, Echo, a child of exceptional intellect-and sensitivity-whom Artie has abandoned to an upbringing by Dorothea. As the play begins, Dorothea has suffered a stroke, and while Echo has reestablished contact with her mother, it is only through extended telephone conversations, during which real issues are skirted and their talk is mostly about the precocious Echo's single-minded domination of a national spelling contest. But, in the end, after Dorothea's death, both Artie and Echo come to accept their mutual need and summon the courage to try, at last, to build a life together-despite the risks and terrors that this holds for both of them after so many years of alienation.
The Transylvanian Clockworks
by Don Nigro
A Late-Night Production in Collaboration with THE OUTFIT
October 28th through November 14th 2010
What happens when a powerfully sensual Count from the dark woods of Romania obsesses over a photograph of three alluring women? What happens when that Count journeys to London where Jack the Ripper is eviscerating unaccompanied ladies? How does this affect Victorian men threatened by the Count’s hypnotic eroticism – which seems to have the power to unlace corsets? Find out in The Transylvanian Clockworks -- Don Nigro’s vision of what truly created the Dracula myth.
Annie
music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan
November 26th through December 24th 2010
Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes centerstage in one of the world's best-loved musicals. "Annie" is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Frost / Nixon
by Peter Morgan
January 14th through February 6th 2011
The writer of the award-winning The Queen and The Last King of Scotland tackles the question: How did David Frost, a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation, elicit the apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from former President Richard Nixon? This fast-paced new play chillingly recounts of one of the most monumental television interviews of all time. A Tony-winning play and Oscar-nominated film.
A Flea in Her Ear
by Georges Feydeau, Translated by David Ives
March 4th through March 27th 2011
A Flea in Her Ear is the greatest of French farces, perhaps the greatest farce ever written. Raymonde suspects that her husband, Victor, a placid and successful insurance executive, is secretly having an affair. To find out, she and her friend Lucienne write him an anonymous love letter suggesting a rendezvous at the shady Frisky Puss Hotel. Thinking the letter was intended for his coworker, Tournel, Victor sends Tournel off to make the rendezvous in his place. Lucienne’s jealous Spanish husband, meanwhile, finds the letter, recognizes his wife’s handwriting and takes his pistols to the Frisky Puss, hoping to catch her in the act. Meanwhile, at the Frisky Puss, it turns out that the drunken bellboy Poche is the exact double of the proper Victor Chandebise. Meeting Poche and thinking she’s been caught by her husband, Raymonde keeps trying to escape from the hotel with Tournel, but a revolving bed keeps flinging them from room to room. Things spins even faster as all the parties return to the Raymonde and Victor’s home utterly confused. The drunken bellboy arrives, is mistaken once again for Victor, and all the threads of the multiple mix-ups are sorted out as Victor and Raymonde are reunited.
The Who’s Tommy
music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff
additional music and lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon
April 29th through May 29th 2011
The tony winning Rock Opera comes to Tacoma. Based on The Who’s 1969 concept album “Tommy” the musical follows a catatonic child – Tommy – from his tragic early life in the wake of the Second World War to his ascension to stardom as a pinball wizard, and the awakening of his humanity.
Proof
A TLT Second Stage Production
by David Auburn
June 9th through June 26th 2011
Proof is the story of a young woman named Catherine. Her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician, who has misplaced both his brilliance and his sanity in his later years. Catherine, a budding mathematician herself, must give up her schooling and her most creatively productive years in order to take care of her father, who has become convinced that alien civilizations are communicating with him directly through the local library's Dewey decimal system.
Tacoma Little Theatre, founded in 1918, is the oldest theatre in the west. For more information please call 253-272-2281 or visit www.tacomalittletheatre.com
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