Phoenix’s ‘One Slight Hitch’ opens this weekend

EDMONDS — It was going to be the perfect wedding day.

Until the door bell rang, and then a slight hitch threatened to ruin the celebration.

Yale-educated playwright Lewis Black’s comedy “One Slight Hitch” is presented through Nov. 1 by the Phoenix Theatre of Firdale Village.

Black has written more than 40 plays, and was a weekly political commentator on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” His third stand-up CD “The Rules of Enragement” was released last year.

Directed by Christine Moser, the cast includes Keith Dahlgren and Melanie Calderwood as Doc and Delia Coleman, the parents of the bride, along with Simone Barron, Rebekah Dawn, Jordan Fermstad, J. Woody Lott and Liz Adkisson Smoot.

The technical team includes Linda Curry, Dan Jacoby, Jim Thompson, Arin Larson and Lynn Jessup.

Phoenix Theatre offers six mainstage productions a season, a summer series and an every-other-month play reading series.

If you go

Phoenix Theatre presents Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch” at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 1 at 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. Tickets are $19 general admission or $16 for seniors, students and military. Call 206-533-2000. More at www.phoenixtheatreedmonds.org.

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