Theater, dance and opera around the region
Published 1:30 am Thursday, July 6, 2017
Theater
Edmonds Driftwood Players: Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds; www.edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org or 425-774-9600, option 3. Next season tickets now available. Driftwood’s annual Festival of Shorts is 8 p.m. July 7-8 and 2 p.m. July 8-9. Call for tickets. Eight short plays will be performed. Playwrights are from across the country. The audience helps decide the top play of the festival.
Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare: The company will perform “Much Ado About Nothing” at 3 p.m. July 9 at Edmonds City Park, Third and Pine. Admission is free. Shakespeare’s screwball comedy features the bantering of two of his cleverest characters. For Beatrice and Benedick, love is a game of wits played with guarded hearts. Yet everyone can see they’re meant for each other. Newly engaged Hero and Claudio conspire to trick the pair into admitting their affections and falling for each other. But schemes are afoot to ruin everyone’s happiness through dire accusations. Will love win in the end?
Last Leaf does Shakespeare: Last Leaf Productions’ 19th season bringing the Bard to the parks features performances of the fast and furious “The Comedy Of Errors.” Free local shows (about an hour long) are set for 5 p.m. July 9, Wagner Performing Arts Center rear lawn, Monroe; 6 p.m. July 15, Arlington’s Terrace Park; 2 p.m. July 16, Mukilteo’s 92nd Street Park; 5 p.m. July 16, Monroe’s Wagner PAC rear lawn; 7:30 p.m. July 20, Mukilteo’s Rosehill Community Center; and 4 p.m. Aug. 6, North Cove Park in Lake Stevens. In the play, Antipholus and his sidekick Dromio find themselves in Ephesus, where people from their hometown, Syracuse, are excluded under pain of death. Unbeknowst to them or anybody else, they both have an identical twin already living in Ephesus, by extraordinary coincidence also named Antipholus and Dromio. A hilarious day of mistaken identities and giddy confusion ensues. More information is at www.lastleaf99.org.
Woodinville Repertory Theatre: The classic comedy “Butterflies are Free” is presented through July 9 at Denali Slab & Tile Studio, 16120 Woodinville-Redmond Road NE, Suite 12, Woodinville. For show times and ticket prices, go to www.woodinvillerep.org/tickets.
Red Curtain: The Red Curtain Arts Center, 9315 State Ave., Suite J, Marysville (in the Goodwill shopping center, behind the Everett Community College cosmetology school). Box office hours are 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday or call 360-322-7402. For more information about classes and for tickets to next season, go to www.redcurtainfoundation.org. Auditions for “The Fantasticks” begin at 6 p.m. July 11.See a staged reading of the one-act play “Art” by Yasmina Reza at 8 p.m. July 7-8. Three long-time friends, played by Scott Hibbert, Liam Cole and Robert MacDougall, explore the meaning and impact of “art” when one of the men buys an expensive abstract all-white painting, much to the dismay of the others. Directed by Scott B Randall. Tickets are $12 each.
Village Theatre: Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave.; 425-257-8600 or www.villagetheatre.org/everett. The remainder of the Village season includes “Dreamgirls,” July 7-30.
“Last Romance”: Phoenix Theatre, Tim Noah’s Thumbnail Theater and the Snohomish Theater Project offer this comedy by Joe Pietro at 7:30 p.m. July 15 and 22, and at 4 p.m. July 16 and 23. Directed by Eric Lewis, the cast includes Michael McFadden, Susan Connors, Griffin Price, Melanie Calderwood and Sadie Calderwood. The story involves Ralph, a widower, whose daily walk leads him to a second chance at love. Tickets are $15 at the door, Thumbnail Theater, 1211 Fourth St., Snohomish, or at wwwbrownpapertickets.com.
Phoenix Theatre: The comedy theater is at 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. Call 206-533-2000 or go to www.phoenixtheatreedmonds.org. Season 10 tickets are now available via the website.
Youth theater
Ludus Performing Arts: Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” plays July 7-29 at the Snohomish County PUD theater in Everett, 2320 California St. For ticket information, call 425-239-6627 or go to www.ludusperformingarts.org.
Kidstage: See Disney’s “Aladdin” Kids Edition at noon July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug. 4 and 11 at the Wetmore Avenue Theater Plaza; “Rent” School Edition, 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. Sundays) July 13-16 and 20-23 at the Cope Gilette Theatre and Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. Sundays) Aug. 12-20. More information is at www.villagetheatre.org/everett/kidstage-everett.php
Dance
Olympic Ballet Theatre: The company opens its 37th season with an all-new Summer Gala performance featuring samples of OBT’s diverse repertoire at 7 p.m. July 29, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Performance tickets may be ordered online at www.olympicballet.com or by calling the box office at 425-774-7570.
To submit info, email reporter Gale Fiege at gfiege@heraldnet.com.
