“Comedy x3”: Last Leaf Productions wants to give you a sampler plate of comedies to go with your dinner theater.
The touring theater company is presenting a collection of one-act plays where patrons can laugh about the antics of people and how they relate and communicate with each other.
Currently scheduled for each dinner-theater evening are:
“Watch and Dry”: By Shel Silverstein. Famous for his collections of poems for children, Silverstein’s piece is one of many he did for adult audiences and is about assumptions and how people never really pay attention to the world around them.
“Textual Healing”: By Mavis Lamb. Cue up the Marvin Gaye background music for this play that examines how the dependence on new technology can totally mess up a budding relationship.
“Graceland”: By Ellen Byron. This play is about two women with one goal — they both want to be the first visitor into Elvis Presley’s mansion, Graceland, when it opens to the public. While they camp out in front of the gates, each talks about her troubles, triumphs and her love for The King.
“Comedy x3” starts at 7:30 tonight, Saturday, April 2 and 3 at Basil &Chives restaurant, 114 N. Lewis St., Monroe. Combination tickets include a five-course meal and show for $40 or show only tickets for $12. Call 360-794-4000 or go to www.basilandchivesrestaurant.com or www.brownpapertickets.com.
Sky Performing Arts, Monroe’s community theater, has announced its new 2010–2011 season of three shows, all well-known productions, giving patrons a good variety scattered throughout the year.
Sky Performing Arts is at 17072 Tye St., Monroe. Tickets range from $12 to $14. Call 360-863-1663 or go to www.skyperformingarts.com.
Dates and times will be announced later. Shows include:
“Moon Over Buffalo”: Fall. Directed by Eric Lewis, this comedy focuses on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s who might have one last stab at stardom.
“In the Mood”: Winter. Directed by Terry Simon, this is a USO-style 1940s Big Band revue. It returns each holiday season, rewritten and revised, featuring singers, comedians and a 17-piece swing band.
“Skellig”: Winter. Directed by Alexandra Clark, the show is based on the children’s novel about a mysterious man-owl-angel creature whom a young boy discovers at his family’s home and befriends.
“Wind in the Willows”: Spring. Director TBA. The classic children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame centers on four anthropomorphized animals whose pastoral lives by a river in England are shaken up by Ratty’s obsession with motorcars.
“A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor”: Seattle Theatre Group will present two live broadcasts at The Paramount Theatre about the goings on at the above-average town of Lake Wobegon.
The live broadcasts will feature comedy sketches, music and Garrison Keillor’s signature monologue, “The News from Lake Wobegon.”
“A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor” starts at 2:45 p.m. Saturday and April 3 at The Paramount, 911 Pine St., Seattle. Tickets are $28 to $82. Call 877-784-4849 or go to www.stgpresents.org.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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