Audience is the jury in ‘January 16th’

“The Night of January 16th”: While watching this show, the audience will be asking: Was this a tragic accident? Or was it a heartless murder?

The audience will get to give an answer on the fate of the accused during Sky Performing Arts’ production of Ayn Rand’s “The Night of January 16th.”

The show runs on weekends beginning tonight through Oct. 28 with performances at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe.

Audience members become the courtroom gallery and jury members in this tense drama by Rand, who is best known for her classics “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.”

This show, adapted for audience participation, has the audience living through the trial of Karen Andre. In the end, the audience will decide whether Andre deserves a guilty or innocent verdict, director Cyndi Thomsen said.

“Chicken Little”: StoryBook Theater is producing this show and two others this year as a way to bring funny, musical fairy tale adaptations to youthful audiences and their families.

“Chicken Little” opens Saturday at the Snohomish County PUD Auditorium in Everett. The other shows during Storybook’s 10th anniversary season include “Three Pigs” in January and “Cinderella,” showing in April.

“Chicken Little” was adapted by Lani Brockman with music and lyrics by Susan Bardsley and tells the story of a chicken who believes the sky is falling and how Chicken Little must go to the palace to tell the king. Along the way, the little clucker meets a variety of gullible characters and a few buffoons who join him on his royal mission. In the end, Storybook Theatre will answer this question: Will Chicken Little be rewarded for his news or will he become Chicken a la King?

“Wait Until Dark”: This Hitchcockian tale focuses on the fate of Suzy Hendrix, who lives her life in the dark.

The show opens tonight and runs through Oct. 27 at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts in Langley.

A con man and two ex-convicts have traced the location of a mysterious doll to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Suzy. Through a constructed deception, this band of cons convinces Suzy that Sam is implicated in a murder and that the doll is the key to his innocence. There begins a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Author Frederick Knott is best known for writing the ­London-based stage thriller “Dial M for Murder,” which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock. In 1966, Knott’s stage play “Wait Until Dark” was produced on Broadway and starred Lee Remick and Robert Duvall.

Throughout his life, Knott had a great passion for cheese. Observant audience members are asked to keep keen awareness of the frequent references to various types of cheese (Roquefort was a particular favorite).

“Twelve Angry Men”: Whidbey Playhouse presents this off-season production of Reginald Rose’s award-winning courtroom drama.

The show opens tonight for six performances only and ends Oct. 20.

This classic jury-driven drama is riveting and illustrates the real frustration and fury of a jury held up by the refusal of one of its members to capitulate and go along with the majority. The show gives insight into how courtroom law can sometimes obscure facts, twist truths and present outright lies.

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