“Langston Hughes Project – Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” will be presented by the Everett Community College Student Activities’ Artist and Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the PUD Auditorium, 2320 California St., Everett.
This 12-part production, written by Hughes in the early 1960s, represents Hughes’ vision of a global struggle for freedom. The audience will experience the mood of the Harlem Renaissance through spoken-word poetry, a live quartet, and visual illustrations.
Spoken-word artist John Wright brings Hughes’ text to life, and music director and composer Ron McCurdy orchestrates the musical based on cues from Hughes.
The event is free.
Write on: The Whidbey Island Writers Conference, set for March 4-6, is one of the region’s top writers’ events, featuring best-selling and award-winning authors, agents and editors representing many genres.
Volunteers are needed to help with registration, receptions, events, assembling information materials and driving presenters to and from events. Writers who volunteer receive a discount on registration. Information, www.writeonwhidbey.org, 360-331-6714.
Acting workshops: Whidbey Children’s Theater presents an actors workshop with Gary Austin. The Los Angeles-based actor is founder of The Groundlings, improvisational theater and coaches TV and movie personalities.
He will be in Langley on March 5-6 to give workshops for children, teenagers and adults. For schedule and cost information, call 360-221-8707.
A season at ACT: Seattle ACT Theatre will present five mainstage plays in the 2005 season. The season, which opens in April, offers a mix of romance, comedy, classic, contemporary and new works.
The season includes:
* “Bach at Leipzig” (April 29-May 29): American playwright Itamar Moses sets his new comedy in 18th century Leipzig, where six musicians, including J.S. Bach, are auditioning (and conniving) for the most coveted musical post in Europe. ACT Artistic Director Kurt Beattie directs.
* “Born Yesterday” (June 17-July 17): Garson Kanin’s delightful comedy about political corruption and a dim-bulb blonde who turns out not to be so ditzy after all, is an American classic. Seattle’s Warner Shook directs.
* “The Night of the Iguana” (July 29-Aug. 28): Faith, morals and sex collide in a rundown Mexican tourist hotel in the Tennessee Williams poetic and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Jon Jory directs.
* “Vincent in Brixton” (Sept. 2-Oct. 2): Vincent van Gogh is in London and in love in Nicholas Wright’s speculative drama, directed by Beattie.
* “Flight” (Oct. 14-Nov. 3): At a secret meeting place around a fireside in the woods, six members of a slave community gather to rescue one of its members – a child – from catastrophe through the healing power of storytelling. This is the Seattle premiere of Charlayne Woodward’s drama. Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton
* “The Ugly American”(June 7-26): A new monologue by Mike Daisey (“21 Dog Years”) based on his teenage experiences in a London theater company.
For ticket information, call 206-292-7676, www.acttheatre.org.
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