“The Prisoner of Second Avenue”: The newly refurbished Phoenix Theatre — former home of Edge of the World Theatre — hasn’t changed what it does best: offering audiences comic theater.
The comedy, “The Prisoner of Second Avenue,” opens at 8 tonight and runs through March 22 at The Phoenix in Edmonds.
Written by Neil Simon, “Prisoner” focuses on Mel Edison, a middle-age executive in New York City dealing with escalating problems.
“Prisoner of Second Avenue” opens at 8 tonight at The Phoenix Theatre, 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds, with shows at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 22; $20 and $17; 206-533-2000, brownpapertickets.com.
“The Miracle Worker”: With muted colors to emphasize the world of Helen Keller, director Alexandra Clark also brings out the vividness of Helen’s epiphanies in this adaptation.
This fully sign language-interpreted production, presented by Sky Performing Arts, opens tonight and continues through March 15 at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe.
Clark tells the story of Helen Keller, stricken blind and deaf from a childhood illness but rescued by teacher Annie Sullivan, who taught Helen to communicate.
“The Miracle Worker” opens at 8 tonight at Sky Valley Education Center, 17072 Tye St., Monroe, with shows at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 15; $12-$14; 360-863-1663, brownpapertickets.com.
On Saturday, a special benefit performance of the show will be held as money is collected for the “Help Holly See” fundraiser for Holly Connor, 4, of Seattle, who was blind at birth. Her parents are seeking financial support to help pay for a special transplant procedure.
“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”: This musical comedy revue is a throwback to bygone theater as well as a thoroughly entertaining and contemporary look at the conundrum called “the relationship.”
The show performs for one night only at 8 p.m. Saturday at Northshore Performing Arts Center, 18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell; $32-$45; 425-408-7988, 800-992-8499, www.npacf.org.
“Crumbs from the Table of Joy”: Edmonds Community College’s Theatre Arts performers present this timely work about civil rights.
Prolific American playwright Lynn Nottage, a recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, has created this portrait of an African-American family’s move north to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1950.
The show opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Edmonds Community College’s Black Box Theatre, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood, and continues through March 14; admission is $11 general and $9 for students and seniors; tickets at the box office or call 425-640-1448.
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