“A Strange Disappearance of Bees”: The Driftwood Players Alternative Stage presents a new work by Elena Hartwell about a recently deceased Vietnam vet whose half-Vietnamese son arrives at his father’s bakery asking lots of questions about the past.
The story also asks questions about love and
loss, memory and expectation as the son meets a woman he falls in love with and a beekeeper whose hives are being mysteriously devastated.
“A Strange Disappearance of Bees” will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St, Edmonds.
Tickets are $12. Call 425-774-9600 or go to www.driftwoodplayers.com.
“The Glass Menagerie”: In this memory play, Tom Wingfield reminisces about the lives of his mother and sister in a tenement apartment in St. Louis in 1937.
Tom’s mother, Amanda, obsesses about finding a match for her daughter, Laura, a pathologically shy woman obsessed with a glass animal collection. The family’s flaws are exposed when Tom brings home a suitor.
“The Glass Menagerie” opens at 8 tonight at Sky Valley Education Center, 17072 Tye St., Monroe. Shows are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 13.
Tickets are $12 and $14. Call 360-863-1663 or go to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/154497 or visit www.skyperformingarts.com.
“The Potent Toddy”: Part of the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts new avant garde series, “Fast and Furious / Down and Dirty,” this production looks deeper into what it means to be human, in the macabre style of Edward Gorey.
The actors are a Frog and a Salamander. Frog appears to be going insane and needs Salamander’s help but he wonders: At what cost to himself? Over time, Salamander learnes to love Frog, despite her madness.
“The Potent Toddy” is 2 p.m. Saturday at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley.
Tickets are $10. Call 360-221-8268 or 800-638-7631 or go to www.WICAonline.com.
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s 2011-2012 season includes the Broadway hit “Rent,” Kathie Lee Gifford’s “Saving Aimee,” and the 25th anniversary tour of “Les Miserables” direct from London.
The new season:
“Les Miserables”: Aug. 9 to 27. Based on the Victor Hugo novel and the redemption of ex-convict Jean Valjean.
“Saving Aimee”: Sept. 30 to Oct. 30. Kathie Lee Gifford explores the scandals of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, the leader of a super church in Los Angeles in the 1920s.
“Cinderella”: Nov. 25 to Dec. 31. Dreams do come true and are set to romantic music in this fairy tale about an unlikely lady who becomes a princess.
“First Date”: Dates TBA. A co-production between the 5th Avenue and ACT Theatre, this comedy explores the challenge of being genuine on that first date.
“Oklahoma!”: Feb. 9 to March 4. Choreographer Donald Byrd and Spectrum Dance Theatre combine talents to produce this classic about life in the Midwest, “where the sun comes streaming down the plain.”
“Damn Yankees”: April 26 to May 20. This sexy musical comedy opening in time for baseball season begs the question: How far will Joe go to win the pennant?
“Rent”: July 12 to Aug. 5. This musical showcases home-grown talent and the exuberant existence of life in Manhattan’s East Village.
Performances are at the 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle.
For tickets and information call 206-625-1900 or 888-584-4849 or go to www.5thavenue.org.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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