“Enchanted April”: The Adagio Players stage this romantic fantasy, based on the 1920s novel.
The Tony Award-nominated play by Matthew Barber follows the story of two British housewives who decide to escape the dismal weather and their equally dismal marriages by renting a villa in Italy for a month.
“Enchanted April” opens at 8 tonight at Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. Shows are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 25. Tickets are $17.50 and $19.50. Call 425-258-6766 or go to www.everetttheatre.org.
“The Hallelujah Girls”: The Reunion Theatre Group is back with another comedy, this one by Jesse Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. It focuses on the feisty females of Eden Falls, Ga., who decide to shake up their lives.
The setting is SPA-DEE-DAH!, an abandoned church turned day spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday.
Sugar Lee, their high-spirited leader, has her hands full keeping the women motivated.
The comic tension mounts when a sexy ex-boyfriend shows up, a marriage proposal comes from an unlikely suitor and Sugar Lee’s archrival vows to steal the spa away.
“Hallelujah Girls” opens at 8 tonight at the Milltown Sailing Association, 410 14th St., Everett. Shows are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 18, with one 2 p.m. show April 17. Tickets are $13 and $10. Call 425-422-0274, 800-838-3006 or go to www.brownpapertickets.com or go to www.reuniontheatergroup.org.
“Me and Violet Brooks”: Silver Lake Theatre presents this musical set in 1936 Boston at Miss Charity’s Preparatory Boarding School, where Katie Whitley and Violet Brooks engage in a fierce conflict of wills.
It’s a last chance to see a work by local playwright and composer Micah Nordtvedt before he leaves for a master’s program at New York University.
“Me and Violet Brooks” opens at 7 tonight at Silver Lake Theatre, which performs at Hope Church, 11329 23rd Drive SE, Everett. Shows are 7 p.m. Fridays through Sundays through April 18. Tickets for the dessert theater show are $8 or $55 per table of eight seats. Call 425-923-6845 or go to silverlaketheatre.org or at the door, though seating is limited.
“Love, Sex and the I.R.S”: There’s not much about tax season that’s funny. Except maybe this show.
Edmonds Driftwood Players are giving you the chance to laugh at the feds with this comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore about what happens when you try to cheat the IRS.
Directed by Eric Lewis, this show has enough gags and comic situations to fill a long form.
“Love, Sex and the I.R.S” opens at 8 tonight at the Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 25. Tickets are $23 and $20. Call 425-774-9600 or go to www.driftwoodplayers.com.
“Cash on Delivery”: This fast-paced British farce by Michael Cooney is complete with slamming doors, dead bodies, bald-faced lies, mistaken identities and men dressing as women.
When Eric began cashing his former lodger’s checks from social services, he was just trying to get through a spot of unemployment. But it was so easy that he kept applying for more benefits for more nonexistent lodgers.
“Cash on Delivery” opens at 7:30 tonight at Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through May 1. Tickets are $16. Call 360-679-2237 or go to www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.
“On the Town”: The 5th Avenue presents Leonard Bernstein’s lively musical about three sailors on a riotous 24-hour pass in the Big Apple.
The 5th is partnering with Spectrum, Washington’s largest professional contemporary dance company. Spectrum last teamed with The 5th for “West Side Story” in 2007.
This was Bernstein’s first musical. He collaborated with choreographer Jerome Robbins in 1944.
“On the Town” opens at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at The 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle, with shows at various times through May 2. Tickets start at $22.50. Call 206-625-1900, 888-584-4849 or go to www.5thavenue.org.
“Henry V”: This Seattle Shakespeare Co. production gives a satirical send-up to all the political chicaneries of war in a setting that takes place in 1962, with the arms race and space race at full throttle and with pressure mounting for the new ruler Henry and his cabinet cronies to do something.
Anything.
“Henry V” opens with previews at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Center House Theatre, 305 Harrison St., Seattle. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through May 9. Tickets are $22 to $36. Call 206-733-8222 or go to www.seattleshakespeare.org.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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