Opening its sixth season, Ghost Light Theatricals starts off with “Measure for Measure,” a Shakespearean dark comedy about sex, power and hypocrisy.
The plays opens tonight and runs through Oct. 19 at Stone Soup Theatre in Seattle’s Wallingford district.
Directed by artistic director Beth Raas, the play focuses on the character of Angelo, who is taking serious advantage of a temporary position of authority to crack down on fornicators, but also decided to join their ranks.
This season, also look forward to other Ghost Light productions such as Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” in January and August Strindberg’s “A Dream Play” in April.
“Bobbie and Jerome”: Like sculpting a piece of art from stone, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center artistic director Jacqueline Moscou and local playwright Daniel Owens have been crafting their play “Bobbie and Jerome” for more than four years.
The world premiere is Tuesday at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle.
The story is about two cousins fighting their addictions, their joined past, and each other set against a backdrop of stone carving. The story takes place in 1998 in the stone yard of a gothic Harlem cathedral and the focus is on these two men who struggle to save the yard and settle a score.
West Seattle stone carver Sabah Al-Dhaher became part of the production’s creative team to teach the complexities of carving in an intensive crash course. “I will never look at a rock the same way again. My hands are still recovering,” actor G. To’mas Jones, who plays Bobbie, was quoted as saying in a prepared statement.
The public is invited from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 13 on a free tour of Al-Dhaher’s studio, 3838 Delridge Way SW, Seattle.
Comedy Addiction Tour: This unique comedy is based on using humor to appeal to those facing issues of recovery. The event is tonight only at Seattle’s Moore Theatre.
The performance features four comedians in a 90-minute format that reveals in humorous ways their stories of excess and addiction. The comics weave their stories about life, love, addiction and recovery into funny routines that strive to educate and entertain patrons about inner demons.
“Mythbusters”: Inside The Scientist’s Studio, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage will bring you myths gone wrong and never-seen outtakes from their popular Discovery Channel show, “Mythbusters.”
There are two performances Saturday at The Moore in Seattle.
They will talk about chemistry, even take suggestions for future myths, but they won’t, sadly, blow up anything.
“The Mutant Theatre Caravan”: This is boundary-pushing theater that promises performances beyond the mainstream.
The “Caravan” arrives in Skagit County this weekend with shows Sunday and Monday at The Conway Muse in Conway.
“The Mutant Theatre Caravan” is a traveling road show that claims radical performance work in four innovative theater shows. There are two different shows that perform on a double bill each night and one ticket gains admission to both shows in a single evening.
The Sunday shows are: “Jesus in Montana,” a one-man show about a man’s true and surreal journey into a bizarre religious cult, and “The Last Hurrah of the Clementines,” a do-it-yourself approach to lighting, sound and set creation that combines refined theater with assembled “found” design schemes.
On Monday the shows are: “Purple Heart,” about a private detective who tries to exonerate an innocent man by battling small-town cronyism and courtroom injustice, and “Great Hymm of Thanksgiving-Conversation Storm,” which blurs the boundary between avant-garde music and experimental political theater. For more information, go to www.infinitelaughs.com.
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