Theater
Edmonds Driftwood Players: Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds; www.edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org or 425-774-9600. Season tickets are still available. “Dracula!” by Seattle playwright Stephen Dietz is on stage through Oct. 22. Directed by Paul Fleming, the cast includes Asa Sholdez, David Alan Morrison, Hanna Destiny Lynn, Emily Milburn, Jon Loina, Nate Thomsen, Phillio Keiman, Rebecca Erickson, Grace Madland, Justin Tinsely, Richard Morris and Joshua Behn. Tickets are $20 general or $18 for seniors, juniors, military. Disney’s musical “Beauty and the Beast” runs Nov. 24 through Dec. 17.
Phoenix Theatre: The comedy theater is at 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. Call 206-533-2000 or go to www.phoenixtheatreedmonds.org. Season 10 tickets are now available via the website. “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” continues Fridays-Sundays through Oct. 29. Christopher Durang’s Tony award-winning comedy revolves around the dysfunctional sibling trio, Vanya, Sonia and Masha. Movie star sister, Masha, returns home bringing with her a flurry of drama, an endless litany of insecurity, and a much younger, gorgeous, dim-witted lover named Spike. Clad as a glamorous Snow White, Masha insists Sonia and Vanya join her as Doc and Dopey to attend a wealthy socialite costume soiree. When Sonia revolts and shows up instead as the bewitching Maggie Smith from California Suite, tensions bubble over, and the fun and frenzy snowballs. Directed by Eric Lewis, the cast includes Debra Rich Gettleman, Michael McFadden, Susan Connors, Sarah McGrath, Cade Morrison and Melanie Calderwood.
Red Curtain: The Red Curtain Arts Center, 9315 State Ave., Suite J, Marysville (in the Goodwill shopping center, behind the Everett Community College cosmetology school). Box office hours are 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday or call 360-322-7402. For more information about classes and season tickets, go to www.redcurtainfoundation.org. Noel Coward’s urbane comedy “Blithe Spirit” is on stage Oct. 20 through Nov. 5.
“Piaf! The Show”: Edmonds Center for the Arts offers this musical celebration of the rags-to-riches story of legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the center, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $24-$59. Call 425-275-9595.
Village Theatre: Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave.; 425-257-8600 or www.villagetheatre.org/everett. “Into the Woods” Oct. 27-Nov. 19. Season tickets still available. Other shows are “Newsies,” “The Gin Game,” the new musical “String” and, finally, “Hairspray.”
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts: WICA will stage the musical “The Fantasticks” through Oct. 21 at the center in Langley. More information is at www.wicaonline.org.
Youth theater
“Oliver!”: Village Theatre’s KidStage presents the kids version of this Tony Award-winning musical based on the Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist.” The show runs Oct. 20 through Nov. 5. Mukilteo’s Kalia Estes, 12, has the title role. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sunday matinees at the Cope Gillette Theatre, 2730 Wetmore Ave., Everett. Tickets are $16 or $14 for youth and seniors. More at https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/kidstage-everett.php.
“The Theory of Relativity”: Ballyhoo Theatre presents this one-act musical Nov. 3-12 at Phoenix Theatre, 9673 Firdale Ave., Edmonds. Rated PG. Tickets $10-$12 at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Opera
“Tales of Hoffman”: Pacific Northwest Opera stages the Offenbach opera at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 and Nov. 3 and 3 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 at McIntyre Hall, at Skagit Valley College, College Way, Mount Vernon. Ticket prices vary. Call 1-866-624-6897 or go to pnopera.org.
Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy: Northshore Performing Arts Center offers this hilarious show by Charles Ross at 2 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the center, 18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell. For tickets — $30 general, $27 for seniors, $20 for students — call 425-298-3449. Ross plays all the characters, sings the music, flies the ships, fights the battles. The only parody permitted by Lucasfilm Ltd. Ages 6 to Yoda.
Improv Comedy Night: Held on third Saturdays at Cafe Zippy, 1502 Rucker Ave., Everett. Free.
Up in the Woods: An improvised horror show presented by Unexpected Productions at 8 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 28 at the Black Box Theater, Edmonds Community College, 20310 68th Ave W, Lynnwood. Tickets are $12. Order online at www.blackboxedcc.org or at the box office the day of the show. Concessions are cash only.
To submit information, email reporter Gale Fiege at gfiege@heraldnet.com.
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