Autumn quarter begins in just over a week. We've already welcomed our graduate students back to Hutchinson Hall and our actors, designers, and crew are already at work on our season opener, The Cradle Will Rock. We've got a packed fall—and year! Read on to learn about our upcoming events, how to buy tickets, and how you can support this exciting work.
Season subscriptions and single tickets for our 2015–2016 season are now on sale through the ArtsUW ticket office. This year, in addition to our 5-show subscription, our season includes a play reading series, lectures, new play workshops, and co-productions with local theatre companies.
We're kicking things off with Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Professor and Head of Performance, Valerie Curtis-Newton and featuring a cast of current students, faculty, and alumni. Mark your calendars for opening night on Friday, October 30!
Visit ArtsUW.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
For season subscriptions, go to drama.uw.edu/2015-16-season-subscriptions.
Second-year MFA directing student Malika Oyetimein is the first featured director of Intiman's Director's Lab program. Joining her on the creative team for Bootycandy, which runs through October 3, is scenic designer Julia Welch (MFA '15).
Friends of the School of Drama can purchase $20 tickets to the September 29 performance, and are invited to a special post-show reception.
Use the discount code UWDRAMA2015 when purchasing tickets online or over the phone. Call the Intiman box office at (206) 315-5838.
UW Drama Night at Bootycandy
Tuesday, Sept 29
Show at 7:30 PM
Reception to follow
Contact Katrina Ernst at katrinae@uw.edu or 206-685-0600 with any questions.
In partnership with Meany Hall and One Coast Collaboration, the School of Drama presents a series of five free, public readings of representative plays from seminal Seattle theatres of the past. As part of the School 75th Anniversary, we’ll be celebrating the Seattle theatre community of which we’re an integral part. The reading series will pay tribute to inspiring companies no longer up and running: Alice B. Theatre, Bathhouse Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Northwest Asian American Theatre, and the Seattle Group Theatre.
Join us at Meany Studio Theatre on September 28 at 7:30 PM for the first event in the series with readings from plays produced by Alice B. Theatre.
All events in the reading series are free, but we suggest that you reserve your tickets in advance. Tickets can be reserved online.
For information about the entire series, visit drama.uw.edu/events.
And get to know One Coast Collaboration's founding creative producer, and School of Drama alumnus, Michael Place in this interview.
The School of Drama is on the threshold of launching a truly ambitious season. Many of you have already heard our appeals for support. And several of you have answered those appeals with a financial contribution to the season. To date, we have raised nearly $30,000!
We're planning a season unlike any other, with new and thought-provoking work, a blend of student and professional artistry and learning. We're building bridges across this vital artistic city. And we need you to make it happen!
Your gift to Friends of Drama will help us as we work to give our remarkable students the richest environment for exploration and learning. Help us reach our goal of raising $75,000 before the start of our 75th Anniversary Season this fall.
Give online today or call 206-685-0600.
Susan Finque as Nancy Drew in the Archives: In Search of the Actors' Contract
With the support of the Witham Fund for Dissertation Research, I was able to spend a week this summer delving into the archives of one of the Americas' most beloved small libraries. The Rosenbach Museum and Library is tucked away on Delancey Street, in a tree-lined neighborhood just off center city Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square. Staged in the former home of Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, his brother Phillip, and their mother and sisters before them, the Rosenbach houses some of the most treasured and important manuscripts of literature, theatre, history of the Americas, Judaica, and the written word itself. By its own mission statement, the trustees of the Library are clearly impassioned with the vision of the Library as a dynamic space of gathering:
"The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia seeks to inspire curiosity, inquiry, and creativity by engaging broad audiences in exhibitions, programs, and research based on its remarkable and expanding collections.”
Well readers, they sought me, and found me! With the help of librarian Elizabeth Fuller, I was able to spend eight-hour days examining, reading, photographing, and inquiring about literary treasures. In a light-filled 100-year-old study, I bent my head over the manuscripts, books, and maps carefully laid out on the expansive...
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Seattle theatre group Azeotrope opened Don Nyguen's Sound at ACT Theatre to rave reviews. Desdemona Chiang (MFA 2009) directs, with Richard Nguyen Sloniker (PATP 2009) as Alexander Graham Bell, costume design by Christine Tschirgi (MFA 2007), and lighting design by Jessica Trundy (MFA 2003).
The Horse in Motion continues to produce non-traditional theatre. Their latest production, Brechtfest, combines three Brecht plays with a three-course brunch. Directed by Bobbin Ramsey (BA 2012) and featuring the creative work of Ben Phillips (BA 2013), AliRose Panzarella (MFA 2014), Rachel Perlot, Hannah Ruwe (BA 2014), Jonathan Shue (PATP 2014), Katherine Bicknell, and Sylvia Kowalski. Read an interview with Bobbin on The Seattle Star. Brechtfest runs through October 4.
Ada Limón (BA 1998) made the National Book Award poetry longlist for her collection Bright Dead Things.
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Featuring PATP and PhD students
Friday, September 25 at 6:20 PM
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Free. Purchase 50%-off tickets to A View From the Bridge
Seattle Theatres Lost & Founded
Featuring play readings from Alice B. Theatre
In partnership with UW World Series & One Coast Collaboration
Monday, September 28 at 7:30 PM
Meany Studio Theatre
Reserve tickets online
UW Drama Night at Bootycandy
Tuesday, September 29
Show at 7:30 PM; reception to follow
Cornish Playhouse at the Seattle Center
Buy discounted tickets with code: UWDRAMA2015
Online or call the Intiman box office at (206) 315-5838
Electra
Produced by the Undergraduate Theater Society
Oct 22–Nov 1
Cabaret Theatre, Hutchinson Hall
Tickets and Info
The Cradle Will Rock
Season opener; directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton
Oct 30–Nov 8 (previews Oct 28, 29)
Wed–Sat at 7:30 PM; Sun at 2:00 PM
Jones Playhouse
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