This is one of the costume renderings for Will Blunt, valet to Sir Peter Lustforth (more on him later). Will is curious, troublesome and quixotic. He’s a prankster, though never malicious. At heart he’s a romantic afraid of his own nature. Design by Sarah Lee Day.

ArtsWest Executive Director Alan Harrison sat down with Marta at KING FM to talk about our upcoming season.

Check it out:

http://filesource.abacast.com/king/ArtsWst09-10part1.asx

Ok, just kidding. Really, it's more like "ArtsWest for Prom Queen":

ArtsWest has been nominated for Best Theatre Group in King 5 Evening Magazine’s Best of Western Washington Contest. Yay!

Please help us out by going to the site and voting for ArtsWest.

(Full disclosure: You _do_ have to create a log-in identity to vote. However, the pay off for ArtsWest in free publicity if we win is HUGE.)

ArtsWest has been awarded a grant from The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The $50,000 grant will go toward Full Speed Ahead, ArtsWest’s capital campaign.

So yes, my birthday was last week.  My 50th, if you must know.  And the application for the AARP card came, magically, 2 weeks earlier than that.

Last night ArtsWest announced our 2009-2010 Season to the public (full disclosure: our Season Ticket holders learned the news a little earlier. Commitment has its privileges).

Without further ado, the shows are: 
Dead Man's Cell Phone, 
Measure for Pleasure,
Plaid Tidings: The Forever Plaid Christmas Show,
Love Song, 
Sunlight
and Tell Me On A Sunday

To read more about the Season, click here.

I've been trying to wrap my brain around the idea of losing not just one, but potentially both our daily newspapers here in Seattle. 

No, there is no news out there that the Seattle Times is closing shop (plenty of news out there that the Seattle P-I soon will be), but it goes without saying that unless daily newspapers, including the Times, fundamentally change the way in which they do business, they will be no more profitable than the last great buggy-whip manufacturer.

It is the second to last day of the year and here we are, just the 4 of us.  You, me, my wife, and our marketing director.  The marketing director has to read this.  My wife likes to play nice and encourage my ribald behavior.  You?  This I don't know.

The end of a year is a time for contemplation of all things that have happened that year.  2008 was a year, one of many.

Hmmm....I tried to embed it and it didn't work. Wah!

Instead, you can see it by clicking here.

Technology is hard. Someone should come by and bake me some brownies. After they watch the trailer.

~ Rachel
November 12, 2008