MILK LIKE SUGAR
Mar 02 – Mar 25 2017
March 2 – March 25, 2017
By Kirsten Greenidge
2012 Obie Award Winner
2011 Edgerton Foundation Winner (New American Play Award)
2011 San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award Winner (Outstanding New Play)
It is Annie Desmond’s sixteenth birthday and her friends have decided to help her celebrate in style, complete with a brand new tattoo. Before her special night is over, however, Annie and her friends enter into a life altering pact. When Annie tries to make good on her promise to her friends, she is forced to take a good look at the world that surrounds her. She befriends Malik, who promises a bright future, and Keera, whose evangelical leanings inspire Annie in a way her young parents have not been able to do. In the end Annie’s choices propel her onto an irreversible path in this story that combines wit, poetry, and hope.
“A distinctive view of a matter of vital currency, crisply delineated characters who reveal more layers as the play proceeds, richly funny vernacular dialogue… Milk Like Sugar delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation.” – The New York Times
“Kirsten Greenidge’s fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut.” – Entertainment Weekly
“The title refers to the sweet powdered milk that offers far more flavor than nutritional value. But the tart Milk Like Sugar offers plenty of both!” – The New York Post
Tickets
Adults – $37.50
Seniors – $33 – 65+
Students – $17 – with valid school ID
3/17 – INSIDE THE DIRECTING OF MILK LIKE SUGAR: A CONVERSATION WITH MALIKA OYETIMEIN *CANCELLED*
Join us at 6:30pm before the performance for a special seminar about Milk Like Sugar, featuring a conversation between director Malika Oyetimein and ArtsWest Artistic Director Mathew Wright. Tickets are only $5 and can be purchased whether or not you plan to attend that evening’s performance of Milk Like Sugar. Don’t miss it!
BUY TICKETS TO THE 3/17 SEMINAR
3/18 – TALK BACK WITH MILK LIKE SUGAR CAST
Ticket holders to the Saturday, March 18 performance are invited to join us for a special evening with the Milk Like Sugar cast. After the 7:30pm performance, engage in a conversation with the cast about the themes, issues and creative challenges involved with this powerful production.
BUY TICKETS TO THE 3/18 PERFORMANCE
Note about content: Milk Like Sugar incorporates mature themes, including teen pregnancy, and features some use of strong language.
Milk Like Sugar features some use of water-based haze.
Mothers and Sons
Jan 19 – Feb 12 2017
EXTENDED! ADDED PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY 2/12 AT 3PM
Written by Terrence McNally
2014 Tony Award Nominated Best Play
2014 Drama League Nominated Outstanding Play
By turns smartly funny and powerfully resonant, this latest play from acclaimed dramatist Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Corpus Christi, Master Class) portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son’s partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.
“Terrence McNally is a probing and enduring dramatist. A resonant elegy for a ravaged generation, MOTHERS AND SONS wears its significance defiantly.” — The New York Times
“Eloquent, exceptionally timely and intensely resonant. A moving reflection on a changed America.” — The Chicago Tribune
“A masterpiece. Terrence McNally is one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theatre world has yet produced. MOTHERS AND SONS is profound. Heartbreaking. Triumphant.” — The New York Observer
Runtime: 90 minutes without intermission.
Tickets
Adults – $37.50
Seniors – $33 – 65+
Students – $17 – with valid school ID
The Little Match Girl Passion
Dec 11 – Dec 22 2016
Composed by David Lang, 2008
Based on The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
Modeled after Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, The Little Match Girl Passion is a modern, minimalist retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s tragic winter fairy tale. With only matches to keep her warm, a poor young girl, afraid to go home to her abusive father, takes shelter in an alley on a cold winter night. As she strikes each match, wonderful visions appear: when the last match is struck, the girl learns that the end of her suffering – and her life – is near. Featuring four of Seattle’s most critically acclaimed voices and the lyrical, hip-hop choreography of UJ Mangune, our production of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning masterpiece is an intimate, unforgettable evening of music and dance.
“The piece is at once an understated narrative and an ethereal meditation.” – The New York Times
“David Lang’s retelling of Hans Andersen’s fairy tale is an entrancingly beautiful piece.” – The Guardian
“Minimalist in form and quasi-medieval in its sublime austerity.” – The Los Angeles Times
PERFORMANCE DATES
Sunday Dec. 11, 7:30pm
Monday, Dec. 12, 7:30pm
Monday, Dec. 19, 7:30pm
Thursday, Dec. 22, 10:30pm
*Run time = 60 miinutes
Tickets: $30
Watch a preview:
Peter and the Starcatcher
Nov 17 – Dec 30 2016
Extended through Tuesday, 12/30!
By Rick Elice
Music by Wayne Barker
Based on the novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
2012 Winner of Five Tony Awards
2012 Nominee of Ten Tony Awards, including Best Play
When starcatcher-in-training Molly meets an orphan boy longing for a home, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime to protect a precious cargo. In this Tony Award-winning, magical and hilarious play with music, a dozen brilliant actors play more than 100 unforgettable characters. Peter and the Starcatcher uses ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination to finally reveal the origins of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys, their piratical nemesis, Captain Hook – and a far-off place known as Neverland.
“The most exhilarating Broadway storytelling in decades!” – The New York Times
“Charming and inventive…Peter and the Starcatcher is the gold standard!” – The New York Post
“Miraculous. Spectacle, wit and joy spill out of this production like treasure from a magic pocket.” – New York Magazine
Production Run
November 17 – December 30, 2016
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
*Run time – 2hrs. 15 mins | 1 intermission
Tickets
Adults – $39.50
Seniors – $35 – 65+
Students – $19 – with valid school ID
Note: Peter and the Starcatcher is suitable for all ages.
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