Tickets on sale for Playwrights' Festival
Tickets and Passes are now on sale for the
16th Annual Playwrights'
Festival, which holds weeklong events from February 9 to
26.
The Festival features developing works
by local, regional, and national playwrights.
Local playwrights Deborah Daline,
Sandy Diamond, Steve
Fetter, Jack O'Connor, Mark Rose, and
Richard Weston were honored at a ceremony hosted
by the P T Arts Commission for their winning scripts
that will be presented during the Festival.
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Festival calendar
Steve Treacy's 2011 "Jeffy" awards
Local theatre reviewer Steve Treacy has announced his "Jeffy"
awards for 2011.
Best live theatre show in Jefferson
County: "BARK! The Musical"
Best locally-written play: "The Glass
Kingdom" by Judith Glass Collins.
Standout acting performances:
-- Michelle Hensel (MIM
PHOENIX/BUTTON/OLD ROSE in 'The Garden of Monsters')
-- Angela Amos and David Natale (LUCY
SEWARD and COUNT DRACULA in 'Dracula')
-- DD Wigley (GLASSBLOWER in Glass
Kingdom')
-- Kerry Skalsky, Amanda Steurer, and
Zachery Hewell (MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, and BANQUO in
'Macbeth')
-- James Wordsworth, Sara Wordsworth,
Leah Finch, Michaela Euro, Leslie Lewis, and Adam
Matthew (entire cast of 'Bark! The Musical').
Notable backstage personnel:
-- DIRECTOR/DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER: Denise
Winter ('Bark! The Musical')
-- MUSIC DIRECTOR: Linda Dowdell ('Bark!
The Musical')
-- SET DESIGNERS: Terry Tenneson
('Dracula', 'Bark! The Musical'), Terry Asla
('Macbeth'), Don Tiller ('Bark! The Musical')
-- COSTUME DESIGNERS: Colleen Dobbin
('Macbeth', 'Dracula'), Amanda Steurer ('The Garden of
Monsters'), and Beverly Michaelson ('Bark! The Musical')
--LIGHTING DESIGNERS: Albert Mendez
('Bark! The Musical'), Karen Anderson ('Dracula')
-- FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER: Ben Rezendez
('Macbeth') |
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Constance Congdon coming to Festival
Internationally
produced playwright and teacher Constance Congdon
offers three playwriting workshops in as part of
KCPT's Sixteenth Annual
Playwrights' Festival.
-- The first workshop, Saturday Feb 18, is
sponsored by the P T Arts Commission and is free
and open to the public.
-- The second, on Sunday Feb 19, is fee-based and
is an advanced follow-up to the first workshop.
-- Congdon will also teach a TeenLab Writing Workshop
on Saturday Feb 18, open to teens 13-19.
Congdon, the author of more than 30 plays and a teacher
and playwright-in-residence at Amherst College in
Massachusetts for the past 19 years, will also perform
her solo show, "Is Sex Possible?" on Thursday
Feb 16 at 7:00 p.m.
More
on all Constance Congdon events...
PT Shorts on love on Saturday Feb 4
This February we have three unusual stories about
love in its varied forms. PT Shorts presents
"Love: Not Just For Lovers" on Saturday February 4
at 7:30 p.m. in the Cotton Building at Water and Madison
Streets, Port Townsend.
More...
Theatre Adventure Club continues at schools
KCPT is joining forces with the YMCA to offer
Theatre Adventure Club for grades K - 8 on Early
Release Wednesdays at Blue Heron and Mountain View
schools.
The Club is open to all students throughout
Jefferson County.
The next eight-week session begins on Feb 8
(running Feb 8 - March 28). A third eight-week
session will be held April 11 - May 30.
More information and sign-up...
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