KCPT 2010 Season
Plan your great escape...

2010 season tickets and FLEXpasses still available here on-line.

(Both musicals and the holiday show of your choice now included!)

Read our season announcement press release.

---- February ----

The 14th Annual Playwrights’ Festival    Show page    Calendar
An expanded festival with weeklong events Tues through Sun.

New.  Original.  Local.

---- April - May ----

The Seagull    Show page    Calendar

by Anton Chekhov

Directed by Lawrason Driscoll

Ten Russians.  Five love stories.  A suicide.  A comedy.
 

---- June - July ----

The Prisoner of Second Avenue    Show page    Calendar

by Neil Simon
Take a bite out of the Big Apple, Neil Simon-style.

---- August ----

The Tempest    Show page    Calendar

Shakespeare in the Park

Directed by Marc Weinblatt

The storm approaches.  The tempest is here.

 
Boyce & Melinda Peterson's Investment
Strategies for the Post-Money World    Show page    Calendar
A Financial Seminar Musical

Book and lyrics by Gip Hoppe.  Music by Chandler Travis.

Directed by Denise Winter
Laughing.  Singing.  The perfect cure for our plunging portfolios.

---- October ----

Here’s to the Ladies:
Women of Tin Pan Alley    Show page    Calendar
A Cabaret conceived by Joanne Schmoll

Directed by Denise Winter
Music arrangements by Linda Dowdell
Here's the heart and soul of the American Song Book

---- December ----

Holiday Sampler    Show page    Calendar
 
The Little Match Girl

Adapated from Hans Christian Anderson

Directed by Angela Gilbert

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

by Jeff Goode

Seven Poor Travelers

Adapted from Charles Dickens by Charlie Bethel

See our full KCPT calendar for 2010.

Purchase your season tickets or FLEXpasses here on-line.

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KCPT announces season of “great escapes”

Key City Public Theatre invites you to plan your “great escapes” for 2010 as it announces a new season of classic comedies, poignant dramas, and premiere musicals.

“Subscribers to KCPT’s new season can travel the world from their very own seats at the neighborhood playhouse,” comments Artistic Director Denise Winter, “From Chekhov’s Russia to Neil Simon’s Manhattan to Shakespeare’s tropical climes, many rewarding journeys await you this year.”

The season kicks off February 12 with the Fourteenth Annual Playwrights’ Festival, expanded this year with weeklong events Tuesdays through Sundays. The Festival features workshop productions of new works by local playwrights Sandy Diamond, David H. Schroeder, Susan Solley and DD Wigley. Also scheduled are staged readings of new works by Judith Glass Collins, David Draheim and Richard Weston — and a play by noted Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz.

In April comes Anton Chekhov’s world theatre landmark “The Seagull.” Intertwining five love stories among ten passionate Russians, Chekhov’s classic evokes the comic and tragic in the human condition with fiery dialog and eloquent silences in this production directed by Lawrason Driscoll.

Opening in June is Neil Simon’s soulful comedy “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” in which a Manhattan couple experiences downsizing before it became an American way of life. The play bubbles with Simon’s trademark snappy dialogue and quirky characters.

“Shakespeare in the Park” returns in the summer of 2010 with “The Tempest” directed by Marc Weinblatt. Performed in beautiful Chetzemoka Park, this magical classic promises romance, pathos, and hilarity amid a shipwreck on a mysterious tropical island.

Two west coast premiere musicals take the stage at Key City Playhouse this year. “Boyce and Melinda Peterson’s Financial Strategies for the Post-Money World” is a wild song-filled satire on the recent gyrations of our economy with book and lyrics by Gip Hoppe and music by Chandler Travis. Opening in August, “Boyce and Melinda...” is the second local production of a work by Hoppe, whose comedy “A New War” was presented by KCPT in 2006.

More traditional is the musical cabaret opening in October — “Here’s to the Ladies! The Women of Tin Pan Alley” — a celebration of the female songwriters who gave heart and soul to the Great American Songbook with classics like “God Bless the Child” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.”

Season tickets are available here on-line, or by calling 360.379.0195. Anyone who purchases a KCPT season ticket or FLEXpass becomes a subscriber of KCPT. Subscribers receive the lowest ticket prices, can easily exchange tickets throughout the season, and have access to all single show tickets before the general public.

Also available now for subscribers are full passes to all the events of the expanded Playwrights’ Festival in February, and tickets for the three different shows that make up KCPT’s “Holiday Sampler” programming next December.

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