-There's lots of great live theater happening around town,
and we want to flag a few shows
and events that you won't want to miss.
“Thoreau at Home”
is a one man show featuring the brilliant
Todd Jefferson Moore as Henry David Thoreau.
Working with a script drawn from Thoreau's
personal journals,
this under-an-hour
performance is a riveting and deeply moving meditation
on the natural world and our place in it.
“Thoreau at Home” plays at Whidbey Island Center
for the Arts, October 13th through the 28th.
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ACT, A Contemporary Theater, launches New Works Northwest,
a three-day festival featuring readings of five new plays
by five excellent Seattle playwrights:
Andrew Lee Creech, Steven Dietz,
Katie Fawcett, Reginald Andre Jackson and Maggie Lee.
Tickets are pay what you can and all readings
will be followed by a post-show discussion.
Three-time Emmy nominated actress
Molly Shannon, known by many for her hilarious, over-the-top
Saturday Night Live character Mary Katherine Gallagher,
is coming to the Moore Theater to talk about her
successful decades-long career and her poignant new memoir,
“Hello, Molly!”
And I'll be leading the conversation.
Molly at the Moore Happens Saturday, October 21st.
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And finally, “Letters Aloud,”
the performing arts company that brings to life intimate,
thoughtful, often humorous stories hidden
within the private letters of real people, presents
“Before They Were Famous: Letters on the Way Up.”
Featuring actors reading letters
written by well-known figures such as Bruce Lee,
Stephen King, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks,
The content of this personal correspondence reveals
the crooked, prickly, sometimes backstabbing path to fame.
“Before They Were Famous Letters On The Way Up,”
happens Saturday, October 28, at Town Hall Seattle.
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Catch Art Zone Friday nights at eight
and anytime online at SeattleChannel.org/ArtZone