The Goat (Or Who is Sylvia?)
Theater Artists Olympia
Performances: October 1-17, 2010

Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play. "The Goat is about a profoundly unsettling subject, which for the record is not bestiality but the irrational, confounding, and convention-thwarting nature of love. Powerful [and] extraordinary…Mr. Albee still asks questions that no other major American dramatist dares to ask." —NY Times. "…as challenging—and…as outrageously funny—as theater gets." —NY Post. "…as fine a piece of theatrical art as any Edward Albee has created—and perhaps boldest of them all." —Houston Chronicle. "The edgiest, most fervently debated Broadway play of 2002…" —Seattle Times.

A Year with Frog and Toad
Olympia Family Theater
Performances: October 1 - 17, 2010

Arnold Lobel's well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reale's musical A Year With Frog And Toad. Conceived by Mr. Lobel's daughter, Adrianne Lobel, A Year With Frog And Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.

How I Learned to Drive
by Paula Vogel
Prodigal Sun
Performances: November 4-20, 2010

A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. How I Learned to Drive is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel.
3 women. 2 men.

Little Women
Olympia Family Theater
Performances: December 10 - 26, 2010

Under the guidance of their beloved mother, the four young March sisters -- tempestuous Jo, motherly Meg, shy Beth, and spoiled baby Amy -- struggle to keep their family going while Father's away in the Civil War. In this beautifully dramatized adaptation of the classic novel, even as privation, illness, and sibling rivalry cast their shadows— each girl strives to find her true self.

Blood Relations
Theater Artists Olympia
Performances: Christmas, 2010

The play is based on the case of Lizzie Borden. On August 4, 1892, Borden's father's body was "discovered" by Lizzie in a downstairs room of the family home. Soon, the Bordens' maid, Sullivan, discovered the body of Borden's stepmother. The subsequent investigation and trial of Lizzie set a precedent for media coverage.

Parallel Lives
Prodigal Sun
Performances: February 10-26, 2011

In the opening scene, two Supreme Beings plan the beginning of the world with the relish of two slightly sadistic suburban wives decorating a living room. Once they've decided on the color scheme of the races, a little concerned that white people will feel slighted being such a boring color, they create sex and the sexes. Afraid women will have too many advantages, the Beings decide to make childbirth painful and to give men enormous egos as compensation. From this moment, the audience is whisked through the outrageous universe of Kathy and Mo, where two actresses play men and women struggling through the common rituals of modern life: teenagers on a date, sisters at their grandmother's funeral, a man and a woman together in a country-western bar. With boundless humor, Parallel Lives reexamines the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped by capricious gods—or in this case, goddesses.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Olympia Family Theater
Performances: April 1 - 17, 2011

Alexander is having a bad day. A terrible day. A horrible day. To be quite honest, it's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. But then, everybody has bad days, sometimes. In this delightful adaptation of her popular book, Judith Viorst sets Alexander's rather trying life to music and brings to the stage one of America's feistiest characters. Not only does Alexander wake up with gum in his hair, but his mother forgets to pack him dessert, and his best friend decides he's not his best friend anymore and the day just keeps getting worse.

Amy's View
Prodigal Sun
Performances: May 6 - 21, 2011
Directed by Tom Sanders
Venue: The Midnight Sun
3 women, 3 men

The play takes place in Berkshire near Pangbourne, and in London, from 1979 to 1995. Over the course of these sixteen years, “a running argument about the respective virtues of traditional theater and the media arts weaves its way through espoused opinions on marriage, love, fame, fidelity, betrayal, personal and artistic integrity, and the sometimes elusive ethics of the corporate world, among other things." - Buffalo News

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Olympia Family Theater
Performances: May 14-29, 2011

"It all began so simply..." the Boy remembers, "Mom had gone to aunt Rose's house to bring her over a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies." They're the best cookies in the world, and she left some for him. Then the Mouse shows up, hungry - talkative - and not to be ignored. The Boy gives the Mouse a cookie, milk, and a straw to drink it with. Tidying up after, the Mouse needs a napkin and a mirror, which leads to a haircut. What a mess! The boy begins to feel like he's on a roller coaster ride and still on the way up. There's no stopping this Mouse! The story unfolds as the two learn to love and live together.

Cannibal! The Musical
Theater Artists Olympia
Performances: TBD
Directed by Pug Bujeaud
Venue: TBD

Cannibal! The Musical is the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America - Alferd Packer (according to Colorado lore). The sole survivor of an ill-fated trip to the Colorado Territory, he tells his side of the harrowing tale to news reporter Polly Pry as he awaits his execution. And his story goes like this: While searching for gold and love in the Colorado Territory, he and his companions lost their way and resorted to unthinkable horrors, including toe-tapping songs!

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Oleana
Theater Artists Olympia
Performances: Summer, 2011
Director John Munn
Venue: TDB

Oleanna is a two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. This was later adopted to a movie with same name by Mamet.