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Oct. 19 — Nov. 4 | Carlotta and the Curse of Wolf Manor: A Wing Ding Musical
Oct. 23 | A reading of Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets
Nov. 10 & 11 | Carlotta's "Reunion" Night Wing Ding
Nov. 15 | The Secret Ruths of Island House
Nov. 18 | Von Foxies Burlesque!
Dec. 1 — Dec. 23 | Shadow Town - a shadow puppet art installation (in the TOJ lobby)
Dec. 1 — Dec. 23 | Sgt. Rigsby and His Amazing Silhouettes: A Terrible Price for Whimsy
Dec. 5 — 20 | The Excursionists: An Aristocratic Adventure
Dec. 11 | A reading of The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry
Dec. 17 | The Half Brothers' Holiday Show
Dec. 18 | Open Mic Invitational
Jan. 11 — 20 | Private Eyes
Jan. 14 — Mar 26 | L Word Viewing Parties
Jan. 22 | Chili Clash 2007
Jan. 25 — 28 | Northwest Asian American Film Festival
Feb. 8 — Mar. 3 | We Are Not These Hands
Feb. 19 | A reading of A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Feb. 28 | A reading of Esmerelda Blue: La Mujer Moderna (A Modern Woman)
Mar. 9 — 24 | SPF: 1 - "No Protection"
Mar. 31 | Von Foxies Burlesque!
Apr. 13 — 14 | The Cody Rivers Show
Apr. 16 | |A reading of A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Apr. 27 — May 19 | Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation
TBD | TOJ Flood Benefit featuring Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt!
Jun. 7 — 30 | Mae West Fest: Daughters of Catastrophe
Jun. 11 | A reading of Toys In the Attic by Lillian Hellman
Jun. 13 — August | Storm Viewing Parties
Jun. 18 — 19 | Stuck Elevator
Jul. 20 — 21 | Unicylce Collective: "MonoLodge II"
     
     

Carlotta and the Curse of Wolf Manor: A Wing Ding Musical

Oct. 19 — Nov. 4, 8 PM

Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets

Show Info: Web Site

Carlotta's Late Night Wing Ding is a popular theatre variety show which has been entertaining audiences in little venues around Seattle for over 10 years. Manned by a bunch of lovable misfits, (actually veterans of improv-based ensemble comedy), the ordinary Wing Ding features a line up of special guests, songs and relentlessly wacky shenanigans.

But this is not quite your ordinary Wing Ding Episode! It seems Carlotta (Troy Mink), son Slaw (David Nixon), and pals Nellie (Órla Mc Govern), Terry (Tom Ledcke), Trinity (Jill Farris) & Mrs. Celito (Marc Carvajal) have each been summoned to the mysterious Wolf Manor by its sole occupant (Karen Jo Fairbrook) for a creepy evening of chasing down clues. Little do they know that this one evening of innocent fun will unfold into a saga more horrific than a dirty toilet seat at your grandmother's house...and most frightening of all, it's a musical!

Could Carlotta be maimed by a foreigner? Will Nellie survive to see a happy hour at The Turf again? Can Trinity control her secret passions?
Might Mrs. Celito's odor be due to her diet? Will Terry ever visit the Pacific Rim? Who will protect Slaw from any future anal probes if his onstage family is slaughtered?

Prepare yourself for a partially improvised Hairy Horror replete with musical numbers that will have you singing well beyond your grave. We apologize in advance if you inadvertently split your sides. After all, laughter is a very understandable reaction to PURE TERROR! Mwah-ha- ha!

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A reading of Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets

Monday October 23, 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info: Our American Theater

AWAKE AND SING! is the portrait of a New York Jewish family imploding under the weight of poverty in the darkest days of the Great Depression. AWAKE AND SING! is the first of Our American Theater Company's five play series: "The Land of Opportunity," an exploration of great American plays that deal with economics and the family.

Director Susanna Burney has assembled an extraordinary cast of Seattle actors for this one night only staged reading: Robert Alan Barnett, Meg Savlov, Seanjohn Walsh, Jonah Von Spreeken, Betsy Schwartz, George Mount, Todd Licea, David Natale, Chris Dietz and Helen Harvester.

Our American Theater Company is dedicated to bringing to life the voices of the American theater, from the classic, the obscure, the unsung to the new. To work with actors, directors, designers and educators; through readings, discussions and productions that define the myriad voices that comprise our American identity, and its contemporary role in our complex world today.

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Carlotta's "Reunion" Night Wing Ding

Nov. 10 & 11, 8 PM

Tickets: $10

Company Info: Carlotta's Late Night Wing Ding

"It's like being licked and mauled by the mutant love child of Johnny Carson and 'Hee Haw'." -- Bret Fetzer

After undergoing horrendous ordeals, witnessing Lupine massacres and the like at "Wolf Manor", the cast of Carlotta's Late Night Wing Ding have thankfully survived to tell the tale. They have been through so much together, including circumstances that almost closed the show forever (circumstances like releasing the black plague, cocaine spillage, an horrific skating incident and a gruesomely blocked toilet). To celebrate, they will be having a most special "Reunion Wing Ding" at Theatre Off Jackson for ONE WEEKEND ONLY, and would love to have you come share in the love.

Carlotta’s Late Night Wing Ding, now in its eighth year, is a Seattle Favorite. Part talk show, part cabaret, part dysfunctional family special, the evening is hosted by charismatic 'Southern Matron' Carlotta Sue Philpott (played with relish by local improv guru Troy Mink).

Together with her wacky friends and family, Carlotta guides the audience through a swirling night of mayhem, ripe with musical guests, wacky performance and general hilarity. There's simply nothing else like it. The Wing Ding regular cast includes: Tom Ledcke, Eric Mayer, Órla Mc Govern, Troy Mink and David Nixon.

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Nebunele Theatre presents The Secret Ruths of Island House

Nov. 15, 8 PM

Tickets: $15 advance, $18 at door

Company Info: Nebunele Theatre

The Secret Ruths of Island House, an original play based on the interviews we conducted with seven enthralling, shocking and beautiful women named Ruth, who live at the Island House retirement home.

"...a beautifully concentrated interplay of acting, mask work, movement,
taped interviews and song in a deeply affecting look at elderly women
in an assisted-living retirement home...'Ruths' is almost heartbreaking
in its sympathetic and curiously affirmative humanity."
-Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

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Von Foxies 2nd Birthday Bash!

Nov. 18, 8 PM

Tickets: $12 advance, $15 at door

Troupe Info: Von Foxies

Maggie, Tamara the Trapeze lady, and Seattle newcomer Mama Lou: Strong Woman, join the Von Foxies for their big Birthday Bash! Get ready for pasties, cake, tantrums, and that special brand of Von Foxies humor as the Foxies enter their Terrible Twos with a naughty new show. Don’t miss your chance to win the right to give the Birthday Spankings or to see Maggie’s big Birthday Surprise!

The Von Foxies are Seattle's hottest burlesque power-trio: Pidgeon Von Tramp, Heidi Von Haught and Elsa Von Schmaltz. They have honed their skills under the bright lights of the Emerald City stages and have been taking their little town by storm since November of '04. These kinky minxes enjoy playing with the boundaries of sexuality, gender and decency while engaging in their distinctive brand of bait 'n switch bump 'n grind. They adore burlesque in all its forms- traditional bombshell beauty, queer gender-f*ck draglesque, hilariously naughty satire and politically powerful theatre.

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Shadow Town: art exhibit and fundraiser

Dec. 1 — 29, open during all shows

To welcome Sgt Rigsby and his Amazing Silhouettes to TOJ this month, we've installed a shadow puppet exhibition our lobby. Light boxes were designed and fabricated by TOJ Managing Director Frank Phillips, and we invited local artists to decorate tabletop lamps. Sgt Rigsby then assigned some of his more notorious characters to each box.

There are 5 large light boxes mounted on our walls available for purchase, and 6 tabletop lamps which will be part of an online auction between December 22 - 29. For more information about the tabletop lamps, including artist information and photos, please visit our auction page.

Click on the thumbnail images to see more photos of the exhibit.

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Sgt Rigsby and his Amazing Silhouettes: A Terrible Price for Whimsy

Dec. 1 — 23, 8 PM (doors at 7:00pm)

Tickets: $14, pay-what-you-can Thursdays

Review from The Stranger

Review from The Seattle Weekly

This December playwright/puppeteer Scot Augustson brings his decidedly unique brand of shadow puppets to the Theatre Off Jackson. Strictly for adults, the show is bawdy, intelligent, highly entertaining and more than a little absurd. Subversive without being cynical, sly without being ironic.

The brand-spanking new full length show, “A Terrible Price For Whimsy” centers on boy inventor Roscoe Riley. Young Roscoe’s troubles begin when he discovers that time travel and tequila just don’t mix. A drunken ride on a timecycle ends with history in shambles. Now a repentant Roscoe and his trusty dog, Scampers, must put things right. But first, Roscoe must deal with murderous first ladies, philosophical hominids, shady Mexican street dogs, rampaging zebras and his own sexually confusing future.

With a nod to Tom Swift books, Merry Melodies, Tintin, early Monte Python and Icelandic pornography, “A Terrible Price For Whimsy” promises to be one of the most eccentric and enjoyable shows of the holiday season. A roller coaster ride for the imagination.

Scot’s non-puppet work includes "The Chris Schussler Incident" "Brent or Brenda" "Gilgamesh, IA" "Plants and Animals" and "Intelligence." In 2004 he directed "Frankenoccio" at Empty Space.

Tom Milewski will direct “A Terrible Price For Whimsy.” Tom’s work includes the documentary play “Verbatim,” created from interviews with Puget Sound residents about their jobs; the musical “Red Ink,” currently in development at CHAC; and “Performance Memoirs,” a dance/theater collaboration with Laura Curry and Lori Dillon. Tom is a Printer’s Devil Theater company member, and a 14/48 Mazen Award recipient.

The show will feature the top-notch vocal talents of local favorites Stephen Hando, Jonah Von Spreecken, Keri Healey and Susanna Burney.

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The Excursionists: An Aristocratic Adventure

Dec. 5 — 20, 7:30 PM Tues. and Weds.

Tickets: $12

Show Info: The Excursionists

Featured in Six New Things (free subscription required)

Review from The Seattle Weekly

In the spirit of Jules Verne and all of the great works of Victorian Science Fiction comes The Excursionists: An Aristocratic Adventure. Part quick-fire comedy and part 19th century imperialistic expedition, The Excursionists is a two-man, 60-minute ride performed at a depth of 20,000 leagues. Diving helmets are advised.

This theatre experience centers on the explorations of Lord Necksycracksy (Christopher Bange) and Professor Goggins (Jonah Von Spreecken), who find themselves country-less upon the discovery that their beloved England has sunk. Fortunately, with a most remarkable mode of transport, an underwater train aptly named The Neptunia Express, these two posh fellows embark on a quest to discover a new England...and hopefully one that won’t sink.

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Photo by Brittany Abbott

A reading of The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry

Monday Dec. 11, 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info : Our American Theater

The vehicle that was created for Katherine Hepburn and one of the great romantic comedies of all time is even wittier and bolder in the stage version than the film we all adore. Tracy Lord is about to marry Husband Number Two, but being in the upper echelons of Philadelphia Society, inquiring minds want to know all the grim details. Enter a pair of nosey journalists, a meddling younger sister, and Husband Number One, to turn her hopes for a new lease on life into a potential fiasco. An all-star cast of brilliant Seattle actors gathers to bring this "alert and suave" script to life. The reading will be followed by a brief discussion with the cast and director.

Our American Theater Company is dedicated to bringing to life the voices of the American theater, from the classic, the obscure, the unsung to the new. To work with actors, directors, designers and educators; through readings, discussions and productions that define the myriad voices that comprise our American identity, and its contemporary role in our complex world today.

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The Half Brothers' Holiday Show

Dec. 17, 8 PM

Tickets: $10

The masterful Half Brothers (John Ackermann, Rick Miller and David Nixon) promise to serve up an evening packed with loads of new music. Special guest performances include original music from John Osebold of "Awesome." Stay tuned for more details.

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Images by Rick Miller

Open Mic Invitational

Dec. 18, 8 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Can

Curated by local It-Girl Heather Hughes, local performers gather at TOJ to try out new works in a relaxed atmosphere. Here’s a chance to check out your favorite artists (musicians, writers, performers, animators) in an intimate setting. The lineup includes Lucy Suzuki, Dejha Colantuono, Sylvia Gorsline, Kevin Cameron, Audrey Freudenberg, Micha Willet, Jeffrey Taylor, Jennifer Jasper, Tinka Jonakova, and Janet Galore.

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West of Brooklyn Theatre Company presents Private Eyes by Steven Dietz

Jan. 11 — 20

Tickets: $18

Show Info: West of Brooklyn Theatre Company

PRIVATE EYES is a comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. Matthew’s wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist. And, finally, there is Cory- the mysterious woman who seems to shadow the others- who brings the story to its surprising conclusion. Or does she? The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious “relationship thriller” about love, lust and the power of deception.

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L Word Viewing Parties and Fundraiser

Sundays Jan. 14 — Mar. 26 - Season 4

Sundays April 8 — May 20 - Season 1 (cancelled)

Tickets: Free Admission, Doors open at 7 PM

Show Info: Official Site

We'll show the previous week's episode at 7:15 PM, and follow with the current episode. Concessions proceeds and donations support TOJ.

UPDATE!! Due to popular demand, we're starting over from the beginning - Season 1. Join us as we show 2 episodes each week. We'll continue with Seaons 2-4 if folks enjoy it. Then we'll show Season 5 starting Jan. 2008.

April 8: Season 4 Finale & Season 1 "Pilot Episode"

April 15: "Let's Do It" & "Longing"

April 22: "Lies, Lies, Lies" & "Lawfully"

April 23: Well, it was a good idea. In reality, too many of us have Spring Fever and don't want to head indoors before sundown on a weekend. We're cancelling the marathon and will start up again with Season 5 in January 2008 - when it's cold, rainy and dark outside!

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Chili Clash 2007!

Jan. 22, 6 - 10 PM

Tickets: $10

Calling all bumpkins and yokels alike! Announcing the 1st Annual SPF CHILI CLASH to benefit SPF 1: No Protection*! January 22nd, 2007 marks this ruckus of ruckuses, this brawl of brouhahas. 6 teams from the soggy underbellies of Seattle will emerge for one night to compete for the biggest prize in culinary genius this side of Tom Douglas...The Chili Clash Trophy. And y’all (the public) get to decide who deserves it.

And as if that weren’t enough, we gonna have us a good ole’ AUCTION!
Including, but not limited to items such as: V.I.P. Package from Jillians! Two nights at The MarQueen Hotel! Dinner for two at the Hi Life! Gift certificates at Hooters! Original Artwork! Movie Tickets! Treats for the body and mind! And a heap of other stuff, too!

$10 at the door gets you a bowl and all the chili you can eat. Doors open at 6 p.m. Teams of local artists will compete for prizes for best chili. You be the judge!

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Northwest Asian American Film Festival

Jan. 25 - 28

Tickets: TBD

Festival Info: NWAAFF

Seattle is renowned for both the sophistication of its film audiences and the vibrancy of its Asian American community. Since 2002, when it first appeared as Northwest Asian American Theatre's "A-Fest: Through the Lens," Northwest Asian American Film Festival has showcased the works Asian American film and video artists for an ever-growing audience. NWAAFF now occupies a place of distinction both among the many notable film festivals that make Seattle their home and among the greater family of Asian American film festivals.

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Macha Monkey and TOJ present We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan

Feb. 9- Mar 3, Thurs - Sat 8 PM

Tickets: $15

Company Info : Macha Monkey Productions

Set in an unknown developing nation, “We Are Not These Hands” is a cautionary tale of love, power and global economics. Ever since their school was blown up, teenagers Moth and Belly have spent most of their days on the streets, their grim world colored only by the glow of computer screens through the windows of the internet café. That is, until a wandering researcher from a wealthy neighboring country comes to town. Uninterested in merely providing a chapter in his book, they try to convince him to take them back across the river to a life they have only glimpsed in the bits and bytes of the virtual world.

We Are Not These Hands is directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield (Patty Red Pants at LiveGirls Theatre) and features Amy Conant (Whacked and Scab at LiveGirls Theatre) as Moth, Mark Fullerton (One World Theatre company member) as Leather and Tinka Jonakova (The Von Foxies, Equus directed by Dan Savage) as Belly.

Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, and Moving Arts, among others. Sheila is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-act, a 2001-02 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 Mac Dowell Residency, and a 2004 NYFA grant.

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Photo by Elizabeth Cole Duffell

A reading of A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Monday Feb. 19, 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info: Our American Theater

OUR AMERICAN THEATER continues its Land of Opportunity series with Arthur Miller's chamber drama of misguided passion and the struggle of Italian immigrants to survive on the Brooklyn waterfront, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE.

Eddie and Beatrice take in two of her relatives, submarines - illegal immigrants - escaping desperate poverty in Italy. Marco wants to send money back to his wife and children; young Adolpho wants to make something of himself in the land of opportunity. But their home life is shattered when Eddie comes up against his misguided feelings for Beatrice's niece, Catherine, as she and Adolpho spark a romance. We watch in horror as a man collapses under the weight of his weakness, and nothing can be done to save him. Arthur Miller manages to construct a tragedy of epic proportions in the confines of a marginalized community of dockworkers and first generation Americans.

Directed by OAT Co's Artistic Director, Susanna Burney, with Joe Seefeldt, Gordon Carpenter, Shellie Shulkin, Lyssa Browne, Gavin Cummins, Jon Lutyens, Chris MacDonald, Joey Trimmer and Michaela Murphy. The one-night-only staged reading will be followed by a brief discussion with the cast and director.

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A reading of Esmerelda Blue: La Mujer Moderna (A Modern Woman) by Amparo Garcia-Crow

Feb. 28, 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info: Mae West Fest

‘Esmeralda Blue: La Mujer Moderna’ is a dark comedy that centers around Dolores, a middle-aged New Yorker who was adopted by a Cuban family, after her teenage mother Esmeralda Blue, gave her up for adoption. When a crate of sixteenth century gold coins are uncovered in nowhere South Texas, Dolores is invited to journey to the border as the "heiress" of this potential fortune. In the process, she discovers she is fact a Mexican-American woman, whose Marquis de Sade-like grandfather is being honored with a museum. Because Dolores is forced to encounter her grandfather’s bizarre masonry, which was designed to torture the woman who broke his heart during Pancho Villa’s revolution, she has the opportunity to redeem her birth mother's femme-fatale legacy. By uncovering an ancient grief that mirrors the challenges of her present life, Dolores unexpectedly claims her authentic Tex-Mex self which in turn fortifies her to return to New York infused by the undaunted spirit of her ancestors. Amparo Garcia-Crow enriches Dolores' contemporary story with characters from the past, and paints a rich and brutal history of love, deceit, denial and, finally, acceptance.

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TOJ presents SPF: 1 - No Protection

Mar. 9- 24

Tickets: $15/$12 - Full Festival Pass $45/$40

SPF: 1-"No Protection" is Seattle's first solo performance theatre festival, and is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo theatre artists. SPF: 1 (Solo Performance Festival) features the talents of Chuck Leggett, Jonah Von Spreecken, Keith Hitchcock, Mary Purdy, Keira McDonald, Jayson McDonald and Mark Boeker. From March 9-24th, 2007. SPF: 1 will host seven original solo one-act plays by these local and international theatre artists, as well as an evening of short solo performances by emerging and established Seattle artists.

Full Festival Passes are available for just $45 ($40 if purchased before March 1), and include entry to all performances, Opening Night Gala and Closing Night Party.

Please see our festival page for performance descriptions.

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Nesholm Family Foundation

Von Foxies Exotic World Fundraiser!

Mar 31 , 8 PM

Tickets: TBD

Troupe Info: Von Foxies

The Foxies are gearing up for their trek to Las Vegas to once again take part in the Miss Exotic World Burlesque Pageant. Come help them raise money for plane tickets, gambling and our rhinestone problem!

The Von Foxies are Seattle's hottest burlesque power-trio: Pidgeon Von Tramp, Heidi Von Haught and Elsa Von Schmaltz. They have honed their skills under the bright lights of the Emerald City stages and have been taking their little town by storm since November of '04. These kinky minxes enjoy playing with the boundaries of sexuality, gender and decency while engaging in their distinctive brand of bait 'n switch bump 'n grind. They adore burlesque in all its forms- traditional bombshell beauty, queer gender-f*ck draglesque, hilariously naughty satire and politically powerful theatre.

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The Cody Rivers Show: A Poke in the Wound

April 13 - 14, 8 PM

Tickets: $10 at Brown Paper Tickets

Show Info: Website

Seattle premier of The Cody Rivers Show's latest volume of original work, "A Poke in The Wound."

Genre-defying comedy theatre outfit The Cody Rivers Show has given birth to 'A Poke in the Wound,' its latest kinetic and unpredictable creation. 'A Poke in the Wound,' is a surreal interface of themes, characters and storylines seamlessly joined with breakneck leaps between universes where mysterious rules are always in effect. Manic pacing, circus-inspired face paint and unexpected juxtapositions disarm audience expectations and lead viewers deep into absurd realms where laughter is often the only thing that makes sense.

"The Cody Rivers Show was absolutely mesmerizing. Forgive me: I didn’t, actually couldn’t, write anything down. From moment one...no one could tear their eyes away."
-Time Out Chicago

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A reading of A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

April 16, 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info: Our American Theater

OAT Co's Land of Opportunity Series continues with a staged reading of this sharply comic portrait of the private horrors of the privileged. One of
Edward Albee's greatest plays, this Pulitzer Prize winner brings family
drama, and the shock of modern human existence to a new level. This
quintessential WASPish sting packs a surprising punch in a world where allshould be well and clearly is not.

Directed by Susanna Burney. And a top notch Seattle cast including Betty
Campbell, David S. Klein, Amy Thone, Robert Barnett, Diane Hostetler and Lisa Carswell. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the cast and director.

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Troupe du Jour presents Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation by Drue Robinson Hagan

April 27- May 19, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM

Tickets: $16 at Brown Paper Tickets

Show Info: Website

This bawdy affair is the first modern translation of Aristophanes’ classic sex comedy written entirely in rhyme. A sex strike by the women of Greece, led by the seductively persuasive Athenian, Lysistrata, leads to battles of wits, water, and willpower in which the male members of Greek society are given a very hard time. Expect anything from slapstick to striptease!

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TOJ Flood Benefit featuring Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt!

Postponed - check back fornew date

Tickets: TBD

Theatre Off Jackson was hit hard by the Hannuka Eve Wind Storm on December 14, 2006. Our props, costume and Green Rooms and stage were flooded by surging rain water. We were fortunate to only have to cancel one show, but we suffered significant losses in service bills and need to replace our badly damaged stage.

TOJ favorites Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt have graciously agreed to host a not-to-be missed evening of entertainment in an effort to help us get our heads back above water...so to speak.

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Mae West Fest and TOJ present Daughters of Catastrophe by S.P. Miskowski

June 7 - 30, Thursday - Saturday at 8 PM

Tickets: $18 at Brown Paper Tickets

Show Info: Website

In separate stories with related themes, three women embody the difficulty of adult transition in American culture. Daughters of Catastrophe are inheritors of a society where things matter as much as human needs. The play features women who grapple with mythologies of motherhood, marriage, and family, and whose desires are diverted but not satisfied by affluence. Follow the thoughts of the playwright at - http://d-o-cat.blogspot.com/

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A reading of Toys In the Attic by Lillian Hellman

June 11 , 7 PM

Tickets: Pay What You Will

Company Info: Our American Theater

Spinster sisters Anna and Carrie dream of an easier life and trips to Europe, but work only to support their prodigal younger brother Julian. Unexpectedly, Julian returns from his latest business venture with a childlike wife and a mysterious fortune in his pocket. No one can accept Julian’s unexplained success, and his new found wealth threatens Julian’s dependency on Anna and Carrie—a relationship the sisters have sacrificed their own independence to maintain. As Julian tries to break away from a cycle of failure and disappointment, deadly secrets are revealed that could destroy the family’s fragile structure irrevocably.

Directed by Managing Director, Gavin Cummins, and featuring Artistic Director Susanna Burney as Anna and Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director Stephanie Shine as Carrie; John Ulman as Julian, Helen Harvester as Lily, Marty Mukhalian as Albertine, William Hall, Jr. as Henry; with Marcel Davis, and Kelly Kitchens reading stage directions. The one-night-only staged reading will be followed by a brief discussion with the cast and director.

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Storm Away Game Viewing Parties

June 13 - August 9

Admission: Free, doors open 1 hour before tipoff

Unofficial Fan Site: Stormfans.org

When the Seattle Storm away games are televised, hardcore fans gather at Theatre Off Jackson to cheer on the team. We turn down the lights, crank up the sound, and project the game onto the big screen. It's the next best thing to watching the Storm live at Key Arena, and our concessions are cheaper! (Concessions proceeds and donations directly support satellite subscription costs.)

Weds. June 13 @ Indiana 4 PM

Fri. June 22 @ Minnesota 5 PM

Sun. June 24 @ LA 6:30 PM

Sun. July 15 All Star Game 12:30 PM

Tues. July 17 @ Phoenix 6:30 PM

Sun. July 22 @ New York 1 PM

Thurs. Aug. 9 @ Detroit 4:30 PM

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Stuck Elevator: The Super-Heroic Stationary Journey of Ming Kuang Chen

June 18 - 19, 8 PM

Tickets: $10 - 15 at Brown Paper Tickets

Artist Information: Byron Au Yong

Inspired by the true story of a Chinese restaurant deliveryman who was stuck in a Bronx elevator for three days, this solo performance opera, by local composer Byron Au Yong and New Haven-based librettist Aaron Jafferis, finds an illegal immigrant and a fortune cookie trapped between fear and hope.

Directed by Tom Milewski, with music direction by Julia Tai, Stuck Elevator stars Xike Xin.

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Unicycle Collective Presents: "MonoLodge II"

July 20-21, 8 PM

Tickets: $10 at Brown Paper Tickets

Show Information: Unicycle

Seattle’s first performing artist collective devoted to developing and presenting original theatrical solo work, is pleased to announce the second installment of “MonoLodge,” an evening of original, new and diverse work by some of Seattle’s most exciting and dynamic solo theater artists.

Two performances at Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle’s International District - will feature Unicycle founders Keith Hitchcock, Seth Rosenbloom and Mary Purdy as well as artists Gabriel Baron, Norman Bell, Mark Boeker, Vanessa DeWolf and Orla McGovern.

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