SEATTLE— This year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, a world premiere and two commissioned adaptations of classic plays are among the Intiman Theatre 2010 Season offerings now on sale to single-ticket patrons. Single tickets as well as a range of subscription packages can be purchased at www.intiman.org or 206.269.1900.
New this season, Intiman is offering a three-tiered pricing scale to provide options for patrons at any budget level, and adding additional low-cost previews prior to opening. The theatre is also introducing a new online ticket module that will allow patrons to select their own seats for single tickets at the time of purchase, or build a subscription package with ultimate flexibility.
Single ticket prices range from $25 to $61 for Wednesday-Sunday performances. All adult tickets on Tuesday nights throughout the season are $25. (Prices do not include service fees, which are incurred for online and telephone orders only.)
Patrons who purchase a “Friends Four Pack” (four adult tickets for any production) save $40 off the total order. Discounts are available for groups and members of the military, and patrons age 25 and under can purchase tickets to any performance for $10. Pending availability, patrons can purchase pay-what-you-can, standing room, standby and rush tickets for every production. All prices are subject to change based on availability.
Kate Whoriskey’s first season as Intiman’s Artistic Director, selected in consultation with outgoing Artistic Director Bartlett Sher, is designed to introduce Seattle audiences to some of her priorities for Intiman, including a commitment to exciting early-career artists, new works, and partnerships that cross artistic disciplines and foster collaborations between theatre artists and people from other fields.
The 2010 Season will have its official opening on March 26 with a new production of Paradise Lost (running March 19 to April 25), written by Clifford Odets and directed by Dámaso Rodriguez. The Depression Era-drama conjures a remembered time when gangsters, dreamers, agitators and idealists were the hopeful heart of the American Dream, and will feature a cast of 14 actors from Seattle and Los Angeles .
The season will continue with the world premiere of The Thin Place (May 14 to June 13), written by Sonya Schneider and directed by Andrew Russell. Based on interviews conducted for Intiman by KUOW reporter Marcie Sillman, the play is drawn from the stories of more than a dozen people who reached a point of crisis in their lives and made the bold choice to wrestle with a higher power, and either question, confront or embrace their faith. The play for one actor will star Gbenga Akinnagbe, who played ChrisPartlow on The Wire.
Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (July 2-August 8), winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize, will run in the summer under Whoriskey’s direction as the first production of Intiman’s new five-year International Cycle. Ruined will be co-produced with the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and travel to South Africa ’s Market Theatre, where the story will be shared with Congolese refugees in Johannesburg .
Director Christopher Bayes returns to Intiman to direct and co-adapt, with Steven Epp, Molière’s A Doctor in Spite of Himself (September 3-October 10), a timely and satirical look at the medical profession. The comedy will star Tony Award-nominated actor Daniel Breaker.
The subscription season concludes with Intiman’s American Cycle production, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (October 22-December 5), newly adapted by award-winning playwright Naomi Iizuka and directed by Lear deBessonet. The largest initiative of Intiman’s season, the American Cycle is a series of multifaceted, challenging and important American stories and free public programs. Each Cycle play is the centerpiece of numerous city-wide events that encourage conversation and debate about issues relevant to our community, our audiences and people for whom there is otherwise little or no access to the arts.
All information is subject to change. To learn more about Intiman Theatre and the 2010 Season, visit www.intiman.org.
Seasonal support for Intiman Theatre is provided by ArtsFund; Intiman Theatre Foundation; Kreielsheimer Remainder Foundation; The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; and Washington State Arts Commission.
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