Current Season

 


Current & Upcoming Plays

Together Again for the First Time

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Reed McColm

November 20 - December 7, 2008

Together Again for the First Time
by Reed McColm (Nov. 20-Dec. 7)

Directed by Reed McColm

This is your opportunity to witness a unique event in Spokane’s and the nation’s stage history. It’s the “Show of the Holiday Season!” Reed McColm directs the professional stage premiere of his script contemporaneously with the opening of the feature movie (screenplay by Reed McColm and Feff Parkin).  Damon Abdalla (Bus Stop; A Woman in Black) returns to Interplayers stage.

Together Again for the First Time is a comedy/drama about a family gathering at Christmas. This is the first time since their marriage that Audrey, Max and all of their children have been together in one place. As everyone arrives on Christmas Eve, things become somewhat complicated, including a visit of a fiancé.  …And, there are family secrets!

Directed by Jack Bannon
Cast: Karen Kalensky, Reed McColm, Thomas Stewart, Bethany Hart, Jimmy Pendleton, Christine Creswell, Maggie Wicken, Micah Hansen, Damon Abdallah.

To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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December 17 - December 21, 2008

A Reduced Christmas Carol
By Ann Whiteman

 

Three hilarious shortened versions of the Charles Dickens classic. Make this holiday hilarity at Interplayers one of your season's traditions. We're looking forward to a returning cast that includes four incredible Spokane actors. The whole family will love it. Audience Participation!

An $8 December special event!

To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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Fences

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre

January 15 - January 19, 2009

Fences
by August Wilson—Readers’ Stage (January 15, 17 - 19)


By popular request, we have re-established our Readers’ Stage presentations that produced To Kill a Mockingbird, Love Letters, and Tuesdays with Morrie, two seasons ago.

Fences will be staged during January with a matinee performance on MLK Day that benefits the Carl Maxey Scholarship Fund at Gonzaga University.

To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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Cowgirls

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Reed McColm, Scott & Pamela Brownlee

January 29 - February 14, 2009

Cowgirls
by Betsy Howie, music & lyrics by Mary Murfitt (Jan. 29-Feb. 14)

Reed McColm joins with Scott and Pamela Brownlee to direct
an hilarious musical for the winter months in Spokane.

Jo is in a pickle: she has 24 hours to save her father’s once-famous country-western saloon in Rexford, Kansas from foreclosure. What will pack in a crowd to make the money she needs? Mickey, the wise-crackin’ waitress, has been dyin’ to get on stage and prove she’s got what it takes to make it as a country singer, and Mo the cashier/cook is right behind her. Jo, however, has booked what she thinks is the “Cowgirl Trio.” The problem is that it is the Coghill Trio: Rita, Lee and Mary Lou, classical musicians on a reunion tour.

The six women mix like oil and water—it’s classical versus country! Can they meet in the middle? You can bet your boots that it raises the roof! And, saves the bar?   
 
  

To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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The Belle of Amherst

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Karen Kalensky

February 26 - March 14, 2009

The Belle of Amherst
by William Luce (February 26-March 14)

Ellen Crawford (director of Grace & Glorie; Sparky & the Fitz and former “ER” star) returns to Interplayers stage to perform in this acclaimed play based on the life of Emily Dickinson. The play explores the life of America’s greatest woman poet at various stages of her experience, from the age of 15 until she died a virtual recluse. Her life is recreated with excerpts from her poetry and by the method of her playing the multiple roles of her father, teacher, and friends. Christopher Scharaio (Public Theatre, Lewiston-Auburn, MN) directs.


To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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Waiting for Godot

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Karen Kalensky

March 26 - April 11, 2009

Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett (March 27 –April 4)

Directed by Karen Kalensky

Karen Kalensky, Interplayers Consulting Artistic Director, directs members of the ensemble cast to produce this acclaimed classic tragicomedy. The play presents Beckett’s seminal exploration of the futility of humankind’s hope. 

Cast: Maynard Villers; Reed McColm; and others


To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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The Graduate

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Maynard Villers

April 23 - May 9, 2009

The Graduate
Stage adaption by Terry Johnson (April 22-May 9)

Directed by Maynard Villers

California in the 60's…
Benjamin has excellent grades, very proud parents and since he helped Mrs. Robinson... a fine future behind him.

A cult novel, a classic film that was the quintessential hit of the 60's, playwright Terry Johnson has skillfully adapted it, reconceived it,  and given it the poise and structure of a classical comedy. It received it's world premiere production at the Gielgud Theatre in March, 2000.



 

To order tickets please call 455-PLAY (7529), 325-SEAT (7328), 1-800-325-SEAT (7328) or visit TicketsWest to purchase tickets online.

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Past Plays

by William Inge
Directed by Scott A Smith

September 14 - October 1, 2006

A classic comedy about the relationships formed between bus passengers stranded at a  roadside diner outside of Kansas City during a snowstorm. The play focuses on the kindling romance between a nightclub chanteuse and a headstrong cowboy, as well as the poignant lives of the others waiting out the storm.

Featuring Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon

Single tickets go on sale August 1st.

Rating: PG

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Good Morning World How Are You

Directed by Esta Rosevear

October 5 - October 6, 2006

Benefit Show for Interplayers Theatre, created by Esta and William Rosevear

A view of today's world through the eyes of Mark Twain and Will Rogers and a cautionary tale, The Last Flower, by James Thurber.  These stories and quips will enlighten audiences as to the timelessness of the worries and woes of our world.  A multi-media presentation of images, light and sound leading to a culmination of Thurber's The Last Flower.  "In it you will find his faith in the renewal of life, his feeling for the beauty and fragility fo life on earth," E.B. White.

Featuring: Maynard Villers, Tony Caprile, Jaime Mathis, Dan Anderson

Rating: G

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by Stephen Mallatratt

October 12 - October 28, 2006

A lawyer obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, engages a skeptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.  As they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds.

Rating: PG-13

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by Ken Ludwig

November 9 - November 25, 2006

The show that brought Carol Burnette back to Broadway! An acting couple, not exactly the Lunts, are on tour in Buffalo. Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles and director Frank Capra himself is en route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance. Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, all of which are magnified by Charlotte's deaf mother who manages the theatre.

Rating: PG

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by Alfred Uhry

January 18 - February 3, 2007

Set in the Deep South, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy, a rich woman is informed that she must rely on the service chauffeur, Hoke, a thoughtful black man. Daisy immediately regards Hoke with disdain and in turn, Hoke is not impressed with, he believes, her latent prejudice. In a series of scenes spanning 25 years, the two, despite their differences, grow ever close to each other.

Rating: G

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by Richard Alfieri

March 1 - March 17, 2007

When Lily, an attractive Florida retiree, signs up for six dance lessons in six weeks, it doesn’t look like she’ll last the course. But an unlikely relationship develops between the prudish widow and her cynical and equally lonely tutor. Michael knows all the dance moves, but perhaps Lily can teach him a thing or two about life.

Rating: PG-13

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by Arthur Miller

April 5 - April 21, 2007

Two brothers meet after a sixteen-year estrangement. The old family furniture is to be disposed of, and a wise old Jewish dealer has come to buy the furniture. Miller works up to the showdown scene slowly where the siblings feel each other out before the basis of their long alienation and bitterness emerges into short, blunt, enraged accusations.  A taut, exciting scene reveals the characters, including strengths and weaknesses to each other.

Rating: PG

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by Craig Volk
Directed by Ann Whiteman

May 10 - May 26, 2007

"Sparky and the Fitz" is a comedy based on a retirement-age love triangle. The story centers on the everyday relationship between the husband (Sparky) and the wife (Fitz). It sees Fitz is teetering on the edge of a huge decision if she should stay with the status quo and let the years continue to roll on by or jump into another relationship with the UPS man. How she makes her final choice is a hilarious final scene.

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The Rainmaker by Richard Nash

September 13 - September 29, 2007

At the time of a paralyzing drought in the West, a father and his two sons are just as worried about the daughter becoming an old maid as they are concerned about their dying cattle. The truth is...she is a plain girl. The brothers try every possible scheme to marry her off, but without success. Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat, when suddenly from out of nowhere, a smooth talking stranger appears who claims to be a rainmaker.

Kelly Quinnett, Jonathan Rau and members of the Bus Stop cast star in this partnership with Lake City Playhouse.

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October 18 - November 3, 2007

Same Time Next Year

By Bernard Slade
Directed by Esta Rosevear

Interplayers Theatre presents the acclaimed and ageless comedy Same Time, Next Year,  made famous on Broadway and by Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn in the movie.  National stage star, Beth Hallaren, joins local favorite, Cameron Lewis (Singin' in the Rain), in this delightful story of two persons whose lives entwine over 25 years, to provide happy moments, human emotion and ultimately, wisdom

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November 21 - December 8, 2007

GRACE AND GLORIE

By Tom Ziegler
Directed by Ellen Crawford


Between an illiterate 90-year old woman dying of cancer and an urbane Harvard educated MBA volunteering for hospice, which do you think needs saving? Cultures and generations hilariously collide when an illiterate but saavy ninety-year-old mountain woman is visited by the Harvard-educated transplanted New Yorker who is assigned as her hospice volunteer. Ellen Crawford, Nurse Lydia Wright of “ER” and “The Fitz” of last season’s “Sparky and The Fitz” will direct, with veteran L.A. actresses Brady Rubin and Karen Kalensky in the title roles. It is a very funny and touching piece, full of revelation and hope: a perfect show for the holiday season.

 
Special Thanksgiving night preview performance--$10. "... a crowd pleaser." -- NY Times

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January 17 - February 2, 2008

On Golden Pond
By Ernest Thompson
Directed by Maynard Villers


The love story of Ethel and Norman Mayer. The retired professor and wife return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year, when they are visited by their divorced daughter and dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving behind a teenage son. Lessons are learned by all in sometimes deeply moving moments of the play. "On Golden Pond is a work of rare simplicity and beauty," - NY Daily News. (Maynard Villers directed the Interplayers hit, "Driving Miss Daisy" last season.)


Rights pending.

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February 28 - March 15, 2008

The Clean House
By Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Karen Kalensky
(All My Children, SNL)

A 2005 Pulitzer finalist, the play takes place in the home of a married couple, both doctors, who have hired a housekeeper named Matilde. She is a comedian who cares more for the perfect joke than about house cleaning. She becomes friends with an eccentric sister of the lady of the house. The wildly funny play is a whimsical look at class, comedy, and the true nature of love. "A rich work about big themes from a young playwright with an original and audacious voice." - Variety.

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March 27 - April 12, 2008

Rounding Third
By Richard Dresser
Directed by Maynard Villers

The tumultuous journey of two Little League coaches through an entire season...from their first tentative meeting to the climactic championship game. And over the course of exhilarating victories, heartbreaking defeats, and interminable rainouts, the two men battle over how to lead the team. Out of the conflicting philosophies, the real issues of the play emerges: How should we raise our children?

Spokane favorites Reed McColm and Tony Caprile star in this play.

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Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Karen Kalensky

September 18 - October 4, 2008

The Dining Room
by A.R. Gurney (Sept. 17-Oct. 4)

Directed by Karen Kalensky

Interplayers begins the 28th  season in the theatre’s ensemble tradition with an all-star cast in A.R. Gurney’s brilliantly conceived and richly humorous tour de force featuring six performers who portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the decline of the now neglected room which was once the vital center of American family life.

The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the scenes coalesce into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.

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Exits and Entrances

Spokane's Downtown Professional Theatre
Directed by Karen Kalensky

October 16 - November 1, 2008

Exits and Entrances
by Athol Fugard (Oct. 16-Nov. 1)

Directed by Karen Kalensky

Interplayers presents the story of the relationship between a young actor on the threshold of his career as a playwright and an aging actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. The young man’s optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the older actor. The action takes place in a series of scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation between the two differing realities plays out with humor, pathos and dramatic power. As the rave reviews reveal, this play celebrates theatre and its abiding significance.

Cast: Maynard Villers, Damon Abdallah

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