Don Quixote is mad... mad enough to dream an impossible dream. Taproot’s adventurous new staging of Cervantes’ immortal classic reunites you with a story and songs that will capture your imagination and set you dreaming again. A Musical Play by Dale Wasserman. Music by Mitch Leigh & Lyrics by Joe Darion. Original Production Staged by Albert Marre. Originally Produced by Albert W. Selden and Hal James.

DATES & TIMES: Now through August 21! Wed-Thurs, 7:30 p.m.; Fri-Sat, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2:00 p.m.



Read more: http://calendar.bellinghamherald.com/seattle-wa/events/show/88344892-man-of-la-mancha##ixzz0v1MEhEVN

Creative Dramatics Jr Daycamp
This class offers your young one a great introduction to drama and is a guaranteed imagination builder. Students will have a great time cultivating their creativity and working together to create a presentation that shows off everything they’ve learned in camp.
Pre-K and kindergarten
Monday-Friday- 1 week
10 am-2 pm
$185
Performance: Last day of camp, 1 pm
Location TBA
*Offered weekly. Please denote which week(s) you’d like when you register.

If you could have any book for free, what would it be?

Come and choose a free book from over 55,000 titles. All kinds and genres, with thousands more added daily, so there's something for everyone. One per person per visit - no strings attached!

Encourage your family and kids to spend time reading this summer with free books!

A story of obsession, love & denial in a relationship between two lovers who try to come to terms with their past is riveting and horrific, funny and bitter. Sex, love, hate, passion and jealousy are all here. Featuring Annie Lareau, Anders Bolang, John Clark and Danny Arreola, Stone Soup brings this haunting, little-produced tale, arguably Shepard’s best-known, to the stage this season.

“Unleashed” challenges its audience to discover endless possibilities by asking, “What do you imagine?” It will premiere on May 22 at 8:00pm and May 23, 2010 at 3:00pm. Tickets for the show are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors over 65 and children under 12. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by phone at 206-406-5465. For more information about purchasing tick

By John Fletcher & William Shakespeare

directed by Geoff Korf

Set on the UW Campus and infused with real-life stories, this adaptation, based on the classic tale of two cousins who fall in love with the same woman, is joyously performed by diverse UW student populations. Join student athletes, ROTC, Early Entrance, Returning, and First Generation Students as they weave personal experiences into this unique musical adaptation.

No late seating for School of Drama events.

One of the most important Mahayana sutras on the practice of meditation. This text offers a precocious and brainy protagonist who argues with the Buddha and leads us to understand the different methods of meditation. 25 sages further present their individual practices; but finally one, is recommended. The most powerful and longest Buddhist mantra that leads to great Samadhi is taught in this Sutra, along with some foundational disciple and cautionary tales on meditative states of absorption.
$10 drop in or pre-register for series at $69.
Talk to Rev. Cheen about a discount if taking both this and the Avatamsaka course.

One of the most important Mahayana sutras on the practice of meditation. This text offers a precocious and brainy protagonist who argues with the Buddha and leads us to understand the different methods of meditation. 25 sages further present their individual practices; but finally one, is recommended. The most powerful and longest Buddhist mantra that leads to great Samadhi is taught in this Sutra, along with some foundational discipline and cautionary tales on meditative states of absorption.

A must for anyone interested in serious meditation.

Pre-register for this 7 week series for $35 or a $10 drop-in charge is suggested.

Celebrating new plays and new connections, UW Drama, in partnership with Seattle Repertory Theatre presents a new play reading series featuring current graduate
student actors and professional actors from the Seattle community. Working with local and national playwrights in rehearsal, professional directors, and
experienced actors, UW graduate students will deeply benefit from thisincredible opportunity. Audiences will be treated to a first look at brand new,
freshly unveiled plays.

Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu, won the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award.

Musical program of compositions based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, featuring Awilda Verdejo, soprano, with piano, cello, and choir. An event to help celebrate Black History Month.

SIS Productions presents the Northwest premiere of Ching Chong Chinaman a play by Lauren Yee Fridays at 8pm and Saturdays at 4pm and 8pm. Tickets are $15 for general and $10 for students/seniors and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Ching Chong Chinaman is a satire about an Asian American family that doesn’t realize they’re Asian. Ed likes to play golf, Grace wants another child, Desdemona is desperate to get into Princeton, and Upton works to gaming superstardom. When Upton gets an indentured Chinese servant to help with his homework, life in the Wong household flips every cliché about Asian American identity upside down.

The perfect fit for Seattle’s only 1-act company, 2010’s festival brings 17 short, original scripts to the DownStage, including Crazy Eddy by Bob Canning, 1st-place winner of Le Petit Theatre’s Playwriting Contest in Louisiana, Perspectives by former Seattle Weekly critic John Longenbaugh & James Lyle’s chuckle-inducing Clothing Optional, raising questions about gender double-standards where nudity is concerned. From epic absurdity to the comically criminal & just about everything in between!

Two award-winning singer-songwriters on tour from Colorado bring their acoustic guitars and charisma to Bellingham.

Don Quixote is mad... mad enough to dream an impossible dream. Taproot’s adventurous new staging of Cervantes’ immortal classic reunites you with a story and songs that will capture your imagination and set you dreaming again. A Musical Play by Dale Wasserman. Music by Mitch Leigh & Lyrics by Joe Darion. Original Production Staged by Albert Marre. Originally Produced by Albert W. Selden and Hal James.

DATES & TIMES: Now through August 21! Wed-Thurs, 7:30 p.m.; Fri-Sat, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2:00 p.m.



Read more: http://calendar.bellinghamherald.com/seattle-wa/events/show/88344892-man-of-la-mancha##ixzz0v1MEhEVN

Creative Dramatics Jr Daycamp
This class offers your young one a great introduction to drama and is a guaranteed imagination builder. Students will have a great time cultivating their creativity and working together to create a presentation that shows off everything they’ve learned in camp.
Pre-K and kindergarten
Monday-Friday- 1 week
10 am-2 pm
$185
Performance: Last day of camp, 1 pm
Location TBA
*Offered weekly. Please denote which week(s) you’d like when you register.

If you could have any book for free, what would it be?

Come and choose a free book from over 55,000 titles. All kinds and genres, with thousands more added daily, so there's something for everyone. One per person per visit - no strings attached!

Encourage your family and kids to spend time reading this summer with free books!

A story of obsession, love & denial in a relationship between two lovers who try to come to terms with their past is riveting and horrific, funny and bitter. Sex, love, hate, passion and jealousy are all here. Featuring Annie Lareau, Anders Bolang, John Clark and Danny Arreola, Stone Soup brings this haunting, little-produced tale, arguably Shepard’s best-known, to the stage this season.

“Unleashed” challenges its audience to discover endless possibilities by asking, “What do you imagine?” It will premiere on May 22 at 8:00pm and May 23, 2010 at 3:00pm. Tickets for the show are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors over 65 and children under 12. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by phone at 206-406-5465. For more information about purchasing tick

By John Fletcher & William Shakespeare

directed by Geoff Korf

Set on the UW Campus and infused with real-life stories, this adaptation, based on the classic tale of two cousins who fall in love with the same woman, is joyously performed by diverse UW student populations. Join student athletes, ROTC, Early Entrance, Returning, and First Generation Students as they weave personal experiences into this unique musical adaptation.

No late seating for School of Drama events.

Celebrating new plays and new connections, UW Drama, in partnership with Seattle Repertory Theatre presents a new play reading series featuring current graduate
student actors and professional actors from the Seattle community. Working with local and national playwrights in rehearsal, professional directors, and
experienced actors, UW graduate students will deeply benefit from thisincredible opportunity. Audiences will be treated to a first look at brand new,
freshly unveiled plays.

Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu, won the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award.

Musical program of compositions based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, featuring Awilda Verdejo, soprano, with piano, cello, and choir. An event to help celebrate Black History Month.

Seattle Dance Project is back for a third season at ACT Theatre with the Central Heating Lab! Project 3 is an exciting collection of new works, including world premieres by choreographers Edwaard Liang, former soloist with NYCB and Kent Stowell, founder and former director of Pacific Northwest Ballet. Also featured is a Seattle premiere by Mark Haim, as well as selections from our rock-and-roll inspired collaboration with Simple Measures choreographed by James Canfield, director of Nevada Ballet Theatre/founder and former director of Oregon Ballet Theatre and Betsy Cooper, Director of University of Washington dance department.

SIS Productions presents the Northwest premiere of Ching Chong Chinaman a play by Lauren Yee Fridays at 8pm and Saturdays at 4pm and 8pm. Tickets are $15 for general and $10 for students/seniors and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Ching Chong Chinaman is a satire about an Asian American family that doesn’t realize they’re Asian. Ed likes to play golf, Grace wants another child, Desdemona is desperate to get into Princeton, and Upton works to gaming superstardom. When Upton gets an indentured Chinese servant to help with his homework, life in the Wong household flips every cliché about Asian American identity upside down.

Heroes! Villains! Good guys! Bad Guys! Gods! Demons! And the fans who love them!
The Pork Filled Players, in association with the Theatre Off Jackson, presents Pork Fiction, a new sketch comedy show inspired by the pulps of yesteryear (Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm).
Pork Fiction celebrates fanatics and the pulp stories they love. And, since PFP has the most female writers and performers of any sketch group in the Northwest (writing the vast majority of the show), we ain't talking just testosterone fantasies–plenty of girl power, too!

Two award-winning singer-songwriters on tour from Colorado bring their acoustic guitars and charisma to Bellingham.

Audiences will burst their corsets and ascots with laughter this spring as Late Night at Taproot brings Taproot Improv Comedy back to the Mainstage. Building on the hilarity of the Victorian farce Charley’s Aunt running May 12 through June 12, Taproot’s rollicking, uproarious improv team hits the stage every Friday night with their best material. Of course, it’s not written yet, because the audience supplies the ideas! With split-second timing and talent galore, audiences are bound to have a good time.

Taproot Comedy Improv hits the stage July 16, 23 and 30 and August 6, at approximately 10:30 p.m., or shortly after the performance of “Man of La Mancha” ends.

Tickets are just $10, or $8 with a ticket to “Man of La Mancha.” Group pricing is available for parties of 8 or more. Tickets are available at the door only, no advance sales.

Don Quixote is mad... mad enough to dream an impossible dream. Taproot’s adventurous new staging of Cervantes’ immortal classic reunites you with a story and songs that will capture your imagination and set you dreaming again. A Musical Play by Dale Wasserman. Music by Mitch Leigh & Lyrics by Joe Darion. Original Production Staged by Albert Marre. Originally Produced by Albert W. Selden and Hal James.

DATES & TIMES: Now through August 21! Wed-Thurs, 7:30 p.m.; Fri-Sat, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2:00 p.m.



Read more: http://calendar.bellinghamherald.com/seattle-wa/events/show/88344892-man-of-la-mancha##ixzz0v1MEhEVN

Is fight or flight your usual response to people and situations?

De-stress for health and wellness by using the relaxation response. Walking and sitting meditation followed by a talk and discussion. Practitioners of all levels are welcome.

This summer series until end of August will include more walking meditation outdoors.
We could hold the circle at Green Lake if people are so inclined.

Creative Dramatics Jr Daycamp
This class offers your young one a great introduction to drama and is a guaranteed imagination builder. Students will have a great time cultivating their creativity and working together to create a presentation that shows off everything they’ve learned in camp.
Pre-K and kindergarten
Monday-Friday- 1 week
10 am-2 pm
$185
Performance: Last day of camp, 1 pm
Location TBA
*Offered weekly. Please denote which week(s) you’d like when you register.