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SEPTEMBER 2016 SEPT 7–OCT 2, 2016 By William Shakespeare | Directed by Sheila Daniels 2016 SUMMER 2016 FALL 2016–2017 2017 SPRING WOODEN O TOUR INDOOR SEASON TOUR Hamlet Romeo and Juliet The Winter’s Tale Romeo and Juliet Love’s Labour’s Lost Medea The Taming of Bring Down the House, Parts 1 & 2 the Shrew A Midsummer Night’s Dream ES016 covers.indd 2 8/24/16 4:30 PM September 2016 Volume 13, No. 1 Paul Heppner Publisher SEPTEMBER 2016 Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Design Contents Mike Hathaway 3 Dialogue Sales Director Encore Stages in Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning, Rob Scott conversation with Seattle Area Account Executives Teen Tix Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 7 Intermission Brain A WORLD PREMIERE Sara Keats Stages Editor Transmission STAGING OF THE NOVEL Jonathan Shipley Test yourself with our BY RUTH OZEKI Stages Editor; Associate Online Editor trivia quiz SEPT 14 – OCT 9, 2016 Ad Services Coordinator Carol Yip TICKETS ON SALE NOW Sales Coordinator Encore Stages is a publication of Encore Media Group. We also publish Leah Baltus Encore Arts Programs, the monthly BOOK-IT.ORG Editor-in-Chief arts & culture magazine City Arts, and Paul Heppner custom publications, including the Publisher Official Seattle Pride Guide and the Dan Paulus Art Director SIFF Guide and Catalog. EAP 1_6 V template.indd 1 8/10/16 1:44 PM Jonathan Zwickel Senior Editor Gemma Wilson Associate Editor Encore Stages features the Amanda Manitach following organizations: Visual Arts Editor NOW SERVING Paul Heppner President BRUNCH Mike Hathaway Vice President Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager 10am-3pm Sara Keats Marketing Manager Friday-Sunday Ryan Devlin Business Development Manager Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] 800.308.2898 x105 www.encoremediagroup.com TheCarlile.com Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. @thecarlileroom ©2016 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 ENCORE STAGES Dialogue Encore Stages in conversation Members of the New Guard: Teen Arts Leadership Society at the 2015 Teeny Awards. Photo: Branwen Hock TeenTix, a Seattle non-profit founded in 2004, works in partnership What does TeenTix do? with 64 regional arts organizations, to ensure equitable arts access for TeenTix partners with arts all young people. TeenTix has facilitated the sale of over 70,000 arts organizations to help them connect with and serve young, diverse tickets to teens to local organizations including Seattle Symphony, audiences. We are best known as the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, SIFF, people who make it possible for any Seattle Repertory Theatre and more. teenager to buy a five-dollar ticket to pretty much any art event in the region. But we also do arts leadership training and arts journalism training. We’re all about offering teens the tools to We sat down with Executive Director Holly Arsenault, take an active role in shaping the arts just as she announced that she is stepping down from community, and empowering youth to the position. After 11 years at the helm, we talked to engage with the arts on their own terms. Arsenault about teenage brains, her favorite TeenTix How does the ticketing part of TeenTix memories and ways you can help the organization. work? Any teen—13- to 19-years-old—can sign up for TeenTix. It’s free. They then present their TeenTix pass at any of our 64 partnered arts organizations on the day of the show or exhibit that they want to attend, and, if there are tickets available, that partner will sell them one for five bucks. That’s basically it. It is a beautifully simple, mutually-beneficial thing. We also have 2-for-$10 days — encoreartsseattle.com 3 I hear that pet-friendly, 62+ Village Cove is open on Green Lake. Let’s Visit! TeenTix Executive Director Holly Arsenault Grand Reopening Party Thursdays at our museum partners and Sundays everywhere else—when a September 21 • 10am-2pm TeenTix member can buy a second, $5 Delicious hors d’oeuvres, beverages, door prizes and tours. ticket and hand it to anyone they’d like, including an adult or a child too young VILLAGE COVE for TeenTix. Living Life at Green Lake Why is exposing teenagers to the arts Call (206) 641-9035 or VisitVillageCove.org important? 6850 Woodlawn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115 Village Coveto isRSVP owned orand tooperated learn by more! The Hearthstone. We have tons of data that show that arts engagement has all kinds of healthy side-effects for young people: higher rates of literacy and volunteerism, WORLD PREMIERE lower rates of delinquency and school dropouts. These benefits are real and important, but I always feel like they fall short of really answering the question of why this is important. I am more compelled by the stories that young people share with me about how experiencing art has opened their hearts and brains in ways that they did not expect, how it gives them something to do with their friends that feels positive and constructive, that sharing space, and sharing experiences, BY KAREN HARTMAN with people with whom they might directed by CHAY YEW otherwise never come into contact with has changed their idea of what their city even is and how they fit into it. For me, that is so powerful. How many opportunities do we really create in our culture for people from different generations to share an experience SEASON SPONSOR where there’s not a teacher/student OCTOBER 14 - NOVEMBER 14 dynamic? Very few. SEATTLEREP.ORG | 206.443.2222 Continued on page 5 4 ENCORE STAGES THANK YOU SUMMERTIME FLOOD DONORS Encore Media · Grantmakers in the Arts · ORA Architects ·Seattle Center · Solo Bar and Eatery Wells Fargo · Anonymous (34) · In Memory of Max and Millie · Kiki Abba · Jeffrey Azevedo · Bailey Family · Terry Barenz Bayless · Ansley Barnard Susan and Glen Beebe · Tessa and Chris Bennion Nancy and Sam Bent · Michelle Blackmon · Joseph E. Boling · Wendy and Rich Borton · Eloise Boyle and Jim Grams · Erin and Jeff Breyman · Toby Bright and Nancy Ward · Kathryn and Wally Bubelis · Betty Buckley · Nancy Burkhalter · Koren Burling · Carolyn Butler · Karlyn and Richard Byham · Jill Chelimer and Dan Johnson · Lee and Kristine Clement At the start of the school year, did you ever have to face that essay “What I Did Last Dinah and W. Ross Coble · Amy Condon · Laurie Corrin · Reiner and Mary Decher · Esme DeCoster Summer?” Here’s my take on it: Will Diefenbach · Jennifer Divine and Laureen France · Dan Drais and Jane Mills · Sue B. Drais You may have heard the news about the flooding of Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Lauren Dudley · Rick and Terry Edwards · AJ Epstein Jean and David Farkas · Stan and Jane Fields · Ann offices. It occurred just after we launched our Wooden O shows in the parks in early and Donald Frothingham · Bryant Fujimoto · Leslie July. You can read the details of what happened on our website (http://bit.ly/ssc- Geller · Hunter and Kathleen George · Elizabeth George · Lynette Goad · Marjorie and Rick Goldfarb flood). It has been an enormous challenge for our company. As I write this, it has Howard Goldstein · Sandra Gordon · Robert H. been about a month since the flooding occurred. Green · Tomas W. Green · Linda-Jo Greenberg · Sean and Bernie Griffin · Janice and Abigail Grimstad Lisa Hager ·Jeffrey Hall · Shawn Hargreaves Seattle Center stepped up and provided a temporary space for us. They hired movers Nicholas Harper-Smith and Tiffany Andersen to do the bulk of the relocation of our offices. With us out of the building, the real D’Arcy Harrison · Duston and Kathleen Harvey work began on the space. They tore out the carpet, ground down years of old Erin Hawley · Elizabeth Heath · Cindy Hennessy Susan Herring and Norman Wolf · Lynn Hubbard flooring, gutted the kitchen/ laundry area. Next they poured a new cement floor, and David Zapulsky · Dan Hudson · Cynthia removed mold, sealed walls, and painted. The work has been continuous. Huffman and Ray Heacox Maureen Hughes · The Hurley Family · Kathleen and Roger Huston Sara Elizabeth and David Hyre · Robert Jones In the meantime, our relocated staff had to set up temporary offices to keep Bernadette Joolen · Bill Johns and Stephanie operations going. I won’t dwell on the many challenges due to the office relocation. Kallos · Steve and Suzanne Kalish · Laura Karavitis Gary Kirk and Norma Fuentes · Roberta Klarreich I’ll just tell you that it been like trying to cook a gourmet meal for twelve with a Katherine Klekas and Brian Higham · Alana Knaster spotty camp stove . in the rain . for a month. Katie and Tom Koch · Larkman · Angelique Leone and Ronald Fronheiser · Jordan B. Lusink · Mark Lutwak and Y York · Leslie Mabry · Douglas and My guess is that we’ll be dealing with the aftermath of this incident for a long time. Theresa McLean · Sean MacLean · Heather J. Martin And yet we put one foot in front of the other to keep going. Mirjana Martinovic · Mike Mathieu · Ellen Maxson Mike McCaw and Janet Westin · Ann McCurdy and At times I wondered how we would get through this. But what made a difference? The Frank Lawler · Corey McDaniel and Alber Sucupira Tanya McDonald · Bill McJohn · John T. McKinney kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity of so many people who believe in our theatre. Michelle Mentzer · The Merritts · Mary Metastasio Seattle Center, of course, was a huge help in all this.