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MAY 2017 By Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski Directed by Rosa Joshi 2016–2017 2017 SPRING 2017 SUMMER 2017 FALL INDOOR SEASON TOUR WOODEN O TOUR The Winter’s Tale Romeo and Juliet Pericles Romeo and Juliet Medea The Taming of Much Ado About Nothing Bring Down the House, Parts 1 & 2 the Shrew A Midsummer Night’s Dream April-June 2017 Volume 13, No. 6 Paul Heppner Publisher SPRING 2017 Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Encore Stages Editors Susan Peterson Contents Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, 4 Time to Act: Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Arts Patrons Can Protect Production Artists and Graphic Design Arts and Culture Mike Hathaway 9 Dressed for the Part: A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL Sales Director Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Harmony Arnold, Ann Manning, Rob Scott Costume Designer Based on the novel by Jane Austen Seattle Area Account Executives Book by Harold Taw Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Dialogue Music and Lyrics by Chris Jeffries San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 13 Encore Stages in Jonathan Shipley conversation with Ad Services Coordinator Janelle Velasquez JUL 12 - AUG 19 Carol Yip Sales Coordinator and Seán Griffin taproottheatre.org 206.781.970 7 Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Intermission Brain Transmission Online Editors 204 N 85th St 15 Test yourself with our Seattle, WA trivia quiz Encore Stages is an Encore Arts PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN Leah Baltus A NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING Editor-in-Chief Program that features stories about Paul Heppner our local arts community side-by-side Publisher with information about performances. Dan Paulus Encore Arts Programs are publications Persuasion_EncoreArtsAd.inddNOT JUST 1 A WALK3/22/17 10:11 AM Art Director of Encore Media Group. We also publish Gemma Wilson, Jonathan Zwickel City Arts, the monthly arts & culture IN THE PARK Senior Editors magazine, and specialty publications, Amanda Manitach including the Offical Seattle Pride Guide Visual Arts Editor and the SIFF Guide and Catalog. Learn Barry Johnson more at encoremediagroup.com Associate Digital Editor Encore Stages features the following organizations: Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Vice President Andy Fife Chief Strategy Officer Genay Genereux Accounting & Office Manager Sara Keats There’s more to us than 150-acres Marketing Manager of gardens, woodlands and Ryan Devlin forests. Discover concerts, family Business Development Manager activities, workshops, guided Corporate Office walks, lectures—all year long. 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] 800.308.2898 x105 www.encoremediagroup.com Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Bainbridge Island Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. www.bloedelreserve.org ©2016 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 ENCORE STAGES Untitled-2 1 4/18/17 10:12 AM Time to Act Patrons Can Protect Arts and Culture Billie Wildrick and the company of The Pajama Game at 5th Avenue Theatre. Photo by Mark Kitaoka. Arts administrators say A trombone player warms up along of arts funding, has been threatened: Market Avenue during the Ballard Jazz funding at the federal level. that patrons have a say Festival. Painters and photographers in the future of the arts in of all levels of experience are hanging There were shockwaves felt nationwide when the White House released the America. their group show at the Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts. Three proposed 2018 federal budget. The Dollar Bill Cinema hosts a transgender budget calls for the elimination of the film festival, and there is a poetry slam at National Endowment for the Arts, Hugo House. Little kids are performing the National Endowment for the hip-hop at the Creative Dance Center, Humanities, and the Corporation for and the curtain rises on The Magic Flute Public Broadcasting. If the budget is at the Seattle Opera. There are original approved and, indeed, these historic paintings on the walls of our coffee institutions are eliminated, Seattle's shops and performances in the streets. arts and culture will be affected. Randy Engstrom, Director of Seattle’s Office of Seattle is bursting with art. Our citizens Arts and Culture, says, in a statement and, in turn, our city government, value issued in March, that the action “will the arts and support them generously. have profound economic and societal Art is everywhere because of arts impacts in Seattle and throughout the funding, and recently, one key source c o u n tr y.” 4 ENCORE STAGES “In times like these, when people feel stress and division, it’s the arts where Destination Retirement... we find meaning and solace,” says Luxury Living in Sunny Sequim Kristina Goetz, Artist Trust’s Director of Development. “Artist Trust helps make the telling of that truth possible.” Fidelma McGinn, Vice President of the Seattle Foundation, believes in the power arts can wield. “Our mission [at the Seattle Foundation] is to ignite powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make greater Seattle a strong, more vibrant community for all.” Patrons get ready to GiveBIG Patrons of the arts—theatre Designed with you in mind: audiences, museum members, The Lodge is an elegant full service, independent retirement community concert subscribers—are citizen offering fine dining, spacious apartments and individual cottages. philanthropists. 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The program began in 2011, as a 24- hour online campaign designed to SEASONAL EXHIBITS raise money for various community organizations. That first year, GiveBIG FOR YOUR PALETTE Enjoy artistically inspired dishes crafted from local generated $3.6 million. It has grown ingredients, and see the personal story of Dale Chihuly significantly since then: last year, through his collections. GiveBIG raised $15.9 million for LUNCH / DINNER / HAPPY HOUR / WEEKEND BRUNCH more than 1,200 individuals, families, businesses and non-profits the Seattle Foundation serves. COLLECTIONSCAFE.COM LOCATED AT CHIHULY GARDEN AND GLASS 305 HARRISON ST / SEATTLE WA “The growth continues to amaze us 206.753.4935 every year, and so does the resources encoreartsseattle.com 5 and the creativity non-profits invest in developing their funding campaigns,” says McGinn. Each individual group 2016/17 designs and implements an individual campaign for GiveBIG donations, but the collective energy of the day gives every organization a boost. Seattle is prepared Seattle is in a fortunate position to be generally well-equipped to weather budget cuts by way of the White House. “The city of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture has seen its budget increase significantly, thanks in large part to the 1% for Arts plan, and the admission of tax surpluses propelled by the likes of Chihuly Garden and Glass and the Great Wheel,” says McGinn. In the early 1970s, Seattle established a comprehensive system for assuring that creativity would remain a part of civil life in perpetuity. The city instituted the progressive 1% for Art ordinance, which has since become a model other cities have replicated worldwide. The proposal stipulated that, noted a Seattle Times article at the time, "All requests for appropriations for construction projects from eligible funds shall include an amount equal to one (1) percent of the estimated cost of such project for works of art" and that those monies would go for the "selection, acquisition, and/or installation of works JUNE 30 & JULY 1 of art to be placed in, on, or about A LIVE PRESENTATION OF public facilities.” In 2015, McGinn notes, the city invested 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY $3 million to support more than 360 individuals and institutions. Following Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor Trump’s proposed NEA cuts, Engstrom Experience Stanley Kubrick’s spellbinding, Academy Award®-winning masterpiece. Recognized as one of the greatest works of science fiction cinema, 2001: A Space at the Office of Arts and Culture issued Odyssey is acclaimed for its technological realism, boldness and inspired use of music. a statement, which says, in part: Watch the film on the big screen with the iconic score, featuring the epic opening “Our office envisions a city driven by scene set to Also sprach Zarathustra by R. Strauss, performed live by the Seattle Symphony. creativity that provides the opportunity In association with Warner Bros., Southbank Centre London and the British Film Institute. to engage in diverse arts and cultural experiences.” Mari Horita is the President and CEO of ArtsFund, an organization that gives FOR TICKETS: to the local arts community through 206.215.4747 | SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG leadership, advocacy and grant making. 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