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Press Release
Pull Date: August 8, 2010
ReAct Presents the World Premiere of Seattle Playwright Maggie Lee's charming new play KINDRED SPIRITS
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Richard Hugo House, July 16 - August 8, 2010: ReAct Theatre,
Seattle's only Multi-ethnic Philanthropic Theatre Company, opens its 2010
season with the premiere of the new romantic ghost tale KINDRED SPIRITS, written by Seattle's own Maggie Lee. KINDRED SPIRITS is whimsically charming new play about the power of memory and love. Lonely hearts reside at haunted old Campbell Manor, a place where memories of lost loves magically take on a life of their own. Sensible Henrietta who moves in for the summer knows better than to believe in ghosts. But she soon discovers that mansion happens to be truly haunted, in more ways than one. Part wry, intriguing mystery and part bittersweet, romantic comedy, KINDRED SPIRITS is a modern ghost story that sheds new light on the restless spirits from the past that we can never let go.
Everyone has kindred spirits...discover yours by not missing this World Premiere!
KINDRED SPIRIT opens on Friday, July 16th with an 8:00pm
performance and post-show gala. It runs Fridays at 8:00pm, and Saturdays at 2:00pm and
8:00pm through August 8th. A performance has also been added for Sunday, August 8th at 7:00pm. All performances will be
held at the air-conditioned Richard Hugo House which is
located at 1634 Eleventh Avenue, on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Free
parking is available throughout the neighborhood and in the Richard Hugo House parking lot. Special door prizes are
also raffled off at the start of every performance.
ReAct's admission prices
are $15 General Admission; $12 Students/Seniors/Military/Disabled; and $9
for Children, with a $3 discount when purchased in advance. Additionally, the
2pm matinee performances on Saturday July 17th and Saturday July 24th are both "Pay-What-You-Can" admission performances. For more information and ticket reservations, please call the ReAct box office at (206) 364-3283 or visit online at www.reacttheatre.org. Advanced tickets are also available though the following outlets:
•Brown Paper Tickets: (800) 838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com.
•Elliott Bay Book Company: (206) 624-6600 or (800) 962-5311.
Directed by ReAct's Artistic Director, David Hsieh, this world premiere production of
KINDRED SPIRIT stars the multi-ethnic talents of Ashton Hyman, Hana Lass, May Nguyen, Joel Putnam and Walayn Sharples. Lighting designed by Evan Merryman Ritter with costumes designed by Chistine Meyers and Sound designed by Roger Tang. This is ReAct's fourth world premiere presentation featuring new works or adaptations by Seattle artists. Maggie Lee has adapted H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep for the stage in OCT's The Colour Out of Space, and collaborated on OCT’s original Lovecraft-inspired show Necronomicon. This season, she has written for 14/48: the World’s Quickest Theatre Festival and Balagan Theatre's summer park show Greetings From Styx. This November, a premiere reading of Lee's new fantastical steampunk play, The Clockwork Professor will be presented at Insatiable! Seattle’s 5th Asian American Playwright's Festival.
Established in 1993, ReAct strives to provide affordable quality entertainment using primarily non-traditional and multi-ethnic casting. Its purpose is to give artists of all backgrounds the opportunity to work on mainstream projects they might not normally have access to due to ethnicity, gender, age or experience. A federally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit philanthropic company, ReAct also works to serve our community by using its productions to raise money, awareness and supplies for other arts and humanitarian organizations. ReAct's production will benefit the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Theatre Puget Sound, and other charities. A canned food drive will benefit Northwest Harvest.
Performance Fact Sheet:
WHO: The Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct Theatre)
WHAT: KINDRED SPIRITS
by Maggie Lee.
WHERE: Richard Hugo House
1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle
WHEN: July 16 - August 8, 2010
playing Fridays at 8:00pm and Saturdays at 2:00pm & 8:00pm, with an added performance on Sunday, August 8 at 7:00pm.
HOW: Tickets/Reservations: Call (206) 364-3283 or visit http://www.reacttheatre.org
General Admission: $15
Students/Seniors/Military/Disabled: $12
Children (ages 4-11): $9
Save up to $3 off admission by purchasing tickets in advance. Save $1 Off admission with a foodbank donation presented at the ReAct Box Office.
2 "Pay-What-You-Can" performances takes place on Saturday, July 17th at 2:00pm and Saturday, July 24th at 2:00pm.
Group Discount Rates are also available for parties of 10 or more.
Special ($6) Day of Show Rush Tickets for Theatre Artists are also available as space allows.
Advanced discounted tickets are also available through Brown Paper Tickets (800) 838-3006,
http://www.brownpapertickets.com ; and other fine outlets, including the
Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill.
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PUBLICITY PHOTOS:
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Hana Lass as Lane with Joel Putnam as Max and May Nguyen as Henrietta in ReAct's World Premiere staging of Kindred Spirits, by Maggie Lee.
Photo: Justin Burke.
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Ashton Hyman as Hilshire and Walayn Sharples as Camille in ReAct's
Kindred Spirits playing at Richard Hugo House.
Photo: Alan Alabastro.
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May Nguyen as Henrietta with Walayn Sharples as Camille in ReAct's World Premiere of Kindred Spirits.
Photo: Alan Alabastro.
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May Nguyen discovers kindred spirits Hana Lass and Ashton Hyman in ReAct's
Kindred Spirits directed by David Hsieh.
Photo: Alan Alabastro.
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May Nguyen, Walayn Sharples and Joel Putnam star in ReAct's staging of the charming new play, Kindred Spirits.
Photo: Justin Burke.
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May Nguyen as Henrietta meets Hana Lass as Lane in a scene from ReAct's Kindred Spirits.
Photo: Alan Alabastro.
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Press Release
Pull Date: May 13, 2006
ReAct Opens the Prima Vera Arts Center
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Seattle's only Multi-ethnic Philanthropic Theatre Company, ReAct, has
great news to share - the launching of Prima Vera Arts Center. Located in the
Seattle Center area at 112 5th Avenue North, 2nd Floor, the new center will be
ReAct's primary rehearsal and meeting space.
ReAct has been prominently featured in the news this year as a result of a
series of burglaries during three different productions at three different
locations over the past three years. After hearing of ReAct's bad luck and upon
seeing ReAct's most recent production of To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday, Vera
and Joey Ing decided it was time to help ReAct turn their luck around. The 2nd
Floor of their property across the street from KOMO-TV's Fisher Plaza was
available, so the Seattle couple decided to donate the space for ReAct to use.
They are thrilled at the opportunity to create a gathering place for a
multi-ethnic company like ReAct, and want to see the space come alive with and
being utilized by artists. They adored not only the recent production, but also
ReAct's original adaptation of The Joy Luck Club a few years ago and are
looking forward to ReAct's fall premiere of Uncle Hideki and the Empty Nest
written by their close friend and local author Jean Davies Okimoto.
Vera Ing serves on the Liquor Control Board and has been involved with many
civic organizations such as Seattle Center, Mt. Baker Community Club,
International District Improvement Association, International Rotary, and North
Seattle Community College Foundation. She has also served on the executive
boards of United Way, Asian American Management Association and the University
of Washington Women Resource Center. Joey Ing, retired, was the principal
architect with Ing & Associates. A few of his projects include the design for
the International Children's Park in Seattle's International District and
Anthony's at Pier 66.
ReAct will share the space with SIS Productions and Pork Filled Players.
All three performing arts companies focus on developing the writing, acting,
production and producing skills of local Asian American and multi-cultural
talent.
The three groups celebrated the opening of the
Prima Vera Arts Center, named after the space's benefactor, on Saturday, May 13 with a Ribbon Ceremony and Open House.
"It's appropriate that a new space that will serve the Asian American
performing arts groups in the area should open during May, which is recognized
as Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month," states David Hsieh, Managing
Artistic Director of ReAct.
The building is located between 5th Ave N. & Taylor Ave N. just off of
Denny Ave N. on the East side of the Seattle Center, right next to Fat City
Auto, across the street from KOMO-TV, and down the street from McDonald's. The
monorail track runs right in front of the building. The front of the building is
painted red and is a small, 2-story store front. The entrance is on the
back-side of the building (painted purple with gray trim) on the 2nd floor
(above the body building studio).
The Repertory Actors Theatre strives to produce quality theatrical
entertainment using primarily multi-ethnic and non-traditional casting, by:
• Giving theatre artists of all backgrounds and skill-levels the
opportunity to work together on mainstream projects that they might not normally
have access to due to race, sex, age, or experience.
• Using our productions to help raise awareness, supplies and financial
support for humanitarian and theatre-related charities and organizations.
• Developing in the general public, an increased appreciation for the dramatic
and performing arts.
SIS Productions is a production company that strives to create, develop and
produce quality works that involve Asian American women, their themes, and Asian
American issues. SIS Productions encourages opportunities and support for Asian
American women to be involved in all aspects of the production of artistic
endeavors.
The Pork Filed Players is Seattle second oldest sketch comedy group. Since
1997, PFP has been the Northwest's premiere Asian American sketch comedy group,
touring from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver, BC, racking up appearances at the
very first two Seattle Sketchfests, Bumbershoot 2004 and SketchOff@%#?!, the
first international Asian sketch comedy competition. Over the years, the
Players have employed an ever changing cast of characters in their never-ending
battle for truth, pursuit of justice and finding out whatever the hell they
mean by the American way of life in the 21st Century.
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NEWS PHOTOS:
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The building owners and leaders from ReAct, SIS Productions and PFP, open the Prima Vera Arts Center with a Ribbon Ceremony.
Photo: Roger Tang.
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The entrance of ReAct's new Prima Vera Arts Center.
Photo: Roger Tang.
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Another photo of the Prima Vera Arts Center.
Photo: Roger Tang.
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Press Release
Pull Date: Indefinite
ReAct's Storage Facility Broken Into and Ransacked
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Seattle, March 22, 2006: As the staff of ReAct Theatre was preparing for their 2006 season opener later
this week, the poignant family drama TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, they
discovered that their south Seattle storage unit had been broken into, and
thousands of dollars worth of irreplaceable costumes, props, set pieces and
supplies had been stolen and ransacked.
The company's artistic director, David Hsieh, made the discovery yesterday
afternoon when he visited their Public Storage rented facility on Martin
Luther King Jr Way near Boeing Field, on Tuesday. He was stopping by to
retrieve additional props, set dressings, lobby display tables and opening
night party supplies. Hsieh was shocked and devastated. ReAct's storage unit
was left in shambles, and even at first glance he could instantly tell that a
lot of the company's assets, accumulated from nearly 15 years of production
had been taken or damaged. The storage unit is located at 10020 M.L. King Way
South.
For any company, this is a difficult hit to take... But this
crime is particularly difficult for ReAct, a small non-profit theater company
which donates its production proceeds to other arts and humanitarian
charities, and works to provide opportunities for artists of color. This is
unluckily the third theft crime that ReAct has had to endure in the past four
years... A rash of theater break-ins by vagrants at the Bathhouse Theatre
during the summer of 2003, cost the company an estimated $3000+ in pilfered
period props and costumes, photographic equipment and concessions supplies
when ReAct rented the space for their critically acclaimed production of the
World War II drama, THE HASTY HEART. And just one year ago during ReAct's
production of THE SHAPE OF THINGS by Neil LaBute, their locked dressing rooms
at Richard Hugo House were accessed and the company lost $1500 worth of
electronic projection equipment that was used in that show.
"I can't believe it! This sucks!" exclaimed ReAct Board member Angela DiMarco,
yesterday when Hsieh contacted the company's board and supporters to inform
them of the news. "It's just about all we have." The locking mechanism of
ReAct's storage unit had been pulled completely off. There has reportedly been
a string of recent break ins at that Public Storage facility in the past
several months. Hsieh last visited the unit three weeks ago to grab some set
pieces that needed to be repainted, and at that time, all was fine.
With ReAct's impending show opening tomorrow night, it will probably take the
company's bare-bones staff and volunteers days just to even begin cleaning up
and accessing the total loss. Sadly, other companies are also affected, as
ReAct regularly loaned costumes, props and set pieces to other theater
companies, including the Village Theatre, SiS Productions, and Theater
Schmeater, just to name a recent few, as well as to many individual artists.
If you have any information regarding these thefts, you are urged to please
contact Officer Lee at the Seattle Police Department, case #06-116237. If you would like to
help in any other way, please contact ReAct Theatre at (206)364-3283 or by email.
For ReAct, as always, the show must go on. The cast, crew and board has
scampered to replace some of the lost stored items that were going to be used
in their current show. Although many of the items taken or damaged may not
have any high "street value"... to a theater company this size, they hold a
great deal of monetary, intrinsic and not to mention historical and
sentimental value, and the loss is a huge setback. ReAct's new Seattle
production of TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY by Michael Brady, the
heart-warming family drama ironically about a widowers struggle to overcome
his loss and grief, opens tomorrow and plays at Richard Hugo House through
April 9th.
If you would like to help, aside from making a tax-deductible donation, please
just spread the word to everyone you know about the incident. Someone
somewhere may knows something that could perhaps lead to the recovery of some
of the stolen property, or the apprehension of the culprit(s). A list of the
missing items will be posted on ReAct's website next week after total loss and
damages are assessed this weekend. ReAct also encourages you to please come
support their current show if you can...Tickets are very inexpensive. It won't
bring back their loss, but it will certainly help the company survive and move
forward.
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To access ReAct's storage unit the cuplrits tore ReAct's lock clean through the gate locking mechanism.
Photo: David Hsieh.
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The ransackers left ReAct's storage unit in shambles after pilfering through everything.
Photo: David Hsieh.
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