CRIME & ROCKETS
by Scotto Moore, Morgan Ludlow, Keiko Green
& Juliet Pruzan

September 10, 12, 19, 25 at 8pm
September 26 at 5pm
Ballard Underground Theatre

Directed by Jenifer Ross

Humanity’s seemingly boundless expansion across the galaxy hasn’t come without a price... ‘cuz wherever there’s humans, there’s b​ad​humans, and somebody’s gotta crack the cases when they try to get away with murder. From your first day as a rookie beat detective working a mining colony on an asteroid, to your elite days as head of security on a luxury cruiseliner touring the rings of Jupiter, someone’s always breaking the rules. Homicide in a space station prep school; organized crime smuggling illegal nano­weaponry out to the rebel colonies; alien specimens stolen from a top secret laboratory ­ there’s no end to the trouble a few malcontents can cause, and some of these malcontents might not be too recognizable as human anymore. Society’s counting on a few good souls with theirs hearts still in the right places ­ physically or otherwise ­ to help put things right. 

Everybody Here Says Hello!
by Stuart Bousel

September 11, 17, 18, 24, 26 at 8pm
Ballard Underground Theatre

Directed by Morgan Ludlow

A fast-paced comedy about a man, his boyfriend, and his boyfriend's girlfriend, Everybody Here Says Hello! is a bittersweet exploration of the ups and downs inherent to modern relationships and sexuality, the absurd distortion of our lives when seen through the eyes of our friends, and all the things we want to say to one another but never do.  Everybody Here Says Hello won the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Award for Outstanding World Premiere.

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Tall Tales of The Unnatural Frontier
by Scotto Moore, Kelleen Conway Blanchard,
​Juliet Waller Pruzan & Jennifer Lynne Roberts

December 3-19
Annex Theatre

Directed by Jen Moon

Tall Tales of the Unnatural Frontier is a shadowy slice of dark Americana, exploring a time when the country’s founding ideals were still waiting for their time to truly flower ­and a time when the sway of the rational intellect had yet to reach all parts of a land steeped in folklore and legend. Civilization would someday tame the unnatural frontier ­ and the wanderers who made it their home ­ but not before a few e​xtremely​ tall tales seared their way into our nation’s collective subconscious memory, whispered around the dying campfire of an elusive moment in history.

 

Ruth and the Sea
by Morgan Ludlow

December 3-19
Annex Theatre

Directed by Maureen Hawkins

From award-winning playwright Morgan Ludlow comes this Holiday tale.   Ruth, a feisty mid-western grandmother, has her Christmas party plans interrupted with news that she probably won't see the coming spring.  Preferring madcap adventure over chemo, she grabs all the hard liquor, drains her bank account and convinces her re-hab skipping dope fiend grandson to embark on a cross country trek to find the shore-side contentment of her youth, one last time.   Though at opposite ends of the spectrum, old lady and aging hipster (all-the-time pursued by Ruth's no-nonsense daughter-in-law, her over-protective ex, and a down-and-out Dolly Parton impersonator) find themselves bonding in unexpected ways even as Ruth inevitably drifts into death.  Never maudlin, never predictable, Ruth and the Sea turns the American Christmas story on its ear, re-inventing its own archetypes and eschewing holiday schmaltz as it takes the audience on a search for nothing less than the meaning of life.