Joe McDermott To Lead Post-play Discussion Following 6/23 Performance of SORRY

Joe McDermott, King County Council member and candidate for Congress, will lead a post-play discussion immediately following the Thursday, June 23, performance of Sorry. Sorry, by Richard Nelson, is a smart, funny and timely play that asks how we make the right choices, both at home and in the larger political world. In an election season marked with so much anger and shouting, Sorry offers instead a "lovely . . . feeling of shared citizenship," (New York Times) where one family, trying to make the right choice in their own difficult decision, still manage, with humor and grace, to talk to one another using their "inside voices." Joe McDerrmott's participation makes tangible this intimate, vital connection between the personal and the political, the local and the national.

Who: Thalia's Umbrella

Where: The MainStage Theater at 12th Avenue Arts

When: Opens June 10, 2016 - June 26, 2016

Tickets: Adults: $36, Students: $20, Seniors: $25;
PWYC performance on June 9, 2016

Now on sale: www.sorry.brownpapertickets.com

CAST :

Jeanne Paulsen - Barbara
Macall Gordon - Marian
William Hall, Jr - Benjamin
Leslie Law - Jane
Terry Edward Moore - Richard

CREATIVE TEAM:

Daniel Wilson - Director
Roberta Russell - Set and Lighting Design
Christine Tschirgi - Costume Design
Johanna Melamed - Sound Design
Kelsey Rogers - Properties Design
Technical Director - Dennis Culpepper

Cristine Reynolds - Stage Manager
Quy Ton - Assistant Stage Manager

FULL DATES AND SCHEDULE

Thursday, June 9, 7:30pm PREVIEW (Pay What You Can)
Friday, June 10, 7:30pm (Opening Night)
Saturday, June 11, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 12, 2:00pm
Thursday, June 16, 7:30pm
Friday, June 17, 7:30pm
Saturday, June 18, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 19, 2:00pm
Thursday, June 23, 7:30pm
Friday, June 24, 7:30pm
Saturday, June 125, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 26, 2:00pm (Closing performance)

Thalia's Umbrella is a collaboration between Producing Artistic Director Terry Edward
Moore and director Daniel Wilson, to produce plays that dance on the line between comedy and tragedy, taking the light of life seriously and the serious lightly, to create a space where, in Robert Frost's words, "the work is play for mortal stakes." Thalia's first two productions, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and A Lesson From Aloes, each received a Footlight Award from the Seattle Times. Moore was a co-founder of Seattle Shakespeare Company, and served as Co-Artistic Director there for six years. He has acted and/or directed for most of the professional theaters in the Pacific Northwest, as well as theaters from coast to coast. Daniel Wilson has directed plays professionally from New York to Alaska, and has directed opera in Oregon, Alaska, and for Cornish College of the Arts.

Thalia's Umbrella gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Morgan Family Fund. Thalia's Umbrella is an Associated Program of Shunpike, the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit agency that fuels innovation in the arts by building productive partnerships, cultivating leadership, and providing direct services to arts groups of all kinds. Learn more at www.shunpike.org.

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