OUTwright Theatre Festival Kicks Off Today

The OUTwright Theatre Festival kicks off today! Individual performances: $5 and up. Festival passes: $20 and up - good for all six shows. Click here to purchase tickets online.

In 2011, Fuse Theatre Ensemble produced the Gay Pride Reading Series. Due to immense popular demand, Fuse has reinvented the event as the first-ever OUTwright Theatre Festival.

With the hope of building and growing the festival over the next few years, the mission of this one-of-a-kind Pacific Northwest festival is to celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQ community to the art of theatre by staging both original and classic works, thus creating an incubator for new theatre for and by the LGBTQ community.

This year's festival will be comprised of staged readings of three premiere plays as well as three well-known, established scripts and an original dance piece.

The Line-Up:

Each performance opens with an original dance piece starring new members of the ensemble

Choreographed by Satheara Sin
Danced by Gerrin Mitchell, Ari Rapkin, and Satheara Sin

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 @7:30pm

Consider the Oyster

West Coast Premiere
by David MacGregor
Directed by Kate Mura

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 @7:30pm

Harmony

World Premiere
by Randy Wyatt
Directed by Russell Terwelp

Thursday, June 13, 2013 @7:30pm

Man Boobs

West Coast Premiere
by J. Julian Christopher
Directed by Rusty Tennant

Friday, June 14, 2013 @7:30pm

Sordid Lives

by Del Shores
Directed by Rusty Tennant

Saturday, June 15, 2013 @2pm - Matinee!

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project
Directed by Sara Fay Goldman

Saturday, June 15, 2013 @7:30 - Two show day!

Romeo & Juliet

Presented by the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
Directed by Brian Allard

Lots to celebrate

Hang out immediately following the evening performance for a festival wrap-up and, as many of you are aware, the end of our stay at Theater! Theatre!

10pm on the Arena Stage, Saturday June 15th.

To read about each show, check out the website or find the festival on facebook for more information.

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