Kelleen Conway Blanchard & Keira McDonald Don't Hold Back with LAST STOP ON LILAC

Kelleen Conway Blanchard, playwright, and Keira McDonald, director, bring the laughter and blood to the stage in Annex Theatre's final 30th season mainstage show, Last Stop on Lilac.

Annex Theatre darling Kelleen Conway Blanchard brings our audience a brand-new dark and twisted comedy about secrets, greed, and blood. Last Stop on Lilac features vintage costumes, dramatic fight choreography, and original songs by long-time collaborator Rick Miller, all set in 1960s Hollywood. Keira McDonald directs a cast of hilarious seven women and three men who bring the sultry and bloody camp.

Sweet-faced Bunny Le Blanc brought her bright lights to 1960s Hollywood, a technicolor land of fever dreams, and now she's dead. Last seen on luxurious Lilac Lane, home to glamorous stars and faded legends, someone on this street murdered Bunny, but who? The sexy starlet? The martini-soaked prima donna? The swinging bachelors in the pink bungalow? Something deadly happened on Lilac Lane. Something secret, involving sacrifices, Tupperware, and Go-Go dancing knife fights.

Last Stop on Lilac runs October 20 through November 11, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Preview on Thursday, October 19. PWYC Industry night on Monday, October 30. $10-$20 Sliding Scale Tickets. All performances are at 7:30 pm at Annex Theatre at the corner of 11th & Pike in Capitol Hill. Tickets at annextheatre.org.

Photo: Candy Spice (Jen Nelson) and Detective Larry Bruce (William Zimmerman) investigate what happened on Lilac Lane. Photo by Ian Johnston.