Sarah Ruhl and Jeff Whitty Come to the Leebrick!

I'm crunched for time, so I'm going to simply quote from the press release from the Lord Leebrick Theatre about next season's lineup:

"Titles for the 2008/09 Season include: John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable, a tightly woven drama that received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play; David Lindsay Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole; and Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House, a surprising comedy from one of the most highly acclaimed new playwrights in recent memory. Plus Lord Leebrick will present the West Coast Premiere of West Moon Street, a new comedy adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story by Rob Urbinati, as well as the premiere of Suicide Weather, a comedy by Jeff Whitty, a UO alum and Oregon native who received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Avenue Q. The company also plans to revive It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, with all performances for this very popular holiday classic at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield."

Me, I'm pumped to see Sarah Ruhl's play (which I sadly missed when it was in Portland this year). And I totally acted like a complete bumbling rube when I met Whitty the other day, but that's because he is a JEEEN-ius.

(May I inspire such stuttering someday. Preferably in a Hot Gay Man like Whitty.)

Anyway, truth be told, I'm annoyed at having only one woman playwright here, but I'm going to do a much bigger and longer story about women, playwriting and theater culture, so that said, it's a strong lineup for the Leebrick next year.