Avenue Q

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.