Live Girls! On the Stage and In Your Face
Cameron August 8th, 2008
If you’re walking down Market Street, and you pass a non-descript door with only the marking, “Live Girls!” posted to a sandwich board and a staircase leading to a dark basement, your better judgment might guide you to keep on walking. In most cases that’s usually a smart bet, but not this time.
Market Street (between Ballard Avenue and Leary Way) has been the home of the Live Girls! Theater since 2005, and has been dedicated to promoting local women playwrights, directors and artists ever since. Their goal is to “empower women artists to be leaders and provide the public with opportunities to see plays by women”, and that’s hot, because let’s face it, like in many other industries, women are severely underrepresented in theater. While there are many talented women playwrights out there, most produced plays are not by women. Live Girls! Theater helps bring the female perspective to the forefront.
As a small, fringe theater group, their company members commit to a year of supporting the Live Girls! mission by partaking in various aspects of administration and production. It’s entirely volunteer-operated, so let’s support our local Girls!– go to the next production or pony up some cash and be a sponsor.
Here’s what’s coming up next at the Live Girls! Theater:
World Premiere!
June Carter Cash Project
Sept 12 – Oct 4
Fri 8pm Sat 4pm and 8pm
“In 2008 Live Girls! will commission three one-act plays from local writers. Each writer will choose a song recorded by the iconic songstress June Carter Cash and create play inspired by that song. These three new plays will be produced together in one evening as a tribute to this legendary singer, writer and humanitarian.”
Other show listings can be found on the Live Girls! web site: http://www.livegirlstheater.org/. Ticket and donation information are also available.
This is great to know, thank you! I love to support women in the arts, and have often hurried by here without looking further. Thanks for opening my eyes to a new artistic venue and troop!