For Kids
Bodies in Conversation will be presented at The Magic Lantern Theater as a multimedia event: a screening of a short art film, live music, and a new play.
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Grantee
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Performing arts of all kinds! Plays, musicals, staged readings, opera, and more. Local theater houses include the Spokane Civic Theater, Stage Left Theatre, Spokane Children’s Theatre, and many others. The First Interstate Center for the Arts hosts Spokane’s Best of Broadway series, which brings touring productions of acclaimed Broadway shows like Hamilton. Find out more below!
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Event: Opens August 11
An Aviary for Birds of Sadness | Stage Left Theater
Stage Left Theater presents the World Premiere of Tristen Canfield’s AN AVIARY FOR BIRDS OF SADNESS, directed by Lisa Edwards. When a found family bands together to care for one of their own during her darkest days, An Aviary for Birds of Sadness takes a stark and humorous journey through the impacts of mental health on the individual and their community.
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Artist
Pam Kingsley
I am an actress, director and playwright. My current passion is writing for the Theatre and my plays have been produced in London UK and around the U.S., including in Boston, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, New Haven, NYC, the State University of New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Spokane. My play MOTHER’S DAY was a 2019 finalist for the James Stevenson Prize for Short Comedic Plays and won the “Audience Choice Award” at the 31st Playwrights’ Forum Festival. I had three new works selected for Stage Left Theater’s “Masterpiece Monologues” series and was then commissioned to write and perform a solo piece, SLEEPWALKING, which was featured in Stage Left’s “Empower Festival” and streamed online. SLEEPWALKING was also selected for Irondale Ensemble’s 2022 ON WOMEN Festival’s (NYC) – New Media Library. The play was streamed online and received an “Audience Choice” award. Pam’s plays FINDING MOTHER COURAGE and BOXES were selected for the 32nd Playwrights’ Forum Festival. BOXES won the “Audience Choice Award.” Recently, both THE SITTING and BOXES were produced as part of TheatreWorks Humanity Festival in greater Louisville. MINISTER OF SORROW has been selected as one of three plays featured during the Appalachian Playwriting Festival, Ashville, NC in September 2023. MINISTER OF SORROW will be part of Stage Left Theater’s 2024 Season. Pam holds a BFA in Theatre Performance and MA in Theatre Education. She has taught acting and playwriting throughout the PNW.
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Event: Opens May 17
Tarzan | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of Tarzan, The Musical.
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Event: Opens April 12
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of You’re Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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Event: Opens March 1
Tuck Everlasting | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of Tuck Everlasting.
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Event: Opens January 19
Cheaper by the Dozen | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of Cheaper by the Dozen.
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Event: Opens November 24
Elf the Musical | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of Elf the Musical.
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Event: Opens October 13
The Wizard of Oz | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of The Wizard of Oz
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Event: Opens August 11
Disney’s Descendant’s | Spokane Children’s Theatre
Join Spokane Children’s Theatre for their production of Disney’s Descendents.
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Event: Opens September 15
The Addams Family | Spokane Civic Theatre
That lovable family of creepy kooks is alive and well and living in their super-spooky mansion in Central Park. The Addams family, led by the elegantly gaunt and seemingly undead Morticia and her ever-devoted husband Gomez, is in turmoil. Their daughter Wednesday, now 18, finds herself falling in love—a sensation that is unsettling for both her and her family of endearing misfits. When the teen invites her new boyfriend, Lucas Beineke, over with his “normal” family to get better acquainted with the Addams household, comic chaos (including everything from an amorous giant squid to mixed-up potions to a scorching tango) ensues.
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Event: Opens October 7
Dracula | Spokane Civic Theatre
Kate Hamill boldly reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampires and finds new monsters just beneath the skin. The gothic tropes of villains who wear evil on their sleeve and damsels in distress are replaced by all-too-human monsters and ferocious women who stab at the heart of the patriarchy itself.