Infinity Box Theatre Project

We are pleased to announce that Infinity Box Theatre Project will have a fundraiser for our upcoming production of “Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis!” on Wednesday, May 23rd, at M’illumino, 6921 Roosevelt Ave. NE (the corner of Roosevelt and NE 70th).

The highlight of the evening will be a reading of Kate Wilhelm’s original story – by award winning science fiction writer Greg Bear. Geni Hawkins, who plays Lottie, and Dave Morrison, who plays Butcher, will read their dialog.

Following the reading we will have a conversation about the story and our adaptation, including a brief video of Kate Wilhelm, who explains why she wrote it.

Join us at 7:00 pm for a reception.  The reading begins at 8 PM.

Seating is limited. Please reserve a place by contacting us at tickets @ infinitybox.org

Suggested donation: $20.

After many crises, trials and tribulations, our next production, Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! has found a home at the Ethnic Cultural Theater in Seattle’s University District.

Ladies will open on Friday, June 29th, with shows that weekend on Saturday and Sunday. The following weekend will have shows on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

All evening shows are at 7:30 pm; Sunday matinees are at 2:00 pm.

Look for more information soon about ticketing and how to make reservations.

The Third Annual Galileo Dialogues will feature a reading of Mary Jo Salter’s play Falling Bodies. Falling Bodies explores the intersections of literature, science, religion and political dissent, in the meeting of a young John Milton and the ageing and politically compromised Galileo. Directed by Susanna Wilson, Falling Bodies features Eric Ray Anderson, Vince Brady, Caitlin Frances, Diana Huey, Shawn Law and Jon Lutyens.

Mary Jo Salter is Chair of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is a poet, lyricist, playwright, and essayist, whose latest collection of poems, A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems, was published in March 2008. We are honored that Professor Salter will be joining us for the reading of her play.

The reading will be preceded by a reception and followed by a discussion with Professor Salter and faculty members from Seattle University and Evergreen State University.

Details: Monday, February 13th. Reception: 6:30; reading 7:00, Seattle University, Wyckoff Auditorium, Bannon Engineering Building. Map of Seattle U Campus

The event is free; come and enjoy!

Well, when you produce a play called “Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! you might expect crises

We’ve had a lot. We lost our original venue, and found another. We then lost our set/lighting designer and found another. We then lost our fight choreographer. And found another. Then we lost an actor. And haven’t found another who can do the show with the October time frame.

So, we will postpone. We hope to mount the show early next spring.

Stay tuned!

Last night my amazing cast of actors recorded all the audio dialog for the TV side of Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! in a three-hour marathon session.  Now Dustin Morache, our sound designer, will weave his magic and create the complete audio of the show.

Ladies and Gentlemen opens on Sept. 30th, at Stage One, North Seattle Community College, and plays Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 and Sundays at 4:30 through Oct. 9th.  Come see it!

We had our first read through for Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! last night and it was terrific!

In the next few weeks, fourteen actors will create the audio track for the reality TV show, This Is Your Crisis! that Lottie and Butcher watch.  Original music, composed by Andrew J. Perez, will be woven into the show.

Come see us opening night, Friday September 30th, at Studio One, North Seattle Community College.  Ladies and Gentlemen plays Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30, Sundays at 4:30 through October 9th.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis!” is cast and will feature Kayla Adams, Alex Adisorn, Joe Espinoza, Ashley Flannegan, Gin Hammond, Laura Hanson, Geni Hawkins, Courtney Kessler, Mariko Kita, Thomas Moore, Enrique Olguin, Zach Robinson, Sarah Scheller, Cody Smith,  Andrew Tribolini and Andrew Thornhill.

We begin rehearsals for this world premiere adaptation of Kate Wilhelm’s short story of the same name on July 11. During July we will create and record the audio for the entire television show that Lottie and Butcher watch.

Come join us for opening night, Friday, September 30th, at Stage One, North Seattle Community College, and experience reality TV on stage!

Casting has begun for “Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis!” the world premiere of Kate Wilhelm’s story, which opens on Sept. 30th.

As an actor, I am much more familiar with “the other side of the table” in the audition process, and I am finding casting a show both challenging and exciting.  But a great group of actors have auditioned for the show, and I am confident I will have an outstanding cast.

Auditions for Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! will be on June 5th and 6th, at Theatre Puget Sound. For more information and an audition appointment click here.

Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis!, an adaptation of the short story by Kate Wilhelm, follows the weekend life of Lottie and Butcher as they immerse themselves in the lives of four contestants on the reality TV show This Is Your Crisis! Dropped into the Alaska wilderness, with nothing but a backpack of essential supplies, the contestants have 72 hours to reach the perimeter – or possibly die trying.  Originally written in 1976, and more timely today, Ladies and Gentlemen shows us the extremes to which television may go, and its effect on those of us who watch it.

Ladies and Gentlemen opens on September 30th, at Studio One, North Seattle Community College.  Shows run Sept. 30th through Oct. 9th, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 4 pm.  Tickets will be available through Brown Paper Tickets, $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Everything is in place for the first installment of Psychlotron at the Sorrento Hotel in May 10th.  We have a fiber artist and a geophysicist lined up as our first pair of speakers.  Each speaker will talk about whatever fascinates them (presumably having something to do with their field – but that’s up to them).  Which one goes first will be a random choice made at the last moment.  Then it’s 15 minutes for one idea followed by 15 minutes for the other – and then the audience has the task (and the fun) of smashing the ideas together and making whatever they can of what comes out.

This is the one Infinity Box event that doesn’t involve a story – though there may be plenty of dramatic tension, conflict and resolution, surprise endings etc.  Basically it’s an opportunity to enjoy good, unashamedly intellectual fun in a posh environment.

So if you’re in Seattle on the 10th of May, stop by the Fireside Room at the Sorrento just before 6 PM, order your happy hour drink and join us.  As always our invitation is to “think inside The Box.”