Patty in June

Patty Duke will appear at Interplayers on Thursday-Friday, June 3-4, at 7:30 pm and on Saturday, June 5, at 2 pm for conversations about the obstacles she has faced onstage and in life. Subscribers can purchase tickets (prices unannounced) through May 17, when general-public tickets go on sale. Visit interplayers.com or call 455-PLAY.
[image: from dachshundlove.blogspot.com ]

Interplayers' 2010-11 season

Dates firmed up, and some titles added, from what has been announced before:

Sept. 9-25, 2010: Together Again for the Next Time, by Reed McColm
This time, Chinelle and Carey are getting married.

(Fundraisers will be held on Oct. 1-2, 2010, and on Jan. 14-15, 2011.)

Oct. 14-30, 2010: The 39 Steps, by Patrick Barlow, adapted from John Buchan's novel and Alfred Hitchcock's movie
Four actors play more than a hundred roles.

Nov. 24-Dec. 11, 2010: Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular, by Ted Swindley

Angels. In a honky-tonk. At the holidays. It's spectacular.

Jan. 20-Feb. 5, 2011: Opus, by Michael Hollinger
A world-famous all-male string quartet fires its violist and replaces him with a young woman.

Feb. 17-March 12, 2011: Privilege, by Paul Weitz
Two teenage brothers on the Upper East Side find out that their father has been up to some big-stakes financial hanky-panky.

March 31-April 16, 2011: Cotton Patch Gospel, by Tom Key and Russell Treyz; music and lyrics by Harry Chapin
Jesus appears in modern-day rural Georgia.

May 5-21, 2011: The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson; directed by Patty Duke
Annie Sullivan tries to tame Helen Keller.

Patty Duke to direct *The Miracle Worker* at Interplayers

Artistic director Reed McColm announced on Friday night that Patty Duke will direct the show in which she has played both leading roles -- at Interplayers, sometime this fall, perhaps as early as September.

Anna Marie Duke played Helen Keller in William Gibson's play on Broadway at ages 12-14; at age 15, she starred alongside Anne Bancroft in the 1962 movie. For a made-for-TV movie in 1980, Duke (at age 33) took over the role of Annie Sullivan (with Helen Keller played by Melissa Gilbert).

And now, at age 63, Duke will return to the show with which she is identified -- right here in Spokane, both as director and by taking a cameo role.

Even before that, sometime "in the first week of June," Duke will appear here (date and venue TBD) for an In the Actors Studio-style interview.

Two months ago, Duke ended her run as Madame Morrible in the San Francisco production of Wicked.

Visit the arts blog at inlander.com.
[photo: from the 1962 movie; from sixties60s.com]

Patty will be in town

In his curtain speech for the opening of Interplayers' 29th season, new artistic director Reed McColm announced that that the previously announced *Actors Studio*-style interview of Patty Duke, intended as a fund-raiser for IPT, will take place after Duke has concluded her run as Madame Morrible in *Wicked* -- that is, sometime after February.
[photo: Patty Duke as Madame Morrible, from the San Francisco Sentinel]