First Tuesday Readers Theatre

2006-2007 Season

October 3, 2006
Shirley Valentine
by Willy Russell
A touching comedy about a middle-aged woman who seizes an opportunity to break out of the mold society has cast for her.  Her holiday in Greece leads her to a new lease on life, and a renewal of hope and self-confidence.  Shirley’s rebirth is brilliantly depicted with humor, warmth and human insight.  
Directed by Steve Smith

November 7, 2006          
Nixon’s Nixon    
by Russell Lees

Explore what might have gone through the infamous President’s addled mind the night before his famous departure from the White House.  In this satirical comedy, we listen in on a clandestine meeting between Nixon and his testy Secretary of State, Kissinger, as they each jockey for position at any political price.  
Directed by Jack Featheringill

December 5, 2006                      
Bell, Book and Candle                
by John Van Druten

A sparkling romantic comedy with supernatural overtones, set in the heart of New York City.  A beautiful art shop owner, also skilled in sorcery, unexpectedly falls hard for a hapless visitor to her store on Christmas Eve.   Romantic complications abound, as he tries to resist falling under her spell.  
Directed by Kate Hawkes

February 6, 2007                        
Wonderbroads                    
by Melinda E. Pittman

A fast-paced comedy music revue, spiced with zinging satire and political insight about the women who influenced and reinvented our world. -- babes and broads who broke the rules.  Tap along to entertaining new tunes sung by the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Susan B. Anthony!   
Directed by Melinda E. Pittman

March 6, 2007                                       
The Giver                       
by Lois Lowry

In a seemingly utopian society of the future, we meet young Jonas, who has been selected to inherit a special position – Receiver of Memory.  Through the aging incumbent, Jonas is given memories of things that have been eliminated in his world: violence, sadness and loss.  He grows to see that a society free of pain, based on “sameness”, robs the living of any emotional depth.  
Directed by Stan Foote

April 3, 2007                              
Shadowlands                                         
by William Nicholson

The deeply moving and beautiful love story of C.S. Lewis, author of Chronicles of Narnia, and Joy Gresham, his American fan.  Lewis finds his life rejuvenated by Gresham, but must struggle with his beliefs that suffering should be endured with patience when he loses his new found love to cancer.   
Directed by Andres Alcala  

May 1, 2007                  
A Musical Treat

Once again, the “dessert” of the season!  A delightful, dynamic, original musical revue performed by some of Portland’s finest.             
Directed by Adair Chappell

Readings are presented at 
The Old Church, 1422 SW 11^th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 

Coffee at 10:00 AM        Performance at 10:30 AM

Season Tickets: $35      Single Performances: $6

Tickets available at the door, or send your check to:

Portland Civic Theatre Guild

PO Box 1181, Portland, OR  97207

In the event of bad weather, if Portland Public Schools close, the reading will be canceled and re-scheduled. 

Drammy Awards Home Page:
http://www.drammy.info/
The Portland Area Theatre Alliance
http://www.patagreenroom.org/
Fulton Fellowship Winner 
Stephen Alexander
http://lostbirdproject.com/home.php