Ongoing special events include:
Rocky @ 24fps*/ mea culpa
I don’t mean to complicate your already busy lives, but three highly acclaimed movies begin this Friday, June 26th, and the wonderful Alloy Orchestra from Boston will be performing two shows at the Rose -- 1:00 & 4:00 -- this Sunday, June 28th.
Sugar, the second feature from filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson), is a beautiful and original story that is less about baseball and more about America through the eyes of an immigrant. As Nicole Armour so accurately stated in her Film Comment review, “Boden and Fleck [have] gambled on subtitles and unknown actors to come up with a film that improves on and is more sophisticated than their debut. Sugar’s personal achievement is uplifting -- and it’s also cause for celebration when artists create just for the love of the game.”
Every Little Step is a wonderfully entertaining documentary that skillfully weaves archival footage of the creation of “A Chorus Line” -- which opened in New York in 1975 -- with a behind-the-scenes look at how the 2006 revival was cast. “Theater director Michael Bennett had an inspired and equally simple idea when he tape-recorded the confessions, dreams and fears of gypsy hoofers and chirpers and turned their reflections on show business life into the basis of a show that ran for 15 years and collected just about every prize there is.” (The New York Times)
Goodbye Solo, from Iranian filmmaker Ramin Bahrani tells the story of the unusual relationship that develops between an upbeat Senegalese taxi driver named Solo, and a crotchety geezer from Winston-Salem, N.C. Bahrani “slowly weaves the two men’s lives together by stitching in little pockets of mystery, and the result is a playful , elusive movie that isn’t so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing.” (Entertainment Weekly)
The Alloy Orchestra is not to be missed. I have been wanting 13 years to bring this group to town. The wonderful thing about experiencing silent movies with live music is that every performance is different. It is live theater. The Alloy has been entertaining audiences around the world, and the accolades are well deserved. They will accompany the 1927 gangster movie Underworld. “These Boston-based musicians have rejuvenated the art of silent film with thrillingly quirky, percussive scores.” (Entertainment Weekly)
*24fps is the speed at which 35mm film travels through a motion-picture projector.
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The K of D, an urban legend
 By Laura Schellhardt
Directed by Braden Abraham
Starring Renata Friedman
www.thekofd.com
Key City Playhouse
419 Washington St.
July 28-August 1 at 7:00
August 2 at 2:30
Tickets, $10-$15, are available beginning June 26th at the Rose box office and on-line (Pay-What-You-Will on July 29)
A summertime ghost story about a lonely girl with a lethal skill, this mesmerizing one-woman/sixteen-character show played a sold-out run last summer in Seattle, and will be opening in New York City in late August as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
Renata began working at the Rose as a ticket-tearer in 1992, and is now a professional actress who divides her time between New York and Seattle. This will be the first time she has appeared on a Port Townsend stage in over 11 years.
"I believe the fun Friedman offers here is legendary" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Remarkable...Calling Friedman's cracked-mirror performance virtuoso is hardly adequate" - Seattle Times
"Nothing short of magical...delightfully creepy...so good it's scary" -Seattle Weekly
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