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Ally Powell plays Mary Lennox in APOD Productions’ “The Secret Garden,” the Broadway musical drama, which starts Friday at the Viola Community Center.
It’s a busy couple of weeks for theater in the region, including shows opening in Lewiston, Viola and Moscow:
Lewis-Clark State College’s theater program will perform William Shapespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays Nov. 2-11 at the Silverthorne Theatre, 500 Eighth Ave., Lewiston.
Lane Richins, of the college’s Humanities Division, directs the mischievous story of a love triangle starring LCSC students — and one from the University of Idaho.
Tickets, sold at the door, are $10 general admission; $5 for seniors, military members, veterans and children 12 and younger; and free for LCSC students with a student ID card.
The production, suitable for all ages, runs approximately 90 minutes.
APOD Productions brings the Broadway musical drama “The Secret Garden” to the stage starting Friday at the Viola Community Center, 1007 Rothfork Road.
Performances of the play, based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, are at 7 p.m. Nov. 2-3, and 9-11, with 2 p.m. matinees Nov. 4-5 and Nov. 11.
Described in an APOD news release as “a story of brokenness, love and healing,” the play tells the story of 11-year-old Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera in India. The role of Lennox is shared by 10-year-old Lucy Merten-Daily, of Harvard, and 11-year-old Ally Powell, of Troy.
Paul Hanes, who plays the uncle, Archibald Craven, is a veteran of local community theater, including appearances in Regional Theatre of the Palouse productions of “Les Miserables” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Tickets — $20 adults, $15 ages 6-12 and free 5 and younger — are available at apodproductions.org and at the door. A group discount of 20% is available for the purchase of four or more tickets.
Moscow Community Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tragicomedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” opens Nov. 3 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St., Moscow.
The story of two minor characters in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” was made into a 1990 movie starring Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss and Tim Roth.
Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 11 and 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 12.
Tickets — $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors — are available at the door, at Safari Pearl in Moscow and at moscowcommunitytheatre.org/tickets.
