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Whether you have been in the INTIMAN family for decades or this is your first season, you know that you can depend on us for theatrical experiences you won’t find anywhere else. The fun begins from the moment you enter our tranquil, airy courtyard, leading to the open lobby filled with descriptive displays and inviting lounges, and then to our true jewel, our intimate 446-seat house, where every seat delivers you straight into the action.
Each season we bring you insights into the past and new perspectives on our world today. Our rich performance history combines timeless classics and the best contemporary and premiere works, and inspiring artists delivering unforgettable performances and creating new worlds through the most beautiful designs. That is why we are here — and why you keep coming back. This is where stories are told, ideas are sparked and questions are encouraged. This is where friends are made. You, our subscribers, bring the vision full circle. Join us!
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Crime and Punishment
Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus from the book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Directed by Sheila Daniels
Associate Director Sheila Daniels scored on the Seattle fringe with this award-winning version of Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, adapted for a three-person cast. Fresh off her success with this season’s A Streetcar Named Desire, she will re-imagine this taut, 90-minute thriller in a new production for INTIMAN. Heralded as “scorching,” “searing” and “a revelation” (Seattle Times, The Stranger and Crosscut.com), Crime and Punishment showcases the talents of one of Seattle’s most innovative directors.
A Thousand Clowns
By Herb Gardner
Directed by Sari Ketter
Playwright Herb Gardner (I’m Not Rappaport, Conversations with My Father) enjoyed his first success with this warm-hearted comedy, which won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and was later adapted into a successful, Academy Award-nominated film. A tribute to life’s eccentrics and nonconformists, A Thousand Clowns is also a touching love story about the relationship between a free-living, middle-aged iconoclast and his nephew, a 12-year-old genius.
Othello
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Following our acclaimed production of Richard III in 2006, we return to the Bard for Bart’s first-ever production of Othello (and his fourth production of a Shakespeare play since becoming Artistic Director). The fear that the “other” is the enemy lurks beneath the surface of this thrilling tragedy, and it only takes a whisper from a man who desires power and revenge to put terror in motion. Othello offers not only a portrait of pure Machiavellian evil, but also scenes of private, concentrated heartbreak. The play’s intense emotional intimacy—realized on our stage through the beauty of Shakespeare’s language and Bart’s visceral, passionate and beautifully choreographed staging—will create an equally intense intimacy between actor and audience, making this a production not to be missed.
The Year of Magical Thinking
A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir
Sometimes, one person seated on a stage can illuminate a world. In 2003, INTIMAN audiences thrilled to the story told by the Homebody in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul. Next season, we are proud to bring our audiences Joan Didion’s remarkable and wrenching one-woman play. One of America’s greatest writers, Didion both adapts and expands upon her award-winning, bestselling memoir about the year following the sudden loss of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, to also tell about the unexpected death of their only child. Didion transforms her most personal story of love and loss to touch us all with astonishing intimacy, surprising humor, and language that is fresh and new.
The American Cycle II
The final play in our season will launch our second American Cycle. We are excited to continue exploring, with our audiences, our shared history and national identity. All five titles will be announced soon.
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