Theatre 9-12 will present “a tomorrow peek at” Garson Kanin’s famed play Born Yesterday, which originally opened on Broadway in 1946, ran for 1,642 performances until Dec. 31, 1949. Then it was made into a movie with Billie Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden. 
Theological and Philosophical Questions along with Humor
Under Charles Waxberg’s direction, Theatre 9-12, has produced one of Arthur Miller’s little known but extremely thought-provoking plays, The Creation of the World and other Business, which has had a rocky production history. Opening originally in New York in 1972, it closed after 20 performances but in 1973, an amateur theatre company at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe won the award for best production that year, for their production. It has also been re-worked into a musical, by Miller himself, called Up from Paradise, which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan. Along with a lot of jokes about God and Sex, there is also a conversation about the great theological and philosophical issues of mankind: the nature of evil, the imperfections of the world, the free-will given to mankind by a supposedly all-powerful creator and of course man’s relationship to God and Satan.
Critics arguing that Seattle’s current theater scene is in an impressive Golden Age, need not look any further than the stellar production of Uncle Vanya taking place on Capitol Hill at Theatre 9/12 to prove their claim. Once again director Charles Waxberg has gathered some of our area’s top actors and elicited breath-taking performances from them as they work their way through Annie Baker’s 2012 translation of Chekhov’s classic.
