NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 13.
PORT TOWNSEND — PT PlayFest, Key City Public Theatre’s 19th annual celebration of live theater, wraps up this weekend with free programs, performances and plenty of conversation.
Doris Baizley, a co-founder of LA Theatre Works, is PlayFest’s featured artist and the author of “Neel Beaux,” a new play that will take the stage at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St., during tonight’s “Evening with Doris Baizley.”
Tickets are $20 for the 7:30 p.m. event at the Key City box office, 360-385-5278, and www.KeyCityPublicTheatre.org.
Baizley also will be part of a playwrights’ panel discussion Saturday and teach writing workshops Saturday and Sunday.
Readings, open rehearsals and full productions are also part of PlayFest’s final few days.
Festival passes
A festival pass, at $35, covers all performances, while the $95 writer’s pass includes all shows plus Baizley’s intensive workshop Sunday for playwrights.
Tonight’s presentation of “Neel Beaux” will feature Port Townsend actress Michelle Hensel and Key City Public Theatre apprentice Jordan Carlson as a pair of artists from different eras. They engage in conversation — and then Baizley will extend that discussion of art and life with the playhouse audience.
Baizley will then teach a free playwriting workshop — for writers of all levels — from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Pope Marine Building, 603 Water St.
On Sunday, she will offer an intensive workshop at the Pope Marine Building from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for playwrights with works in progress.
The fee for Sunday’s intensive is $75, and as with the free Saturday workshop, participants should call or email ahead to ensure a seat: rsvp@keycitypublictheatre.org or 360-385-5278.
Here’s the lineup of PlayFest activities in downtown Port Townsend:
Today
■ 11 a.m. — Staged reading of “Optimism, Or” by AP Andrews, $10 at Key City Playhouse.
■ 1:30 p.m. — Reading of “skinny crazy small” by Sylvie Mae Baldwin, $10 at the Pope Marine Building.
■ 2:30 p.m. — One-act productions: “Beautiful Ratty Blanket,” “Oedipus at Delphi” and “Let’s Give the Dog Hands!,” $15 at the playhouse.
■ 3 p.m. — Open rehearsal for “skinny crazy small,” free at Pope Marine.
■ 5 p.m. — Readings of the one-act plays “Lucifer,” “Mortuary Affairs” and “The Standoff,” $10 at Pope Marine.
■ 7:30 p.m. — “An Evening with Doris Baizley,” $20 at the playhouse.
Saturday
■ 10 a.m. — Playwriting workshop, free at Pope Marine.
■ 11 a.m. — Teen Lab play written and produced by local teens, $10 at the playhouse.
■ 1:30 p.m. — Open rehearsal for “Optimism, Or,” free at the playhouse.
■ 2 p.m. — Open rehearsal for “Neel Beaux,” free at Pope Marine.
■ 4:15 p.m. — Insta-Play, a production written and performed by those who show up, free at Pope Marine.
■ 6 p.m. — “Three Generations of Playwrights on Life and Death,” a panel discussion, free at the playhouse.
■ 7:30 p.m. — One-act productions, $15 at the playhouse.
■ 8 p.m. — “Working Drafts,” cold readings of six new scripts by selected local playwrights, $10 at Pope Marine.
Sunday
■ 10 a.m. — Playwriting intensive, $75 at Pope Marine.
■ 1:30 p.m. — Reading of “skinny crazy small,” $10 at the playhouse.
■ 3 p.m. — One-act readings, $10 at Pope Marine.
■ 5 p.m. — “Neel Beaux” reading, $10 at the playhouse.
■ 6:30 p.m. — Pass-holder party at the playhouse, free for pass holders.
■ 7:30 p.m. — “Optimism, Or” reading, $10 at the playhouse.
