The Northwest has truly become a “melting pot” – and this original collection of stories and songs from around the region (and the world) will make a colorful holiday celebration for the whole family.

Wait – this is a comedy? From the early days of the Soviet Union? Yup. Masha thinks her unemployed husband wants to end it all. She’s wrong, but once the word gets out, everyone wants him to become a martyr for their particular cause. This slapstick farce makes fun of politicians, gossip and selfishness. Hey, that sounds like now!

This deliriously silly musical began life as an improv comedy show, but eventually became a Tony Award-winning Broadway smash. You’ve never rooted for a crazier bunch of “kids”. You may even get a chance to outspell them…!

This year’s “Science Play” transports the story from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to a modern-day English family. A son, returning home from his studies at Cambridge, must cope with the loss of his father and the plotting of his mother – trying to make sense of his feelings, and of family bonds, just as he is trying to understand the heady concepts of unified field theory.