The Miracle Worker

Join Dmae Roberts for a special membership edition of Stage & Studio focusing on unusual shows for the holiday. She'll feature The MIracle Worker at Artists Repertory Theatre with artistic director Dámaso Rodriguez and actors Val Landrum who plays Anne Sullivan and Agatha Olson who plays Helen Keller. We'll find out how relevant this American classic still remains in its story of courage and the power of the human spirit. We'll offer tickets to the show for memberships as well as tickets to Portland Center Stage's The Santaland Diaries and Twist Your Dickens. Tickets to the closing run of Imago Theatre's Zoo Zoo will also be offered. Please show your support of KBOO and Stage & Studio! 

(Photos featuring rehearsals of The Miracle Workers by Owen Carey.) 

More about the show:

The Miracle Worker
December 8 - January 3
By William Gibson. Directed by Dámaso Rodriguez.
Artists Repertory Theatre, Alder Stage, 1516 SW Alder Street, Portland
 $48 regular price; $25 previews, students, under 25
 Pay-What-You-Can First Preview performance: December 8
 Preview performances: December 8-11
Opening Night: December 12
Regular run:  through January 3        
For more Info or tickets, call the box office at  503.241.1278 or visit: www.artistsrep.org

The Miracle Worker is a play based on the lives of Helen Keller, who became DeafBlind* as an infant, and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who enabled her to become one of the most influential women of the 20^th Century.  As the play begins, Helen is a wild child with almost no ability to communicate with the world around her. Nearly at the point of giving up all hope, the Keller family brings the determined, once-blind and sign language-skilled Sullivan into their home in a final attempt to reach Helen. Together with the Keller family, the characters make a transformation that powerfully attests to what the human spirit can achieve.
 
*Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful sight and little or no useful hearing. Educationally, individuals are considered to be deafblind when the combination of their hearing and sight loss causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they require significant and unique adaptations in their educational programs. Helen Keller was one such individual.

The cast and creative team for The Miracle Worker features eight Artists Rep Resident Artists: Kristeen Willis-Crosser (Lighting Design), Val Landrum (actor), Mary McDonald-Lewis (Dialect Coach), Susannah Mars (actor), Michael Mendelson (actor), Amy Newman (actor), Rodolfo Ortega (Sound Design) and Joshua Weinstein (actor].

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