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A&E Roundup: A New Show at Intiman, Harry Potter Exhibit Sticks Around

And a few other odds and ends.

By Laura Dannen January 11, 2011

Colman Domingo will star in Intiman’s upcoming production of A Boy and His Soul. Photo courtesy: The Vineyard Theatre.

Intiman Theatre has bumped The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from its upcoming 2011-12 season in favor of solo show A Boy and His Soul, written and performed by Broadway actor Colman Domingo and directed by Tony Kelly. In this local premiere, Domingo recounts his own coming-out, coming-of-age story to the soundtrack of his childhood in 1970s Philadelphia: all kinds of Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Smokey Robinson. The show won the Lucille Lortell Award for Best Solo Show Off-Broadway in 2010 and fits in better with this season’s larger theme of family, artistic director Kate Whoriskey said in a statement. A Boy and His Soul runs Oct 21-Nov 20, and Chloe Moss’s adaptation of Sleepy Hollow has been slated for the 2012-13 season.

Just announced: ACT’s Central Heating Lab goes voyeur with Ian Bell’s new four-show theater experiment. No playwrights involved here. Instead, Seattle Confidential asks anyone and everyone to submit personal (anonymous) stories based on the show’s theme at seattleconfidential.org, and local actors will perform the top submissions. This first show’s theme: Virginity Lost. Submissions are due January 31; the performance is February 7.

The Seattle Times reports that 5th Avenue Theatre might be swapping Oklahoma! this year for a Disney-backed world premiere of Aladdin.

Also in the Times: Seattle is no longer the most literate city in the nation. We lost to Washington D.C.

And Pacific Science Center announced that Harry Potter: The Exhibition has extended its stay in Seattle through February 13. (The original end date was January 30—get your Hogwarts fix for an additional two weeks.)

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