‘Housewives’ Angry, But Full Of Laughs

“Angry Housewives,” the perennial crowd-pleaser about four meek housewives who form a punk band, returns to the Valley Repertory Theatre Friday through July 27.

This show first debuted in Seattle’s Pioneer Square Theater in 1983. It has been produced many times in Spokane since.

The director is Jodine Watson, and the choreographer is Kathie DoyleLipe.

The show will run Thursdays through Sundays beginning Friday. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m., Sunday shows are at 2 p.m., and Thursday shows are at 7:30 p.m.

It will run this weekend and then take a break until July 11, after which it will continue through July 27. Tickets are $10, reserved by calling 927-6878.

The Valley Rep is located on the southwest corner of Sprague and Pines in the Valley.

‘Love and Lunacy’

The Pullman Summer Palace, the yearly summer stock theater operated by Washington State University’s School of Music and Theatre Arts, opens tonight with “Love and Lunacy,” an original farce done in commedia dell’arte style.

Commedia dell’arte is the comic style perfected during the Italian Renaissance that involves stock characters such as Harlequin and Pantaloon, and plenty of broad, physical slapstick comedy.

The show runs tonight, Friday and Saturday, and then continues July 3, 5 and 6. All performances are at 8 p.m. in the Jones Theater in Daggy Hall on the WSU campus. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for students and children under 18. Call (509) 335-7236 for information and tickets. The Summer Palace’s season will continue with “East Lynne,” an oldfashioned melodrama, July 11-13 and 17-20, and “Oliver!” the musical based on the Dickens tale, July 25-27 and July 31-Aug. 3.

, DataTimes