PORT TOWNSEND — With the 17th annual Playwrights’ Festival to begin next week, Key City Public Theatre is throwing a free party at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St., this evening.
The event will start with a 5:30 p.m. reception for the five winners of Key City’s One-Act Play Competition: Angela Amos, Judith Glass Collins, Susan Solley, Deborah Wiese and D.D. Wigley.
Tonight’s festivities will continue with awards and excerpts from the winning plays at 6 p.m.
These one-act productions are Amos’ “Solvo Mae Mae,” Glass Collins’ “iChat,” Solley’s “Two Angels Walk into a Bar,” Wiese’s “Assault With a Not So Deadly Weapon” and Wigley’s “Diptych: What You Wish For.”
The plays also will be presented during the Playwrights’ Festival, to run March 7-24 at the Key City Playhouse.
For information about tickets, performances and the playwriting workshops to be taught March 16 and 17 by guest playwright Jack Heifner, visit www.KeyCityPublicTheatre.org or phone 360-379-0195.