For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday

Hosted by Spokane Civic Theatre

For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is Sarah Ruhl's odd, tender play about a woman named Ann who once played Peter Pan in a community theater production, now gathering with her brothers after their father's death. It starts around a hospital bed and a family card table and drifts somewhere stranger, with grown siblings arguing about politics and faith and then, gradually, flying. Ruhl writes the kind of theater where grief and whimsy sit in the same room without either one winning, and this one leans hard on an older actor carrying the whole thing. Civic is Spokane's longstanding community theater, a place built around the shared experience of a live show — audience, stage, and the people behind the scenes all part of the same evening. It's an intimate indoor house, good for a date or a group that likes to talk about the play afterward.