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Seattle's Intiman Theatre is beginning to see some big artistic changes. They have named Kate Whoriskey as the theater's new artistic director, succeeding Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, who will become the resident director of New York's Lincoln Center Theatre. As for Whoriskey, she's moving to town from New York, where she recently directed the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined. Whoriskey will take over the role entirely in 2011; until then, the two artistic directors will be working together on programming for the duration of the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

For the first time ever, we paid attention to the Tony Awards, where artists with ties to the Puget Sound region were winning all over the place. Bartlett Sher, artistic director down at the Intiman, didn't win for , and was developed for the stage as part of the "Village Originals workshop" in 2005, is a fine reminder that Seattle isn't just a stop for big musicals on their way to Broadway, but a place where talented artists actually generate the work that becomes the toast of New York. Congrats all!

The theatre is considered so negligible in American culture (and in many ways : Bartlett Sher, the artistic director of the Intiman, is the first white director in decades to helm a major production of an August Wilson play, outraging some African-American theatre artists. Wilson, who spent the last 15 years of his life in Seattle, had limited productions of his work to companies that hired African-Americans as directors and designers; since his death in 2005, his widow has overturned that prohibition.

It seems like that's a common fear, to lose our place in the now, but the story Weems tells reminds us how rejuvenating trips down memory lane can be. Rejuvenating--and colorful, poignant, hilarious, and heart-warming--Namaste Man runs through June 22 at the Intiman (tickets: $10-$48). For a solo performer, Weems is unusually disinterested in telling you "what it all means," which we appreciated. Instead, he offers a preternaturally observant eye on his childhood experiences in the early '70s in Nepal, as the son of a U.S. State Department official.

Through April 29, Tickets $25-$72

Tony Award®-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza" is coming home to Seattle on its current National Tour. We just assume you know all about its effect on the Broadway set, but if not, here.

Welcome to Intimania! The Intiman had its annual Gala last Saturday (more on that after the jump). On Sunday, Intiman's leadership, Bartlett Sher and Laura Penn, were in New York to collect Intiman's 2006 Regional Theater Tony. [Seattle Times, Seattle P-I] The Sher-directed Awake and Sing! took the Tony for best play revival. His Richard III opens at the Intiman this Friday.