Book-It Repertory Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read.
Book-It makes it’s home in Seattle, WA and is located in the Center House Theatre, at the Seattle Center. The Center House Theatre is on the first floor of the Center House (under the food court, at the opposite end from the Children’s Museum).
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Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded by a group of theatre artists who love to read and are passionate about literacy. Recognizing the immense wealth of story, character and language that exists in classic and contemporary literature, these artists wanted to create opportunities for audiences and fellow artists to experience theatre through imaginative stagings of written narrative. By creating theatre exclusively from literature, Book-It strives to inspire the love of reading through a live, communal experience.
From its early beginnings as a collective of artists experimenting in a workshop setting, to its current day as one of Seattle’s most thriving, unique theatres with over 1,600 subscribers, Book-It’s main purpose has always been to bring literature to life on stage, and inspire people to read.
Book-It creates world-premiere adaptations of classic and contemporary literature for the stage using the Book-It Style™, preserving the narrative text as it is spoken, not by a single “narrator” but as dialogue by the characters in the production. This technique was developed over the last 20 years and continues to be developed by Book-It artists led by Founding Co-Artistic Directors, Jane Jones and Myra Platt. Performing books instead of plays allows the Book-It theatre experience to spark the audience’s interest in reading and to challenge the audience to participate by using their imaginations. Book-It’s unique style of acting and adapting books is trademarked.
Book-It has produced more than 65 world-premiere adaptations of literature. All adaptations are copyrighted. For a full production history click here.
