Teresa Thuman and the crew at  Sound Theatre Company just keep on cranking out solid productions of well-written and well-chosen plays that not only delight but also challenge audiences. And the company’s latest show, Tom Stoppard’s two one-act plays, “Dogg’s Hamlet” and “Cahoot’s Macbeth” is no exception to the rule.  In “Dogg’s Hamlet,” a play [...]

Frank Ferrante’s uncannily spot-on portrayal of Groucho Marx at ACT Theater’s Cabaret pulls no punches. Groucho’s acerbic wit and unabashed lechery come alive both onstage and in Ferrante’s lengthy improvised meanderings among the audience, horsing around with the audience much as the master of madcap himself might have done and ruffling a few feathers along [...]

  Caryl Churchill’s 1978 play “Cloud 9” is known as an audacious, racy gender-bender that pokes a finger in the eye of patriarchy and sexual repression while celebrating the freedom of the 1970’s sexual revolution. Rogue Theatrics’ brave undertaking in Seattle Center House Studio 4 fails to fully persuade that the buzz is deserved.  As [...]

The Temperamentals A play by Jon Marans Directed by Roy Arauz With marriage equality now law in parts of the land, and a tectonic shift underway in public attitudes toward homosexuality, it is timely to consider the roots of the LGBTQ movement. Progressive change in society requires sacrifice and courage by those willing to face [...]

“The Hairy Ape” is Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 Expressionist drama that tackles the questions of class differences and social hegemony in American society. It follows the story of “Hank,” a manual laborer who works in the fiery bowels of a luxury steamship that transports wealthy upper-class passengers on holiday. In the beginning, the brutish Hank is [...]

Seattle is having an excellent theatrical season so far this year, and Balagan’s latest production, “August: Osage County,” the Pulitzer prize winning drama by Tracy Letts, might just be the icing on the cake! With an epic dramatic structure reminiscent of those of Chekhov, combined with the piercing, psychological insight into family dynamics evocative of [...]

Theater Schmeater has got a knock-out production on its hands with “The Gingerbread House,” written by Mark Schultz and directed by Julia Griffin. The play tells the story of “Stacey” and “Brian,” played respectively by Sara Coates and Tom Dewey, an all-American couple who decide to sacrifice everything, including their children, in order to achieve [...]

Love’s Labour’s Lost could be entitled Lust’s Labour’s Lost, because its central theme is that the expressions of love may be just as self-indulgent as lust and that is advisable before marriage distinguish between hormonal love and husband material. To emphasize the self-indulgent nature of men, the director of Seattle Shakespeare’s current production of LLL, Jon Kretzu, opens the play the morning after a party of the Bright Young Things of the 1920’s immortalized by Evelyn Waugh in numerous novels including Vile Bodies and Brideshead Revisited.

One thing is certain: the name of this theatre company is quite fitting given the amount of love and passion that was demonstrated on the stage of the Historical Washington Center during the opening night performance of Copious Love Productions’ two-act, psycho-road-trip-drama, “Cedar & the Redwoods.”   The opening monologue by co-director, John Paul Sharp, [...]

       Say what you will about class warfare – it sure makes for wonderful drama.  David Lindsay-Abaire’s latest work has its Northwest debut at the Rep, and it simply crackles with insightful wit and entertaining conflict.  The time is now, right now and good jobs for our struggling lower class are still maddeningly [...]