Broke-ology’s Seattle Premiere Opens SPT’s New Season
“Fried bologna times sidewalk sales plus minimum wage minus health insurance/adequate education equals Brokeness times being alive. Bam! Broke-ology, baby.”–Ennis King, Broke-ology
September 2013
West Coast Premier of “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” Hot, Tense, and Poignant
After being shot by a soldier wielding the gold-plated gun of Uday Hussein, a tiger talks about the meaning of
HELLO DARLIN’S: Moms Got Something to Tell You!
A Schemata-clad African-American Lesbian Walked that Fine Line Between Good Taste and Unemployment, while Making $10,000 a week.
Josephine Howell, an actress and singer, starred in a One-Woman & Pianist Show about the life and work of “The Funniest Woman in the World,” Jackie “Mom’s Mabley at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Born in the 1890’s in the South, Mom’s Mabley’s career started with black vaudeville in the 1920’s on what is called the “Chitlin’ Circuit”.
The Matchmaker Wraps Up the Taproots’ 2013 Season
The play offers some great sight gags, slapstick humor, lots of restrained late Victorian flirting and just enough touching moments to keep the works from gumming up too badly on an overdose of sugar.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Quintessential Oprah Book Club Selection staged by Book-It
As I was sitting watching She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, I correctly guessed that it was an Oprah Book Club Selection. (1996)
Barefoot in the Park
The Precursor to the Odd Couple
Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1963, Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park opened on Broadway. Set right before the Great Cultural Revolution, this very dated play explores the same theme as The Odd Couple; namely, how can two people, who are polar opposites, live together in harmony, even if they are very close.
Soft Click of a Switch by Carter W. Lewis
How to Build Bombs and Influence People
Is actually the subtitle of the play Soft Click of a Switch; however, that title is somewhat misleading. Although building and detonating bombs does come into it, the play is actually about how alienated ineffectual males turn to violent destruction to regain a sense of purpose, albeit skewered, and feel that they have a place in the world.
Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels
Great Play, No Need to Make it into a Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the musical, which opened at Seattle Musical Theatre on Friday is the re-make of the 1988 movie, of the same name, which was a remake of an even better 1964 movie, Bedtime Story, with David Niven and Marlon Brando.
OSF 2013 SEASON HIGHLIGHTED BY SPECTACULAR WORLD PREMIERES AND GREAT AMERICAN CLASSICS
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 Season continues through November 3rd, and though one may be drawn to the beautiful town