Attempts on Her Life
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life was written as a stage production with no characters—only dialogue. It discusses a woman […]
April 2014
The Mark of Immediacy
Anything but Immediate
Mark, the evangelist, was one of 70 Disciples of Christ and the founder and later Bishop of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt. Twenty-five years after Jesus’ death in 30 AD, he wrote down, presumably in Greek, the oral stories and legends about His life, which we know today as the Gospel according to Mark. Since his Gospels were the first ones to be written down, they are considered the most direct, best-written, with a coherent plot and the most dramatic.
Impenetrable
Soliloquy and emotion leave a lasting impression in Mia McCullough’s Impenetrable. Charles Waxberg directs the fractured, multi-perspectives as thoughts and feelings
Moby Alpha
Appealing to Sci-Fi Lovers as well as Sci-Fi Loathes
Arguably the most creative and well-scripted comedy act ever produced in Seattle (or for that matter the world) Moby Alpha played to a full house this weekend at Ballard Underground.
A….My name is Alice
Truth, Sadness and Endearing Humor
At Kenyon Hall in West Seattle, 12th Night Productions presented A…My name is Alice, a musical revue conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd, which originally opened in New York City in 1983. With 21 songs by composers David Zippel, Winnie Holzman, and Lucy Simon, as well as sketches and monologues, the audience is kept amused and engaged for two hours.
Tails of Wasps
If you’ve ever wanted to witness the inside of a sex scandal then Stephanie Timm’s world premiere of Tails of Wasps, Directed
Gideon’s Knot
Unraveling the Knot
Gidion’s Knot, a highly entertaining two-woman play about an extremely disturbing topic opened this past weekend at the Seattle Public Theatre. Directed superbly by SPT’s artistic director Shana Bestock, written by Johnna Adams, two local actresses starred and sparred for 70 minutes of high drama, in a highly charged conversational tango.