“Little Bee” has a sting
Book-it Repertory Theatre’s production of Chris Cleave’s 2008 novel draws a compelling narrative from key scenes and details of the […]
April 2015
Flushed: Knee Deep in the Afterflow
The official title of this one-man show at New City Theater—Flushed: Into the World of Water Treatment—doesn’t quite capture what this production is about. Stokley Towles answers the question: “after we flush, where does it all go?” with a 50 minute talk that moves back and forward in both time and geography. This is bigger than just water treatment. Towles delves into things too common for most of us to take much notice, and by delving and researching and coming back to share what he discovers he becomes both a pioneer and a mirror.
ACT Celebrates Its 50th Birthday with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The performing area is dominated by a tousled bed. What happens and more importantly doesn’t happen there will be the focus of the next three hours of ACT’s stirring revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The sixty-year old classic features the turmoil of Brick and Maggie’s unhappy marriage, wonderfully brought to life by Broadway stars Brandon O’Neill and Laura Griffith. While Brick’s struggle with his homosexuality may seem dated and merely quaint today, the couples’ fight to find a survivable path through their lives is as captivating as it must have been when ACT featured the play in its inaugural year.
Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies closes its run tonight at the Taproot Theatre at 8pm, and you ought to run to buy a
Saturday Morning Cartoons
The Pocket Theater opened its four week run of Saturday Morning Cartoons Saturday April 18th. With the tag line “Short
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Steve Martin misses the Big Bang at the Beginning of the 20th Century.
An art historian once said that the visual arts in any artistic movement are always connected to everything else that is going on in society, whether it is artistic, scientific or political. In the early 20th Century, these connections are particularly striking although one would not realize it from the play Steve Martin wrote, Einstein and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, currently at Delridge Cultural Center in West Seattle, produced by 12th Night Productions.
Alice in Wonderland
An adaptation of Alice in Wonderland opened Friday, April 10th at Stone Soup Theater. The stage full of psychedelic costumes,
August Wilson Documentary Opens Film Festival
The 12th Edition of the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival appropriately began with a tribute documentary about August Wilson. August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand celebrates the 70th year of his birth. Wilson’s family was in attendance, and Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow, encouraged Seattle to accept August as one of our own. She said he was very happy living here. They had fallen in love but lived in different cities and had to choose between here or Portland. Seattle had a stronger theater community, and that was the tiebreaker. Sorry Portland, they moved here, and yes, he’s one of us now.
Sex’d, an adaptation of La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
Round and Round the Sexual Merry-go-Round, circa 2015
An incredibly interesting engaging adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, called Sex’d opened at the LAB@INScape in the International District, produced by Handwritten Productions on Friday, April 10th.
Fail Better-Beckett Move UMO
Existence is too Serious to take Seriously
UMO Ensemble opened a performance featuring text from Samuel Beckett’s the Unnamable, physical theatre and music in the Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space at ACT theatre on April 9th.
Beckett is an extremely difficult author to stage because he writes non-linear confusing novels and plays whose humor that often gets lost because the subject matter deals with the most basic existential question: to go on living or not to go on living. As a result, it is often performed ponderously, tediously and at a snails pace so that the audience is never engaged.