January 2017

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My Man Godfrey

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A Vintage 1930’s Screwball Comedy
My Man Godfrey, a theater adaptation of the 1936 screenplay written by Eric Hatch, takes us to an era of ritz that is not-so-passé. Our scene is set in the bustle of depression era Ney York. Godfrey, portrayed by Eric Smiley, is plucked out of the city dump by the histrionic young socialite Irene Bullock (Sarah Karnes). On a whim, he’s hired on as a Butler for the Bullocks, who are notorious for driving away even the most seasoned butlers. Godfrey seems to be made of sterner stuff, but as he wins the affections of each quirky family member, we find that our butler may not be entirely who he claims to be.

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Bring Down the House, Part 1: Throne of Treachery

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A country on the cusp of a new era. A polarized political system, with scheming and selfishness pushing things to the point of no return. Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Bring Down the House, Part 1: Throne of Treachery mixes political intrigue and personal ambition in a gripping adaption of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy.
Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 may have established Shakespeare’s reputation with their original audiences, but these plays are relatively unpopular today…
Bring Down the House, Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski’s adaption of Henry VI, highlights the strengths of the trilogy, and minimizes its weaknesses…

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OROBORO -A Comedy with Loops

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Have you ever been just on the edge of sleep, only to be jerked into consciousness by the gut-sinking sensation of free fall? That’s precisely how it feels watching K. Brian Neel’s original play Oroboro, whipping in and out of thought and time. If you’re searching for something more abstract than linear plots, Oroboro is the show for you. Oroboro

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Happy Hour-Delivers Laughter and Tears at 18th & Union

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The Stars are no longer Spangled

It is often said that a good actor can take the telephone book and make it seem dramatic. Well, right here in Seattle at 18th & Union Theatre, two comediennes Keira McDonald and Erin Stewart, dared each other to write a sketch comedy to open on Inauguration Day 2017…a day which was decidedly unfunny, yet they kept us falling in the aisles with laughter. This is no mean feat, given the terror/disgust/boredom which people have felt after this long presidential campaign. Since the script did not depend on sophisticated language, the comedy was all in the delivery-sometimes very subtle, by these two comic geniuses, who could make the simplest sentence, seem unbelievably funny.

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SHOT

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    In the world premiere of SHOT, director and choreographer, Donald Byrd, exposes the vulnerability of the Black body

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“Shot” Disrupts Our Comfort Zones

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World Premiere
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James Baldwin

Law enforcement officers—police officers—now have an infamous reputation for killing unarmed people of color of all ages and genders. This s not new, of course, essayist James Baldwin wrote about it decades ago, and comedian Richard Pryor joked about police accidentally “breaking” black suspects by using the illegal strangle hold. But the murder of Michael Brown and the spontaneous birth of Black Lives Matter has held a spotlight on this problem unlike any attention paid to it before now.

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