Bring Down the House, Part 2: Crusade of Chaos
In Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective’s Bring Down the House, Part 2: Crusade of Chaos, the court drama […]
February 2017
Raisins in a Glass of Milk or Raisins in a Rainbow
What it is like to be perceived as the “Other” and still try to get the part.
“I want to be a raisin in a rainbow” exclaimed one of the actors in Raisins in a Glass of Milk, a scripted performance by six Cornish students and alumi, currently playing Sunday nights at 18th and Union Theatre. The subject was the casting difficulties one’s appearance causes if one’s appearance deviates from the perceived ideal of “normal” in our society, which is still the Northern European blue-eyed blonde.
Room Service Delivers at Taproot
Room Service first hit Broadway in 1937, in the midst of our country’s long dark Depression. The Marx Brothers took the play’s script, written by John Murray and Allen Boretz and made it into a movie the following year. It was their only movie not specifically created for them. Although there are lots of wacky shenanigans in the Taproot’s production, don’t expect to see specific Groucho and Harpo bits here. Director Karen Lund has her own original take on the comedic madness.
Shlong Song-Ironic Sarcasm is our Thing!!!
Sexual Bildungsroman
Yes, indeed Shlong does mean male appendage in Yiddish. That was about all I knew about the 9:30 Friday night play at 18th and Union, before an adorable young man dressed in combat boots, revealing short shorts and a car-coat length women’s fake fur coat, bounced on stage, like Tigger. Accompanied by what sounded like a female stripper’s song, he started dancing around, and showing off his “equipment.”
PREVIEW Questionable Content- A Comedy Panel Show
The hit comedy panel show, Questionable Content, returns to the friendly confines of The Pocket Theater on Friday, February 17th at 8:30pm. Questionable Content brings a cavalcade of comedians, performers and artists to compete in an uproarious battle of wit, deception and knowledge of off-beat pop culture and news.