Evidence of Things Unseen by Taproot Theatre Company
What do you get when you combine a story of family, grief and an ivory-billed woodpecker? One hell of a […]
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PREVIEW-QUESTIONABLE CONTENT: Comedy Teams Duke it Out.
Anyone interested in interactive comedy theatre should check out Questionable Content. For two nights only, two teams will compete with topical questions, testing their wit and comic abilities.
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The Waltz of the Toreadors at Dukesbay Theater review
Dukesbay Productions brings Jean Anouilh’s seldom-performed comedy The Waltz of the Toreadors to Tacoma. The production’s ambitions often surpass the
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2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Dean Jacob’s Funeral
I wish I could tell you all what I just watched after coming out of Dean Jacob’s Funeral, but I
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2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Askew
Askew, a collection of four one-acts, will have you falling our of your seat with its hilarity. While there is
2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Cuddling with Strippers
Nik Doner presented his performance of a genre I would call comedy-memoir to a packed Black Box Theatre crowd this Saturday. Directed by Hannah Victoria Frankin with Hannah Mootz and Hannah Ruwe as exotic dancers to add true-to-lifeness. This show also featured video projection of some of Nik’s home movies and a stretch of a car crash video game as he narrated one particular drunken driving experience.
Part of the charms of attending performance entertainment like Cuddling with Strippers is the safe peek it offers into worlds alien to my own.
2017 SEATTLE FRINGE FESTIVAL: WHAT WOULD OUR MOTHERS THINK?
Faulty memories and dangerous politics. Life seen through two generations of women.
One of the early lines from this play is, “People have terrible memories and they’re never happy in the present.” Which could be interpreted as, many people never thoroughly analyze the past and many people conveniently imagine the good old days have passed them by, lamenting the present as the pits.
2017 Fringe Festival: Savage In Limbo
When looking over the program for the 2017 Seattle Fringe Festival* three words popped off the page: John. Patrick. Shanley. Yes, Lungfish Productions and Lion. Fish. Theater. Company bring us a play written by the author of Doubt and the movie Moonstruck during his struggling years. Shanley himself was 34 when he wrote about a motley collection of five high school classmates who drift into the same bar, like a joke with no punchline.
Shanley sets this play on a dreary no-action Monday night in an even drearier 1983 Bronx. In 1983, commercial, civic, and political so-called leaders were letting the Bronx literally fall apart, and the lives of these five were stalled as well. As the audience enters Murk (Jared Baron Spears) is well established behind the bar and actually dispensed drinks to the audience, if their tastes ran to wine or beer.
April White (Larissa Schmitz) sits alone folded into herself
“A Proper Place” at Village Theatre
The world premier performance of the new musical “A Proper Place,” is currently underway at Village Theatre. Penned by Leslie
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2017 SEATTLE FRINGE FESTIVAL: WOMAN WITHOUT HER COAT
“This is right out of a Mike Hammer novel…all the books start with a dame in trouble.” A relationship play