2017 SEATTLE FRINGE FESTIVAL: DANCING ON THE WALL
2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Dancing on the Wall- A review by Nick Nguyen. Dancing on the Wall attempts to give […]
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2017 Seattle Fringe Festival: Carry We Openly
Carry We Openly Asks Just how Absurd can the US Gun Culture Get?
A little over two years ago the writer-director team of Nick Stokes and José Amador premiered Carry We Openly in tandem with Openly We Carry by Paul Mullin at Theater off Jackson. They have revived it for this year’s Fringe Festival* for four performances at the Center Stage in Seattle Center.
Lights up and we find Justice (Stefan Richmand) and his mother Felicity (Abie Ekenezar) frantically looking for It. Eventually, Justice’s grandfather and Felicity’s father, Liberty (Bob Williams) awakens and joins the search. For the duration of the play all the characters look for It, and It never seems to be found. One is not quite clear just what It is. They look everywhere.
Stokes intentionally leaves it unclear
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PREVIEW-TELLING
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to tell someone about it. Telling is less about the imagined worlds portrayed
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Premieres Triumph In New Season
As Artistic Director Bill Rauch enters his second decade of leadership, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) its eighty-second season
Sex with Strangers
ReAct Theatre Celebrates 24 Years with the Seattle Premiere of Sex with Strangers
Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers has a solid Seattle Premiere in the capable hands of director David Hsieh of ReAct Theatre. This is ReAct’s first show at 12th Avenue Arts on Capitol Hill.
Hsieh has apparently a lucky hand to be the first to bring this 2009 play here as this play’s themes resonate across several local communities. The play ponders questions about internet technology versus old school paper books in our outerworld. Deeper questions reflect tensions within and between writers as they cope with feeling under-appreciated versus over-hyped for the wrong reasons and their impacts on our innerworlds.
This play has one audience among the many people working in tech, and another among the many writers and their readers who fill the Seattle Arts & Lectures talks and populate all those classes at Hugo House.
26 Miles by Latino Theatre Projects
In Latino Theatre Projects’ production of 26 Miles, audiences are swept away on an unforgettable road trip to Yellowstone between
Seattle Fringe Festival 2017 PREVIEW
The Seattle Fringe Festival returns March 23 – April 1, for 2 jam-packed weekends of live performances, including scripted theatre, dance, solo performance, burlesque, experimental, performance art, clown, drag, opera, improv and comedy.
Seattle has long had a national reputation as a hotbed for fringe performance. Since the Seattle Fringe Festival’s relaunch in 2012, it has reignited a growing and increasingly diverse audience base of devoted fans, local industry members, curious first-timers, and Puget Sound arts buffs with an adventurous streak. They share a passion for performance where artists push the boundaries of their craft, experiment with form or content, and take artistic risks.
LOSSY
“You can’t leave, not until you remember what you lost”
When you think of independent theater, you think of a departure from the expected and Lossy delivers. Lossy an original play by the local ensemble group, WanderLost Laboratory Theatre opened last night at the Slate Theater. The theater space is a simple square surrounded on all sides by audience chairs. An intimate space that puts the audience on the same level as the actors. As an audience we feel grounded in the action and well-placed to observe the movement of character and evolution of their story.
PREVIEW Les Seagulls
Seattle’s newest Improv group Les Seagulls will have their Inaugural performance in Seattle at 3:15 at Seattle’s French Fest on Sunday March 19. Headed by Artistic Director, comedian Sébatien Plisson, formerly of San Francisco’s “La D-Boussole.”
The demonstration of improv techniques will be in French. Taking place annually every spring at the Seattle Center, the French Fest, hosted by the Northwest French American Chamber of Commerce, celebrates Francophone cultures. 
Les Seagulls. The Armory (Center House) Seattle Center, 305 Harrison, Seattle, WA
Sunday March 19, 201. 3:15 to 4. Free.
Milk Like Sugar at ArtsWest review
Kirsten Greenidge’s award-winning coming-of-age story, Milk Like Sugar, is a moving examination of class, race, and gender through the life of a teenage girl. With a stellar cast and beautiful design, Malika Oyetimein’s directorial debut for ArtsWest is a production you won’t want to miss.
Milk Like Sugar is the story of three young women of color living in the inner city. On Annie’s sixteenth birthday, she and her friends make a pact to get pregnant and have babies together as soon as possible. They see this as an easy path to unconditional love and baby shower swag, but things quickly get more complicated…
Malika Oyetimein brings her strength as a director and her passion for telling the historically untold stories of people of color to ArtsWest for the first time with Milk Like Sugar…