2017

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3-2-1 BATTLE!’s Weirder Steel Powerbombed My Heart (In a Good Way)

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Nerds, gimps, and cheating Canadians could all be found kicking ass for an enthusiastic audience at Evolv Fitness on Friday. 3-2-1 BATTLE!’s Weirder Steel was funny, thrilling, and bizarre, and set up one of their biggest shows of the year.
Professional wrestling as a whole taps into an element of the Western theatre tradition that is rarely found elsewhere the dramatic arts: the Dionysian. Anyone who has looked into the history of theatre has probably heard of the Dionysia, a festival in ancient Athens that honored the god Dionysus and featured three days of dramatic performances. Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, is the god of wine, theatre, fertility, and ritual madness and ecstasy. When one sees a play these days, wine is likely to be available, but the madness and ecstasy tend to be in short supply…

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Sycorax Is Loved

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Inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Tempest, Y York’s Sycorax is a powerful monodrama independent of the influencing work,

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Raucous Ride with Pride and Prejudice at the Rep

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Not one to mess too much with universal truths, I can confirm that it’s true; everyone loves a great comedy. Seattle Repertory Theatre presented the west coast premiere of Kate Hamill’s adaption of Pride and Prejudice last night. The play is directed by Amanda Dehnert, an experienced director who recently directed Westside Story, at Carnegie Hall. Kate Hamill shows her versatility and energy with this reimagined, sharp and humorous take on Pride and Prejudice. As Lizzy Bennet astutely states, “playing games keeps one sane.” Once the actors set foot on stage, there is no stopping the humor and fun.

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Albert Einstein Visits Greenwood in Taproot’s Relativity

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Taproot Theatre lays out a tough question with its local premiere of Relativity. Can a great man also be a good man? Do history’s heroes fail at being good human beings? Playwright Mark St. Germain attacks the conundrum with gusto in his three person period drama. He allows us to drop in on Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey on December 9, 1949 at a time the genius had already earned a great name. Early in the play, characters reference the biographies of Charles Dickens and Sigmund Freud, noting how their domestic success as husbands and fathers falls far short of their meteoric career achievements. Does Einstein also belong in this category of severely flawed men? While the play does not provide a definitive answer, it does offer ample food for thought for its audiences.

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Curie Me Away did just that

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Well-behaved Women Rarely Win Nobel Prizes

Although many people know that Marie Curie and her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize for discovering radioactivity and some new elements, many people don’t know how many serious obstacles she had to overcome to win her first Nobel Prize in 1903. For example, by law as a woman Marie, (née Sklodowska) was forbidden to enroll in the university in Warsaw. All these obstacles as well as a few French ones, were illuminated in Curie Me Away, Matheater’s musical biography of this incredibly intelligent and tenacious woman.

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Calculus a Musical? Really!

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Dreaming of Differentials

A wet-dream encountering the inventor of Calculus (who incidentally probably died a virgin) is not exactly the high point of the week for any teen-age girl, especially when she previously considered Calculus a cure for insomnia. However, the full house at 18th and Union found Calculus the Musical, hysterically amusing as well as educational

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