Bohemia: Visually Stunning, but lacks substance
Mark Siano and Opal Peachy’s latest collaboration, Bohemia, is a viridescent cabaret about music, dance, absinthe and sex that took […]
January 2019
PREVIEW Deaf Spotlight -Short Play Festival in ASL
Festival of Short Ten-Minute play in ASL-American Sign Language Deaf Spotlight will partner with ACTLab to present their first-ever short
PREVIEW The Lover in Winter-Songs for Countertenor
World Premiere
Countertenor, Organ, Piano, and Viola
On Saturday, January 26th, Music @ St. Thomas will present The Lover In Winter, a solo vocal recital of 21st century songs for countertenor, sung by José Luis Muñoz. Muñoz is often heard premiering and creating new works and has been described as “a fabulous countertenor” with “amazing, powerful range.”
‘Last Five Years’ Powerful Drama for inD Theatre
A night of community theater is many things. It can be a classic, such as “My Fair Lady.” It can
We Are Here-Never Did It
Two Funny Dudes Make us Laugh ( and almost cry)
I felt very privileged to be in the audience for Never Did It, the first shows of We Are Here, Intiman’s Festival of original works by Emerging Artists at 18th and Union. Never Did It was comprised of The Hummingbird by Chris Quilici and Just Do It Already by Ponch. aka Alfonso Campos Jr,
Love and war and death and vengeance in Il trovatore at the Seattle Opera
Mountain climbers have Mt. Everest. Captain Ahab had his whale. For the opera world, there is Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore
I Do, I Do at Village Theatre
I Do, I Do is an odd duck, to use a quaint old phrase. But quaint and old are both
All’s Well at Seattle Shakespeare
Seattle Shakespeare is on an impressive roll: their productions now consistently feature some of the most outstanding acting found anywhere in the Northwest. A highly skilled cast is a necessity when it must handle Shakespeare’s prickly All’s Well That Ends Well. The rarely produced show is labeled a “problem play” because it features a naturalistic context in which social issues are debated. Yet Shakespeare insisted on grafting onto this framework a number of comedic elements borrowed from the ancient Italian Commedia dell’arte, as he includes stock characters and some absurd “bed play.” That the play’s hodgepodge of elements blend into a wonderful entertainment is all due to a marvelously adept cast deftly handled by director Victor Pappas.
Paradise Theatre’s ‘Anne Frank’ Chilling and Timely
The Diary of Anne Frank was a specific recounting of a specific time in world history. But it wouldn’t be
‘Forbidden Broadway’ a Delightful Farce at Lakewood Playhouse
“Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits” is a movable feast. Originally produced in 1982, the show that spoofs the Great White Way