The Bee Man of Orn: Fun, Laughter and Morals
Among the many delights of the annual Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival in Volunteer Park (SOFT) are the children’s shows; this year I had the pleasure of reviewing The Bee Man of Orn by Dacha Threatre, and sitting with a number of happy engaged children.
Henry IV Part 2, one of Shakespeare’s history plays features one of the bard’s most brilliant comic characters, Falstaff. Prepared for Falstaff’s relentless pursuit of revelry and propensity for deception by this play’s precursor, (Henry IV part 1), audiences won’t be disappointed.
Watching Last Leaf Productions’ “Henry VIII,” I realize Shakespeare in the Park is an unfortunate medium. Often crowded by noise,
The Taproot Theatre has been bringing quality shows to the Greenwood neighborhood for years, but rarely has it produced a blow the doors open, buckle-up energy, Broadway quality show such at it has going on now with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star. The path these two musicians and storywriters took to creating an award winning Broadway musical is quite circuitous. The pair was inspired by the folk song “The Ballad of the Iron Mountain Baby” which narrates the mostly true story of a baby who in 1902 was left for dead when discovered by a William Helms near the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. In 2013 Martin and Brickell produced a bluegrass album that touched on the themes of this tale. That record went on to form the basis for their musical that hit Broadway in 2016.
Content warning: discussion of rape. Theatre 9/12’s “Death and the Maiden” is a fascinating and difficult work. Transforming the Trinity
Vicinity (Memoryall) opened quietly this weekend at 18th and Union. This seems appropriate for a play, written by Cristine Deavel
From the comedy writers, who have had Seattle in stitches for decades and the creators of last year’s sell-out super
On Sunday I sat on the lawn by the Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park to watch the Shakespeare Northwest company’s Once Upon a Shakespearean Tale, written and Directed by Carolyn Travis-Hatch. This show is part of GreenStage’s 2019 Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival. This string of five stories in the style of William Shakespeare, wonders how Billy might have written fairy tales.
“The way it ought to be.” It’s an expression used for everything from baseball without the abominable Designated Hitter, to
Every few years the appetite of community theater decision-makers and the arcane world of copyright and availability combine to bring
