Blood Water Paint: Emotional but Disjointed
You’d be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the name Artemisia Gentileschi. Art history is a bit of a niche area, […]
September 2019
‘Calendar Girls’ Works on Many Levels for Tacoma Little Theatre
A busy weekend of opening nights for South Sound theatres came to a close Sunday afternoon with Tacoma Little Theatre’s
Something Old, Something New in Tacoma Musical Playhouse’s “Addams Family”
Tacoma Musical Playhouse opened it’s 26th season this weekend with a semi-reprise of “The Addams Family.” The show that won
An Intimate “Twelfth Night, Or What You Will” at the Slate
Fern Shakespeare Company brings us now an intimate and funny Twelfth Night, Or What You Will at their new home: The Slate Theater. Using the performance method called Original Practice, director Wiley Basho Gorn, set a slow open to the show. The cast enters the stage and casually talk with the audience about everyday matters such as, what brought us out tonight, or how far did we travel. One can ask questions, I asked, “Who are you playing tonight.” I happened to be talking to Camille van Putten: “Viola.” “Oh, you have a lot of lines.” I’m not quite backstage, yet she’s not fully in role either.
My short exchange with an actor sampled the close contact of audience and performer common in Shakespeare’s time.
Lakewood Playhouse Opens Season 81 With Entertaining ‘Biloxi Blues’
Every writer puts a bit of him or her self into everything that comes from pen or keyboard. You just
Everything from pathos to pratfalls at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
At this point, it would seem unnecessary (bordering on silly) to marvel at the variety of offerings at the Oregon
Summerplay 2019 Offers Offbeat Theatre from Changing Scene Northwest
It is hard to believe that this is the 30-year anniversary of Summerplay. The sometimes complex, oftentimes perplexing, usually offbeat,
Waiting for the Paint to Dry
The Addiction of Matyrdom
Kairos Theatre Company, a new theatre in town, which focuess on works “celebrating the various and multifaceted aspects of the feminine journey” opened an original script Waiting for the Paint to Dry by K.E. Jenkins at 18th and Union, in Seattle’s Central District. It deals with one of the most feminine of all subjects, our tendency to be “Caretakers without Boundaries,” that is to say how caretaking can become unhealthy and destructive.
Rush to see Intiman’s Bulrusher
Intiman Theatre gave Seattle a hilarious, heartfelt, and poignant gift last Thursday night with the opening of Bulrusher at the