At Seattle Rep Where We Belong Demands Recognition
On September 21st at the Leo K. Theater at the Seattle Rep, Madeline Sayet flew across the stage in Where We […]
2022
Theatre 22 Offers a Moving “Nonsense and Beauty”
If the production of the award winning Nonsense and Beauty is indeed Theatre 22’s swan song, they are leaving us a delightful and thoughtful parting gift. Upon hearing the opening lines, written by playwright Scott C. Sickles, who was in the opening night’s audience, we know we are in good hands. We meet British author E.M. Forster and his best friend J.R. Ackerley attending a boating match between Cambridge and Oxford back in April, 1930. The two are quite enchanted watching the hard working young male boaters rocket down the river. The dialogue is witty and concise and deftly delivered. Before long, Forster will meet the love of his life, Bob Buckingham, a young British policeman. The nearly overwhelming romantic difficulties facing Forster and his much younger partner make for the basic conflict of the play. Upon this simple premise, Sickles constructs a moving story exploring a theme so important to Forster in his novels: in our crazy spinning world, nothing is more vital than making emotional and intellectual connections with our fellow man.
PREVIEW 18th and Union-Storytelling Festival runs September 8-
Portable Performance Festival
September 8-25, 2022
It is with great joy and delight that Drama in the Hood announces 18th and Union’s Portable Performance Festival, a two-and-half-week festival of Storytelling. For many years, 18th has sponsored traditional storytelling to delight audiences (and reviewers!) With sliding scale tickets this proves to be a unique experience in Seattle:
“A festival of solo storytelling and minimalist performance! As we reemerge from the pandemic, we recommit to 18th & U’s original spirit and vision, inviting a new batch of creators to share their fresh “portable” work with new and returning audiences.
Portable Performance Festival. 18th and Union. 1406 18th Ave (Central District)Seattle 98122, Bus #8, one block East of PCC on 23rd Ave. Street Parking.
Tickets are on a sliding scale, full-festival passes, six ticket passes or individual show tickets are available.
For tickets and a full schedule https://18thandunion.org/portable-performance-festival-september-2022
N.B. Vaccination certificats and masks required, the bar is NO CASH, cards only
This Flat Earth
Highly Topical but Highly Disappointing
Harlequin Production, in Olympia, known for excellent theatre productions addressing topical social justice issues just opened This Flat Earth, a disappointing play by Lindsey Ferrentino, directed by the Artistic Director Aaron Lamb. Although the publicity stated that the play was about the aftermath of a mass shooting in a middle school, the play verged off into so many unfocused unresolved different subplots, it was difficult to say what it was ABOUT.
Cowboys with Questions-Thoughts on a Workshop production
How the Emperor Lost his Clothes
For three more nights, Parley Productions is inviting the public to participate first in the immersive dramaturgical experience The Bacchic Rites inspired by ritual elements explored in the play, or just sit out and watch, as I did. Then watch a workshop production of Cowboys with Questions, a modern take on a Greek Tragedy by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. It could be subtitled: How the Emperor Lost his Clothes.
Want Opening Weekend: Is it Enough?
Playwright Barbara Lindsay’s Want had its delayed opening the weekend of August 4th at the Center Theatre. The Shattered Glass Project—an organization
The Elixir of Love is Being Poured
On August 6th, the renowned Seattle Opera finally lifted its curtain at McCaw Hall with its season opener, Elixir of Love.
Here There Be Dragons is Roaring to a Close
At Artswest in the West Seattle Junction on the night of August 5th, Here There Be Dragons lit up the stage. The
Tosca: Arias & Love for Free
Looking for a free summer activity? One you don’t need reservations for or anything? Then you are in luck, as
Wooden O Brings a Very Unique Cymbeline to Our Parks
It didn’t take the audience in the Luther Burbank Park long to figure out we were in for a very different rendition of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. A large white Ford van is parked upstage left; King Cymbeline enters the stage in pajamas and the proud husband of the king’s daughter, the valiant Posthumus, is wearing a bright yellow dress. Associate Artistic Director Makaela Milburn and artist Meme Garcia have created a wildly imaginative take on this problematic work for Seattle Shakespeare’s outdoor Wooden O series.