January 2023

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Preview-Kipling’s beloved Jungle Book as an Opera

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The Jungle Book as an Opera

This weekend, Seattle Opera presents a production of The Jungle Book, by the Youth Opera Project. This unique take on the familiar tale, by Rudyard Kipling, is based on both Eastern and Western classical music traditions and focuses on how the wolf pack welcomes Mowgli into their fold in this beautiful story of compassion, justice, and forgiveness. There are a limited number of tickets for the four performances, with music by Kamala Sankaram, libretto by Kelley Rourke, Directed by Robert Shampain and Gemma Balinbin.

The Jungle Book. Youth Opera Project, Seattle Opera, Tagney-Jones Hall at the Opera Center. Seattle Center. 305 Harrison, Seattle, WA 98109. Feb 3, 4, Fri, Sat 7:00pm. Feb 4,5, Sat, Sun matinée 2 pm. Tickets: Audience Services (206) 389-7676

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A Woman of No Important’s Run at Taproot is Extended to March 4.

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Oscar Wilde, acclaimed playwright and poet, wrote A Woman of no Importance in 1892, as a satire of the Victorian upper class and as a social commentary on marriage and the roles of women. It was, however, the least successful of his plays, because of its lack of original subject matter and its occasionally unnecessary lengthiness. Yet there is value to find in all of Wilde’s plays, including a playfulness amongst social critique and themes that are still relevant to this day. With a stellar cast, stage, and music production, Karen Lund – producing artistic director at Taproot Theatre –attempts to bring about “a story that makes us both laugh and think”.

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Baskerville-Sherlock Holmes at Harlequin

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Creative, Technically Impressive Comedy

Written by Ken Ludwig, Baskerville, an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskerville’s, opened at Harlequin Productions in Olympia this weekend. With umpteen interior and exterior scene changes and three actors playing 40 roles, many with different accents, it was a tour-de-force of technical skill and creativity on the part of director Corey McDaniel.

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Change in Schedule AN INCOMPLETE LIST: At Theatre Off Jackson

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An Ambitious Cast, But Incomplete Script

In this production of An Incomplete List of All The Things I’m Going to Miss When the World Is No Longer:, Dacha Theatre brings to life the story of the end of the world through the eyes of lovers and friends. To be seen at Theatre Off Jackson, the play is presented in an intimate stage where the audience is not only a viewer, but a participant along for the ride.

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The Incubation Project

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Pandemic Project

There are many ways to express the emotions people felt about the early 21st Century pandemic; some people took to violence and wife-beating, others spent time gardening and baking, the BGS Collective created physical theatre live at 18th and Union this weekend. N.B. streaming also available.

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An Endless Shift, A Horrifying Reality

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A collection of healthcare professionals’ stories working through the COVID-19 pandemic

ArtsWest’s production of An Endless Shift is a documentary theatre project devised by Gloria Alcalá and Alma Davenport and is performed by Gloria Alcalá. Located at ArtsWest Theatre, An Endless Shift shares the stories of five healthcare professionals through the reenactment of their responses to interview questions. In this unique production, Gloria Alcalá single-handedly reenacts each healthcare professional’s responses sharing each person’s experience through their entry into healthcare and the nightmare that they were faced with, COVID-19.

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Samson and Delilah in Concert at the Seattle Opera

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When Samson and Delilah was originally conceived by Camille Saint-Saëns, it was as an oratorio which is traditionally sung unstaged without costumes, scenery, or action. This may explain why Seattle Opera decided to bring this opera back to its stage for the first time since 1965 not as the opulent spectacle in which it is normally presented but in concert. Which is not to say that this production is without opulence or spectacle but, rather, that all of that is focused on the orchestra, chorus, and principal singers (with a tiny bit spared for J’Nai Bridges and her exceedingly fabulous ensembles).

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PoBoyTango-Tacoma Little Theater

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Interesting material, poor script

PoBoyTango, by Kenneth Lin, opened this weekend at Tacoma Little Theatre. Although it had interesting subject matter, a talented experienced director, David Hsieh, an equally talented and passionate actress, Michelle Blackmon and set, sound, and special effects worthy of Hollywood, the script was not of the same caliber, so it was disappointing.

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Standing Ovation for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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Juliette Carrilo’s I Am Not Your Perfect Daughter will make you laugh for two hours while also reaching deep into your heartstrings with its honest representation of grief, generational trauma, social inequalities, familial expectations and the struggles of undocumented and 1st generation immigrants in the United States. Based on Erika Sánchez’s novel, Seattle Rep’s latest production – which is also the West Coast premiere of the play – centers around Júlia, a 15-year-old Mexican American grappling with the death of her older sister, her parent’s expectations, her dreams of becoming a famous writer and her own coming of age.

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Thoreau at Home

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Thoreau at Home and his One World at a Time
Thoreau at Home, written by David Wagoner, is brought to life through the performance of Todd Jefferson Moore and the direction of Richard E.T. White. The musical accompaniment is done by Peter Richards, and the stage management by Emily Grierson. It is put on at 18th & Union in Capitol Hill, January 19th-21st at 7:30 p.m. and January 22nd at 4:30 p.m.. The play invites you to feel as if you are engaging in conversation with Mr. Thoreau, discussing the sublime qualities of nature while lamenting upon the horrors of commonplace disrespect for the natural world.

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