July 2023

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Music, film, art and more coming this week to 18th and Union

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The Erin Jorgensen Festival (EJF) is a slightly tongue-in-cheek mini-arts festival chock-full of performances, mini-classes, films, record listening, and more. Anchored by daily “Bach & Pancakes”  performances (a Bach cello suite performed on a 5-octave concert marimba, accompanied by pancakes), the eclectic festival lineup includes music by alt-bluegrass trio The Half Brothers; electric cello with Lori Goldston, percussion/electronics with Aaron Michael Butler; intimate acoustic music from composer Benjamin Marx, and more.

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The Hello Girls Extended Through August 19th

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Taproot Theatre has blown it out of the park on its last performance of the season. After an extremely popular opening week, The Hello Girls will be staying one additional week. This production tells the story of America’s first female soldiers, the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit, also known as The Hello Girls. But more on that and Taproot’s rendition here: The Hello Girls-Delightful Musical at Taproot – Openings | Drama In The Hood

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Art in the Lobby Paper Art by Maggie Ramirez Burns

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Can you believe it was all made with colored paper!

Most of us know about the Japanese craft of Origami, which folds paper intricately to create animals, but few of us know that there is an art form involving cutting paper. I learned of it in 2021 when I visited the National Nordic Museum in Ballard and saw the exhibit “Paper Dialogues: The Dragon and Our Stories.” There I learned that it is a thriving art form in Scandinavia as well as China.

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The Hello Girls-Delightful Musical at Taproot

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“The Times they were a changin’”…And women were doin’ the changin’”

A thoroughly interesting, informative and absolutely delightful musical opened at Taproot Theater this weekend: The Hello Girls, which while entertaining, tells the story of the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit, colloquially knows as The Hello Girls, during World War I. With music and lyrics by Peter Mills, adapted from a book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel, under the superb direction of Karen Lund, it depicts changing attitudes towards women at a unique moment of history.

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Happily Ever After

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y Tales with a Shakespearean Twist

As part of the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival this past weekend, Mt. Vernon’s Shakespeare Northwest presented an original script, Happily Ever After, three different plays, each combined beloved fairy tales and Shakespeare’s plays, written and directed by Carolyn Travis, but they were just a tad eccentric.

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Bonfire-Four plays by Penguin Productions Playwrights

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Coupla Teenagers Sittin’ around writing plays

Penguin Productions

An intergenerational small theatre arts program located in the University Heights Center showcased three plays written by teenagers at the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival, Sunday, July 9th. The plays were impressive because they were highly original, with great amusing dialogue but were not without serious reflections on life and art.

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Last Leaf’s Taming of the Shrew-opens at Volunteer Park

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The Taming of the Shrew

Under the deft and creative direction of Laura Kessler, Last Leaf Productions opened Taming of the Shrew at the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival in Volunteer Park on Saturday. One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, Shrew is beloved by both of actors and audiences because of its slap-stick antics, repartee which is sheer linguistic gymnastics, but most of all because underneath everything lies an inverted Beauty and the Beast message with accurate psychological insight.

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Romeo and Juliet in Seward Park

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Bloody Romance but Beautiful Rebellion

GreenStage set off its 35th year of “Shakespeare in the Park” with a rousing performance of Romeo and Juliet at Seward Park Amphitheater on Friday night. Directed by Luke Sayler, this production of Shakespeare’s most famous play reminded audiences why the love story still persists today—not merely for its bloody romance but its beautiful rebellion.

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