To Me or Not to Me
Koo Park, a Seattle-based Korean actor, will perform his solo show, Let me Hamlet at
the Issac Studio of Taproot Theatre in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. The show runs
from March 11th to 12th.
11TH & PINE was slated as the first full production in of Sound Theatre’s 2023 season. Due to the needs of new work and the sensitive nature of working with real people’s narratives, they decided to present 11TH & PINE as a limited staged reading instead of a fully designed production. an essential Seattle story that must not be forgotten. 
An exciting new script from local playwright and director Max Koh. Hildy is trying to beat the shut-the-box game. Everyone
Theatre 9-12 will present “a tomorrow peek at” Garson Kanin’s famed play Born Yesterday, which originally opened on Broadway in 1946, ran for 1,642 performances until Dec. 31, 1949. Then it was made into a movie with Billie Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden. 
Right on Iranian Sisters!
The same week that Seda Iranian Theatre presented The Forgotten History of Mastaneh, the personal memoirs of female oppression in post-revolutionary Iran circa 1987, an exhibit by female Iranian American artists opened at the University of Washington School of Art, featuring four artists, Audineh Asaf, the chair of the Art Department at Edmonds College, Nakisa Dehpanah, an architect, Sadaf Sadri and Armida Ziaei.
A Political Play and Some Slip-Ups
Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American woman with a play featured on Broadway, and the first Black playwright to earn the New York Drama Critics Circle award. Her list of accomplishments keeps going. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window was her second play on Broadway and the one Intiman Theatre and the Williams Project chose to bring on stage this year. It’s a realistic and political play that doesn’t shy away from controversial topics, though it seems insensitive at times. Characters discuss racism, communism, sex work, art, queerness and whatever else the music and alcohol in Sidney Brustein’s apartment let surface.
“Voices from Iran, heard many years later”
The Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble performed their first play, The Forgotten History of Mastaneh, Friday night to a sold-out audience. Unsurprising, as Iranian playwright and director, Naghmeh Samini, hosts a number of impressive writing credits to her name and her work has been staged internationally. The stars of the evening were lead actor Mozdeh Rahmanzaei whose powerful performance was honest, genuine, and charismatic, and fellow actor Newsha Farahani, who gave us an intimate portrayal of female friendship.
Indelible: Reflections on Queerness in the Performing Arts was a free showing of both music and community focusing on LGBTQIA+ representation in the arts. It was put on by the Lowbrow Opera Collective, whose mission is to find the intersection between queer representation and artistic expression on stage.
Nature, Silhouettes and an Elephant trying to Balance on a Tightrope. A very interesting art exhibit has just opened in
Counterpoint to the Valentine’s Day Holiday
For one weekend only, Pacific Play company will present “an appetizer selection of short plays and monologues” by David Breyman, Erin Ison,Lindsey T.H. Jackson, Alexander Luce, Marlena McHenry, Tadd Morgan Kelleen Conway Blanchard Matthew Ivan BennettKathryn Jean Keller,Morgan Ludlow Leonie Mikele Scott Stolnack Anna Tatelman Carolynne Wilcox. 
