Alan Ayckbourn has come to Seattle to direct the U.S. première of his ten-year-old play Sugar Daddies and has delivered a wonderful night of theater. This dark comedy features Ayckbourn at full strength: self -assured, imaginative and highly entertaining.
“Fried bologna times sidewalk sales plus minimum wage minus health insurance/adequate education equals Brokeness times being alive. Bam! Broke-ology, baby.”–Ennis King, Broke-ology
The play offers some great sight gags, slapstick humor, lots of restrained late Victorian flirting and just enough touching moments to keep the works from gumming up too badly on an overdose of sugar.
Les Miserables is a big, big show. It requires multiple settings, an ample orchestra, and a whole lot of powerful voices. Here’s to the Balagan for taking on this daunting musical theatre icon; the local crew has succeeded on many levels. It is quite a treat to see such a major production in the smallish confines of the Erickson Theater, something like catching The Rolling Stones at a local pub.
After 21 years at their Summit Ave location on Capitol Hill, Theater Schmeater is relocating. They’re leaving their
Director Sheila Daniels relished the chance to replicate a scenario echoing Greece living with 21 years of the Peloponnesian War. She shifts her action to a group of Americans who too must deal with the physical state of a seemingly endless war 24/7, and who desperately need the release of laughter.
The show comes at the audience from a variety of angles: part art history lesson, part mystery, part love story and a whole lot of absurdist, surreal shenanigans.
Say what you will about class warfare – it sure makes for wonderful drama. David Lindsay-Abaire’s latest
An enthusiastic crew at the Taproot Theatre skillfully brings P.G. Wodehouse to life.
