Play Your Part Presents Oedipus the King
July 17 – August 1 Select Dates & Times Thirteen actors from across the nation bring us this cautionary tale
Experience the Magic of The Oregon Shakespeare Festival In Your Home
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Sound Theatre Stages World Premiere of Reparations
The Sound Theatre Company is collectively smiling from ear to ear as they are nearing the end of their successful world premiere staging of Darren Canady’s Reparations. The show has been playing to near sellout crowds night after night; their talented cast is rightfully receiving standing ovations and garnering rave reviews. The successful run winds up on February 2, so you have one more weekend to see what all the fuss is about at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.
Shepard’s Brothers Take Over the Seattle Rep in True West
By the mid 1970’s, Sam Shepard had begun to focus his play-writing skills more on story telling, character and family dynamics. Yet he never thoroughly abandoned his sense of the absurd and his formidable ability to fill his narratives with poetic leaps; for he was now able to grace his more grounded tales with his uniquely personal vision. True West first appeared in 1980 and is considered the last of his “Family Trilogy.” The New York Post called the play “Shepard’s masterwork.” The Seattle Rep and director Braden Abraham have staged a knockout production of the show to ring in the New Year for Seattle.
The Revolutionists Make Their Stand at ArtsWest
The play begins in darkness; suddenly the sound of a swishing guillotine shatters the theater’s silence. A miffed actress protests, “That’s no way to start a comedy!” And we’re off into the wonderful world of a Lauren Gunderson play. It is not surprising that Gunderson is currently the most produced playwright in America. With works like “The Book of Will” and “I and You” she has pushed the boundaries of conventional theater, exploring big and little ideas with a charming, imaginative wit that seems to continually ask “What if?” In “The Revolutionists”, published in 2018, Gunderson imagines a series of surrealistic encounters among four key women figures that played roles in and were finally victims of the bloody French Reign of Terror in the early 1790’s.
Rivals Romp at Seattle Shakespeare
Director George Mount leaves no theatrical stone left unturned in his search for innovative ways to stage his rollicking take on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals. Even before the audience has settled into their seats, on stage, a hurried and hushed discussion takes place between two actors most notably upset. Suddenly they whisk away what appears to be an audience member engrossed in her program while making her way to her seat. She is unceremoniously handed a script and shoved backstage. The show must go on and we all need to do our part! Let the madness begin!
“Elf”–Your Buddy This Holiday Season
The North Pole visits Tacoma Musical Playhouse: Brings cold snap and holiday cheer to Puget Sound. Review written by Adam
Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Take the Stage
In 2012, Washington D.C. Ford’s Theatre commissioned playwright Richard Hellesen to create a historical drama; the result is his Necessary Sacrifices, a fanciful play that imagines what might have occurred during the two meetings Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had in their lives. What really occurred when these two dynamic men met will never be known, but Hellesen gathered historical documents, letters, newspaper quotes and a good deal of Lincoln and Douglass’s written work to present a convincing replica of the fireworks that might have been ignited during their discussions. The Taproot Theatre, employing the immensely talented Lamar Legend as Douglass and Ted Rooney as Lincoln now stages the play’s West Coast Premiere.