Author name: Katherina Ipince Leitner

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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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All New Cells – A Dive into a Virtual World

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Time to go back to those remote fiction forums we all loved

Human bodies are self-generation cell machines that can produce an entirely new collection of cells every seven years. Some cells age and die in a few months, and others take a few years, but as that happens, new cells are being generated to keep the body functioning. This is what Nils desperately clings to because, when cells die, trauma should die with them, right? Too bad his ex-girlfriend just passed, and he’s forced back into a rich online scene that is far from healthy.

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One Hundred Days to Love

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Harlequin Turns its Theatre into a Nightclub for and Outstanding Concert

Sugar and the Spitfires take the Harlequin stage to tell the real story of folk-punk stars Abigail and Shaun Bengson. The musical memoir shows a love story with an expiration date and explores the question: What if you only had one hundred days to live? One hundred days to love? Hundred Days is a story about humanity, love, and mortality, all things that cannot exist without the other. As lead singer Amy Shephard simply puts it: this is “A story about being human.”

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Significant Other, or, Better Yet, Significant Self

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Tacoma Little Theatre Features Significant Other

Finding love is never an easy thing to do, but watching all your friends find love before you? It adds an extra level of difficulty, regardless of how happy you are for them. Significant Other acknowledges this struggle through Jordan, who is as excited to find love as anyone else yet is stuck going from engagement parties to bachelorettes to weddings. He cares for each of his friends deeply and showcases how happy he is for them, but he can’t help feeling sad for himself.

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A Musical of Hip-Hop and Healing

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World Premiere of How to Break at Village Theatre

“Just break a little every day, it gets easier that way.”

Village theatre brings tragedy, hope and hip-hop to a moving musical that forces its characters to look death in the face, and keep dancing. How to Break focuses on hip-hop dancer Ana Ramos as she’s diagnosed with cancer and is interned at a children’s hospital for chemotherapy. She tries to keep up with her dance, stresses over her family’s finances, meets another hip-hop boy who’s sick, and faces the reality of her body breaking down despite her best efforts.

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Refugees in the Garden City Stands Out at Taproot Theatre

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A Domestic Play on Interracial Marriage, Parenthood and Immigration

Theatre that matters is the objective of both ReAct Theatre and Pratidhwani, something that shows in their productions. Refugees in the Garden City is a human and well-grounded play that shows the struggles of a couple whose life gets very suddenly turned upside down. Rhiannon and Arjun are forced to pack up and move from the United States to Canada in a very short amount of time. They cling to a new job that will grant them their dream lives but have to struggle through hardships, trauma, financial insecurity and relationship struggles, all while taking care of their baby.

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A Beach, or a Strange Place Called Grief

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A Story of Grief and Self-Discovery by Radial Theatre Project

When Eurydice died Orpheus was so overcome by grief that he descended into the underworld to bring her back. He charmed Cerberus and Hades himself into letting his lover live again and only failed because of his own doubt. It’s this loss on which this play is based, a feeling so intense “all the rules are changed.” Zinnie Harris wrote the story of Robyn and Helen, two lovers who get marooned after a boating accident and are forced to confront their grief.

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Another Classic Made Anew at Seattle Shakespeare

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Henry IV, A Historical Play

Seattle Shakespeare’s all-BIPOC project, Drum and Colours, shows amazing visual storytelling in a Shakespeare classic, brewing a mix of Star Wars aesthetics, epic fight choreography and Shakespeare’s lengthy yet time-tested dialogue. It’s 15th century England and King Henry IV has usurped the throne from Richard II and subsequently turned his back on some powerful allies. The Percy family (which includes the Lord of Northumberland and his son Hotspur, known that way for his fierceness and impulsivity), Mortimer, and Owen Glendower (a Welsh Prince), feeling betrayed, start a rebellion against Henry VI and chaos ensues.

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Let Me Hamlet: A Monologue on the Forgotten Artist by Koo Park

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Exit Hamlet, Enter the Unseen Artist

Prince Hamlet, son of King Hamlet and nephew to Usurper Claudius, is the popular protagonist of Shakespeare’s longest tragedy, Hamlet. This is the role that Let Me Hamlet’s main character has been after for the last twelve years. Yet despite his consistency and work ethic, he gets stuck with Horatio, who everyone only knows as Hamlet’s friend. Horatio is there for all the most important moments in the play, from the opening to the ever-famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy, and all the way to the tragic ending. Yet he remains unseen both by his fellow characters and by audience members who can barely recall his name, even though his story is also worth telling. This is the point that Koo Park attempts to make in his solo show, Let Me Hamlet, except the story is bigger than Horatio (once again) and reflects the unseen artist’s struggle.

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