It’s a man, it’s a wolf,….it’s Wulver.

A “Wulver,” according to the mythology of the Shetland Islands, is a half-man-half wolf, and the subject of a solo play created and performed by Lyam White, to be broadcast live on webinar at 10 pm on Sept. 24th. Described as a “neurotic seriocomic fantasia, I have no doubt that it will live up to its description as it is directed by one of Seattle’s greatest comic geniuses, K. Brian Neel, and produced by 18th and Union, which always picks winners.

American Wulver Created and Performed by Lyam White. 18th and Union. Sept. 25 10pm. https://18thandunion.org/american-wulver
Broadcast live on webinar. Tickets necessary: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10569239

The Pink Unicorn-A Tale of Turmoil

Directed by Theatre 9-12’s esteemed Artistic Director, Charles Waxberg, The Pink Unicorn is an award-winning solo theatre piece, which tells the story of a Christian widow living in a conservative Texas town, whose life is thrown into turmoil when her teenage child, played by Paula Wilson Nitka, announces they are “gender queer” and starting a chapter of the Gay and Straight Alliance at the local high school. With lighting design by Mary Heffernan, Costume by Jae Hee Kim and Set Design by Caitlin McCown, this promises to be a thought-provoking play.

This production will be performed at 18th & Union and broadcast over the web with a live stream over Zoom Webinar. You’ll be watching a live performance – not a recording!

The Pink Unicorn, by Elise Forier Edie. Produced by 18th and Union. Thur-Sun. Sept. 24-29th, 7:30 Live performance, broadcast by webinar. Info: 18thandunion.org Tickets Necessary:

Revival of Revive at 18th and Union

** REVIVE
Porscha Shaw and Jay O’Leary
September 18-19, 2020 @ 7 PM

REVIVE returns to our stage after its success in January. Jay will join virtually from Scotland, but Porscha will be live on our stage. REVIVE seeks to resuscitate the image of Blackness in America. Multi-hyphenate artists
explore the birth of joy through song, dance and spoken word. In a world where the dominant culture yearns for the silencing of Black and brown communities, REVIVE disrupts the poisonous notion that we are a damaged people. Due to Covid Jay will be present in video and sound with us.

This production will be performed at 18th & Union and broadcast over the web with a live stream over Zoom Webinar. You’ll be watching a live performance – not a recording!

18th and Union always picks winners so I heartily recommend this production.

Revive. Porscha Shaw and Jay O’Leary. produced by 18th and Union. Broadcast live. Sept. 18 & 19, @ 7pm. https://18thandunion.org/revive
Tickets necessary: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1031098

See previous review in Drama in the Hood. https://www.dramainthehood.net/2020/01/revive-a-window-into-the-mind-of-a-people/

Opera in the time of Corona.

Everyone can enjoy opera with free online recitals, classes, and programming
For more information, go to seattleopera.org/subscribe.

Ongoing every Saturday, Seattle Opera Mornings on KING FM
Broadcasts of previous Seattle Opera performances offered at Classical KING FM 98.1 or king.org. Full schedule at seattleopera.org/kingfm

FALL SCHEDULE

Friday, Sept. 25, Cavalleria Rusticana Highlights Recital—exclusively for subscribers
Many of the artists originally scheduled to perform in the August double bill are thrilled to participate in recitals offering highlights from the opera. Featured singers include Gregory Kunde, Sarah Larsen, Alexandra Lo Bianco, and Nerys Jones.

Friday, Oct. 2, Frederick Ballentine in Recital
A free, online recital available to enjoy on Seattle Opera’s Facebook, YouTube, and website Oct. 2–Oct. 23.

Friday, Oct. 9, Marcy Stonikas in Recital
A free, online recital available to enjoy on Seattle Opera’s Facebook, YouTube, and website Oct. 9–Oct. 30. Filmed at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall on the Florida State University College of Music campus, the recital features pianist Valerie Trujillo.

Friday, Oct. 16, Pagliacci Highlights Recital —exclusively for subscribers
Gregory Kunde, Michael Mayes, Vanessa Goikoetxea, and Will Liverman—artists originally scheduled to perform in the August double bill—are excited to perform in this presentation featuring highlights from the opera.

Friday, Oct. 23, Jorell Williams in Recital
A free, online recital available to enjoy on Seattle Opera’s Facebook, YouTube, and website Oct. 23–Nov. 13.

Friday, Oct. 30, Angela Meade & Jamie Barton in Concert—exclusively for subscribers
Fresh from acclaimed performances at the Met and Carnegie Hall, two world-renowned singers offer a mixed-genre program with pianist John Keene.

Friday, Nov. 13, The Elixir of Love—exclusively for subscribers
Madison Leonard, Michael Adams, Patrick Carfizzi, Andrew Stenson, and Tess Altiveros will be joined by pianists and several instrumentalists in a staging by David Gately, conducted by Carlo Montanaro, especially for online streaming.

On August 25th in collaboration with Artswest, Die Cast, a Philadelphia immersive theatre company presents a digital performance piece that explores personal isolation during a time of societal isolation-inventing new modes of performance in the process. Using a single hotel room as the location for a series of nine short pieces, Temporary Occupancy explores how our lives are connected by more than the physical rooms we share.

Founded in 2017, by Brenna Geffers and Thom Weaver, Die-Cast’s work as a company explores new relationships between the visitor and space. Die-Cast incubates work within spaces that are often inaccessible to audiences or are not thought of as performace spaces – ballrooms, historical mansions, and even schooner ships – looking to fill those spaces with the work and have the work shaped by the space in turn. Recently, they have begun creating work for digital spaces, allowing audiences to choose their own adventures using chatbots, Buzzfeed quizzes, embedded videos and other digital wizardry – hence, digital immersive theater.

Temporary Occupancy was created by Die-Cast Co-founders Brenna Geffers and Thom Weaver as well as Anthony Crosby, Colleen Corcoran, Jahzeer Terrell, Keith Conallen, Steven Wright

Temporary Occupancy, Aug. 25th. Die Cast Immersive Theatre in Collaboration with Artwest.

Tickets will be available for purchase beginning August 25th at $12 each. You will receive a link in the purchase email receipt. The piece will continue to be hosted online for the foreseeable future for your enjoyment Tickets $12https://www.artswest.org/temporary-occupancy/”>

Fresh, locally sourced, and, organic. If it’s good for food, it’s good for art.

In the grand tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, Paul Mullin has curated a group of stories and plays written during COVID quarantine featuring local writers, Scot Augustson, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Bret Fetzer and of course Paul Mullin.

WHERE: On-line at this link: https://www.paulmullin.org/lake_boat_stories/

WHEN: Lake Boat Stories is an ongoing project with monthly installments. The next slate of stories should drop in mid-September 2020.

HOW: Just go to the beginning by clicking here; and then follow the links from there.

WHY: Writers stay in practice by writing. And playwrights stay fresh by getting their words in front of an audience as quickly as they can, however they can.

As a theatre artist, I advocated for fresh, organic, locally grown theatre, with an accelerated turnaround time (think “farm-to-table”). Now I’m applying that same philosophy to my new writing. That’s why Loud Mouth Lit is, and always will be, said Paul Mullin, curator.

Adapted from the pre-COVID19 version to fit the constraints of a world in disarray.

Having been re-set in a video chat room, Cornelia’s Visitors will appear online for one performance only on Saturday, August 8, 2020. Originally rehearsed as a live stage play before COVID, this original script by Julieta Vitullo, has been adapted for the virtual world, by the author and produced by Parley theatre company. Cast members include Meg Savlov, Sydney Maltese, Katherine Jett, Paul Sobrie, Brandon Colinsworth, directed by Tourino collinsworth and technical direction by Jaime Shure.

Cornelia is an advanced operating system working within the home of Isabel Inchausti, a bestselling novelist whose career has seen better days. Cornelia seems content to spend her time fulfilling her human’s frivolous requests until three enigmatic characters from Isabel’s most famous novel suddenly appear in her video chatroom!
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As the visitors’ pre-World War II backstories collide with the all-access Information Age, Cornelia launches a plan to transform her humble existence into something much grander. Cornelia’s Visitors explores the meaning of creation, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the blessings (and curses) of self-knowledge.

Cornelia’s Visitors

Cornelia’s Visitors. World Premiere. Parley Saturday, August 8, 2020, 6 pm PST/9 PM EST. Free but registration is required. REGISTER TO JOIN OUR AUDIENCE

Seattle Opera announces upcoming KING FM broadcasts and online recitals

Seattle Opera announces the final singers to perform in its online recital series, on August 27, >Songs of Summer , which will stream on Scheduled to stream on Seattle Opera’s Facebook, YouTube, and website.

Several singers are featured including beloved soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams—star of Tosca, Nabucco, and Mary Stuart as well as Theo Hoffman, Vanessa Vsquex,, Will Liverman, who made history as the first Black Papageno (Mozart’s The Magic Flute) at the Metropolitan Opera last season, Damien Geter, Ben Bliss along with pianists Brad Moore, David McDade, Jonathan King and Jessica Hall.

Seattle Shakes Postpones Richard II, Long Day’s Journey into Night and Volpone

Seattle Shakespeare Company announced that due to the ongoing public health crisis, it is postponing its productions of Richard II with upstart crow collective and Long Day’s Journey into Night, by Eugene O’Neill. The fall production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone will move to spring 2021 to join a previously scheduled production of Much Ado About Nothing.

An Evening with Earnest

Seattle Rep is delighted to present An Evening with Earnest, a live virtual benefit performance on Thursday, June 25, featuring an uproarious reading of selections from The Importance of Being Earnest. The brilliant cast and director Casey Stangl are joining together for one night only to present their pared-down rendition of this Oscar Wilde classic, in addition to titillating trivia, a Q&A, and plenty more tomfoolery.

An Evening with Earnest Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 7 p.m. PT