Realism embedded into Fantasy
Unlike most online virtual holiday shows, A very Merry Kraken Tea Party, is an original script and takes into account the vicissitudes of celebrating Christmas during a pandemic and the impact of COVID on a recently formed or reformed relationships. Artswest production follows the characters of Justin Huertas 2019 hit The Last World Octopus Wrestling.
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Likely to win the Triple Crown-Great Script, Great Director and Great Actor playing Scrooge
Hailed as the greatest ghost story ever told, Harlequin Productions has begun a new holiday tradition, with an online production of Mercury Theatre’s 1939 classic radio adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story of transformation, absolution and grace, A Christmas Carol. It was originally directed by the legendary film and radio director, Orson Wells.
Harlequin’s production will be directed by acclaimed Seattle director Corey McDaniels, and stars veteran actor Terry Edward Moore, who audiences may remember as Scrooge from many ACT productions.
I heartily recommend this production, Corey McDaniels and Terry Edward Moore always deliver the goods and you can’t go wrong with a script by Orson Wells.
A Christmas Carol, adapted by Orson Wells, Harlequin Productions. Dec. 6 to Dec. 31st
Available on demand. Single tickets $25. Household $35.
Tickets: https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/43605
( The show will be available for 48 hours)
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Emmett Montgomery’s Christmas Show: Sugar Plum Gary
Seattle based storyteller and comedian, Emmett Montgomery , brings his annual Sugar Plum Gary character to audiences this Christmas usin ga whole new platform. Tickets can be purchased to be involved in a Fireside Chat with Gary, in which the audience will be on an interactive Zoom call. Gary will be able to see and hear them, they’ll be visible to the rest of the audience, and they’ll be able to participate in the discussion about the fun cosmic nightmare that is Christmas and ask questions about how to best survive the night.
Sugar Plum Gary used to not believe in Christmas, until one magical Christmas Eve Santa came to visit the orphanage he grew up in, and he was the only survivor becoming possessed by the holiday spirit.
I can assure audiences that Sugar Plum Gary is one of the funniest, most enjoyable of all the Christmas shows available. Emmett Montgomery is quick-witted, warm, absurd and loveable. Get your tickets now!!!!!!
Sugar Plum Gary: Emmett Montgomery’s Christmas show. 18th and Union. Thurs Dec. 17 @ 7pm, Fri. & Sat Dec. 18 &19 @ 7pm & 9 pm Wed & Thurs Dec. 23 & 24 @ 7pm.
Matinée performance Sun Dec. 20 @ 3pm Tickets on a sliding scale. Info: www.18thandunion.org
Tickets https://ci.ovationtix.com/34824/production/1034108
Two types of tickets
Fireside Chat with Gary
You’ll be on a Zoom call with Sugar Plum Gary. Gary will be able to see and hear you, you’ll be visible to the rest of the audience, and you will be able to participate in the discussion about the fun cosmic nightmare that is Christmas and ask questions about how to best survive the night.
Peering Through the Window
You’ll be watching the show on a live stream. Gary won’t be able to see or hear you, but Santa will. He is always watching.
“I believe in censorship-I’ve made a fortune out of it.”
It was with great joy and delight that I learned that Play Your Part Theatre was producing another one of Mae West’s banned plays. After a highly successful run of Drag, a realistic portrayal of Gay life in New York City in the 1920’s, PYP is taking on, Sex, about Sex workers in the 1920’s.
The comedy-drama premiered April 26, 1926, at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre in New York City. Sex received many scathing reviews from a variety of critics because of the play’s (supposed) moral implications. The New York Times considered it be a “crude and inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted” while Billboard condemned it as “the cheapest most vulgar low show to have dared to open in New York this year”. When the show opened, Broadway had been in a commercial slump, yet in spite of this and negative press, Sex played to full audiences.Sexwas the only play on Broadway that season to stay open through the summer, into the following year.
There were 375 performances before the New York Police Department raided West and her company in February 1927. They were charged with obscenity, after 325,000 people had watched it, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney’s staff. West was sentenced to 10 days in a workhouse on Roosevelt Island (known then as “Welfare Island”) and fined $500. The resulting publicity increased her national renown.
Play your Part’s production is an online streaming of a live performance, with each actor acting from the confines of their own home; this promises to be an interesting show with original music. If it is even one tenth as good as Drag, it is worth seeing!
Sex by Mae West. Play Your Part Theatre, Dec. 4 -19 Weekend evening and matinée performances. Info: www.playyourpartseattle.org
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=2
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Not exactly orthodox Dickens!
Centrestage Theatre in Federal will present A 1940’s Radio Play-A Christmas Carol, a play about the live broadcast of a radio play version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in a national radio studio in the 1940’s. This will be a visual streamed production, so the audience will see the actors in front of the megaphones, as well as see the Foley organ. However, mayhem breaks out mid-show so the actors have to improvise their own ending to the classic tale complete with mystery, a femme fatale and a rescued baby. Add this delight to this most wonderful time of the year.
A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol. Center Stage. Dec. 4-Dec. 27, Weekend evening and matinée performances.
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=1
N.B. This show will be offered in a virtual format only. In order to watch the show, you must purchase a ticket for the date you wish to view the show. You will then receive a streaming code in a separate email.
Geriatric Fun
A live production of Assisted Living: The Musical, by Rick Compton and Betsy Bennet will be broadcast virtually from Tacoma Musical Playhouse (TMP) November 20 – 22 and offers both matinees and evening performances. Taking place in the Pelican Roost retirement community, the musical focuses on the humorous side of aging and its challenges, using 18 characters.
Assisted Living the Musical: Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Fri, Sat, Sun, Nov. 20-21 7 pm. Run Time. 1 hour 15 minutes
Tickets: Reservations Necessary https://tix6.centerstageticketing.com/sites/tacomamusicalplayhouse/
( Link will be emailed 15 min. before the show.)
Myths, Legends, and Sovereign Futures
Bringing indigenous wisdom to the modern world: Storytellers Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha Klallam) and Fern Naomi Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) bring the Coastal Salish stories of The Changer to the radio-stage. Through old stories, we can envision tribal sovereignty in our world today. With the help of familiar friends, Changer reminds us to share dreams together for us and for our children’s future.
This audio drama is an adaptation of the first half of the original play. Since Sound theatre Company always produces fabulous shows, this proves to be a hit. It will be available to stream on YouTube, SoundCloud, and other platforms at no cost, although donations are welcome.
The Changer Audio Drama, directed by Fern Naomi Renville, produced by Sound Theatre Company. Beginning Nov. 20, with no specified closing date. It is available anytime, anywhere, and to anyone.
Listen directly the Website: https://changerradioplay.funraise.org/
Transcript available https://soundtheatrecompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Changer-transcript-final.pdf
Romeo & Juliet
Penguin Production will produce a live streamed performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which includes toxicity, nurture, growth, love, rage, and plague. Their goal is to turn to Shakespeare’s famous story of young lovers to help us understand the seasons of change we find ourselves in now. Two polarizing houses – Montague, gritty and raw, Capulet, erratic and bright. When they meet, their power is immense. Will it create or destroy?
This is a truly fantastic play – equal parts comedy, romance, and tragedy, with brilliant characters and language. Our production utilizes the intimacy of zoom to create powerful, explosive, heartfelt performances which we’ll perform live, sharing the play’s power, energy, and rush of adrenaline with audiences in real time.
Performances will be recorded and available for future streaming on demand.
Romeo and Juliet, Live Performances: Saturday, November 21 @ 7pm, Sunday, November 22 @ 2pm.
Streaming Link TBA http://penguinproductionsseattle.org/performances.html
Freedom vs. Family
As part of UHeights ( University Heights) Theatre Alliance, ACT theatre in conjunction with ESE TEATRO, presents an online live reading of Shoe, by Maisela Trevino Orta. The play examines the family dynamics and gender roles within a dysfunctional Mexican American family led by a matriarch, who manipulates her grown children to remain under her roof, as a way to deal with the enormous grief, created when her spouse abandoned her and her children twelve years ago. Drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”, the play creates an atmosphere of confinement and constriction, as the protagonist yearns for a life outside of the family’s double-wide trailer in Texas
Shoe,A live reading by Marisela Trevino Orta, Sunday Nov. 15, 5 pm. Tickets https://order.acttheatre.org/shoe/11715?mc_cid=f72716da9e&mc_eid=454f96f273
For more information about the playwright see: https://newplayexchange.org/users/148/marisela-trevi%C3%B1o-orta
Evan’s Virtual Variety Show
The November Variety show features a variety performer who performs globally & on cruise ships, a magician who has performed all over the country, and an aerialist who is so good that she now teaches other aerialists! Post-show talkback with the performers, ask them anything you like!
Evan’s Virtual Variety Show, online Sunday Nov. 12- 2pm.
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