Building Madness, a Double-Entendre if there ever was one.

The title of Kate Danley’s play, which just opened at Harlequin Productions, Building Madness, can be read two ways. Building can be a noun, meaning a “building” that is to say a structural edifice of bricks and mortar or other materials) or it can mean to develop, foster, encourage, or create. Both are applicable to this excellent script, a revival of 1930’s screwball comedy.

In one man’s battle between good and evil, the lines are often blurred.

This past weekend, Dukesbay Productions opened Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, playwright Jeffry Harcher’s stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First published in 1886, that is to say during the latter part of the Victoria era, when moral hypocrisy was rampant and the study of the brain and behavior or what we know as psychology was turning traditional thinking upside down. It was highly controversial.

Local actor, Hailey Henderson will be taking her solo show, Blackout to New York City for the United Solo Festival, a month-long celebration of solo works from all around the world, but first Seattle audiences can see her at Theatre off Jackson. (TOJ) In Blackout, Henderson takes on the role of her ex-boyfriend, her abuser, […]

Amplifying unique stories from underheard artists. Get in on the act for Episodes 1 and 2 of the 2023 Script Development Festival. This interactive festival centers around the creative development of a unique group of women and non-binary playwrights. Running the last two Fridays of March, SGP features concert-style performances of new scripts by playwrights […]

Let the Good and Bad Times Roll

Rock of Ages, a “jukebox musical” which is to say a musical that features popular songs from the past, opened this past weekend with an enormous amount of youthful energy in a joint production by the University of Washington-Tacoma’s theatre department and Tacoma Little Theatre.

Eggs and their Manifestations

Yet again eccentric Seattle storytellers Scot Augustson, Kelleen Conway Blanchard and Bret Fetzer have delivered the goods at 18th and Union by their incredibly interesting, funny, stories which are ostensibly about animals but are really about the vicissitudes of being human.

Gas-Up your Giggles, and Rev-up that roaring laughter for the first ever MOTORMOUTH COMEDY POWER-HOUR!! Where comedians run their mouths, the house is rocked, and the laughter rolls! The funniest, gut-bustin’-est, wildest comics in and out of Seattle, dial their jokes up to eleven, just to make YOU laugh!!

To Me or Not to Me

Koo Park, a Seattle-based Korean actor, will perform his solo show, Let me Hamlet at
the Issac Studio of Taproot Theatre in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. The show runs
from March 11th to 12th.

11TH & PINE was slated as the first full production in of Sound Theatre’s 2023 season. Due to the needs of new work and the sensitive nature of working with real people’s narratives, they decided to present 11TH & PINE as a limited staged reading instead of a fully designed production. an essential Seattle story that must not be forgotten.

An exciting new script from local playwright and director Max Koh. Hildy is trying to beat the shut-the-box game. Everyone keeps telling them that it’s a dumb pub game designed to keep drunk people occupied. Evelyn is trying to stay calm. Her mom keeps calling and she’s afraid if she picks it up since it […]