Lizzie Borden took an axe,
and gave her mother forty wacks,
And when the job was done,
She gave her father forty-one.

On August 4th, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and Abby Durfee Borden were found dead in their home, the victims of a brutal hatchet murder. The main suspect was Andrew’s daughter Lizzie. The trial of Lizzie Borden was a national news story and over a century later the story is still an American legend.

Yes it’s back after the Pandemic!

The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival is back – July 9-10, 2022
The festival has served as the unofficial launching pad for the Seattle’s summer outdoor theater season since 2001. After a two year absence, the producers are excited to bring it back.

Unique event with Music, Visual Art, Poetry

Path with Art’s Veterans Exhibition celebrates three years of the Path with Art veterans program—which grew out of Seattle Opera’s collaboration for the 2019 opera The Falling and the Rising—and will feature a performance by the Seattle Opera-Path with Art Veterans Choir. Artworks made as part of Veterans Cohort classes will be on display throughout the Opera Center, including a quilt symbolizing the connection between veterans and civilians, a sound installation, poetry readings, and more.

Air Play-Unique theater for adults and children

It is difficult to find a specific noun to define WHAT Air Play, now at Seattle Children’s Theater, IS because it defies categorization. It is easier to find adjectives: spectacular, highly creative, highly innovative, joyful, fun, visually and aurally pleasing.

Not Critical Race THEORY, Critical Race FACTS

A truly amazing play, Sovereignty by Mary Kathryn Nagle opened this weekend at Harlequin Theater in Olympia. Although it contains a huge amount of historical information, as well as legal wrangling about the Indian Removal Act, which took away the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation in the Southeast of the U.S. in the 1830’s, it was also a very engaging story of the continued oppression of Native Americans in present times and the struggle for Sovereignty.

Sexual Politics of the ancien régime in France.

The Marriage of Figaro, one of the most popular operas ever written opened to an almost full house Saturday night at McCaw Hall. Adapted from French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais’ equally popular but highly controversial 1778 play of the same name by Librettist Lorenza Da Ponte with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, its reputation is well deserved.

“He thinks he was conceived by a credit card and Fed Ex.”

Patrimony, a premiere by Duane Kelly, explored some very topical themes, if I am to trust the syndicated advice columns in the Seattle Times. The great conflict in this play, which opened at 18th and Union, was how to deal with the consequences of keeping the facts of a child’s conception secret or shrouded in plausible lies.

Escape from Spying-Become a Playwright Theater 22’s newest production, OR by Liz Duffy Adams, opened at Seattle Public Theater’s space (the old Bathhouse) in Greenlake Park this past weekend. It recounts one night in the life of the first woman writer, Alphra Behn, who actually gained substantial recognition as a playwright. ( during the Restoration […]

Much Ado about Nothing was really SOMETHING

In spite of having been given free tickets to the RSC every Monday night for a year, I can safely say that Seattle Shakespeare’s production of Much Ado about Nothing was the best Shakespeare show I have ever seen. This was due to director Allison Narver’s skillful creativity as it was incredibly enjoyable while at the same time honoring the text.

What good is sitting alone in your room. Come to Reboot’s adaptation of Cabaret.

Yes indeed, Reboot’s production of Cabaret delivered everything Sally Bowles’ song promised music: laughter, escape but also shrewd political commentary, which is as relevant today, as it was in the last years of the Weimar Republic.