Author name: Marie Bonfils

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.

“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.

A Statement from Centerstage

This past weekend we made the really tough decision to cancel A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol just one week before opening. We will be replacing the show with a Christmas Cabaret. If you are a Season Ticket Holder or have purchased a ticket to A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol, expect an email from us in the next couple of days. If you would like to purchase tickets to the Christmas Cabaret, they will be available on our website starting Thursday, December 3.
https://centerstagetheatre.com/

Thank you so much for your support throughout this trying time. We miss you so much and look forward to seeing you in person when it is safe to do so.

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.

https://youtu.be/Ozhf3OQhtro

Mustard Seeds- The Underground Railroad-not everybody made it to Canada!

University Heights Center is hosting several small theatre online productions among them Mustards Seeds, produced by Pork Filled Players, a co-production with The Hansberry Project: Mustard Seeds, by Michelle Tyrene Johnson, is directed by acclaimed director Valerie Curtis-Newton,

Set in the contemporary world, “Mustard Seeds” unfolds when researchers camping out on the bank of the Missouri River encounter the unborn souls, who did not make it to the Wyandotte County, Kansas stop of the Underground Railroad.

Mustard Seeds Produced by Pork Filled Productions. Sat Nov. 14 -7 pm. Tickets:https://pork-filled.ticketleap.com/mustard-seeds/dates/Nov-14-2020_at_0700PM

Historical Recreation of the Emmett Till Murder

The play, the Carolyn Bryant Project re-creates one of the greatest miscarriages of justice perpetrated on African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Emmett “Bobo” Till, a 14-year old Chicago youth, walked into a store in Money, Mississippi to purchase 5-cents worth of bubble gum from Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year old, white mother of two. Within a few days of this interaction, Till’s beaten and bloated body was found tied to a cotton-gin fan in a shallow part of the Tallahatchie River. Bryant’s husband Roy and his brother JW Milan would be acquitted of Till’s murder by an all-white male jury, only to confess to the murder a year later in a Look Magazine article.
What happened in those fateful minutes shared between Bryant and Till in the store? Creators Nataki Garrett and Andrea LeBlanc compile historical transcripts, video imagery, and re-imagined encounters to expose what lies beneath the exchange between Carolyn Bryant and Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, in a play called The Carolyn Bryant Projecté

The Carolyn Bryant Project. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Nov-9 til Nov 22,
Free-online: centerfornewperformance.org/streaming.