So you’re bi-curious ?

Recently two young millennials, when the subject of having children came up, stated that they did not think they could cope with the inevitable climatic catastrophe and raise children at the same time. Boom, which opened at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle on Friday Nov. 4th, speaks to this generation’s angst.

An evening of storytelling by Scot Augustson, Kelleen
Conway Blanchard, and Bret Fetzer

Animal Saints and Animal Sinners, the interesting trio of rather eccentric storytellers has returned to 18th and Union with a delightful 90 minute show, Up from the Underground.

For their final world premiere, Parley Playwright’s Playwright’s Group presents two live online performances of Yom Kippur, by Nelle Tanus, directed by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. To quote from Parley’s press release, “Four homos party hard for the high holy days on the anniversary of a traumatic event. But guilt hangs over them like a curse. It lives in the walls, in the food they eat, their every breath, and they’re all complicit in different ways. As the night wears on, they all must come together and begin the messy work of atonement, moving beyond blame towards uncertainty and repair.”

Yom Kippur, 2 live performances only Nov. 5 and 6, 7 pm PST, Pay What You Can. Tickets: https://www.parleyproductions.com/

CONTENT ADVISORY: conversations about sexual and patriarchal violence, mentions of incest, internalized misogyny, and a very messy accountability process.

To Bean or Not to Bean, the current and last episode of the long-running staged sit-com, Java Tacoma, is at the Merlino Arts Center, in Tacoma. Produced by Dukesbay Productions, and written by Aya Hashiguchi Clark, it is loosely, as in very loosely, based on Hamlet, and in my opinion, more closely resembles a send-up of a melodramatic soap-opera. Also, in my opinion, it is rib-ticklingly funny and kept me and the audience laughing for a full 90 minutes!!!.

Dirty Beasts, a short play festival of fierce, vulnerable new works by Parley playwrights, is coming to West of Lenin’s upstairs studio. Observe these beasts in their natural habitat for 2 performances only! Perhaps the works of Katherine Jett, Dustin Hageland, drew david combs, n8 Heneghan, Carolynne Wilcox, Asha Dore, and Carol Y. Lee will venture out of hiding, if you’re quiet. Better blend into the landscape, though – they’re feral.

Dirty Beasts. 7 Short Plays. at West of Lenin upstairs studio space. 203-26th Ave, Fremont, Seattle, WA 98103. Two nights only. Fri. Sat Oct 21, 22. 8:30 PM. No elevator, long flight of Stairs. Pay what you can. Parking is extremely difficult, as is crossing 36th Ave. https://www.parleyproductions.com/

Staged Reading at Fund-raiser

“Good evening, I’m Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I’m sorry, this must’ve given you all a damn shock…”

HEART Repertory Theatre will be performing a staged reading of their September 2023 production of The One Act Play That Goes Wrong at their fundraiser event on November 19th, 2022 at the Kenmore Community Club. This event will feature a silent auction and encourage sponsors for their upcoming 2023 season of Silent Sky, The Glass Menagerie and The One Act Play That Goes Wrong.

Ghost Writer or Collaborator?

It is wonderful that Woodinville Repertory Theatre has recuperated from the pandemic and produced its first post-Covid play, Ghost-Writer, by Michael Hollinger, in a new space. Opening in 1919, the set was historically accurate with a gramophone, an old-fashioned telephone, and one of the show’s stars, a vintage 1911 Oliver Model #5 “Typing Machine.”

My Body No Choice-A free reading

Radial Theater Project presents a free reading of My Body No Choice, a collection of eight new monologues by eight great American playwrights.

In June 2022, reproductive rights took a giant leap backwards when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In the United States, we can drive when we turn 16, and vote when we turn 18. But we no longer have the bodily autonomy to make the choices that will impact us the most.

Fun Home-Not what you would expect

Fun Home, a multi- award winning musical opened this weekend at Harlequin Productions in Olympia. Adapted from the 2005 graphic novel of the same name by Alison Bechel, it deals with two basic themes; coming out as a Lesbian in a family where the father is a closeted gay (and possible pedophile) as well as the emotional impact of his extreme narcissistic personality on her emotionally.

“Mighty Peculiar”

Said Thomas Jefferson about Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry, during the interview the two had, when Jefferson, as president of the University of Virginia, was expelling Poe. Mighty amusing and mighty impressive is how I would describe the performance of Unexpected Production’s troupe of improvers now at Unexpected Productions at the Market Theatre at Seattle’s Pike Place Market.