Author name: Marie Bonfils

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Celebration of the Life of the beloved Peggy Platt

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Celebration of the life of the beloved PEGGY PLATT

Monday, April 16th @7:30pm

ACT Theatre in The Falls
700 Union St.
Seattle, WA 98101

To honor Peggy, in lieu of flowers or gifts, please make donations to Planned Parenthood.

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The biggest tribute I can pay to Peggy, was that she always graciously invited us to review her show, and all our writers fought for the privilege to be the one to review their Christmas show Ham for the Holidays. Here are some of the reviews.

https://www.dramainthehood.net/2016/12/ham-for-the-holidays-2016/
https://www.dramainthehood.net/2013/12/ham-for-the-holidays-close-encounters-of-the-pork-rind/
https://www.dramainthehood.net/2015/12/ham-for-the-holidays/

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Visiting Cezanne-and the Future

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Artist’s Fall in Love with Despair

Red Rover’s new production at 18th and Union, Visiting Cezanne, explores many of the self-destructive as well as sustaining tendencies of artists, using a time traveling setting and plot. This vehicle brings together two discouraged artists and alters history.

Written by Duane Kelly, directed by Andrew McGinn, Visiting Cezanne introduces a contemporary frustrated American artist, Nora Baker, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, who is miraculously transported back to Paul Cezanne’s studio in Aix-en-Provence, circa 1900, i.e. six year’s before his death, in 1906

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The Impossibility of Now WOWS

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Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.

Thalia’s Umbrella’s world première The Impossibility of Now, by Y York, exquisitely illustrates the concept expressed in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 whose first three lines are:

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediment; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,”

Utilizing a highly original plot, outstandingly witty dialogue, a fabulous musical score, interesting recognizable stereotypes who go through profound character development, great acting, and a set to die for, all put together by an expert director, this romantic comedy for the middle aged, delivers the goods. And how!

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PREVIEW Le Prénom-French Language Theatre

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If you thought the recent movie The Party starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Patrician Clarkson was the definitive hilarious dinner party gone wrong, wait until you see the French play Le Prénom. You won’t have to wait long as Le Prénom, performed in the original French, opens Friday March 23rd

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Children of a Lesser God speaks a powerful language

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The Confusion of Communication and Miscommunication

Tacoma Little Theatre has just opened a BIG HIT for the Puget Sound Theatre Community with their stunning production of Mark Medoff’s play, Children of a Lesser God, the 1980 winner of the Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier Awards for Best Play.

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Crime and Punishment-Full of Rewards not Punishment

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Crime and Punishment-Not Punishing but Highly Rewarding

Seattle’s highly acclaimed and inventive theatre troupe, Akropolis Performance Lab has just executed a herculean task, which for lovers of Russian literature is the ultimate wet-dream. APL presented an magnificent stage adaptation of Crime and Punishment, the most famous of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s four long 19th Century Russian novels, at West of Lenin Theatre in Fremont.

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Two Gentlemen of Verona behaving Ungentlemanly

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Bros before Hos

Although Shakespeare wrote some of the best poetry in the Western cannon, a few of his plays, are better left unperformed. Love’s Labor’s Lost is one, Henry VIII is another, (although I saw a stunning production by Therese Thurman one summer) and a third is Two Gentleman of Verona, currently being performed at the Slate Theatre.

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It’s a Wonderful Life- Live Radio Play

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George Bailey finally Learns that when a Door Closes a Window Opens.

Produced by one of Seattle’s best kept secrets, West Seattle’s Twelfth Night Productions, a live radio play version of the classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life has just opened up at Kenyon Hall. Unlike many Christmas shows of the sentimental variety, which have implausible happy endings and are devoid of serious content, It’s a Wonderful Life has always intrigued me because of its layers of cultural and historical nuances as well as its entertaining wisdom.

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Building the Wall-Dystopian realization of Trump’s rhetoric

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The Smell Alone Makes it Hard to Hang on to Your Compassion.

Azerotrop’s Building the Wall, by Robert Schenkkan, which opened this weekend at 12th Ave Arts, was a profound statement not just about Trump’s immigration rhetoric but about how our institutions and greedy powerful individuals corrupt the powerless, who with very few choices at their disposal, unwillingly perpetual evil.

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