The World’s Most Famous Tragedy with Plenty of Comic Relief ?
Last Leaf Productions opened their summer Shakespeare in the Park season, at the amphitheater in Volunteer Park with perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; it is certainly the play with the most famous quotes. One of LLP’s strong points is that they always get their shows down to one hour, which makes it perfect for outdoor productions.
Fun, Mischief and Music in the Forest
Focusing on the mysticism in the forest scenes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream composer Celeste Axelson, adapted Shakespeare’s play, presenting an outstanding creative endeavor, which enthralled the audience both with its music and ethereal visual effects.
Eight Little Sit-Coms in a Row
Live Girls! Quickies is an annual event of short ten minute plays written by female playwrights about women, which has happened annually since 1999. This year’s offering, Live Girls! Quickies 16 opened at the Annex Theatre on Saturday June 6th.
Affirmative Action Cubed-Female, Alternative gender and Latina
For one night only Theatre Off Jackson presents Valls to the Wall, a standup special from nationally renowned, LGBT/Latina/Womencentric comic, Sandra Valls. Voted one of the top ten lesbian comics in the country, Sandra Valls unapologetically takes the road less travelled, celebrates her sexuality, and steps up to the front lines entertaining and educating folks through laughter and plenty of PRIDE!
A Comedic Look at the Tragedy of Depression.
Brian Copeland, nationally known and award winning solo performer revives his most personal one man show, The Waiting Period, in response to the tragic suicide of Robin Williams. This show is an unrelenting look at the period in Copeland’s life, during the mandatory ten day waiting period before he could lay his hands on the newly purchased gun, with which he planned to take his own life.
Breed Bertie Breed! Escape Bertie Escape!
Since author P.G. Wodehouse was not very keen to have theatrical adaptations of his short stories and novels made, Jeeves Intervenes, now playing at Taproot Theatre here in Seattle is an almost unique opportunity to experience the delights of Wodehouse’s frivolous characters, expert use of humorous language and spend an evening laughing.
SOAP- Sandbox Collective ‘s Annual One-Act Play Festival, Four days of Three one-act plays :
Las Cruces by Vincent Delaney. Directed by Julie Beckman, Delaney weaves a finely tuned story with equal parts humor and pathos as he transports us to the New Mexico desert. Not far from the casinos and the spaceport, Sheridan is camped out, hiding in a gutted trailer. Everyone knows he’s there, but no one knows why. Except maybe a card player named Soledad
History Repeats Itself, First as Tragedy, then as Farce ( Karl Marx)
The Bellingham TheatreWorks’ production The Ghosts of Tonkin by Steve Lyons, opened at ACTLab, (formerly ACT’s Central Heating Lab). It concerns the famous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which severely escalated what is commonly called “The Viet-Nam War” although Congress never declared war on North Viet-Nam, which would have been constitutionally necessary in order to officially call it a war.
