Only 225 tickets will be sold, Social Distancing is possible.

Tacoma Musical Playhouse will present the award winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opening Friday, March 13. In 2014, it opened on Broadway and garnered the most award nominations for that year; a total of ten nominations and four wins, including Best Musical, Book, Direction and Costumes. In addition, it won seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical, four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Musical and one Drama League Award (Best Musical.)

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Here is the current list:

Thalia’s Umbrella’s Europe at 12th Ave Arts

Somniterum Productions, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, 18th and Union

Trial & Error and Ten Auras Prod. When a Tree Falls, 18th and Union.

Sound Theatre Company. Changer &The Star People. Seattle Center

Les Seagulls Houle’ywood Beoulevard. Kirkland

Artswest St. Joan by G.B. Shaw. Arts West. West Seattle

Seattle Shakespeare Company Troilus & Cressida, MacBeth, Hamlet (Touring Show) Seattle Center
(The rest of the Spring Season is cancelled, Summer Shakespeare in the Park going ahead)

Edmonds Driftwood Players. The Producers. Edmonds, Snohomish County

Olympia Little Theatre. The Bold, the Young & the Murdered. Olympia, WA
(Postponed for next season)

Woodinville Rep. Chapter Two Last two weekends cancelled. March 13, 14, 15 going ahead. March 21, 28 Cancelled.

Edmunds Driftwood Players, The Producers. Edmonds, Snohomish County

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The U.S. Premiere of David Greig’s play Europe, about xenophobia and social change will open Thursday, March 12 at 12th Ave Arts, produced by Thalia’s Umbrella and directed by Terry Edward Moore.

Life under Stress

Were I as eloquent as August Wilson, I might be able to articulate how great his masterpiece, Jitney, was but unlike Wilson, I am no Shakespeare. Suffice it to say production, presented at Seattle Rep, was an incredibly memorable evening filled with poetic wit, gripping characters, fantastic original music, astounding visual effects and a story which captured the dreams and struggles of the African American community at a particular moment in history. But like all great drama, its themes were universal. And then there was the humor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your Mother is 72 going on 15

Parley Productions, produced a “micro-production” of The Oysterman’s House by Susan McNallly, at their University Heights space this weekend. A “micro-production” is a stripped down production with minimal props, set and costumes ( and indeed, in this micro-production, minimal actors) through a playwrights organization trying to make theatre accessible to all, by staging original works to a pay-what you can audience. Parley Productions seemed to have had a successful night because every seat was filled and the “micro-production” was an excellent show-case.

The March 13th and 21st performances of Houle’ywood Boulevard have been postponed. The March 27th performance is TBA. Plans are underfoot to re-schedule in June. Tickets will be refunded. For up to the minute information please check:https://www.facebook.com/lesseagulls/ Hollywood à la française For their fourth production, Les Seagulls, an Eastside French language comedy troupe, will present […]

A World premier, Asylum in Georgia, by Seattle playwright John C. Davenport produced by Red Rover Theatre Company, opened in Fremont on Thursday with more of a wimper than a bang. Taking place in a tiny town in the South, it was a combination of a comedy and mystery, as a woman retraces the steps of her youth to the place where her father died somewhat mysteriously and uncovers a few buried secrets about the town and its inhabitants.

Theological and Philosophical Questions along with Humor

Under Charles Waxberg’s direction, Theatre 9-12, has produced one of Arthur Miller’s little known but extremely thought-provoking plays, The Creation of the World and other Business, which has had a rocky production history. Opening originally in New York in 1972, it closed after 20 performances but in 1973, an amateur theatre company at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe won the award for best production that year, for their production. It has also been re-worked into a musical, by Miller himself, called Up from Paradise, which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan. Along with a lot of jokes about God and Sex, there is also a conversation about the great theological and philosophical issues of mankind: the nature of evil, the imperfections of the world, the free-will given to mankind by a supposedly all-powerful creator and of course man’s relationship to God and Satan.

Jack Kennedy is going to do for sex what Eisenhower did for Golf.

Beehive, a musical revue dedicated to telling both the historical changes the US went through during the 1960’s and a tribute to the female soloists and singing groups of that era, was a smash hit at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse this weekend.
The 40 songs were well chosen representatives of the best female hits of both the early 60’s and the later 60’s, from the hormonal beehive era to the heavy rock and blues of Woodstock. It had a great live band, great costumes, great singer/dancers, warm human connection with the audience and everything necessary for a thoroughly enjoyable evening and was definitely worth the drive to Tacoma.

Comic Stripper Delivers the Goods

The first Woody Shticks show I saw also took place on a dismal rainy day in January, when I was feeling more than depressed. (and had now idea what the show was about) I struggled to get to 18th and Union, but by the end of the evening, I had spent so much time laughing and feeling connected to the comic genius entertaining us, and indeed to the whole audience, that I exited in great spirits, as did everyone else.
I called my 21 year old daughter, who said “This doesn’t sound like a show you would like.” She was sooo wrong!!!