War on Christmas-Where Nothing is Sacred and Everything is Hilarious.
A must see for everyone this Christmas season, is Scott Shoemaker’s War on Christmas at Theatre off Jackson in the Chinatown/International District. Written by Scott Schoemaker and Freddy Molitch, it was passionately irreverent but like all great comedy its core was something serious, brilliantly elucidated by Scott’s opening monologue about the stresses of Christmas.
A Santanist in Bright Red Feet Pajamas brings Christmas cheer
A holiday tradition at 18th & Union, Sugar Plum Gary returns with his eighth annual show of Cosmic Christmas Horror for the whole family.
A gentle-hearted “Santanist,” Sugar Plum Gary is a bushy-bearded man in jolly footie pajamas who has been haunted by the Holiday Spirit ever since he experienced the real Santa, an ancient and sinister creature more Lovecraft than Dickens. Every day is literally Christmas for Gary, and through improvisational conversation with the audience he shares the real reason for the season.
Back from the Dead-Animal Saints and Animal Sinners best ever at 18th and Union
One of my favorite events at my favorite theatre in Seattle is the storytelling group Animal Saints and Animal Sinners, comprised of Bret Fetzer, Scot Augustson and Kelleen Conway Blanchard. Although they are always incredibly superb, last night they reached stratospheric heights, in terms of fantastic writing and snappy delivery, Back from the Dead was the best of the best. What I also really love about this fantastic trio is that their styles and subject matter are all very different, but thematically unified.
The Faith of a Child that the World was Good and Right and True
Family Matters: Drawings by Tucker Goodman, the art exhibition at Taproot Theatre shares the theme of “family” with the Christmas show, Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. The trilogy Christmas at Pemberly is all about how the Bennets and the Darcys blend their families into one clan, while Family Matters was inspired by a collection of old and new family photos, which inspired Goodman to transpose these photographic images into less realistic but more expressive black and white drawings.
Last Play in the Sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
Georgiana & Kitty, the last play of the trilogy Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, opened at Taproot Theatre last night. Previously Taproot produced Miss Bennett in 2018 and last year The Wickhams. Although fictionalized, The Wickhams honored Jane Austen by delivering not only wit and humor but also morality and character development. Georgiana & Kitty was disappointing in that it lacked the underlying seriousness of a Jane Austen novel.
A British Holiday Tradition in the Northwest
As the holiday season approaches, James and Jamesy Jamesy (aka Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles) are set to tour their flagship production O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy, which has worked its way into the hearts and annual traditions of thousands of theater-goers across North America, will have nine performances in the Puget Sound area alone and several all over British Columbia, Canada. O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy, opens in Renton.
An Original Script takes place in Poland.
A girl with a cursed inheritance,
A monster waiting in the dark,
A scientist searching for the light,
A witch fighting for her legacy,
…and a woman willing to give anything to keep her family safe.
Ongoing and upcoming events from Shattered Glass Project
Staged Reading and Streamed Recording
All New Cells-Streamed
When Nils’s ex-girlfriend dies suddenly, he is dragged back into a toxic online roleplay scene he swore he’d never return to. He’d been doing okay sticking to his seven-year plan for getting over their breakup – but now, everyone either blames him or expects him to have answers, and he’s getting nasty anonymous messages that might be coming from beyond the grave.
Turbo Turkey Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Turbo Turkey Sketch Comedy proudly presents their first-ever Greatest Hits show! They scoured the oceans and mountaintops and found nothing. Then they searched their brains and concocted a zany show full of characters, unique situations, and lots of laughs! It will be a night/afternoon of original sketch comedy.
Turbo Turkey Productions started in 2009 after completing Jet City improv classes to sharpen skills, and having previous sketch comedy experience in Indiana, Adam set out to create a sketch and improv group.
Turbo Turkey is proud to bring Greatest Hits to the 18th and Union and put on their biggest sketch show in years. Enjoy the ride!
And Now for Something Completely Different at 18th and Union.
18th and Union will host #ShowTHEM Burlesque Basics Fall 2023 Recital, produced by Puckduction, featuring a cohort of 9 burlesque humans ready to take the stage and #Show you what they’ve been working on these past 8+ weeks, with emcees: Mx. Pucks A’Plenty and Lavish Leone, and featuring: Beatrix Tera Belle Tease, Ester Pine, Flora P’leaze, Jan from Accounting, Lato Lardon, Lilith Luminae, Swell Bordel, Thirst Contact and Vera Volcano.
