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Tea
Of all the Army bases in all the World, why’d you have to end up in Ft. Riley, Kansas
Tea, a play by Velina Hasu Houston, opened this weekend at Dukesbay Theater in Tacoma. Taking place in 1968, it tells the story of five Japanese women who came to the U.S. after World War II as “War Brides.” Unfortunately, these married “lifers” ( soldiers who stayed in the army after the war for 20 years). As a result, they all ended up at the infamous place all servicemen avoid: Ft. Riley, Kansas.
Horse Girls
Power Dynamics in a Teen-age Horse Club
One of the delights of Annex Theater is their “off night” productions, taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday nights; the current Off Nighter, Horse Girls by Jenny Rachel Weiner, is no exception.
Dogfight
Neanderthal Marines Trolling for Girls
Adapted from the 1990 film of the same name, Dogfight the Musical, opened at Artswest on Thursday. Taking place on November 21, 1963, the eve of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, three teen-aged U.S. Marines spend their last shore leave in San Francisco, before shipping out to Viet-Nam. While there they look for girls to bring to a “Dogfight,” a party where the guy who brings the ugliest girl wins a door prize. Like many adolescent boys in men’s bodies they have both contempt for, and insecurity about, women for which they overcompensate with macho posturing.
Preview-Hamlet
Innovative Hamlet with a Female Lead, PWYC Tonight!!!!!
New City Theater’s collaborative founders John Kazanjian and Mary Ewald
team up again to tackle HAMLET, with Kazanjian directing and Ewald playing
Hamlet.
The Beauty of Noh: Tomoe and Yoshinaka
Less is more
In many ways, there can be no two cultures more different, creating personality styles diametrically opposed to each other, than Japan and the United States. Americans are overly-expressive and compared to us, the Japanese are extremely reserved. This reserved characteristic is noticeable in The Beauty of Noh: Tomoe, currently at ACT Theatre, performed by Munemori Takeda and the combined Kanze, Fukuoh, Kou, Kadono and Issou Schools of Noh.
The Bunner Sisters
Nineteenth Century Naturalism Complete with Consumption
Although Edith Wharton is not generally known for writing about poor New Yorkers, her story The Bunner Sisters, adapted for the stage by Julie Beckman of the Athena Theatre Project, focuses on the lives of two lower-middle class Protestant spinsters, (of the haute Clavinist bent) struggling to stay afloat in New York City in the late 19th Century.
Seattle 2014 Fringe Festival
Close-to-the-skin: Return of the Fringe
This weekend, the Seattle Fringe Festival 2014, will take place on Capitol Hill with 22 new productions.
Man of La Mancha
Poet in Prison Puts on a Play.
Seattle Musical Theatre kicked off the 2014-2015 Season with Man of La Mancha, a 1965 Tony Award winning adaptation of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Considered the first novel ever written, it was published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, that is to say long after its subject matter, Chivalry and Knights, had ceased to exist.