Whodunnit on the Set of 50’s B Movie Set
When a classic Agatha Christie plot combines with a spoof of a 1950’s B movie, the result is hilariously funny. Attack of the Killer Murder…of Death, an original script by Wayne Rawley, at Theater Schmeater, was all those things.
Intrigue fosters and nearly destroys lovers.
A delightful Much Ado About Nothing, one of Last Leaf’s Shakespeare in the Park’s traveling productions, opened at the amphitheatre in Volunteer Park last weekend. Bowing to the realities of outdoor theatre, the producers cut the play down to one hour, which was just enough to get the drama, plot and beautiful language across to the audience, without boring them.
Fall of the House of Plantagenet’s, Rise of the Tudors
Last Leaf Productions opened their summer Shakespeare in the Park season with a wonderful production of The tragedy of Richard III. During Elizabethan times, Shakespeare’s play Richard III, was a piece of the propaganda.
Shakespeare’s Magic at the Soda Fountain
Since the play deals with magic, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream sparks extreme creativity in any director. Darren Loy’s Young Shakespeare Workshop’s production, which debuted in Volunteer Park this past weekend, was no exception; the show abounded with creativity as well as excellent performances by this cast of juvenile actors.
KIRO’s Dave Ross Returns to Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan For the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Seattle
Not Shakespeare’s Most Popular Play
Love’s Labour’s Lost is not very frequently produced and with good reason. It is mostly just one long conversation, involves references to dated political situations and literary allusions and is overly long
Garrison Keillor did it, now Seattle’s Arne Zaslove does it.
In the early 70’s nobody thought it could be done: to revive old time live radio broadcasts, but Garrison Keillor did it with the Prairie Home Companion; now Seattle’s Arne Zaslove is doing it with the Big Broadcast Renuion.
“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Expressed one of the major themes in the outstanding stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which previewed on June 19th at the Eclectic Theatre.
Coupla Gay Guys Sitting Around Playing Opera Trivial Pursuit
Or so it seemed in the First Act of The Liston Traviata by Terence McNally, produced by Theatre 22, at Richard Hugo House, as the first annual installment of their June “Pride Series”. Although this play discusses profound relationship and personal issues against a backdrop of gay life, at a pivotal historical time and place, its message is universal.
A Small Fire
Excellent production of “Situation Melodrama”
A Small Fire, by Canadian-born playwright Adam Bock, produced by Seattle’s Sound Theatre Company, at the challenging New City Theatre Space, opened this past weekend to sold-out audiences. The production itself was a testament to the outstanding talents of the actors, the director, Julie Beckman and especially the set designer, Montana Tippet, because the play itself was not up to the same standards as the production.
