CEDAR & THE REDWOODS
One thing is certain: the name of this theatre company is quite fitting given the amount of love and passion […]
Paper Bullets-Inspired by Much Ado about Nothing
One of the truly distressing things about American Shakespeare productions is that they are usually staged as fossilized productions, set in the era in which they were written. Drawing loosely on the plot, power-dynamics and characters of Much Ado about Nothing, Paper Bullets, by John A. Ellis, is set in contemporary Hollywood.
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Hippiecrit
Hippiecrit-Theatre off Jackson Solo Performance Festival
I want to change the world, I just don’t feel like it.
Written and performed by Bhama Roget, Hippiecrit was the opening performance of Theatre off Jackson’s Solo Performance Festival, and the opening line was one of the funniest one liners in the history of comedy
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
A husband’s nightmare-bickering with the ghosts of two wives.
Theatre 9-12 opened Noel Coward’s 1941 Play, Blithe Spirit on Friday night. Directed by Charles Waxberg, the play concerns one of Coward’s favorite themes: wittily bickering married couples, and how second marriages fall into some of the same traps as first marriages.
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Number 2 Robot Québeçois Robot Detective Agency
Get the kids away from the video games on a Saturday morning
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A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonagh
“I could have done without the cussing and the N-word”
Said my companion, an African American woman in her 50’s who has recently returned to the U.S. after a 20-year sojourn abroad.
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
“Now don’t you worry your pretty little head about it, Nora”
Although everybody I asked to accompany me to Seattle Shakespeare’s A Doll’s House, yawned when I mentioned Ibsen, the evening did not cause any yawning, but was very suspenseful and not devoid of humor.
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Jalopies
When you get old and your testicles get cold and you find your ding a ling turns blue, and you try to diddle and it bends in the middle, what are you going to do?
“Jalopies”, now playing at the Richard Hugo House , is the story of nine retirement home residents in Seattle as they struggle both with issues of old age and with the ruthless but swarmy new manager. All ten parts are played expertly by the same actor, Mark Cherniack. This play does not fall into the trap that many movies and plays do, of portraying the elderly as one dimensional eccentric characters. All the foibles and eccentricies were there, but the deep emotions, fears and character delineation were also present in a very loving, touching fashion. There was also plenty of comic relief to alleviate the tragedy of old age and dying.
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Our Town
The preview of Hit & Run Theatre’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, took place on Saturday in a large studio in the Odd Fellows Hall. Our Town takes place between 1901 and 1913, ostensibly in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, but actually in Everytown/Everyneighborhood/Everycommunity/Everyera.
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BALLARD HOUSE DUET
“Ballard House Duet” is the new “custom made play” written by Paul Mullin and starring Hana Lass and Rebecca Olsen,