Author name: Marie Bonfils

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Walk the Block-Wa Na Wari’s -The Biggest Black Arts Festival in the NW

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Enjoy Art and Revitalize the Central District

Walk The Block Art Festival, Wa Na Wari’s Annual Fundraiser, Returns For Year Three on September 30, 2023. This fall, Wa Na Wari will host its third annual Walk the Block, the biggest Black arts festival in the Northwest featuring local, national and international Black and Indigenous artists. The celebration will feature music, art, dancing, community and food in the Central District.

I strongly recommend this to all my readers, I regularly visit their exhibitions and review them, their art is superb!

Photo: Sunny Martin

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Achilles and Patroclus-At Seattle Opera’s Open House this Saturday

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As part of Seattle Opera’s Open House this Saturday, September 23rd, Lowbrow Opera Collective, will revive their short original opera Achilles & Patroclus, first performed as part of the More Than Friends show, which was conceived by Erika Meyer and James T. Washburn during Seattle Opera’s 2021 Creation Lab. Through flashes of intimate moments and memories, Achilles remembers his life with the love he lost in this achingly beautiful story. Revere Taylor and Jae Bernardo will reprise their roles as Achilles and Patroclus with Steven Luksan at the keyboard.

Join Lowbrow next Saturday at 1:15 pm at Seattle Opera’s open house to celebrate this unabashedly queer chamber opera. It’s free, but be peachy and RSVP using the link below.

Read more to see the original Drama in the Hood review

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Seattle Opera Open House- De-Mystifying Opera

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OPERA CENTER OPEN HOUSE

Head down to the Opera Center for their next FREE Open House. This is your opportunity to explore the great work that happens at the Opera Center!
At the Open House, you’ll find:
• Performances by Seattle Opera Resident Artists and Teen Vocal Studio
• Children’s activities like crafts, costume try-on, and activities with Seattle Children’s Theatre
• A tour of the Costume Shop with the Props department to learn more about these critical pieces of opera
• Performance by Lowbrow Opera Collective presenting Achilles and Patroclus, originally commissioned by Seattle Opera as part of the 2021 Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab ( see Drama in the Hood’s review https://www.dramainthehood.net/2023/05/mor-than-friends-lowbrow-opera-collective/)

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Sherwood-The Adventures of Robin Hood

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Sherwood-The Adventures of Robin Hood,a comedic rendering of the medieval tale, opened at Issaquah’s Village Theatre, this past weekend. It was part English pantomine with audience participation, part Monty Python sketches, part slap-stick, part Vaudeville with a touch of Mel Brooks. Written by Ken Ludwig of Lend me a Tenor fame, it was directed by the Artistic Director of Village Theatre, Adam Immerwahr, and seemed very suited for children.
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Ugly Radio-Live at 18th and Union

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The Ugly Radio LIVE!

Welcome to the Void. “The Ugly Radio: Live!” brings its late-night horror / sci-fi podcast to the stage for the first time!

Seattle’s pre-eminent late-night lo-fi sci-fi theatre anthology podcast is taking the stage! The Ugly Radio is performing its first ever LIVE show in the historic Central District at 18th & Union! Be there Sept. 7th-9th for a weekend of live performances featuring a rogues’ gallery of our favorite writers, our stellar ensemble and live music guests!

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Going in Circles-Animal Saints and Animal Sinners at 18th and Union

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Saints, Sinners and the Moral Spectrum in-Between.

The oft described “eccentric” Seattle storytelling team Animal Saints and Animal Sinners is back with live and streaming performances of Going in Circles until Aug. 25. To call them “eccentric” is an understatement as are an outstanding team dealing with extremely abnormal subjects which even Twilight Zone would have found too weird. But Scot Augstson, Kelleen Conway Blanchard and Bret Fetzer have been enthralling audiences at 18th and Union for years and is one of the most unique acts in town.

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Art in the Lobby Paper Art by Maggie Ramirez Burns

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Can you believe it was all made with colored paper!

Most of us know about the Japanese craft of Origami, which folds paper intricately to create animals, but few of us know that there is an art form involving cutting paper. I learned of it in 2021 when I visited the National Nordic Museum in Ballard and saw the exhibit “Paper Dialogues: The Dragon and Our Stories.” There I learned that it is a thriving art form in Scandinavia as well as China.

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The Hello Girls-Delightful Musical at Taproot

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“The Times they were a changin’”…And women were doin’ the changin’”

A thoroughly interesting, informative and absolutely delightful musical opened at Taproot Theater this weekend: The Hello Girls, which while entertaining, tells the story of the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit, colloquially knows as The Hello Girls, during World War I. With music and lyrics by Peter Mills, adapted from a book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel, under the superb direction of Karen Lund, it depicts changing attitudes towards women at a unique moment of history.

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Happily Ever After

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y Tales with a Shakespearean Twist

As part of the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival this past weekend, Mt. Vernon’s Shakespeare Northwest presented an original script, Happily Ever After, three different plays, each combined beloved fairy tales and Shakespeare’s plays, written and directed by Carolyn Travis, but they were just a tad eccentric.

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Bonfire-Four plays by Penguin Productions Playwrights

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Coupla Teenagers Sittin’ around writing plays

Penguin Productions

An intergenerational small theatre arts program located in the University Heights Center showcased three plays written by teenagers at the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival, Sunday, July 9th. The plays were impressive because they were highly original, with great amusing dialogue but were not without serious reflections on life and art.

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