Dated Gay-Themed Musical
Produced by Harlequin Productions the Tony award winning sung-through musical The Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine opened this past weekend at the state theatre in Olympia.
Dated Gay-Themed Musical
Produced by Harlequin Productions the Tony award winning sung-through musical The Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine opened this past weekend at the state theatre in Olympia.
As part of Strawjam, Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s multiweek director’s festival, two shows opened Thursday, which will run just for this weekend, at 12th Ave Arts. Both deal with different aspects of Life itself.
Read more →Two plays, different styles.
As part of Strawjam, Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s multiweek director’s festival, two shows opened Thursday, which will run just for this weekend, at 12th Ave Arts. The two shows, Glass Kill Bluebeard’s Friends by Caryl Churchill and Catslut by Katherine Jana were thematically linked as they both deal with issues of trauma and sexuality.
Read more →Origin of the term “Gaslighting”
A casualty of Covid, Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton opened two weekends late at Woodinville Rep. However, this calamity did not in any way affect the quality of this exceptional production directed by Hjamler Anderson, whose attention to detail served the production to a T.
In addition to the touring shows opening at the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival in Volunteer Park, Seattle Opera has some outdoor shows as well as some original scripts indoors this summer.
Read more →Warning: Puppet Show, not for Children!
Beginning July 6, Puppeteers for Fears, Oregon’s only dedicated puppet musical horror troupe, will bring its original show, Cthulhu: the Musical!, on the road to Seattle, Olympia and other cities throughout the NW for performances on the company’s “Back From the Dead,” 2023 summer tour.
Read more →2023 Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival
One of Seattle’s best summer entertainments will take place in Volunteer Park July 8th and 9th: The Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival, which features many the outdoor touring shows in the Puget Sound area, including Shakespeare shows by Wooden “O”/Seattle Shakespeare Company, Greenstage, Mt. Vernon’s Shakespeare Northwest, Last Leaf Productions and CSZ Seattle.
Read more →Directed by Teresa Thurman, one of Seattle’s most eminent theatres, Sound Theatre Company, has opened Cost of Living, a play with great relevancy to our current epidemic of isolation and loneliness. Taking place in New York City, the title not only refers to what it costs in dollars and cents to live in Manhattan and its boroughs, but also the emotional costs of simply living.
Read more →A Truly American Opera
Like Lowbrow Opera Collective, Seattle Opera is de-museumifying opera and producing some interesting chamber opera with living, breathing, in the flesh composers and librettists whose subjects are not 18th century Viennese noblemen (much as I like those operas) but about truly American experiences such as immigration. A chamber opera, Bound, which opened this weekend in the intimate space at Tagney-Jones Hall, was just such an opera.
Read more →Nothing is more satisfying than stories of revenge!
At 18th and Union, Pacific Play Company will present a playwrights festival as an appetizing selection of hilarious and thought-provoking short plays and monologues based on the sizzling theme of revenge. Eight actors and nine playwrights will offer a fast-paced, suspenseful evening one will not soon forget!