Alice in Wonderland
An adaptation of Alice in Wonderland opened Friday, April 10th at Stone Soup Theater. The stage full of psychedelic costumes, […]
August Wilson Documentary Opens Film Festival
The 12th Edition of the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival appropriately began with a tribute documentary about August Wilson. August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand celebrates the 70th year of his birth. Wilson’s family was in attendance, and Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow, encouraged Seattle to accept August as one of our own. She said he was very happy living here. They had fallen in love but lived in different cities and had to choose between here or Portland. Seattle had a stronger theater community, and that was the tiebreaker. Sorry Portland, they moved here, and yes, he’s one of us now.
Sex’d, an adaptation of La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
Round and Round the Sexual Merry-go-Round, circa 2015
An incredibly interesting engaging adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, called Sex’d opened at the LAB@INScape in the International District, produced by Handwritten Productions on Friday, April 10th.
Fail Better-Beckett Move UMO
Existence is too Serious to take Seriously
UMO Ensemble opened a performance featuring text from Samuel Beckett’s the Unnamable, physical theatre and music in the Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space at ACT theatre on April 9th.
Beckett is an extremely difficult author to stage because he writes non-linear confusing novels and plays whose humor that often gets lost because the subject matter deals with the most basic existential question: to go on living or not to go on living. As a result, it is often performed ponderously, tediously and at a snails pace so that the audience is never engaged.
Seattle Rep Offers World Premiere of Lizard Boy
Justin Huertas throws one crazy coming out party with his raw, exciting premiere of Lizard Boy. He wrote the book, composed the tunes and portrays the title character. Sitting in on its spirited opening night, I thought of Bob Dylan’s line, “Something is happening and you don’t know what it is…” The 90-minute one-act is a cockeyed blend of social commentary, high-tech romance, comic book super-hero clashes and a rock and roll show case. Some of it works well, some of it doesn’t, but it is all entertaining and remarkably original.
LIVE!From the Last Night of My Life.
To Be or Not to Be-that literally was the question.
LIVE! From the Last Night of My Life by Wayne Rawley, was not only the most amusing show I have seen in a long time but also the most profoundly tragic as it dealt with the very basic question of existence: should I keep living or should I put an end to everything. Both the Theatre 22’s production and the script itself were masterpieces which simultaneously served to enlighten the audience and provide the best psycho-therapy there is: laughter.
Tartuffe
Culture War of 17th Century France
Knowing that the Archbishop of Paris threatened to excommunicate anyone who watched, performed in or even read the original version of Molière’s great masterpiece, should be recommendation enough for any one to rush out and buy tickets for Tartuffe. However, Seattle Shakespeare’s current production warrants immediate canonization for director Makaela Pollock.
Julius Caesar
Julius Ceasar by The New Shakespearience Strategizing with Shakespeare Would you like to reconsider the plot of Shakespeare’s tragic history
Theater Schmeater’s “The Most Deserving”
“Seattle is a small town,” is an axiom of the arts community in our feverishly-growing (some might say hell-bent) metropolis,
Jacques Brel is …
The ACT/5th Avenue co-production of “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” recasts the Broadway musical in