The ACT’s west coast premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s The Invisible Hand rolls with an unsettling energy from opening scene to final curtain. Set in a dreary bunker in remote Pakistan, we meet Nick Bright, a successful investor now kidnapped by an Islamic militant group. The subject could not by more timely and important.
He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve seen the Promised Land
I MAY NOT GET THERE WITH YOU
Were the prophetic words spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968.
Waiting for O’Neill
Strange as it may seem, there has never been a professional production of one of the great Masterpieces of American Theatre in Seattle- Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh- until now. Endangered Species Project in conjunction with ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, is producing a “concert” reading of The Iceman Cometh on Monday, September 25. Since the play is thematically linked to “Waiting for Godot” it will be performed on the same set, which is now playing at ACT Theatre.
Feel like seeing an interesting combination of dance, drama, performance art AND supporting a good cause? In what promises to
Toto, this doesn’t seem like Lake Woebegone, it seems like Seattle.
Although Sandbox Radio’s fall production Back to School, follows the format of a traditional radio program of instrumental and vocal music, short dramatic sketches, PSA’s and advertisements, it is so laden with irreverence, that it can hardly be called traditional.
“Be Happy Be Mormon” delivers on the Mormonism, and that’s about it. Kimball Allen’s autobiographical one-man show “Be Happy Be
“ I alone was spared”
Presented by React Theatre, Neil LaBute’s Break at Noon opened at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, in West Seattle on Friday. John Smith, the sole survivor of a mass shooting, supposedly undergoes a religious experience and wishes to tell the press, his family and the whole world about it.
Death and the Maiden misses the point.
The political psychological drama, Death and the Maiden by Chilean/Argentine writer Ariel Dorfman presented by the latinotheatreproject at Ballard Underground opened this past weekend. Set in an unnamed South American Country, after democracy has been re-instated, following a brutally repressive dictatorship, a married couple, Geraldo and Paulina, accidently encounter the wife’s former torturer/rapist.
The Seattle Shakespeare Company has come indoors to the Falls Theatre at ACT and produced a very fine Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett as their part of the Seattle Beckett Festival. Director George Mount has struck the humor mother lode Beckett buried in the play. Had this production been the world premiere this play would never have received a reputation for being “tedious.” It helps that all of the actors know their lines well and have terrific comic timing.
Beckett doesn’t write according to the usual rules.
Oresteia: Ubuntu is a powerful show, mixing a classic Greek revenge cycle with testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
