Arcadia
The opening of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece, Arcadia, at the Bathhouse on Green Lake signaled the end of Seattle Public […]
Don Juan in Chicago
What would happen if Don Juan was confused with Faust, and Moliere was exhumed to write it? You would get
Edmund White’s Terre Haute at ACT
Terre Haute by Edmund White opened Friday, May 16 at ACT Theatre on one of their intimate stages. Veteran Director Aaron Levin brings military precision to White’s fictional meeting between the Oklahoma City bomber and a famous ex-patriot social critic. What are their motives? Do they share common ground? White’s script plunges right in and allows answers, and more questions, to surface. The leads are the show and we believe their performances.
If you know or look up the story, there are no surprise endings,
Returning to Albert Joseph
Emperor’s New Clothes
Written by Spike Friedman, Returning to Albert Joseph was a feeble attempt at a post-apocalyptic play, which also had dystopian elements. Although the dialogue was fairly well-written, the structure of the play was so poor that the supposedly profound message fell absolutely flat.
Lollyville
Lollyville, set in “an isolated town in a little-known valley within impenetrable mountains” is the delightfully weird, new play by
A New Brain is Full of Catchy Songs
A New Brain—book and lyrics by William Finn, book by Finn and James Lapine and directed by Zandi Carlson—makes for uplifting musical theater about valuing every moment and making the most of second chances. Heart, time, and music are the main ingredients to “make a song” that recur in this energetic production from STAGEright Theatre in the tiny Black Box Theatre at Seattle Center.
William Finn set out to write a “musical documentary” in 1998,
Seattle Takes the Spotlight in Book-Its’ Truth Like the Sun
Rarely has a setting played such an important role in a novel or play as Seattle does in Book-It’s Truth Like the Sun. The crazy quilt ingredients of our town, “with such a short history it is all future,” form the maze through which all of the play’s characters must traverse. For here Seattle is polite and smug, innocent and sexy, insecure and brash.
Live Girls: Quickies #15
Combination of Science and Magic in an Imperfect Rapport
Currently running at Theatre off Jackson in the International District, Live Girls Quickies #15, is the 15th year of original short plays by women playwrights about life as females. The unifying theme of the evening was science and magic, which worked well for some of the playwrights, was ignored by others and seemed to derail other scripts.