Come over to the Rectory and we’ll have some Cool-aid and Cookies.
The Tony award winning play Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley, opened at Stone Soup Theatre on Friday, Feb 14. In 2004, when it opened on Broadway, it was extremely topical, as it dealt with one of the hot issues of the day: the revelations about the historical cover-ups of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
Theater is energy, and in David Ives acclaimed play Venus in Fur, directed by Shana Cooper, it is the play of
The Icelandic Illumination Rangers is a fun adventure story about the Aurora Borealis for kids. Ali El-Gasser and Jonah Von
Using inside jokes only Seattleites would know, favorite Seattle foods, and a knockout cast, local playwright
Post-Apocalyptic Play with touch of Magical Realism
For their first production, the new theatre Collision Project chose José Rivera’s Marisol, an Obie award winner in 1993. A post-apocalyptic play, the director wisely chose to stage it in the Satori Lab at Inscape, commonly known as the old Immigration jail on the edge of Chinatown. It is no accident that New Century also chose this venue for its production of Kafka’s The Trial. Just walking in the main door is positively eerie.
History in the making by Seattle Storyteller Bret Fetzer
In 1974, Garrison Keillor and Minnesota Public radio debuted A Prairie Home Companion, in an auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota with only 12 people in the audience…the rest is history. On Tuesday, Feb 4, Annex Theatre and Bret Fetzer, opened Story & Song, a storytelling program; in 10 or 15 year we will probably be saying the same thing about him.
Mr. Pim Passes By, A.A. Milne’s drawing room comedy written in 1919, is wonderful fun from Pim’s opening entrance right up to the romantic dénouement. This is exactly the kind of show, Taproot does so well, and they are running on all cylinders here!
Or Simultaneous Equations?????
Since The Equation uses an inverse structure to explain how the devastation of the Great Depression gave rise to the myopic materialism of the 1950’s, it is no accident that Charles Waxberg chose a mathematical title for his play, which opened this weekend at Theatre 9-12. However, given the mathematical theme for the title, a more appropriate title, given its highly creative structure might be Simultaneous Equations.
For their mid-winter show, The Seattle Public Theater brings Lisa Dillman’s quirky 2013 comedy, American Wee-Pie to the Bathhouse on Green Lake. The piece exudes a quiet charm, featuring a batch of determined, thoughtful characters slipping and falling in the socially and economically tough days of twenty-first century America. How they dust themselves off, stand again and proceed to find that “beautiful, tiny good thing in life” forms the major spine of the production.
“I Don’t Know if I Want to be Straight”
Six months after Exodus International, an organization whose mission was to “help” gay Christians become straight, not only shut down, but issued an apology, the world premiere of a play about the same subject, A Great Wilderness, opened at Seattle Rep.
