Jeeves in Bloom at the Taproot
An enthusiastic crew at the Taproot Theatre skillfully brings P.G. Wodehouse to life.
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
A husband’s nightmare-bickering with the ghosts of two wives.
Theatre 9-12 opened Noel Coward’s 1941 Play, Blithe Spirit on Friday night. Directed by Charles Waxberg, the play concerns one of Coward’s favorite themes: wittily bickering married couples, and how second marriages fall into some of the same traps as first marriages.
THE SEAGULL
Let me first of all say that I absolutely love Chekhov — love, love, love! Ever since I first discovered
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Number 2 Robot Québeçois Robot Detective Agency
Get the kids away from the video games on a Saturday morning
The Understudy at Seattle Public Theater
In The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck creates three spirited actors exploring the world of modern theater and its challenges as a profession and a life style.
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A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonagh
“I could have done without the cussing and the N-word”
Said my companion, an African American woman in her 50’s who has recently returned to the U.S. after a 20-year sojourn abroad.
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
“Now don’t you worry your pretty little head about it, Nora”
Although everybody I asked to accompany me to Seattle Shakespeare’s A Doll’s House, yawned when I mentioned Ibsen, the evening did not cause any yawning, but was very suspenseful and not devoid of humor.
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Jalopies
When you get old and your testicles get cold and you find your ding a ling turns blue, and you try to diddle and it bends in the middle, what are you going to do?
“Jalopies”, now playing at the Richard Hugo House , is the story of nine retirement home residents in Seattle as they struggle both with issues of old age and with the ruthless but swarmy new manager. All ten parts are played expertly by the same actor, Mark Cherniack. This play does not fall into the trap that many movies and plays do, of portraying the elderly as one dimensional eccentric characters. All the foibles and eccentricies were there, but the deep emotions, fears and character delineation were also present in a very loving, touching fashion. There was also plenty of comic relief to alleviate the tragedy of old age and dying.