Hansel and Gretl Deliver a Hoot for the Whole Family
The creative team of Capitol Hill’s Theatre Schmeater delivers a wacky and totally entertaining Hansel and Gretl for the outdoor amphitheater in Seattle’s beloved Volunteer Park.
Watching the Watchers Watch Ladies and Gentlemen, with apologies to Horace, let us dust off the debate concerning what
A Triple Crown Winner
It is not often that the acting, directing AND the script of a play are awesome, but “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” by Stephen Adly Guigis at ACT Theatre, deserves a “Triple Crown.”
Queer Teens Just Being Teens For those of you who might be wary of “teen theatre”, conjuring as
Six One-liners in Search of a Play.
“One Slight Hitch”, by Lewis Black, which opened at ACT Theatre, on Thursday night, is the sort of play which makes me feel despair about the contemporary American Theatre scene.
No Accounting for Laughter
Leaving Iowa, a regional premiere, written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, opened at Taproot Theatre on Friday night. Its subtitle could be: Unpleasant Family Vacations in a Station Wagon Recounted. Judging by the audiences laughter and applause, it obviously amused some people, but it bored me.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
“The House of Bernada Alba”, adapted by Emily Mann from Federico Garcia Lorca’s play of the same name, opened at Theatre 9-12 on Friday, May 5th. Considered by many as a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, Garcia Lorca was a very important early 20th Century Spanish poet and playwright. Like his surrealist friend, the painter Salvador Dali, Lorca was gay.
