Since premiering in Italy in 1896, Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème has become one of the most produced operas in the […]

The World is a Stage and the Play is Badly Cast.-Oscar Wilde

What shapes your identity? How do you express who you are in public versus private spheres? What if who you are doesn’t align with society’s expectations? These are some of the ideas that Kelly Kitchens, stage director for The Importance of Being Earnest at the UW School of Drama, is exploring with glee. Kitchens and her team of student artists and designers present this cheeky Oscar Wilde comedy.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, UW School of Drama, The Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theatre 4045 University Way NE, Seattle Nov. 12 – 21, 2021 Tickets and info: https://drama.washington.edu/events

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt

Blake Hackler’s play What We Were, seems to refute Tolstoy’s famous quote “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” in that the play exposes, in almost textbook fashion, the standard pattern of family system dynamics in dysfunctional abusive families. Undoubtedly, the play is not for the faint-hearted, as it is a very clear coherent statement about the different reactions towards incest and how it both divides and unites siblings.

Aposiopesis: An abrupt halt in the middle of …as if one is unable or hesitant to… One of the most

Trauma in Crazy Woke Asian is Real They say that comedy is trauma plus time. The comedy show, Crazy Woke

A flexible path back to live theater The ghost light is dimming: Sound Theatre is returning to the stage after

Limitations are the Mother of Innovation.

Parley Theatre’s may have invented a new genre in their streamed production of Laundromat, by Greg Brisendine, now available for free on You Tube. The play’s original structure was a response to a number of factors: the technical limitations of the pandemic’s quarantine, causing abandonment of live performances and rehearsals as well as the innovative use of modern computer-screen technology. It was both funny, and endearing, as a motley crew of intense “individuals” gathers at the unsociable hours of 2 am to do their laundry at the Heart’s Desire Laundromat.

Coupla Scientific Sibs Sittin’ around Talking

Vaxxed, an extremely intriguing original script by Theatre 9-12 Artistic Director Charles Waxberg, opened Friday starring Cynthia Geary and Taylor Scowcroft as an older sister- younger brother pair, each successful research scientists, who have a late night heated discussion. They battle over whether it is scientifically ethical, or even professionally prudent, for scientists to self-administer an unproven vaccination, in order to have personal subjective data, as opposed to solely empirical data.

The play that enchanted audiences returns to the digital stage as part of their 2021 season. Co-director Howie Seago brought his vision and vast expertise to create a vividly striking version of Shakespeare’s comedy classic alongside co-director and Sound Theatre founder Teresa Thuman. This production garnered the 2018 TPS Gregory People’s Choice Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, because it was presented in ASL (American Sign Language) and English.

Memories of a Great-Grandmother, a Holocaust survivor

The Hermit and the Crab is a 27 minute play in which a 28 year old Molly Tollefson, who is having an existential crisis due having a profession (acting) incompatable with current pandemic, somehow manages to have a conversation with her Austrian-born Jewish great-grandmother, Greta, who managed to get her husband out of a concentration camp. Later she devised an ingenious way to get a visa to the U.S.