It was a trip, it was a ball with the Edmonds Driftwood Players in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
It’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy cons girl out of millions of dollars by pretending […]
Crewmates
Crewmates starts off full steam ahead, goes off course.
For those of us who have had to navigate courtship and relationship foreplay with foreigners, Crewmates, the off-night play at Annex Theatre, in the Pike/Pine Corridor exposes all the embarrassment, missed signals, cultural differences, conflicting expectations and hilarity of such relationships. Just to up the ante Crewmates’ author, Sameer Arshad, did not depict your average, American undergraduate on a junior year abroad courting a European (which is relatively tame) but a young man raised in a strict Muslim family, and a biological Japanese young lady adopted by a Filipino-American couple.
Silhouette has Substance and Style to Spare
Silhouette Has Substance And Style To Spare
I think we’ve all encountered at least one moment in our theatergoing careers when the endless restaging of classic shows has worn a little thin. If my arbitrary projection of my own gripes onto you happens to ring even slightly true, allow me to recommend a production by the name of Silhouette, currently playing at Capitol Hill’s Annex Theatre. As an original science fiction acapella musical, Silhouette immediately stands out against the backdrop of a local theater scene steeped in Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. Now of course, distinction on its own is not enough to carry a production. Which is why I’m very happy to report that Silhouette packs enough dramatic heft on its own merits to entertain a far broader audience than merely fans of the above genres.
The Wolves at ACT
ACT Theatre’s production of The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe, is a performance that anyone who has survived a day of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Bilingual ASL -Spoken English
Visual Onomatopoeia
The opening of the Bilingual ASL-spoken English production of A Midummer Night’s Dream made theatrical history last Saturday at 12th Ave Arts. In my humble opinion, this co-production of Sound Theater Company and Deaf Spotlight will be seen by future theater historians as the beginning of a major theatrical innovation.
The Octoroon-Zany but moving
Zany adaptation of 19th Century Melodrama
It is difficult to categorize, exactly what Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon, was. First of all, Artswest’s current show, was a “genre bending” adaptation of the 1859 melodrama The Octoroon by Dion Boucinault, a scion of a prominent Protestant family of Huguenot descent from Dublin, who had immigrated to the U.S. The Octoroon, was itself adapted from a novel Quadraroon, written by another Irish Protestant immigrant to the U.S., Thomas Mayne Reid.
Past
Stay Soft: a night of gender interrogation and rejection
“First, just listen.” This simple, powerful phrase invites the audience of Neit/her He Nor They/r into an intimate space of
‘Pillowman’ Brilliant (and not for the faint of heart) at Tacoma Little Theatre
This is all to Director Blake York’s credit…or blame, depending on your perspective. Mr. York saw “The Pillowman” on stage
Year of the Rooster
Testosterone infused Battle of Cockerels and Cocks
Map Theatre’s latest production, Year of the Rooster, by Olivia Dufault, at 18th and Union, is not about the Chinese Zodiac, but about the blood sport of cockfighting, both the actual roosters who fight in the ring, and the owners who behave like roosters, challenging each other for social dominance outside the ring.
Paradise Theatre’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ a Retro Treat
When Mark Twain wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” he did it that his generation wouldn’t forget what life had