‘The Producers” a Classic, Bawdy Romp for Lakewood Playhouse
When a stage play and a movie exist for the same material, most people assume the play came first. Such […]
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Don’t Call it a Riot hits 12th Ave Arts
Black women are simply amazing! Amontaine Aurore’s play “Don’t Call it a Riot” opened on June 1st 2019, at the
PREVIEW Booger Red-Growing up a Preacher’s Kid
Southern storyteller and solo performer Jim Loucks
brings Booger Red to Theatre Off Jackson
Solo performer and playwright Jim Loucks brings his Southern storytelling style to Theatre Off Jackson with his one-man show Booger Red June 27-29, 2019 (Theatre Off Jackson, 409 7th Ave S., Seattle, WA 98104). Booger Red is directed by Lisa Chess.
‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Opens to Acclaim at Centerstage
“Bye Bye Birdie” began as a Tony-Award winning play during the 1960-61 Broadway season. While Broadway-goers may remember that one,
Tiny Beautiful Things Dazzles at Seattle Rep
In her program notes, director Courtney Sale bemoans the arduous task she is given of staging Tiny Beautiful Things. In an imagined letter to the author Cheryl Strayed, Sale writes, “I am a bit terrified and a little angry you aren’t a play like I know a play.” Her concern is well founded: how in the world do you turn the give and take of Strayed’s advice column into a coherent stage production? Turns out Sale needn’t have worried. Playwright Nia Vardalos has done a marvelous job of adapting Strayed’s 2012 book into an effective stage piece. With the aid of a topnotch cast, the Seattle Rep’s Tiny Beautiful Things is a one-act play filled with moments of hilarity as well as heart tugging drama. Its hundred minutes fly by in a wonderfully entertaining night of theater.
“Sublime Ridiculous” is Both for Changing Scene Northwest
The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest is one of the hidden perks of this job. An itinerant theater company from its
Spring Awakening-The Musical
“They stood perplexed in top hats, as if round the carcass of a vulture. Bewildered crows.”
Berthold Brecht about Franz Wedekind’s funeral
The musical version of a once highly controversial play, Spring Awakening, by Franz Wedekind, opened at Garfield High School’s Quincy Jones Performing Arts Center this week. Although the musical version, with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater. won numerous Tony awards on Broadway, in my opinion, it was the sort of play that should never be adapted into a musical.
It’s one for the money, two for the show at Village Theatre
It was an enchanted night on December 4th, 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee. The planets aligned and four rockstars came together
A Delightful Kim’s Convenience Premieres at Taproot
The confounding conflict between the natures of love and duty that swirls within the members of so many families is the driving force of Kim’s Convenience, a charming one-act play from the Korean-Canadian playwright Ins Choi. That these forces collide in a struggling immigrant family only ups the stakes in the inherent give and take that consume parents and their children when they search for some balance between deeply caring for each other while still working under the onus that stringent expectations be met. Choi has these battles take place within the wonderfully entertaining Kim family, gamely running a convenience store in modern day Toronto.
Benefit Concert for Stella
Benefit Concert for Stella, daughter of Hans Alwies and Amy Thone
On Wednesday May 22, musicians connected with Seattle’s theatre community will offer a benefit concert at the Royal Room in Columbia City to help with this effort. This will be a great event to bring our community together in celebration of this amazing family, who have touched so many of us in beautiful ways.