‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ a Shining Neil Simon Tribute at Lakewood Playhouse
When Neil Simon passed away August 26, the American theater and screen world lost an icon. He was a prolific writer, […]
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“Why is Everything So Complicated?”-Native Gardens Opens at Jones Playhouse
In their final production of the summer, Intiman Theatre is taking on Native Gardens, written by Karen Zacarías, and directed
2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival Offers Blockbuster Shows
OSF is experiencing one of its toughest years. Smokey air from Northwest fires has clouded the Ashland skies for a good deal of the summer. The weekend I was there the company had to move their large outdoor productions into a much smaller high school auditorium. Nearly half the population was walking around with facemasks; the smoke enshrouded town seemingly overrun with bank robbers. The Festival estimates that they will lose 2 million dollars when all is said and done. And yet…the shows, the fantastic shows are still there! Forecasts are indicating clearing skies, so if you have a spare few days between now and October 28, you still have a knockout treat awaiting you in Southern Oregon.
The livin’ is anything but easy at Seattle Opera
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” Whether being sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Willie Nelson, or in
The Dark Side of Charity
The Rules of Charity opens abruptly with a disabled man on the floor of the Center Theatre, a woman hovering
Best Little Whorehouse a Pair of Fine Shows at Paradise Theatre
Based on the book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” became a hit movie
Dusty, Red, Martian Summer
Welcome to Camp Dusty Tread! In summer-camp style, Natalie Copeland’s Rovers! takes its audience, Mars’ newest rover, on a night-long
History is Retold in The Great Inconvenience
Orange clouds and a blue sky hung as the backdrop to an empty stage in the Annex Theater on Saturday
Beauty above all in the Seattle G&S Society’s Patience
It has been said that comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. And no one takes themselves as
Sweet Land has West Coast Premiere at Taproot
Sweet Land rode a most unique path toward becoming a full fledged musical. “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” a short story written by Will Weaver, appeared in a 1989 Minneapolis Star Tribune Sunday magazine. In 2005, Ali Selim went on to write and direct an indie movie based on the story and re-titled it Sweet Land. Last year, playwrights Perrin Post and Laurie Flanigan Hegge with the aid of composer Dina Maccabee, tinkered with the premise a bit but held on to the primary characters of the story and transformed the work into a musical. Tap Root is now staging the show’s successful West Coast premiere. The focus of the play is on Olaf Torvik, a hard working Norwegian farmer living in rural Minnesota and Inge Altenberg, a German woman who in 1920 has sailed across the sea from Norway to marry the man she has never met. The current concerns about the acceptance of immigrants into our country naturally resonate throughout the evening, but the natural beauty of this unabashedly romantic love story is Sweet Land’s most important gift to its audiences.