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 […]
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Sugar Plum Gary has the Answers You’ve Been Seeking
Do you have a question about Christmas? If you’ve ever suffered from the Christmas blues, Sugar Plum Gary is here
Sycorax Is Loved
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Tempest, Y York’s Sycorax is a powerful monodrama independent of the influencing work,
…And Starring Claire From Hollywood: New Play Review
As the summer blockbusters start to roll out, Macha Monkey Productions presents a small-scale story that’ll get big laughs at 18th & Union. …And Starring Claire From Hollywood, a new comedy by Jim Moran, is full of humanity, heart, and humor, all in a small town Pacific Northwest setting.
… And Starring Claire From Hollywoo” tells the story of a D-list Hollywood actress, the titular Claire, who returns to her hometown on the Oregon coast…
Review: Discrete Packets of Song
Hosted by 18th & Union, Seattle folk singer, Aaron J. Shay, invites audience members to join him for a night
PREVIEW Caught Red Handed-One performance only
Caught One-Handed Come home with Noah–a confused kid with sticky fingers who’s caught between a cross and hard place. Gleefully
A Christmas Memory-A reading at 18th and Union
What really happens when two childhood friends become writers and one puts the other in their novel?
The Harper Lee and Truman Capote relationship is one of the most famous literary friendships in the world. The unique aspect of the friendship of Truman Capote and Harper Lee was that, unlike most literary friendships, which usually start as adults or students, their friendship started in childhood, before each evolved into two of the most critically acclaimed, best selling and famous authors of the 20th Century. As a result, most of us are familiar with Truman Capote’s childhood, not from anything Capote wrote, but from the character Dill in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. But in A Christmas Memory, Capote himself tells the story of his childhood in Monroeville, Alabama.
The Slipknot
Drugstores are Full of Euphemisms.
“Slipknot” is not an inappropriate word for this outstandingly performed and well-crafted solo play which opened at 18th & Union, (formerly New City) this weekend. Slip refers to casual jobs one just innocently “slips” into without realizing the knots which will bind us as we keep working at them day by day, week by week, month by month until we feel our brains have been reformatted to do only that one thing. Andrew Litzky’s superlative performance was, for me, a once in a life-time experience, because it was without a doubt not only the best solo performance I have ever seen, but probably, the best solo performance I will likely ever see.
“The Santaland Diaries”
Patrick Lennon stars in The Santaland Diaries (Joe Mantello’s stage adaption of the David Sedaris essay) as part of 18th and Union’s “Cracked Christmas” programming. The production doesn’t quite live up to the script, but this one-man show is guaranteed to raise the spirits of anyone feeling not so merry and bright this holiday season.
The Santaland Diaries is a sharp and funny account of Sedaris’s stint working as a Christmas elf at a New York City Macy’s department store. Crazy customer requests, a health-nut Santa, and a dwarf coasting on her looks are just the tip of the decorative-snow iceberg. The cynical Sedaris struggles to provide corporate Christmas cheer, but his misadventures will easily make audience members laugh.
“Sugar Plum Gary”
Santa sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good. How, exactly? Sugar Plum Gary takes the stage at 18th and Union to answer all your questions about Christmas in this interactive comedy show.