Close-to-the-skin: Return of the Fringe
This weekend, the Seattle Fringe Festival 2014, will take place on Capitol Hill with 22 new productions.
Feel like seeing an interesting combination of dance, drama, performance art AND supporting a good cause? In what promises to
Peter Shaffer’s 1965 Black Comedy, preceded by David Ives ten-minute “curtain-warmer Sure Thing, opened at Strawberry Workshop at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway on Thursday night. Although the curtain warmer was funnier than the main attraction, they were both hilarious.
Local Jewell Productions’ take on Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Raitz at the Eclectic Theater on Capital Hill probably will get better with time. This is a family drama set at the desert home of the connected, Jewish, Republican, Wyeth family. Themes of loyalty, honor, love, justified violence, and creative freedom clash over two days around Christmas in 2004. I think Raitz wants us to feel a strong desire
Garrison Keillor did it, now Seattle’s Arne Zaslove does it.
In the early 70’s nobody thought it could be done: to revive old time live radio broadcasts, but Garrison Keillor did it with the Prairie Home Companion; now Seattle’s Arne Zaslove is doing it with the Big Broadcast Renuion.
“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Expressed one of the major themes in the outstanding stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which previewed on June 19th at the Eclectic Theatre.
1504 Spain has never looked like this before. In its last-ever production at its 19th Avenue home, Washington Ensemble Theatre
Coupla Gay Guys Sitting Around Playing Opera Trivial Pursuit
Or so it seemed in the First Act of The Liston Traviata by Terence McNally, produced by Theatre 22, at Richard Hugo House, as the first annual installment of their June “Pride Series”. Although this play discusses profound relationship and personal issues against a backdrop of gay life, at a pivotal historical time and place, its message is universal.
Expressing Extreme Wisdom Through Humor and Self-Mocking.
It is often said that, unlike Protestants, Jews and Catholics looooove jokes about themselves, the craziness of their culture, their religion, their semi-pagan rituals, their theology and their sense of “otherness”.
