Downtown

Playborhood: An Improvised Neighborhood with Styles-Completely Unexpected at Unexpected Productions

Marie Bonfils / April 1, 2023

Creativity and Humor at Unexpected Productions.

It was with great pleasure that I was able to see and participate in a full-length improvised play at Unexpected Productions last night, called Playborhood-An Improvised Neighborhood with Style. Its rather zany concept engendered one of the most creative and stimulating premises of any improvisational act or for that matter, polished performance, I have seen in a long time.

Pass Over: Can Young Black Men Escape the Block?

Mark Douglass / June 9, 2019

It’s traumatizing being a brother on the block. Playwright Antoinette Nwandu and Director Tim Bond skillfully blur this into a block more like a cell block in prison than a city block one passes through between home and anywhere else one wants to go. Our protagonists in this show at ACT: Moses played by Treavor Lovelle, and Kitch, played by Preston Butler III, are prisoners on this block, kept there by their lack of means to get free.

“Do Something” Uncle Vanya opens at Falls Theater

Eilish McLean / February 5, 2019

The Seagull Project, in collaboration with ACTlab, had their fourth opening night this weekend at Falls Theatre. Uncle Vanya is

Bohemia: Visually Stunning, but lacks substance

Eilish McLean / January 20, 2019

Mark Siano and Opal Peachy’s latest collaboration, Bohemia, is a viridescent cabaret about music, dance, absinthe and sex that took

Zombie Cheerleaders from Hell

Eilish McLean / October 5, 2018

October is now upon us and with it comes not just the rain but Halloween season. The Can Can Caberet’s

The Wolves at ACT

Nicholas Burks / April 28, 2018

ACT Theatre’s production of The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe, is a performance that anyone who has survived a day of

Director’s Look at Smoke & Dust

Nikki Eller / March 19, 2018

Wear your pussy hat to Macha Theatre Works’ debut of Joy McCullough-Carranza’s Smoke & Dust, directed by Amy Poisson. I

Jesus Christ: Superstar Super-Good at Tacoma Little Theatre

Kim Hastings / March 11, 2018

In 1970, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice knocked theater, religion, and rock music together on their heads. When they

Java Tacoma Adds Sitcom Revelry at Dukesbay

Kim Hastings / March 3, 2018

Tacoma’s Dukesbay Theater states, as its mission, “to promote independent theater in Tacoma and to give voice to artists of

Swallow Surpasses Expectations

Robert Horton / February 3, 2018

Premiering last night at Theater Schmeater in Belltown, Stef Smith’s Swallow follows the intersecting lives of three people who suffer