2017 SEATTLE FRINGE FESTIVAL: WOMAN WITHOUT HER COAT
“This is right out of a Mike Hammer novel…all the books start with a dame in trouble.” A relationship play […]
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Seattle Fringe Festival 2017 PREVIEW
The Seattle Fringe Festival returns March 23 – April 1, for 2 jam-packed weekends of live performances, including scripted theatre, dance, solo performance, burlesque, experimental, performance art, clown, drag, opera, improv and comedy.
Seattle has long had a national reputation as a hotbed for fringe performance. Since the Seattle Fringe Festival’s relaunch in 2012, it has reignited a growing and increasingly diverse audience base of devoted fans, local industry members, curious first-timers, and Puget Sound arts buffs with an adventurous streak. They share a passion for performance where artists push the boundaries of their craft, experiment with form or content, and take artistic risks.
Bright Half Life: New Representations of Time, Space and Love
“Do you think forwards or backwards or somewhere in the present?” All three, Bright Half Life answers for the audience
Winter Bird
The Eclectic Theater is a small black box just off Broadway, which contains all the energy and soul that should be present in such a space. Clearly, this company of artists is quite passionate.
Winter Bird, written by Stephen Delos Treacy, tells the story of a simple librarian who is visited by a sultry woman and becomes transfixed by her, but not is all as it seems. Mr. Treacy clearly had a story to tell, likely inspired by his background in wilderness biology. The story seems to rest on mostly solid ground in the first few acts, but ends in a final showdown which left this reviewer perplexed.
My First Sony, performed in Hebrew and English
The Divorce from Hell
One of the most amusing yet profoundly tragic tales of the disintegration of a family is the subject of a one-person play, My First Sony, playing for one more night at Eclectic Theatre.
Julius Caesar
Julius Ceasar by The New Shakespearience Strategizing with Shakespeare Would you like to reconsider the plot of Shakespeare’s tragic history
Nine and The Long Road
Two one act plays, Nine by Jane Shepart and The Long Road by Shelagh Stephenson opened Friday at Eclectic Theatre.
Fangs
If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament.
One of the best subjects for humor in life as in comedy is hypocrisy. One of the most embarrassing situations for politicians, espousing the right-wing social agenda, is the behavior of their children, which can seriously derail their careers.
Other Desert Cities Explores the Heart of a Family
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