2023 Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival
One of Seattle’s best summer entertainments will take place in Volunteer Park July 8th and 9th: The Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival, which features many the outdoor touring shows in the Puget Sound area, including Shakespeare shows by Wooden “O”/Seattle Shakespeare Company, Greenstage, Mt. Vernon’s Shakespeare Northwest, Last Leaf Productions and CSZ Seattle.
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of seeing Greenstage’s The Taming of the Shrew. With the show being one
Henry IV Part 2, one of Shakespeare’s history plays features one of the bard’s most brilliant comic characters, Falstaff. Prepared for Falstaff’s relentless pursuit of revelry and propensity for deception by this play’s precursor, (Henry IV part 1), audiences won’t be disappointed.
Last weekend, GreenStage’s Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival light-up Volunteer Park with a great amount of vibrancy. This festival featured performances
GreenStage, one of the longest running Shakespeare companies in Seattle, opened its summer season with a robust, straightforward adaptation of
While some versions of Two Gentlemen of Verona balance the pathos and the irony, making it a truer tragicomedy, the
The Merry Wives of Windsor was a riot! And the GreenStage ensemble made it look easy. Daniel Wood directed
GreenStage’s 28th season of free outdoor theater is off to a terrific start this summer with perfect weather. I watched their production of William Shakespeare’s Cymberline in Volunteer Park this Sunday. Under the skillful direction of Vince Brady, the large company of 15 actors performed in front of the stage platform in the park.
Blood, Comedy, and Tragedy
The Duchess of Malfi opened at North Seattle College on February 26th. This production, put on by GreenStage’s Hard Bard, is a bloody retelling of John Webster’s play directed by Tony Driscoll. It was a serious story told in an unserious manner. With the blood, humor, and acting, this production made for quite an entertaining Friday night.
On yet another very warm Seattle summer evening, GreenStage brought its high energy Much Ado about Nothing to the Dottie Harper Park in Burien. The troop chose to go big and broad here, and while some of the nuance of Shakespeare’s comedic chops may have been lost, the play clicked wonderfully for the picnicking audience.
