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Crewmates

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Crewmates starts off full steam ahead, goes off course.

For those of us who have had to navigate courtship and relationship foreplay with foreigners, Crewmates, the off-night play at Annex Theatre, in the Pike/Pine Corridor exposes all the embarrassment, missed signals, cultural differences, conflicting expectations and hilarity of such relationships. Just to up the ante Crewmates’ author, Sameer Arshad, did not depict your average, American undergraduate on a junior year abroad courting a European (which is relatively tame) but a young man raised in a strict Muslim family, and a biological Japanese young lady adopted by a Filipino-American couple.

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Something Incredible-Annex’s Research and Development Wing

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On discovering the truth.
We may never even know all the questions.

As part of their Research and Development Wing project, Annex Theatre presented Something Incredible, written and devised by playwright Natalie Copeland and Emily Harvey along with an ensemble of seven highly talented female performers. In an evening of subtle humor, the play focused on the great metaphysical questions of science and religion: Why are we here? What are the scientific explanations for creation as well as the creation myths. How is human spirituality related to nuclear fission? And of course the greatest question of all: will we ever know the truth about these great questions.

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Preview Annex’s 6th Anniversary edition: Weird & Awesome with Emmett Montgomery

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Weird & Awesome just Might Shake the Pillars of Heaven! or Annex Theatre!! or the Pike/Pine Corridor!!!

On Sunday, December 4 at 7 pm Annex Theatre will presents the 6th Anniversary edition of Weird & Awesome with Emmett Montgomery! This month’s variety show includes:

Danielle K.L. Grégoire (Seattle producer of the Moth Storyslam / Founder of the Comedy Womb) will help guide us through the special night as co-host!

Portland based writer and comedian and Emmett’s adopted little sister Elizabeth Teets will share with us!

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The Lost Girls

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This Is Not Your Average All-Girls Summer Camp

The Lost Girls is a truly rare production that has you laughing your heart out and thinking about some of the world’s most pressing ideological concerns at the same time: sexuality, feminism, and privilege. Running from October 28th to November 19th at Annex Theater in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, this is a production that will do anything (and everything) but disappoint.

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Psycho Beach Party

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Cartoonish parody of Surfer, Hitchcock, Mommie Dearest and Slasher movies

An artist run LGBTQ company, Fantastic Z opened a production of Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch at Eclectic Theatre this weekend. As a left thinking person who believes in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights, I would like to have liked this production; however, there is more to entertaining an audience for one hour and forty minutes, without an intermission, than just playing to clichéd, once shocking stereotypes, repetitive, superficial humor and loud screechy voices.

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Shooting the Stars

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Mixed Reaction Reunion with ex-Lover

Shooting the Stars, an In the Moment Theatre production, opened this past weekend at Eclectic Theatre. It was full of nostalgia, for those of us who went to college in the 1970’s in quintessential activitist college towns like Madison, Wisconsin, where it took place. However, the script played on stereotypes and clichés so much that even two very fine actors and a competent director could not rescue it from sit-com and soap-opera predictability.

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As a Beaver and an Artist

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Snappy Dialogue Diluted by Performance Whatever

Whenever a reviewer is assigned a “show” described as a “bizarre performance art” involving “clowing, improv, movement etc. ”, one puts the brakes on one’s expectations and does not exactly expect a well-made play. Given that limitation As a Beaver and an Artist, was in fact not only extremely entertaining, containing some excellent witty dialogue, but expressed, through black humor, profound truths about human existence and more importantly, the uncontrollable changes occurring in life.

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