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Measure for Measure

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Jane Austen meets Shakespeare: Morality Tale told through comedy .

Desdemona Chiang, has directed perhaps the best show Seattle Shakespeare Company has ever produced: Measure for Measure, which opened on Friday January 10th at the Center Theater at Seattle Center. Defined as a comedy because it has an almost fairy tale-like happy ending, it is also a serious morality tale, dealing with many Christian and universal themes such as mercy, atonement, chastity, the consequences of lust or what in previous generations was called “sin”, the irony of hypocrisy and the perniciousness of rigidly enforced justice.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Life—As a Musical? Yes!

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The world premiere of The Hours of Life, a musical about Edgar Allan Poe by Paul Lewis shines with loving attention. Directed by Corey McDaniel, this presentation by Theatre22 at the tiny Cornish Playhouse Studio at Seattle Center delivers the goods.

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All the Way

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Seattle Rep Goes All the Way

Given the red, white and blue bunting splashing the lobby of the Seattle Rep on opening night, and the advertising blanketing the city, it’s as though the Rep is nominating Lyndon Baines Johnson for president in 2016. But their current co-production of Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s epic double feature of LBJ’s “accidental presidency,” All the Way, running in repertory with its sequel The Great Society, is no political campaign.

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Twelfth Night or What You will by Seattle Shakespeare Company

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Elizabethan Rom Com

Seattle Shakespeare Company opened William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night, directed by Jon Kretzu at Seattle Center, lasts Thursday. The twelfth night in Shakespeare’s time was the Feast of Epiphany, January 6th, which was the twelfth day after Christmas. In those days, Advent was a time of fasting and reflection, much like pre-Vatican II Lent, so the “good times rolled” between Christmas and Epiphany. On Epiphany, (sometimes called the Festival of Fools) there was a lot of mischief, with servants dressing as masters and masters as servants, and a general carnival atmosphere.

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Blood Relations-Lizzie Borden’s

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Lizzie Bordon took an axe

And gave her Mother forty wacks

And when the job was nicely done

She gave her Father forty-one

Written by distinguished Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations opened this weekend Theatre with a bang. No pun intended; it was a fabulous production of an intelligent well-crafted play about a difficult subject: What compels a well-bred person to murder her closest relatives?

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Oresteia Ubuntu

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Oresteia: Ubuntu is a powerful show, mixing a classic Greek revenge cycle with testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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The Mikado

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KIRO’s Dave Ross Returns to Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan   For the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Seattle

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A New Brain is Full of Catchy Songs

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A New Brain—book and lyrics by William Finn, book by Finn and James Lapine and directed by Zandi Carlson—makes for uplifting musical theater about valuing every moment and making the most of second chances. Heart, time, and music are the main ingredients to “make a song” that recur in this energetic production from STAGEright Theatre in the tiny Black Box Theatre at Seattle Center.

William Finn set out to write a “musical documentary” in 1998,

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