30 days. Alone. Nothing but booze. Can she survive?
‘It Girl’ Amethyst Crystal has just arrived on XXX Island to film what she thinks is the hottest new reality dating show… but is actually a hardcore solo survival challenge.
Thrice, three solo performances by Indian Women, presented by Pratidhwani, the Seattle South Asian performing arts group, opened this weekend at Taproot’s Isaac Studio with great performances, insightful playwriting and plenty of laughter especially for Priyanka Shetty’s The Elephant in the Room. 
Last night, September 24, marked opening night of The Pink Unicorn at 18th and Union Performing Arts Space. This piece
Left on Yellow Brick Road, created and performed by Sherif Amin, and directed by Kate Myre, is one of the
Marisol Soledad opened a one-person show at 18th and Union, Here at Home, as part of the Springshot festival. The highpoint was her costume, which demonstrated that with a little big of imagination, an effective costume can be put together on a low budget. I think the basic idea, was that she was trying to present her clown persona as a bird. Her costume and her physicality certainly were effective in suggesting that.
However, she used a funny squeaky voice in this interactive show which drew on mime, storytelling, humming Edith Piaff’s La Vie en Rose and a bit of TV Talk Show type questions. Some people liked it. It was amusing in part but, in my opinion, as she seemed to be a talented performer, I was disappointed by the lack of form and structure. There just was not enough to hold audience’s attention for a full hour.
Reminding us that justice is never free, David Christie’s The Most Dangerous Woman in America opened last night on Capitol
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Tempest, Y York’s Sycorax is a powerful monodrama independent of the influencing work,
Nik Doner presented his performance of a genre I would call comedy-memoir to a packed Black Box Theatre crowd this Saturday. Directed by Hannah Victoria Frankin with Hannah Mootz and Hannah Ruwe as exotic dancers to add true-to-lifeness. This show also featured video projection of some of Nik’s home movies and a stretch of a car crash video game as he narrated one particular drunken driving experience.
Part of the charms of attending performance entertainment like Cuddling with Strippers is the safe peek it offers into worlds alien to my own.
Caught One-Handed Come home with Noah–a confused kid with sticky fingers who’s caught between a cross and hard place. Gleefully
Have you ever been just on the edge of sleep, only to be jerked into consciousness by the gut-sinking sensation of free fall? That’s precisely how it feels watching K. Brian Neel’s original play Oroboro, whipping in and out of thought and time. If you’re searching for something more abstract than linear plots, Oroboro is the show for you. Oroboro
