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.
Read more →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.
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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 is by Elise Forier Edie and performed by Paula Wilson Nitka. 18th and Union shows are performing in the space, but currently have no audience members in the space. Audience members can view the shows […]
Read more →Left on Yellow Brick Road, created and performed by Sherif Amin, and directed by Kate Myre, is one of the solo performance shows of Springshot Festival at 18th & Union theatre and staged for three nights from April 11th to 13th. Left on Yellow Brick Road reminds its audience several aspects of loving someone and […]
Read more →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.
Read more →Reminding us that justice is never free, David Christie’s The Most Dangerous Woman in America opened last night on Capitol Hill at 18th & Union. Performed by Therese Diekhans under the guidance of veteran director Carol Roscoe, the intense one-woman show offers insight into the hardships commonly endured by laborers in the early twentieth-century and the […]
Read more →Inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Tempest, Y York’s Sycorax is a powerful monodrama independent of the influencing work, that premiered at 18th & Union last night on Capitol Hill. Directed by Mark Lutwak, an experienced freelance director, Y York’s play wrestles with major themes of revenge and forgiveness while noting how race, gender, […]
Read more →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.
Read more →Caught One-Handed Come home with Noah–a confused kid with sticky fingers who’s caught between a cross and hard place. Gleefully skipping through fire and brimstone, this shockingly true solo show tickles plenty of funny bones while serving as a catalyst for discussing sexuality, delusion, and endurance. Caught Red-Handed. 18th & Union Theatre, 1406 -18th Ave, […]
Read more →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
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