Cafe Nordo to Present DON NORDO DEL MIDWEST, 4/16

Café Nordo, Seattle's locally-sourced organic dinner theatre, will be opening their new show, Don Nordo Del Midwest, the inaugural production in their new Pioneer Square Culinarium, on Thursday April 16th.

The new dates stem from construction delays at Nordo's Culinarium, located within the old Elliott Bay Bookstore at 109 S. Main St.

"The building boom in Seattle has been remarkable in all sorts of ways," says Nordo director and co-founder Erin Brindley. "One has been that it's been so rapid and widespread that our contractors have had a hard time getting the steel fabricated for the staircase that connects our kitchen with our performance space. So we've had to push back our opening date on the show until we can complete renovations to the building."

Nordo's Culinarium is a one-of-a-kind venue custom-built to facilitate the sort of deconstructionist dinner theatre that Café Nordo has become famous for. This flexible "Brick Box Theatre" will feature fine dining and unique theatrics for an audience of 60, with a full kitchen designed to create gourmet meals on site.

Don Nordo del Midwest follows the travels of Chef Nordo through the eyes of the food writer who first discovered him, expressed through a collection of Midwest-themed tapas. We meet his trusty sous-chef, known only as Sancho, and witness the duels and dreams that helped shape Nordo into the brilliant megalomaniac he is today. The cast includes Nordo favorites Opal Peachey, Kate Hess, Maximillian Davis, Evan Mosher, Ryan Higgins, Joselynn Engstrom and Keira McDonald as well as newcomers Dylan Smith, Jesse Parce, Zachary Simonson and Katheryn Reed. Both food and story-telling are complemented by the ever-intoxicating live scoring of Annastasia Workman.

Since 2009, Café Nordo has served up modern cuisine while thrilling audiences with the history, myth, science and politics of food. The Nordo experience has won five Footlight Awards from the Seattle Times, who have called it "A fricassee of satire, zany antics and enlightened food consciousness," while Culture Mob says that it's "a world where flavors sing and dance, and stories get served like artwork on plates," and The Stranger declares that Chef Nordo "somehow intuitively understands what you want and is lovingly, slowly creating it just for you."

Who: Café Nordo presents:

What: Don Nordo Del Midwest, featuring a nine-course Midwestern Tapas* menu, live original music, and the adventures of Don Nordo and Sancho as they battle the theology of bland cuisine.

Where: Nordo's Culinarium, 109 S. Main St., corner of Main and Nord Alley in the old Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle.

When: Previews April 9-12, Opens Thursday, April 16, runs through May 31. Performance Times: Thursdays and Sundays start time 7:30 pm (doors open at 7), Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm (doors open at 7:30).

Age Requirement: 21+

Ticket Prices: Thursdays and Sundays: $65 for show and nine-course tapas, $90 with Wine Flight of five wines; Fridays and Saturdays $75, $100 with Flight. (Previews April 9-12, $10 off.)

Online Sales: http://donnordo.brownpapertickets.com/

Press Comp Requests: press@cafenordo.com

*Midwestern Tapas: /?tap?s/ (n) a wide variety of small, shareable plates in Spanish cuisine inspired by Midwestern food.

Café Nordo is a project of Ripple Productions, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization. For more information on Café Nordo, Nordo's Culinarium, and our fundraising campaign, please visit www.cafenordo.com.