Do you know what a paraplegic, a wolf, a fairy, two pregnant teens and a dancing hooker have in common? Neither do I! But that's what the current show "The Skriker" at the Erickson Theatre offered up in director Janice Findley's imagining of Caryl Churchill's creepy look at a world filled with mag
In "The Music Man" Professor Hill teaches the school board how to sing by explaining to them that singing is just sustained talking.
On the chance that you only read the first few sentences of my review of "Ramayana", currently playing at ACT, let me just say this right at the start.
Is it possible I've seen "Wicked", currently playing at the Paramount Theatre, too many times? It's not like I'm even into the double digits here having only seen it three times.
I understand that opening night isn't always the glorious shining gem that it ought to be.
If for some reason you weren't indoctrinated with "The Cat in the Hat" or any other Dr.
Every once in awhile a production comes along that completely surprises you.
First off let me say that the language in this is difficult at best to get through.
Back in 2008 Seattle audiences were treated to the pre-Broadway tryout of what would become the 2010 Tony award winner for best musical, "Memphis" by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan.
There were just a few too many things stacked up against ArtsWest's production of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" for me to completely get into it.
The problem with so many one-man, autobiographical shows is that they are so often just someone exorcising their own demons.
The movie should not have been very good but Reese Witherspoon sold it.
Mark Twain's play "Is He Dead?", adapted by David Ives, is an uproarious hysterical romp.
At the top of the show for Village Theatre's production of "Big River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" we are greeted with a quote from Mark Twain and the original book.
OK, at times it was a little long winded; too many songs and a little over reaching in getting its message across.
The impetus to cast a largely male Shakespearean show such as "Titus Andronicus" (or any show for that matter) with an all female cast can come in a number of guises.
Take away what you want from The Schoolyard's latest endeavor, "The Last Leaper of Charenton"; a transitional tale of the struggle between science and religion or a morality play about who judges beauty and sanity with resonance of the issues of today.
I don't think many would disagree when I say Tony Kushner is one of theater's most incredible playwrights with his amazing gift for language.
Village Theatre was back this last weekend with their 12th Annual Village Originals Festival of New Musicals.
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