BWW Reviews: Pinter’s THE DUMB WAITER and CELEBRATION Bring Intrigue and Honest Hilarity to ACT
No tricks, no flash, no exploding video walls or gaudy production numbers.
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BWW Reviews: 5th Avenue Theatre’s RENT Loses Its Edge
Is it possible that "Rent", Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking hit from 1996 has now become so dated that it no longer has the edge it once had? Or is it that the current production from the 5th Avenue Theatre is so desperately trying to be edgy that it shows its weakness? That is the question befor
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET at Intiman Lacks Love From Lovers
One of the biggest pitfalls of casting "Romeo and Juliet" is that you need to find younger actors (the lovers are supposed to be 14 years old) who can handle these characters and this play without devolving them into petulant teens.
BWW Reviews: YELLOW FACE at Center House Theatre Suffers Too Much Message
If a play or the message of a play is important or affecting, as is the case with David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face", currently playing at the Center House Theatre from React Theatre and Pork Filled Players, there is always the danger of the actors in the play to over intensify the work rather than l
BWW Reviews: HEDDA GABLER at Intiman Lacks Depth
Take a few particularly vile individuals, throw them into a house with some innocuous and naive others and have them all spurred on by a bored manipulative new bride and what do you have? No, this is not the latest reality series on FOX but it had about the same impact and appeal as one.
BWW Reviews: Over-the-Top MIRACLE! at Intiman
Crass, over the top and offensive.
BWW Reviews: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST from Strawberry Theatre Workshop
Dario Fo's 1970 play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" with it's anti-establishment rhetoric certainly has connections to items in the news today what with the occupy movement and people's disillusionment with the government.
BWW Reviews: A DIRTY STORY at Intiman
What starts off as a seeming battle of wills and words between two writers soon devolves and reveals itself to be more of a geo-political statement in John Patrick Shanley's "A Dirty Story" which opens the Intiman's Summer Theatre Festival.
BWW Reviews: JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN from Azeotrope
What makes a "good" person? When is a horrific crime such as murder justified? Where does redemption come from and for whom? These questions and more are posed in the riveting second offering from fledgling theater company Azeotrope with their production of "Jesus Hopped the A Train" currently ru
BWW Reviews: ONE SLIGHT HITCH at ACT
Lewis Black, best known for his hilarious stand up comedy and in your face editorials on "The Daily Show" has brought his new wedding day farce for it's west coast premiere to ACT.
BWW Reviews: AMERICAN IDIOT at the Paramount Theatre
Rarely am I this surprised by a show, especially one I've already heard.
BWW Reviews: SHEAR MADNESS at the Moore Theatre
Take the broadest physical humor and bad puns you can find, mix together with a half baked murder mystery and throw in enough current (and not so current) pop culture and local city references to choke the Mariner Moose and what do you have? You have "Shear Madness" currently playing at the Moore T
BWW Reviews: Macha Monkey's SWEET NOTHING is Fringe Theater at its Best
I have to say I love it when a playwright takes a genre and turns it on its head.
BWW Reviews: An Uneven AS YOU LIKE IT at Seattle Shakespeare Company
There are some Shakespeare shows that are not quite as bulletproof as others.
Summer Stages: BWW's Top Summer Theatre Picks - Seattle!
As always, summers in the Seattle area are a crapshoot.
BWW Reviews: STARKID's APOCALYPTOUR at The Neptune Theatre
I had a very confusing night last night.
BWW Reviews: A PANTY LINE and LATE NIGHT CABARET at The Erickson Theatre
Flying House Productions is currently presenting two shows over at the Erickson Theatre that's bound to appeal to all kinds of musical theater lovers.
BWW Reviews: ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE at Theater Schmeater
England in the 1960's may not have been able to get away with overt displays as we can today but that doesn't mean they were any less randy.
BWW Reviews: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at The Paramount
When will they learn that simply putting the music of some notable singers on stage without a decent script to back it up does not a good musical make? It's didn't work for "Good Vibrations" it didn't work for "Lennon" and it doesn't work for "Million Dollar Quartet" currently playing at the Paramo
BWW Reviews: I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE Oozes Simple Charm at Seattle Musical Theatre
Sometimes we just don't need those big flashy musicals.
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