Jack Straw News

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will stage the New York premiere of Anna Karenina Lives!, a new vaudeville-style musical comedy by Germaine Shames, from October 14th - 22nd at 353 W. 48th St. in New York City.

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will stage the earliest printed version of  Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, from August 12th - 27th at 353 W. 48th St. in New York City. 

Author T. Geronimo Johnson will visit Seattle during the run of Book-It Repertory Theatre's stage adaptation of his 2015 novel Welcome to Braggsville. Co-Adapter and Director Josh Aaseng and Co-Adapter Daemond Arrindell will chat with the author about the topics in the razor-sharp satire on Saturday, June 24 from 5:00-6:00pm in The Center Theatre at the Armory. Tickets are $15 and available at book-it.org.

A special noontime forum exploring cultural identity, strength, tension and celebration, Race, Identity and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, features a panel of artists, activists and historians in moderated discussion, 12 p.m. - 2 p.m., Friday, June 16, in the Simons Board Room at Seattle Art Museum. Seattle Center and Seattle Public Library will present the discussion in conjunction with the 20th anniversary year of Seattle Center Festal.

???????Seattle Center and Northwest Folklife deepen their longstanding partnership this year as Northwest Folklife Festival celebrates Festal Turns 20, as its Cultural Focus for 2017. The focus recognizes the outstanding series of 24 ethnic cultural festivals produced at Seattle Center on weekends throughout the year. 

Book-It presents a darkly funny, world-premiere adaptation of Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson. When good ol' boy D'aron Davenport lets it slip that his hometown in Georgia hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, his new friends at UC Berkeley plan to stage a protest in the form of a "performative intervention." Armed with youthful exuberance and misguided ideas of the South, the intervention goes badly awry.

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, is about to open Beaumont and Fletcher's play Cupid's Revenge this week. By the company's estimates, this will be the first performance of the play in nearly 300 years. 

Mary J. Davis / MBL Productions will present the World Premiere of Pressing Matters by Jennifer Jasper, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. Pressing Matters will begin performances on Saturday, April 15 and celebrate its opening night on Thursday, April 20 running through May 20, 2017 at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street).

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, has announced the company for its upcoming production of Cupid's Revenge, an early 1600s play by Shakespeare's contemporaries John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont. 

To close out their 27th season, Book-It presents a darkly funny, world-premiere adaptation of Welcome to Braggsville, a novel by T. Geronimo Johnson. When good ol' boy D'aron Davenport lets it slip that his hometown in Georgia hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, his new friends at UC Berkeley plan to stage a protest in the form of a "performative intervention." Armed with youthful exuberance and misguided ideas of the South, the intervention has devastating consequences.

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, announces its 2017 season. The season includes Cupid's Revenge, a rarely performed play by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, the earliest printed version of Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labour's Lost, and Anna Karenina Lives! A new musical play by Germaine Shames.

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will stage The Life and Death of Jack Straw, an anonymous play written in the early years of Shakespeares debut in the Elizabethan theatre scene. First printed in 1594, The Life and Death of Jack Straw explores the perils of progressive politics and weak leadership in an eerily modern world of families, both working class and royal, trying their best to survive in uncertain times.

Seattle's Northwest Folklife today announced the full schedule of events for the 45th annual Northwest Folklife Festival, the country's largest community-powered arts and culture Festival. Northwest Folklife creates opportunities for all to celebrate, share, and participate in the evolving cultural traditions of the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest Folklife Festival is the non-profit's signature event, featuring over 5,000 performers from over 65 different cultural communities that help to make up the Northwest's arts-rich landscape.

Seattle's Northwest Folklife today announced the full schedule of events for the 45th annual Northwest Folklife Festival, the country's largest community-powered arts and culture Festival.

Jennifer Jasper in association with JewelBox Theater presents FAMILY AFFAIR, Cabaret, Served Up Family-Style, tonight, November 18, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Jennifer Jasper in association with JewelBox Theater presents FAMILY AFFAIR, Cabaret, Served Up Family-Style, on November 18, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Jennifer Jasper has been a fixture of the Northwest theater scene for more than two decades -- she is known for storytelling, directing, acting, emceeing and most recently playwriting. As a storyteller and writer, her stories are brutally honest, sometimes poignant, and absolutely hilarious.

Jennifer Jasper has been a fixture of the Northwest theater scene for more than two decades -- she is known for storytelling, directing, acting, emceeing and most recently playwriting. As a storyteller and writer, her stories are brutally honest, sometimes poignant, and absolutely hilarious.

Award winning author, Douglass Seaver is pleased to announce the promotion of his international suspense novel, 'The Fourth Rule.' 'The Fourth Rule' is a fast-paced, literary adrenalin rush. It's the story of a man's struggle to keep the secret of his brother's disappearance from the CIA. After returning from three years as a Green Beret in Vietnam, Mark Grant vanishes. Twenty-two years later, the CIA sends two private investigators to question Matthew Grant about his brother's disappearance. Matthew denies knowing anything, but the investigators don't believe him. For over two decades, he has lived the fourth rule-'tell no secrets,' but now he faces a serious challenge. Jack Straw, a rogue CIA agent, orchestrates a desperate manhunt to find out what happened to Mark, while Matthew races to find out why the CIA is interested in the secret he has kept for half his life. The action escalates as the rogue agent and Matthew struggle for advantage until the agent kidnaps Matthew's sixteen year old daughter to ransom her for information on Matthew's brother. One night the two meet halfway across the Brooklyn Bridge (the book cover) to exchange information on where Matthew's daughter is held and the location of Matthew's missing brother. The story reaches a climax when Matthew rescues his kidnapped daughter, kills the rogue agent, and prevents a terrible wrong from the past being repeated. The question of what happened to Mark Grant remains unanswered until the last paragraph in the book, when the secret is revealed to the reader, but not to any of the characters in the book. Thus, Matthew lives up to the fourth rule-'tell no secrets.' 'The Fourth Rule' is available in both print and eBook formats. Book Details: 'The Fourth Rule' By Douglass Seaver Publisher: Oak Tree Press Published: December 2014 ISBN: 978-1610091565 ASIN: B00RM3WMX6 Pages: 291 Genre: International Suspense About The Author: Douglass Seaver is the author of the highly praised nonfiction book, Four Across the Atlantic, and the award winning short story, The Auction. His latest book is The Fourth Rule, an international suspense novel. He is a graduate of the two-year online Stanford Certificate Program in Creative writing. He and his wife, the painter Cheryl Seaver, live in Essex, CT. For review copies, author interviews, or more information please contact: Douglass Seaver Email: cdseaver (at) yahoo.com Website: http://www.douglassseaver.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/douglassseaver PR by BookBuzz.net

Join Jennifer along with musical guest Vince Martinez, performer Matt Baker, Teri Lazarra, Jim Jewell and storyteller Sharon Williams!