Jasmine Joshua News

You'd Better Sit Down For This is a show written by Jasmine Joshua and Eric Navarrette and directed by Kiefer Harrington and Madison Jade Jones, premiering at Annex Theatre on January 31 and running until February 29.

Becky-June Beasley-Jones (played by the irreverent Butch Alice), the Jessica Fletcher of Café Nordo, a young girl who can't help but stumble into murder after murder (so much so that I'm not certain she's not perpetrating them) has returned to rock your holidays with a?oeThe Christmas Killings at Corgi Cliffsa??. In the latest crazed mystery from Scot Augustson and directed by Jasmine Joshua, Becky-June is on hand to find the killer and tickle your funny bone. And she does quite well, but this particular mystery felt a bit convoluted and long.

Albatross Theatre Lab is thrilled to announce its 2019 mainstage production, Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman, performing at Theatre Puget Sound (TPS)'s Theatre4 on the Seattle Center campus from October 11a?"14 & 17a?"19, 2019.

In 2020, Annex Theatre will present its 33rd season of bold new work. The company of Annex are proud to announce the premiere of five new mainstage plays about the power of love, transformation, and forging your own path.

It's that time of year again. One of my favorite times of year. That time when I get to spend the weekend at Village Theatre checking out the shows brought together by the folks at Village, spotlighting new works around the country. Some amazing, some needing work, but all showing promise. Now, of course, I can't review any of these. They're all still works in progress and not fully staged. But I can share what went on over the weekend as a potential coming attraction of musicals to come to a theater near you.

Nordo announces its 11th season today dubbed as a?oeWhere the Tea Party Never Endsa?? and includes stories of an attic of wicked toys where you are the size of the dolls, to a titillating English Christmas village festooned with murder, a Victorian revenge thriller inspired by a popular poem from 1854 about the a?oeperfect wifea??, a Nordo makeover of the classic Alice in Wonderland tale and, lastly, an immersive adventure in Japan's most haunted forest. 

The first national, all-discipline childcare grant awards from Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts have been awarded to five recipients, including four individual childcare grants and one institutional childcare match grant. The institution match grant has multiplied and more institution sponsorships and grants will be awarded for this year as well. In just this first year offering the grants designated for 2018-2019, PAAL received over 100 applications, and the PAAL reviewing committee would like to publicly acknowledge the humbling clarity of need and profound work achieved by each parent artist exhibited in every application received.

Seattle Musical Theatre has taken on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" for the holidays, that bright and frothy, crowd-pleaser of a tuner. And while for this production they've managed to gather up some stellar talent, that talent sometimes has a hard time getting through the noise, or in most cases, the lack of noise.

Direct from the biblical land of Caanan! Seattle Musical Theatre (SMT) dazzles this holiday season with a spectacular production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. For 13 performances a diverse cast of fresh local talent brings this timeless tale to the stage.

Direct from the biblical land of Caanan! Seattle Musical Theatre (SMT) dazzles this holiday season with a spectacular production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. For 13 performances a diverse cast of fresh local talent brings this timeless tale to the stage.

The 5th Avenue Theatre proudly announces that four writing teams representing womxn, gender non-conforming and non-binary voices have been selected to receive a First Draft Commission (a commission that will support writers solely through the development of the first draft of their script) following the inaugural First Draft: Raise Your Voice Story Summit. The commissioned teams will have one year to complete a first draft of their script with the support of The 5th Avenue Theatre. At the end of the cycle, The 5th will produce a one-week reading with a final presentation in New York City, giving the commissioned teams the opportunity to showcase their work to national industry leaders.

Reboot Theatre celebrates its fourth season with the launch of Reboot TEST KITCHEN this fall and a delicious new take on the beloved classic SWEENEY TODD directed by Seattle favorite Julia Griffin and music direction by Aimee Hong this spring.

Greetings adventurer, you and your party are approaching a multiheaded beast to which you must convey a story filled with drama, high stakes and dire consequences. You know in order to survive you need to present yourself in a certain way, so do you judiciously put forth just what you need in order to tell a focused and coherent tale thus placating/entertaining the beast or do you throw everything you've got at it and hope something appeases the monster? Well, if you're the folks at Theater Schmeater you do the latter as was evident with the forced, unfocused, and just plain loud production of "She Kills Monsters" currently playing.

A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly's refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.

A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly's refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.

Midnight Rice Productions in association with Theatre Off Jackson presents the Seattle premiere of 'The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up' an explosive new play by Asian-American Playwright Carla Ching. It's modern, exciting, funny, and heartbreaking. It speaks to today's experiences of falling in love, dating, abuse, addiction and navigating the world with dysfunctional parents. Playing July 20 - August 5 at Theater Off Jackson.

After spending six months fundraising, Reboot Theatre Company is celebrating spring by unleashing the hysterically campy and delightfully dark cult classic LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS on the unsuspecting public. Award-winning director Harry Turpin (The Who's Tommy at SMT, Fly By Night) helms this floral fantasy with music direction by Joel Kurzynski (Fly By Night), running May 4-19, 2018 at Slate Theater (815 Seattle Blvd S). Tickets ($15-$25) are now on sale at rebootlittleshop.brownpapertickets.com  For more information, visit www.reboottheatre.org

Three isolated people deal with loneliness and its companion, despair, in the intensely felt and deeply moving 'Swallow', now performing at Theater Schmeater. This all takes place in an undefined city setting, preventing any familiarity from the start. Sam (played by Jasmine Joshua) is male-presenting, assigned female at birth, who not-so-gracefully hits on the ex-husband of their friend, Rebecca (played by Mahira Zook). Rebecca's husband cheated on her, and she self-soothes with alcohol. She's also recently had an accident, rendering her face conspicuously scarred, causing extra anguish to the already superficial Rebecca. Anna (played by Jasper Katie Driscol) lives in the apartment above Rebecca, and she's a bit unhinged. She spends all of her time on bizarre, unsanitary 'projects,' and she refuses to leave her apartment. After an evening where Rebecca finds herself intoxicated and hiding from her ex-husband, she scratches at Anna's door for help, and the two strike up an unlikely acquaintance speaking exclusively through Anna's mail slot.

Who said smashing things up was a bad thing? Three strangers are about to face their demons head on.

For the final push of Reboot Theatre Company's $5,500 fundraising campaign, the intrepid company is hosting a twelve-hour telethon live on the internet from the Slate Theater.