ACT - A Contemporary Theatre presents Stupid f**king Bird by Aaron Posner, where Chekhov's story of love, art, and a hapless bird gets a remarkably contemporary face. On the grounds of a country estate, a battle between young and old ensues in this heartbreaking, hilarious, sort-of-adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. Winner of the 2014 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, Stupid f**king Bird is about our longing to love and be loved.
A Contemporary Theatre announces the spring shows that will occur during the debut season of Artistic Director John Langs. Highlights include the haunting and hilarious musical Assassins, the sixth co-production with The 5th Avenue Theatre, is now running through May 8. ACT celebrates eight talented writers in the 2016 Young Playwrights Festival Mar 10-12 and the world premiere of Worse Than Tigers opens Mar 24. April brings the heartbreaking, hilarious, sort-of-adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull with Aaron Posner's Stupid f**king Bird.
A play where only half the cast knows the story and a trio of snarky seagulls who are rife with tragedy. These are just a few of the offerings from the 2016 Seattle Fringe Festival performing all over town this weekend and next. Now I wasn't able to catch everything this weekend and next week I'll be bringing you some fantastic goings on in New York but for now I wanted to let you in on the few shows I did see.
Peter Shaffer's stirring play "Amadeus" can move you to the point of tears, but only when it's done well. It is by no means a bulletproof play. Unfortunately the current production at Seattle Public Theater, while managing a few interesting performances, really just stands out as having an unfocused concept and is about as engaging as a history lecture.
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre presents Stupid f**king Bird by Aaron Posner, where Chekhov's story of love, art, and a hapless bird gets a remarkable contemporary face lift.
Broadway-bound new musical, Come From Away, presented by Seattle Repertory Theatre, wins four Gypsys, tying with another new musical, Lizard Boy, also produced by Seattle Repertory Theatreand also with four Gypsys, a company that has been known for years as a powerhouse dramatic straight-play playhouse!
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre and Artistic Director John Langs are thrilled to announce ACT's first Core Company. Each year, a group of actors will join ACT in a year-long creative endeavor, performing and contributing as artistic ambassadors to ACT's Mainstage season. Langs has assembled the talents of Keiko Green, Kirsten Potter, Lorenzo Roberts, Jasmine Jean Sim, G. Valmont Thomas, Connor Toms, and R. Hamilton Wright for 2016.
Seattle Theater Writers critics' circle is pleased to present the nomination slate of the fifth annual Gypsy Rose Lee Awards, theater awards devoted to recognizing excellence across the economic spectrum of professional Seattle theaters in the prior calendar year.
Seattle Public Theater (SPT) is proud to present Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's magnificent story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, directed by Shana Bestock at the historic Green Lake Bathhouse Theater from January 29 through February 21, 2016. Tickets are $34 for adults, $32 for seniors, $17 for youth under 25, and $5 for youth under 12. Tickets are available by calling the SPT Box Office at 206-524-1300 or visiting www.seattlepublictheater.org.
What does it take for women to be accepted as equals and succeed in the business world? Do they just need to be as ruthless and cutthroat as men or is there another way? The Seattle Rep's world premiere of Laura Schellhardt's "The Comparables" takes a look at these very questions and while we may have gotten an inside look at the world of powerful women I'm not sure we ever really got an answer to any of those questions.
You're having a nightmare where you're taking a literature class examining "Moby Dick", it's discussion day and you haven't read the book. That's what it felt like watching Pony World Theatre Company's new production of "Or, The Whale". If there were correlations between the play and the Melville classic as advertised they were completely lost on me. So without all that foreknowledge (which their press release said was not necessary) all I got what a disjointed and drawn out look at several people's woes that ultimately had no real point.
The New York based company, The One-Minute Play Festival (Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and the Central Heating Lab at ACT- A Contemporary Theatre create a dynamic partnership to bring The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) to Seattle for the first time.
Island Theatre's 2103 Ten-Minute Play Festival presents fourteen plays by local playwrights over two days at Bainbridge Performing Arts. The plays were chosen from sixty-three submissions from throughout Kitsap County and include ASSIGNED BLESSING (recipient of First Prize) by Connie Bennett, SUPER-CITIZEN AND THE PARKING SPACE (awarded Runner-Up) by Steve Palay, ADRASTEIA by Charlie Hamilton, ANASTASIA by Ned Thorne, DINNER TABLE by Robert Dalton, GINGERBREAD by Wendy J. Wallace, HELPING HANDS by Keiko Green, HOFFMEISTER'S HYPOTHESIS, OR LUCKY DUCKS by Paul Lewis, ICHAT by Judith Glass Collins, LUNATIC by Miller Shor, SCUZZYBUNNY by Karen Polinsky, THE BUTLER by George Shannon, THE CONSORTIUM by Erik Van Beuzekom, and THE OPENING by Jeff Fraga.
Island Theatre's 2103 Ten-Minute Play Festival presents fourteen plays by local playwrights over two days at Bainbridge Performing Arts. The plays were chosen from sixty-three submissions from throughout Kitsap County and include ASSIGNED BLESSING (recipient of First Prize) by Connie Bennett, SUPER-CITIZEN AND THE PARKING SPACE (awarded Runner-Up) by Steve Palay, ADRASTEIA by Charlie Hamilton, ANASTASIA by Ned Thorne, DINNER TABLE by Robert Dalton, GINGERBREAD by Wendy J. Wallace, HELPING HANDS by Keiko Green, HOFFMEISTER'S HYPOTHESIS, OR LUCKY DUCKS by Paul Lewis, ICHAT by Judith Glass Collins, LUNATIC by Miller Shor, SCUZZYBUNNY by Karen Polinsky, THE BUTLER by George Shannon, THE CONSORTIUM by Erik Van Beuzekom, and THE OPENING by Jeff Fraga.
