Stg Presents Steven Wright & The Frames

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

Steven Wright
Date: October 20, 2010 @ 8:00pm
Venue: Moore Theatre (All Ages)
Price: $37.50 & $27.50, not including applicable fees
Seating: Reserved Seating
On sale date: Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 10am
Ticketing information: Online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Academy Award Winner Steven Wright is a prototype comedian that many others continually try to follow. One of four children, Wright was raised in Burlington, MA. Upon graduating from Emerson College and holding a bevy of odd jobs, Steven attended an "open mike" audition and became a regular performer at Ding Ho's Comedy Club and Chinese Restaurant in Cambridge, MA. It was during this time that Steven got his big break and was booked for his first "Tonight Show" appearance on Friday, August 6, 1982. The king of late night enjoyed the performance so much he invited Steven to appear again the following Thursday, a rarity on "The Tonight Show." His back-to-back appearances helped put his fledgling career into high gear. The comic soon found himself performing his off-beat routines on "Saturday Night Live," "Late Night with David Letterman," and numerous trips back to "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." Steven has been seen in numerous films including "Desperately Seeking Susan," Mike Meyers' "So I Married An Axe Murderer," Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," and Nora Ephron's "Mixed Nuts." Steven's second CD, "I Still Have A Pony," was released by Comedy Central Records on September 25, 2007. The CD earned Steven his second Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album.

The Frames
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010 @ 9:00pm
Venue: Showbox at the Market (21 & Over)
Price: $25.00 not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On sale date: Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10am
Ticketing information: Available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at Ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at (800) 745-3000, or in person at the Showbox box office. More info can be found at STGPresents.org.

Go to enough extremes and you'll find a kind of balance. Until now, The Frames' music favoured bi-polar swings, violently loud on one song, violently quiet the next. On Burn The Maps, their fifth studio album, the band have reconciled their various personalities into one volatile organism, synthesizing gorgeous melancholy with full-blown anger. If 2000's For the Birds seemed to capture the Dublin/Chicago quintet playing in a small room with nobody watching, Burn The Maps turns on the arc lamps. Served by their most faithful production job yet (courtesy of ex-guitarist Dave Odlum and new guitarist Rob Bochnik, who formerly spent eight years working at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studio) and recorded in Black Box studios in France, the new record is a skilful mix of widescreen scale and magnifying glass detail, sort of like putting a Herzog still under a microscope.

ABOUT STG:
STG is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a variety of shows from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and Jazz or comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and at venues throughout Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.