BWW Review: Showtunes' BOYS FROM SYRACUSE Confused About Twins but Not About Fun
I was speaking with a friend the other day about the current show from Showtunes Theatre Company, "The Boys from Syracuse".
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I was speaking with a friend the other day about the current show from Showtunes Theatre Company, "The Boys from Syracuse".
Seattle Shakespeare Company has never been one to shy away from a challenge and with their current production of "The Merchant of Venice" they certainly seem to have a challenge on their hands.
ACT and The 5th Avenue Theatre's current joint production, 'Ride the Cyclone', now playing at ACT, is one of those quirky little musicals that on the surface should not work.
Ah, the family drama.
I'm fortunate enough to have been to a few of the Village Originals Festival of New Musicals where they present concert stagings of new shows in workshop.
Many have wished they could alter the personality of their significant others in some way but it's usually something small.
There seems to be a spate of plays getting a lot of critical acclaim these days that take on societal changes and amp them up to an extreme and absurd level.
Dear Readers, if you're anything like me you grew up with a love for old standards.
Even before Sound Theatre Company's current production of "You Can't Take It With You" began, it showed promise with a stunning, well-appointed set by Robin Macartney.
It may be cold outside but it is so very hot inside the Can Can with their dazzling production of "Romeo + Juliet".
There are not a lot of people that I would encourage folks pay to watch lip sync and exercise for an hour.
It was a cold night in the City of Emeralds.
Yes, it's that big frothy ABBA musical "Mamma Mia" back again to get all the Dancing Queens shakin' it in the aisles.
When a show works, when all the elements come together from cast to crew, from set to script, it's just a joy to behold.
Luigi Pirandello's 1917 "Cosi e (se vi pare)", or "You Are Right, If You Think", playfully toys with subjectivity as one gossipy family tries to get at the truth.
Three isolated people deal with loneliness and its companion, despair, in the intensely felt and deeply moving 'Swallow', now performing at Theater Schmeater.
Lloyd Sun's play, "American Hwangap", currently playing at West of Lenin in association with SIS Productions, by its very nature should be about connection and reconnection.
Seattle Public Theater currently has a musical on their boards, "Vanishing Point", highlighting the stories of three remarkable women, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (Heather Hawkins), aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Cristin J.
Would you murder to get into college or could you at least empathize with someone who would? Peerless re-imagines the violent world of Macbeth as a modern struggle fought by anxious over-qualified teens for limited college admission spots.
'The Gin Game' is a two-act, two person play about two septuagenarians playing cards together, bored in their retirement home.
Whether or not you actually drink the absinthe (and there is plenty of it flowing) the green fairies are out in full force at the latest venture from Opal Peachey and Mark Siano, Bohemia , currently playing at The Triple Door.
Peter Morgan's brilliant look at the dissection of one of the most powerful men in the country by one whom many considered a joke, 'Frost/Nixon', is enough of an enticement to want to see Strawberry Theatre Workshop's current production.
The Seattle Rep, fortunately for all of us, has long held a special relationship with the works of August Wilson.
As you enter the theater for Washington Ensemble Theatre's Straight White Men , currently playing at 12th Ave Arts, you are greeted with Hip Hop music with questionable lyrics amped up to the point that you can feel the bass in your filings.
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