The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Seattle.
Way back in 1991 a young fledgling theater geek saw a performance from the new musical "The Secret Garden" by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon on the Tony awards and he became obsessed with it.
A few years back on one of my trips to New York, pretty much anyone I talked to about what shows I was seeing was aghast that I wasn't seeing 'Here Lies Love' Off-Broadway.
In Keiko Green's 'Nadeshiko', currently getting its world premiere from Sound Theatre Company, there are two stories happening on the stage.
If you have to preface your show with the acknowledgement of misogyny, is showcasing the choreography and vocal talent worth putting on that show?
What an inside joke this one was! 'The Fog Machine Play' is a very smart toast to Seattle fringe theatre written and produced by a Seattle fringe theatre company, Copious Love Productions.
Expect to be killed when you attend the current production of "Murder for Two" at ACT Theatre in conjunction with The 5th Avenue Theatre.
Anytime a theater does a one person show it's a risky proposition.
In this ever-changing society of ours it's nice to see shows that take a look at different kinds of love and families.
There's the old adage in any kind of entertainment that if you have a strong finish, the audience can forgive some pitfalls that may have come before.
There's a well-known TV and Film writer who has a reputation for those quick witted, fast paced banter conversations (sometimes in the halls of the White House and sometimes while creating a social media platform.
"Yankee Pickney" is a dynamic relic, a precious time capsule of diaries, photographs, poems, and stories about Jehan Òsanyin's complicated relationship with her identity, primarily her racial and ethnic identity.
It's fine to be in the audience's face and have a scene's energy turned up to 11 but when you do it for the entire play, it gets tiring.
I want to start off, Dear Readers, by stating that I really did enjoy ACT's current production of "Tribes".
A play like "Milk Like Sugar" about three teenage girls making a pact to all get pregnant while still in school would be a ridiculous premise if it weren't for the fact that it's based in reality.
Shows like the musical version of "Little Women" require a powerhouse cast in order to survive.
Welcome to the world of Ernest Hemingway's Paris in the 1920's.
'Rent' is certainly one of those shows where you either love it or you hate it.
The theater is filled with some of the greatest love stories, "Romeo and Juliet", "Mary's Wedding", and "Falsettos" just to name a few of my favorites.
There's this little subsection of musical theater from the 50's and 60's that are big crowd pleasers due to the fact they were just plain fun.
Author Lisa Kron is known for her one-woman shows.
It's difficult to see where creator, writer and director of "Storyville Rising", currently playing at Seattle Immersive Theatre, David Crellin was trying to go with his show.
The most common subject in comedy is sex.
More and more we see controversies arise in the entertainment industry as people of color are overlooked for some roles or pigeonholed in other roles based on their race.
Here in Seattle we are blessed to have an abundance of bad ass female theater professionals some you might even go so far as to call local theater royalty.
Mounting something as complex as a Chekov play is not an easy undertaking and should only be handled by professionals.
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Million Dollar Quartet Harlequin Productions (6/19-7/19) |
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The Play That Goes Wrong Seattle Rep Theater (6/11-6/28) |
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Jack Johnson at Gorge Amphitheatre Gorge Amphitheatre (9/26-9/26) |
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Wonderland Ballyhoo Theatre (7/17-7/25) |
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Silent Movie Mondays: The General The Paramount Theatre (7/27-7/27) |
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BEDROOM FARCE at Tacoma Little Theatre Tacoma Little Theatre (7/10-7/26) |
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Monsta X Wamu Theater (10/24-10/24) |
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Mötley Crüe Cascades Amphitheater (9/26-9/26) |
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Professor Brian Cox Moore Theatre (1/16-1/16) |
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Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi ArtsWest (6/11-7/05) |
