BWW Reviews: ACT's UNCLE HO TO UNCLE SAM - One-Note & Filled With Anger
The problem with so many one-man, autobiographical shows is that they are so often just someone exorcising their own demons.
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BWW Reviews: Omigod You Guys, SMT's LEGALLY BLONDE is Totally Great!
The movie should not have been very good but Reese Witherspoon sold it.
BWW Reviews: IS HE DEAD? From Theater Schmeater is Funny But Misses Opportunities
Mark Twain's play "Is He Dead?", adapted by David Ives, is an uproarious hysterical romp.
BWW Reviews: Village Theatre's BIG RIVER Has Some Big Talent But Also An Identity Crisis
At the top of the show for Village Theatre's production of "Big River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" we are greeted with a quote from Mark Twain and the original book.
BWW Reviews: While Sometimes Heavy Handed, Strawberry Theatre Workshop's THIS LAND – WOODY GUTHRIE Has Simple Beauty
OK, at times it was a little long winded; too many songs and a little over reaching in getting its message across.
BWW Reviews: Upstart Crow's TITUS ANDRONICUS is Brutally Good
The impetus to cast a largely male Shakespearean show such as "Titus Andronicus" (or any show for that matter) with an all female cast can come in a number of guises.
BWW Reviews: Haunting Morality Tale from The Schoolyard's THE LAST LEPER OF CHARENTON
Take away what you want from The Schoolyard's latest endeavor, "The Last Leaper of Charenton"; a transitional tale of the struggle between science and religion or a morality play about who judges beauty and sanity with resonance of the issues of today.
BWW Reviews: Sound Theatre Company's THE ILLUSION Brings Truth to Magic
I don't think many would disagree when I say Tony Kushner is one of theater's most incredible playwrights with his amazing gift for language.
BWW Reviews: Charming Chemistry in ReAct's DRIVING MISS DAISY
There's a reason that Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize winning heartbreaker "Driving Miss Daisy" isn't produced much around here: casting.
BWW Reviews: '90s Laughs in CALLING NANCY DREW from STAGEright Could Be Tighter
Take a classic girl detective, throw in more 90's references than you can shake a Beanie Baby at and before you can say, "Whazuuuuup?!" you've got the latest show from STAGEright, "Calling Nancy Drew".
BWW Reviews: 99 LAYOFFS at ACT Gets Mired in its Own Joke
You know that friend of yours whose entire life is one big ball of negativity.
BWW Reviews: Pinter’s THE DUMB WAITER and CELEBRATION Bring Intrigue and Honest Hilarity to ACT
No tricks, no flash, no exploding video walls or gaudy production numbers.
BWW Reviews: 5th Avenue Theatre’s RENT Loses Its Edge
Is it possible that "Rent", Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking hit from 1996 has now become so dated that it no longer has the edge it once had? Or is it that the current production from the 5th Avenue Theatre is so desperately trying to be edgy that it shows its weakness? That is the question befor
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET at Intiman Lacks Love From Lovers
One of the biggest pitfalls of casting "Romeo and Juliet" is that you need to find younger actors (the lovers are supposed to be 14 years old) who can handle these characters and this play without devolving them into petulant teens.
BWW Reviews: YELLOW FACE at Center House Theatre Suffers Too Much Message
If a play or the message of a play is important or affecting, as is the case with David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face", currently playing at the Center House Theatre from React Theatre and Pork Filled Players, there is always the danger of the actors in the play to over intensify the work rather than l
BWW Reviews: HEDDA GABLER at Intiman Lacks Depth
Take a few particularly vile individuals, throw them into a house with some innocuous and naive others and have them all spurred on by a bored manipulative new bride and what do you have? No, this is not the latest reality series on FOX but it had about the same impact and appeal as one.
BWW Reviews: Over-the-Top MIRACLE! at Intiman
Crass, over the top and offensive.
BWW Reviews: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST from Strawberry Theatre Workshop
Dario Fo's 1970 play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" with it's anti-establishment rhetoric certainly has connections to items in the news today what with the occupy movement and people's disillusionment with the government.
BWW Reviews: A DIRTY STORY at Intiman
What starts off as a seeming battle of wills and words between two writers soon devolves and reveals itself to be more of a geo-political statement in John Patrick Shanley's "A Dirty Story" which opens the Intiman's Summer Theatre Festival.
BWW Reviews: JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN from Azeotrope
What makes a "good" person? When is a horrific crime such as murder justified? Where does redemption come from and for whom? These questions and more are posed in the riveting second offering from fledgling theater company Azeotrope with their production of "Jesus Hopped the A Train" currently ru
BWW Reviews: ONE SLIGHT HITCH at ACT
Lewis Black, best known for his hilarious stand up comedy and in your face editorials on "The Daily Show" has brought his new wedding day farce for it's west coast premiere to ACT.
BWW Reviews: AMERICAN IDIOT at the Paramount Theatre
Rarely am I this surprised by a show, especially one I've already heard.
BWW Reviews: SHEAR MADNESS at the Moore Theatre
Take the broadest physical humor and bad puns you can find, mix together with a half baked murder mystery and throw in enough current (and not so current) pop culture and local city references to choke the Mariner Moose and what do you have? You have "Shear Madness" currently playing at the Moore T
BWW Reviews: Macha Monkey's SWEET NOTHING is Fringe Theater at its Best
I have to say I love it when a playwright takes a genre and turns it on its head.
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The Play That Goes Wrong Seattle Rep Theater (6/11-6/28) |
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John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour) Neptune Theatre (7/15-7/15) |
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2026 Night Nation Run - Seattle, WA Lumen Field (10/10-10/10) |
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Alison Krauss and Union Station Marymoor Live (8/22-8/22) |
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Wonderland Ballyhoo Theatre (7/17-7/25) |
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