SEATTLE THEATER REVIEWS

ACT has once again brought back everyone's favorite Sister from their popular "Late Nite Catechisms" for the newest installment for the holidays, "Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold". And the Sister has never been funnier....

The Seattle Shakespeare Company is currently presenting the often performed "Twelfth Night" by, of course, William Shakespeare. The show itself suffers from the curse of being done all too often so unless it's done incredibly well or with some new and interesting angle, it comes across as just OK. ...

Once again Irving Berlin's holiday classic "White Christmas" comes off the silver screen and to life on stage. But there's no need to go see the New York production when you can see the 5th Avenue's wonderful production right here in Seattle....

Village Theatre is serving the stage version of that Hollywood classic, "Meet Me in St. Louis" for the holiday season and it is a wholesome good time for the whole family....

The Seattle Rep's current production of Bill Cain's "Equivocation" not only thrills you for your time in the theater but stays with you rattling around in your head for the ride home and several days after that....

The Seattle Rep is presenting Michael Hollinger's wonderful new play "Opus" about the behind the scenes drama of a string quartet, and while the ensemble never actually plays a note, they make beautiful music together. ...

Tracy Letts' Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play "August: Osage County" is playing at Seattle's Parmamount Theatre for only one week. And if you thought your family was dysfunctional then you've never met the Westons. But do yourself a favor and pay them a visit before they're gone!...

Seattle's Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center is presenting the US premiere of the new musical comedy "Obama On My Mind". And I have to say, the show is one of the most blatant and unnecessary abuses of President Obama's good name and the good feelings people have toward him since the Franklin M...

ACT brings Tom Stoppard's latest thought provoking play, "Rock n' Roll" to life this October in a mesmerizing production. The show is Stoppard's look at one family during the turbulent 1960's through the 1990's....

Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre is presenting the 2nd production in their season, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" starring American Idol Finalist Anthony Fedorov in the title role. Now there are those that say this show is overdone and nothing really new or fresh c...

Seattle's Intiman Theatre presents it's latest installment to it's American Cycle series, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" by Robert E. Sherwood. The play, while being a little long winded at times, gives us an interesting look at one of our countries greatest figures before he became President. A man wh...

The Seattle Rep has opened it's 2009-2010 season with a real crowd pleaser, "The 39 Steps". This Tony Award winning play that is still running on Broadway after almost 2 years shows that it knows how to charm audiences outside of New York as well....

A brand new world premiere musical based on the Carl Sagan Novel and Jodie Foster movie "Contact" has ventured into our solar system (Centerstage in Federal Way to be exact). And one has to wonder what transmission from outer space told them that this show was a good idea....

Former Houston Oiler, Bo Eason's, one man show 'Runt of the Litter' opened at Seattle's ACT and clearly stretches the boundaries of what a gripping sports drama needs to be....

Seattle's Intiman Theatre's current production of Joan Didion's one woman play 'The Year of Magical Thinking' while pretty cannot capture the emotion in such a tragic tale. That is assuming that the emotional arc exists in the first place....

The touring production of 'Wicked' has returned to Seattle's Paramount Theatre. And for those of you that weren't able to catch it last time around during it's all too brief two week run, now is your chance to rush out and catch one of the juggernauts of current Broadway....

Balagan Theatre opens it's new 10 show season with Jane Wagner's brilliant one woman show, 'The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe'. In the hands of a lesser actress, the production could be simply an imitation of the superb performance of the original star Lily Tomlin, who won a ...

So, are you ready for some fun? Well, ACT has the answer. Their current production of 'Das Barbecu' is a delirious, goofy ride from beginning to end filled with toe tappin' songs, high kickin' dances and enough laughs to keep you goin' til the cows come home....

The 5th Avenue Theatre started off their season with the world premiere, pre broadway engagement of the musical 'Catch Me If You Can' based on the Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio film. And as one who has been very vocally against the trend of turning movies into musicals, I have to back pedal on th...

The 5th Avenue Theatre announced the cancellation of the Thursday, July 23 and Friday, July 24 preview performances of the upcoming world premiere of the new musical Catch Me If You Can....

Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy, envy and revenge has slithered it's way into the Intiman to whisper thoughts of betrayal in your ear. This production put on by The Theater for a New Audience, direct from their recent sold out run in New York, shows what a solid professional company who real...

Ian Bell's Brown Derby Series is back at Seattle's Re-bar with a hilarious staged reading of the 80's classic, 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial' for three performances only....

Marc Bamuthi Joseph's hip-hop inspired show 'the break/s: a mixtape for the stage' is performing now at Seattle's ACT (A Contemporary Theatre). And while it may not be the thing for everyone, it certainly has something to say....

The Broadway Tour of Jonathan Larson's masterpiece, 'Rent', starring original cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp has hit the Paramount and the show is still a powerhouse of all that's good about Musical Theater....

Seattle's ACT (A Contemporary Theatre) presents Richard Dresser's take on corporate drudgery with 'Below the Belt'. Starring TV and stage comedy veteran Judd Hirsch, they are billing this as 'The Office' meets Samuel Beckett. But it plays more like a cliché sitcom than a social commentary....