At Long Last, The Seattle Fringe Theater Festival Rises From The Ashes
Announcing the return of a near forgotten Seattle Theater tradition, and José Amador couldn’t be more tickled.
Live Girls’ Emerald City: The Enchanting, Maddening Enigma That Is Seattle
José Amador took in Live Girls’ world premiere production of S.P. Miskowski’s Emerald City and found as honest an exploration of the multi-faceted way one could experience our fair city as one could find on stage or screen.
Seattle Children’s A Single Shard: A Mature and Sweeping Epic for Kids
John Allis takes in the adaptation of A Single Shard, the award winning book for children currently in production at Seattle Children’s Theater.
Ghost Light Theatricals’ Freak Storm
Playwright Don Fleming has put a very Washingtonian spin on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Setting his adaptation, Freak Storm, in the Cascade mountains, replacing Caliban with Sesquath (yes, like ‘Sasquatch’), and exploring modern concerns for issues of environmental sustainability and stewardship of nature, the dramatist has taken a number of liberties in regionalizing and reframing the famous story while, for the most part, preserving the dramatic framework of the source material.
Yeah, It’s Me; But It’s Also You, Seattle: An Interview with Emerald City‘s S.P. Miskowski
José Amador talks with S.P. Miskowski, the playwright responsible for the upcoming Emerald City, which receives its World Premiere production at Fremont’s West of Lenin.
The Young Man from Atlanta at Stone Soup Theater
John Allis discusses the Seattle Premiere of Horton Foote’s 1995 play at Wallingford’s Stone Soup Theater.
Seattle Repertory’s I Am My Own Wife: Fascinating, Confounding Persona
John Allis weighs in on the Seattle Rep production that celebrates and explores one of Germany’s most notorious figures in I Am My Own Wife.
10th Annual Seattle Festival of Improv Theater Soars into Action in the U-District
The uproar of laughter could be heard spilling out on to University Avenue from the two University District theaters hosting last night’s performances at the 10th Annual Seattle Festival of Improv Theater (SFIT). Tonight will mark the third evening of the five-day festival hosted by Wing-It Productions, with back-to-back performances by several troupes from all over the world.
See Me Naked by Maria Glanz at West of Lenin: Unassuming Nature
In which Jose Amador discusses Maria Glanz’s See Me Naked and finds that the title is simply the lure, whether the production delivers on the promise of the title is just an excuse to get one thinking about society’s general preconceptions about the nude body.
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