Author: Omar Willey
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Fado Comes to Seattle: Ana Moura visits Meany Hall Saturday
Ana Moura brings the newly revived spirit of fado to Seattle audiences.
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Black Grace: Lollipops and the Symphony
Of lollipops and symphonies: Black Grace perform brilliantly in their new work.
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Michelle Witt’s UW World Series: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Thoughts about the UW World Series so far under new leader Michelle Witt.
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What It Means to Mean: Anna Karenina at Book-It
Directors are responsible for choosing an interpretation about what the play means and removing obstacles so that the actors can do their work. Particularly in text-based classic theater, the director must make a convincing argument what this play means and, to some degree, why it…
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The Seattle Festival of Improv Theater Hits Town
A dry-humored preview of the 11th Seattle Festival of Improv Theater.
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The Ghastly Impermanence: BBC World Service Radio Archive Goes Beta
The BBC have announced a prototype website covering the past sixty years of BBC World Service Broadcasts, including over eight hundred radio plays among the 70,000 pieces in the archive. This is an extraordinary effort and deserves the highest attention and even a little begrudging…
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The Ghastly Impermanence: The BBC Audio Drama Awards and Predictable Shock
Thoughts on this year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards.
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The Seagull Project: A Method to the Madness
The production is three-quarters pure genius and one-quarter excellence. One can hardly complain about that mixture. The whole production gives me an optimism about the stage that maybe other companies will finally try to make a break from the petrifying effects of “seasons” and “shows”…
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Crave More and the In-Between
Whim W’him’s Crave More is a program of four dances with quite different thematic approaches. Overall the program is strong, but I have some reservations.
