Seattle Fringe Festival 2013: An Abbreviated Guide for the Curious
Just because we won’t be able to see as many productions at this year’s Fringe Festival as we want, doesn’t mean you have to miss out over the next couple of days. Jose Amador comments on the schedule and makes suggestions based on what looks intriguing.
Seattle Fringe Festival Capsule Reviews
José Amador offers his reviews of three productions taking place during this year’s Seattle Fringe Festival.
Inside MAP’s Soft Click of a Switch: Alone Together Through Thick and Thin
Meet Peggy Gannon and Brandon Ryan, together they are the driving force behind MAP Theater (formerly Man Alone Productions). MAP is one of…
The Banyan Tree: Three Easy Pieces
Pratidhwani’s latest production gains by keeping it simple and keeping it real.
Annex Theatre’s The Half Brothers Brand Old-Time Variety Show
There is a lot about The Half Brothers’ Old Time Variety Show, the Seattle-based bluegrass trio’s recent late night production at Annex Theatre, that evokes the spirit of Woody Guthrie, the late folk singer. For their part, the trio balance their fond homage to “old-timey music” with a healthy amount of modern sensibility.
Paige Barnes’ Naked: The Affront of Improvisation
Omar Willey grapples with the mythic dimensions of Paige Barnes’s latest performance.
Sound Theater’s The Wild Party
As director Corey McDaniel notes in his introduction, Joseph MoncureMarch’s poem The Wild Party was originally banned for its “exploration of pleasure, sex, decadence, violence, race, prohibition and all that pushed the boundaries of society.” The Sound Theater Company production of the musical based on this work does not shy away from most of it.
Burlesco DiVino: Wine in Rome opens The Triple Door tonight
Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann together have produced some of the most interesting burlesque shows in Seattle over the past few years, from Land Of The Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker to the recent Nightcap. Their latest concoction, Burlesco Divino:Wine in Rome, is a tribute to the power of Bacchus–and burlesque.
Theater Schmeater’s Game Show
A typical summer offering from Theater Schmeater’s latter end of its production run. What’s notable about this one, a game show wedded to a hoary showbiz story, is that it will be the final production presented in the former parking-lot-turned-theater.
Manos: The Hands of Fate, Part Deux
In Manos: Part Un, Andrew Hamlin gave us some context for SIFF’s screening of Manos: The Hands of Fate, and interviewed one of the stars of the movie. In Part Deux, he interviews two more artists involved in the remaking/representing of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
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