Seventeenth Annual Jewish Film Festival Coming to a Theater Near You
On Thursday, March 15, the Cinerama Theater will be opening its doors once again to a flood of anxious film festival attendees, kicking off the 17th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF). Presented by the American Jewish Committee, the SJFF is the largest Seattle film festival after the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), hosting 29 films from all over the world. Throughout the 10-day festival, audiences will screen films dealing with portrayals of Jewish and Israeli life. Festival screenings and events are scheduled for the Cinerama, AMC Pacific Place, and SIFF Uptown theaters.
Look Out for Meat and Potatoes at The Lookout!
Kelly Dermody discovers that nothing goes better with protein and carbohydrates than a heaping helping of comedy.
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.
In the Land of Make/Believe: tEEth Bring Their Magic to On the Boards
Using the barest of elements in extraordinary combinations, Make/Believe produces visually and sonically striking imagery that grows and grows in intricacy, the way that music grows from the simplicity of a heartbeat, or language itself grows from scratches and dots on a Sumerian jar. Make/Believe is a succession of gorgeous images revolving around the idea of what it means to communicate, not only with others but also with oneself–or what one takes oneself to be.
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.
Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at Seattle Rep: Metaphor Shifts
“And we will hurt nobody for the love of money We can find our way without so much pain” — from “Exodus Honey”…
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.
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