Category: Theater
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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…
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Seattle Fringe Festival Capsule Reviews
José Amador offers his reviews of three productions taking place during this year’s Seattle Fringe Festival.
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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 a growing number of Seattle theater companies that operate without a permanent brick-and-mortar home. In the ongoing shortage of rentable traditional venues…
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The Banyan Tree: Three Easy Pieces
Pratidhwani’s latest production gains by keeping it simple and keeping it real.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Celebrations: 79 Minutes with LaRae Lobdell of Photo Sister
LaRae Lobdell is one of the hidden geniuses of the Seattle arts community. The Star interviews Ms. Lobdell about her upcoming Celebration exhibit at ACT Theatre this June 20th.
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TZ’s Lucky in Love: Glitz and Spectacle à la ZinZanni
Tom Mohrman goes under the tent for Teatro ZinZanni’s new show.
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The Temperamentals: Renewing History
Omar Willey goes underground with Jon Marans’ play about the Mattachine Society.