Category: Theater
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The Working Artist: Spotlight on The Cabiri
The Cabiri unite teamwork, effort, sweat, and concentration to pursue their art and hone it to its finest. That the group are not regularly celebrated by Seattle’s performing arts pundits, much less by Seattleites at large, strikes me as a miscarriage of justice. With their…
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Comix jump on stage for some Unexpected Productions improv during ECCC
Here at the Star, we will not be formally attending ECCC, but we do want you to know about some of the local events surrounding the convention. One such exciting opportunity will be held at the Unexpected Production’s Market Theatre on Saturday night, March 31.
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Stuck: the Right to Atrophy
Is the pursuit of the right to atrophy a dramatically compelling one? This is the question that continues to occur to me as I reflect on playwright Jessica Hatlo’s Stuck, up now at Washington Ensemble Theatre.
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Printer’s Devil Theater’s Torso: An Unpredictable Yet Simple Fixation
By a stroke of luck, or serendipity, Seattle theatrical landscape is graced with the smart work of its women playwrights, actors and artists. Printer’s Devil’s Torso is a grand addition to those offerings.
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Lark Eden at Theater Schmeater: Earnest, Simple, and Touching Drama
John Allis talks about Lark Eden, a simple, straightforward tale told through the letters of three southern women which is being produced now at Theater Schmeater.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
