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Donny’s Big Break
“Why can’t the world be unfair to me? Why do I always get exactly what I deserve?”
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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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Elephant Song
On evenings filled with rain the elephants believe my open door leads to a green stretch of forest and trundle through. Each concocts a song or howl of her own— a moan of bassoon, a pitch of piccolos and even agonies of strings to tell…
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Joining disciplines with a Hyphen: Catherine Cabeen Company at Velocity
One of the difficulties of assembling an accurate history of jazz is dealing with the subject of improvisation. Lacking a real system of notation, improvisation passes from teacher to student through direct practice alone and is difficult to reproduce. Dance also shares this problem. While…
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Lenin in October has Seattle Jewish Film Festival audiences rolling in the aisles
What could be more fraught with hilarious peril than a scenario in which a man, with lofty dreams of owning his own restaurant, comes into a large inheritance with a stipulation that goes against, if not his own beliefs and ideals, then certainly those of…
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NBC’s Fashion Star Premiere Episode
Tuesday, March 13th brought the premiere of NBC’s new reality show, Fashion Star. Seattle is represented by not one, but two designers on Fashion Star. Lizzie Parker, who sells her line out of her boutique in Kirkland and Lisa Vian Hunter who has a lovely…
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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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Nicky’s Family: The Untold Story of “the British Schindler”
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been dreading the inevitability of a Holocaust film coming up on my docket for this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Having read the synopsis for Nicky’s Family, I was looking forward to the screening in theory but…
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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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