A conversation with Seattle
Since the Spring of 2013, Jennifer Jasper’s Family Affair has occupied the third Wednesday of each month in the Rendezvous’s intimate Jewel … Continue reading For better or worse, Family Affair feels like, yes, family
Tonight through Saturday, June 15, is the run of the inaugural Sandbox One-Act Play Festival (at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway; tickets), presenting, as promised, four one-acts from playwrights Scot Augustson, Emily Conbere, Elizabeth Heffron, and Paul Mullin. Continue reading Act 1, Scene 1: A One-Act Play Festival Begins
Aside from the technical achievements the music is far and away the strongest piece of this collaboration. Music Director José “Juicy” Gonzales leads on piano with five-string bass, drums, and clarinet doubling on accordion. Ms. Law chimes in on keyboard while keeping the show on track as producer. The band provides the through line for the production with effective underscoring and an inclination for funk when the music is able to take the focus. Continue reading Adventuresome Forms Take Shape at Sandbox Radio Live!
Have I seen a better acted show this year than Ballard House Duet (through December 17)? I don’t think so. It is ferociously bold and unvarnished and about real people, giving the audience very little distance to shelter in. Continue reading Get Intimate With “Ballard House Duet” at Washington Ensemble
Back in March Seattle actor, producer, and all-around man of the theatre Tyrone Brown noticed that his mother, Beverly, was calling more often. In fact, she called him every evening just to make sure he made it home safely. Tyrone is 41 and has been getting himself home safely for some time now. What had changed was the killing of Trayvon Martin, which highlighted the dangers of being a young black man in American today. Continue reading For Hoodies Up!, a “Seattle Seven” of Trayvon Martin Stories
It certainly was exciting to watch “David” Mike take on “Goliath” Apple from the stage of my local regional theatre; and certainly my local regional theatre enjoys, along with regional theatres across the country, the imprimatur of international relevance when such a story as Agony/Ecstasy gets told. However, we lose a huge opportunity when our big houses keep mounting the very same one-man show, instead of staging local news that actually has as much, if not more, to do with the lives of local audiences as does Applegate. Continue reading Lessons From the Daisey Debacle, From Seattle Playwright Paul Mullin