A conversation with Seattle
As a Seattleite, I’ve found it all but impossible to avoid the force of nature we know as Jinkx Monsoon. … Continue reading TSB interview: Jinkx Monsoon talks to us about The Vaudevillians, The Inevitable Album, and what’s next
Were Martha a real person and alive today she’d be 103 and George would still be six years her junior. … Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Still Blowing Us Away After All These Years
A century ago a self-assured adventurer named Ernest Shackleton embarked on the last expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic … Continue reading “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me” Kicks Out Your No Good Baby-Daddy
“It has to do with class in America, her appeal to boot-strappers,” concluded Daisey, who sounded excited by the topic and yet restrained, keeping himself from launching into the monologue then and there. Continue reading Mike Daisey Takes on Ayn Rand, Utopias, and the Moon
You don’t need to bone up on your biology in order to understand Photograph 51. The jargon is minimal and the objectives are clear. We know Watson and Crick win the race, what matters is how they do it and what happens to those around them. Continue reading “Photograph 51” Finds New Drama in Race to Double Helix
John Logan’s play RED (at Seattle Rep through March 24), about the painter Mark Rothko, won the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle awards. (You may also remember Logan from his screenplays for such movies as Hugo, The Aviator, and Gladiator.) Here in Seattle, the Rep has already extended its run.
It’s a talky two-hander, starring Denis Arndt as Rothko and Connor Toms as his atelier assistant Ken…and Kent Dorsey’s moveable feast of a set. Continue reading In Seattle Rep’s Rothko Play, RED Is Better Than Dead
At a hundred and forty minutes, with one intermission, I Am My Own Wife is lengthy by solo-actor standards, and is essentially about a number of conversations held with a 65-year-old, self-styled museum curator, so you have to make allowances, and sit back and relax as Charlotte tells her story in her own time, complete with digressions and evasions, instructing you in the history of the Edison Gramophone and the antique furniture in her Gründerzeit Museum. Continue reading Charlotte Keeps You Guessing in Rep’s I Am My Own Wife