Tag: theatre

Café Nordo–Food Theatre? Victual Drama?–Sets Plates in Washington Hall
Arts & Entertainment, Eats, Food, Theatre

Café Nordo–Food Theatre? Victual Drama?–Sets Plates in Washington Hall

Café Nordo will set up their peculiar restaurant/theater at Washington Hall in the Central District this week to perform Cafe Nordo’s Cabinet of Curiosities. The performance will combine food, theatre, and education into one unified evening. At $70-$80, tickets may seem steep for a show but they’re quite reasonable for dinner and a show and we’re in for quite a dinner. Rabbit confit, pickled fiddleheads, king salmon and a rhubarb and lemon curd trifle wait to be discovered…. Continue reading Café Nordo–Food Theatre? Victual Drama?–Sets Plates in Washington Hall

ACT’s <em>The Pitmen Painters</em> Joins Laughter with Meaty Intellectual Concerns
Arts & Entertainment, Theatre

ACT’s The Pitmen Painters Joins Laughter with Meaty Intellectual Concerns

The Pitmen Painters is less about the art than it is about society: specifically, the rise of socialist England. The play includes the major players of both the artistic and societal dynamics of the time. These include an artist, an artist/academic, a patron, and five eponymous artist-miners, known as The Ashington Group. Continue reading ACT’s The Pitmen Painters Joins Laughter with Meaty Intellectual Concerns

The Schoolyard Goes Another Round with The Blue Room
Arts & Entertainment, Theatre

The Schoolyard Goes Another Round with The Blue Room

When The Blue Room first opened on Broadway in 1998 Ben Brantley of the New York Times called it the “play that New Yorkers would seemingly sacrifice their firstborn to get into.” Was David Hare’s script that good? Was it the promise of a series of staged liaisons that attracted so much attention? Surely it wasn’t the chance to see Nicole Kidman partly nude! Continue reading The Schoolyard Goes Another Round with The Blue Room

<em>Sex Life</em> is the Highlight of Balagan’s “Death, Sex: Election Season”
Arts & Entertainment, Theatre

Sex Life is the Highlight of Balagan’s “Death, Sex: Election Season”

The ten-minute play, the haiku of theatre, is a proving ground for playwrights. Every minute, every word and action, has to count in order to convey distinct lines, character, relationship and the changes that events bring to them. Alternatively a playwright might slap a disjointed wad of wackiness on the stage and at least keep the audience from boredom. Continue reading Sex Life is the Highlight of Balagan’s “Death, Sex: Election Season”

Hard Rock and Paper Houses at The Annex: Scissors, Please
Arts & Entertainment, Music, Theatre

Hard Rock and Paper Houses at The Annex: Scissors, Please

Seattle duo Pony Time is playing an awesome evening of hard rock at the Annex Theatre this weekend. There will be dancing. Stacy Peck will loom at you over her drum kit and make sure of it. Also, Luke Beetham’s guitars are things of beauty and deserve concentrated admiration while his fey vocals and agile finger work make for hipster happiness. However their sets are interspersed with theatrical scenes, and the less said about those scenes the better. Continue reading Hard Rock and Paper Houses at The Annex: Scissors, Please

Le Frenchword Does It For Comedy
Arts & Entertainment, Theatre

Le Frenchword Does It For Comedy

Le Frenchword is a talented trio who (outside their opening scene) clown, dance, sing, play music, perform puppetry and physical theatre, do some of the most finely executed stage combat I’ve seen. Sachie Mikawa does Hello-Kitty kawaii and plays melodica and toy piano. Carter Rodriguez is the big man of fragile dignity playing guitar and teaching a master class in the power of pre-emptive sympathy. Ben Burris is an excellent physical comedian and a great singer who plays glockenspiel and finger-cymbals. They are so much fun I just want to run away from my life to go play with them. Continue reading Le Frenchword Does It For Comedy