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The staff of On the Boards. Photo by Jennifer Richard.
On the Boards is Seattle’s home for the strange, provocative, stunning and avant-garde. A platform for experimentation and risk. A presenter, producer and incubator for innovative...
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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, at ACT through Aug. 28, is a farce about sexual satisfaction. Cloaked in the artifice of a 19th-century period piece—lavish costumes, hyper-real stage design—this play creates a wacky, winky world in...
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Frank Ferrante and Dreya Weber as Caesar and Cleopatra.
Escape to the circus for a night with the madcap whirlwind performance of Teatro ZinZanni’s latest show, Hail Caesar! Housed beneath a hundred-year-old Austrian circus tent, the...
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Seattle Shakespeare Company rounds out a successful 2010-2011 season on a lighthearted note with The Merry Wives of Windsor. Like many Shakespeare comedies, Windsor follows an excess of characters through deceptive plot twists, romantic...
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Reginald Jackson, Chuck Cooper and Nicole Lewis in All My Sons.
In Intiman Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, director Valerie Curtis-Newton transplants the Keller family to the Central District, casting mostly...
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Trips to the Depression-era Dust Bowl usually feel parched. But not this one. The Rep's current production of Of Mice and Men, directed by Jerry Manning, gives vitality to Steinbeck's well worn classic about ranch hands,...
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This John Steinbeck classic is playing at Seattle Rep through April 10. I visited the shop several times over the month it took for the crew’s carpenters and artists to built the set (designed by Jennifer Zeyl), getting an inside glimpse at...
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Nick DeSantis as Yengenyi Onanov in Iron Curtain.
In a glittery presentation of “us” vs. “them,” Iron Curtain, which opened at Issaquah's Village Theatre last Thursday, spoofs Cold War era stereotypes of the Soviet Union,...
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Hana Lass and Basil Harris in Go, Dog. Go!
Seattle Children’s Theatre’s current production of Go, Dog. Go!, adapted from the book by P.D. Eastman is a vaudeville-style performance that embraces silliness. Colored dogs jump and dance across...
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Alice Ripley and Jeremy Kushnier as patient and doctor in Next to Normal.
A musical about bi-polar disorder, electroshock therapy and depression might not sound like an enjoyable night out at the theatre, but the show’s rocking...
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The 28th annual NW New Works Festival at On the Boards is scheduled for mid-June, and the lineup has finally been announced.
THE 2011 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS:
WEEKEND 1
Studio Theater Showcase
June 10 at 8pm & June 11 – 12 at 5pm
Kyle...
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Get ready for some good, old-fashioned fun with an Iron Curtain-themed scavenger hunt, presented by Village Theatre. The new musical comedy, opening March 17, tells the story of the Soviet government setting out to create a Broadway-style...
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In an age of new media and online information sources such as Twitter and Facebook, the latest news is often only a click away, and the death of print publication looms threateningly on the horizon. This new media, and its effect on print...
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Tony-nominated Daniel Breaker hosted Intiman's Valentine's Day Cabaret.
On Monday, February 14, Intiman Theatre raised $48,000 towards the $1 million goal needed to keep the theatre open.
Despite the recent announcement of...
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Billy Wildrick, Cayman Ilika and Jennifer Sue Johnson in Vanities.
The point of Vanities may be the evolution of true friendship, but its success lies in making teenage girls look like vapid dolts. Playing at ACT Theatre in...
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Intiman Theatre is in trouble.
It seems that the theatre, which has been in operation since 1972, got itself tangled up in some major financial mismanagement, discovered last November after the departure of managing director Brian Colburn....
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Yaegel T. Welch, Eddie R. Brown III and Warner Miller.
It is a well-known and slightly over-told story: two brothers living together in the swelter of the Louisiana bayou, products of their aunt’s upbringing after their mother’s death...
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Mark Chamberlin as Odysseus, with April Wolfe as Calypso.
Last week Taproot Theatre opened their 35th season with The Odyssey, starring local actor and Phinney Ridge denizen Mark Chamberlin. A 30-year veteran of the field, Chamberlin...
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Randy Scholz as Telemachus and Mark Chamberlin as Odysseus in "The Odyssey."
It takes a strong actor to fill the sandals of Odysseus, the namesake hero of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey,” and in the opening performance the stage adaptation...
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“I have no idea what we are ultimately going to see at the show,” muses Lane Czaplinski, Artistic Director of On the Boards, when speaking about this weekend’s performance of (IN)STABILITY.
According to the OtB website, the show,...
