Theatre Picks
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April 27 - May 26
Sex in Seattle 20: Happily Ever After
After more than 10 years of love triangles, online affairs, unknown baby-daddies and soul-searching trips to Korea, the series finale of Sex in Seattle is finally opening. Kathy Hsieh’s long-running theatrical soap opera follows the lives of four single Seattle women as they struggle with love and life à la Sex and the City. But unlike Sex and the City, aka The Whitest TV Show Ever, Sex and Seattle puts the spotlight on Asian-American women dealing with gender, race and cultural politics. In the final episode, the four friends wonder, “From media...
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May 4 - June 17
Café Nordo’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Café Nordo is equal parts dinner and theatre, installation art and psychedelic voyage, high cuisine and high concept. The infrequent production takes over Washington Hall for six weeks—the final event at the venerable space before it undergoes significant renovation—with a multi-room around-the-world-style dramatic dining experience. Groups of participants will be led by performing-artist guides from one self-contained world to another and offered locally sourced delicacies prepared by Chef Nordo Lefesczki in each, capped by a communal banquet as grand finale. Says director and food...
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May 9 - July 1
The Producers
Before making musicals based on films became the Broadway fallback (Spiderman? Shrek?) king of comedy Mel Brooks made The Producers—the best musical ever based on his movie based on the worst musical ever—and won a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards. Max Bialystock, a washed up, once-great Broadway producer and his mousy clerk develop a money-making scheme: raise millions of dollars to put on the world’s worst musical and then flee to Rio with the cash when the show flops big time on Broadway. The only hitch: It’s show business, baby, sometimes you try so hard to go...
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May 9 - July 1
The Producers
Before making musicals based on films became the Broadway fallback (Spiderman? Shrek?), comedy king Mel Brooks made The Producers—the best musical ever based on a movie based on the worst musical ever—and won a record-breaking 12 Tony awards. Max Bialystock, a washed up, once-great Broadway producer and his mousy clerk develop a money-making scheme: raise millions of dollars to put on the world’s worst musical and then flee to Rio with the cash when the show flops on Broadway. The only hitch: It’s show business, baby. Sometimes you try so hard to go wrong you go...
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May 11 - May 28
Bed Snake
Some time ago, actors Noah Benezra and Hannah Victoria Franklin started a devil-worshipping, Cleopatra-fucking, black jean-wearing hip-hop duo named Blood Kry$tal Wolf. The time has come for them to tell their story. Bed Snake is one part theatre, two parts hip-hop concert, three parts satanic ritual, and four parts crunk. Will Wolf achieve his dream of stardom? Will Kry$tal succeed in eating his soul? Will there be more profanity or blood-drinking? One thing's certain: “Bed Snake promises to melt your face.”
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May 30 - June 24
As You Like It
Seattle Shakespeare Company eases into summer with one of the Bard’s most popular pastoral comedies, romantically staged by director George Mount. Facing persecution from her uncle the Duke, Rosalind flees with her cousin and the court clown into the forest of Arden, a wood overrun with the classic Shakespearean blend of cross-dressers, fools, exiles, musicians, shepherds, swooning lovers, spiteful lovers, love-at-first-sight lovers and sheep. The melancholy Jacques delivers the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech and ballsy heroine Rosalind is the definition of what it means to have...
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May 30 - June 24
As You Like It
Seattle Shakespeare Company eases us from spring into summer with one of the Bard’s most popular pastoral comedies romantically staged by director George Mount. Facing persecution from her uncle, the duke, Rosalind flees with her cousin and the court clown into the forest of Arden, a wood overrun with the classic Shakespearean blend of crossdressers, fools, exiles, musicians, shepherds, swooning lovers, spiteful lovers, love-at-first-sight lovers and sheep. The melancholy Jacques delivers the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech and ballsy heroine Rosalind is the definition of what it...
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May 31 - June 24
Shear Madness
Shear Madness is a partially improvised whodunit set in a hair salon located, in our case, in Seattle. When it's discovered that live-in landlady Isabel Czerny has been murdered and everyone present had a reason to do her in, it’s up to the audience’s shrewd questioning and detective work to determine the evening's killer. Since opening in 1980, Shear Madness has been translated into eight languages and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest-running play. Basically, it’ll be the best-acted murder mystery party you’ve ever attended.
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June 1 - June 23
Sweet Nothing, a (grim) fairytale
Once upon a time, in a land ravaged by decades of war, where wolves and woodsmen roam the forests, the youngest of three sisters agrees to voyage across the sea to wed an unknown man. Soon after, the second of the sisters is granted a similar promise of escape—but hope for happily ever after may prove to be the most wicked danger of all. In this production from Macha Monkey, Gregory Award-nominated playwright Stephanie Timm spins an exploration of war and violence into the fabric of a timeless fairy tale.
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June 1 - June 23
Quickies 13
Now in their 13th year, Live Girls! celebrates its theatrical bat mitzvah with a “Quickies” series devoted to stories of life transitions and coming of age. The lineup features two shows commissioned from the company’s “Cupcake” reading series: Maggie Lee’s The Sunshower Bride, about a zoomorphic pre-wedding revelation, and Bang-Bang Choo-Choo Train by Elizabeth Heffron, a bittersweet scene between a vulnerable mother and her grounded daughter. With additional tales of reincarnation, video games, grade school acquaintances and a girl who falls in love with Frosty the...
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