Nobody Knows and Dear Frankie
Nobody Knows I hesitate to slap the "horror" label onto Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest, Nobody Knows, though it certainly worked its way under my skin like…
The Secret In The Wings and Rebecca
The Secret in the Wings Seattle Rep Bagley Wright Theatre You can't like everything. Even when a night involves fairytales you can't be sure you're…
The Chosen, The Chris Schussler Incident, Sex*But
The Chosen Seattle Rep's Leo K Theatre Even before the theater lights dim, a man walks to the edge of the stage and quietly looks…
The Sea Inside
"How do you think I felt when I had to quit the sea?" I'll begin with a disclaimer. The Wonderfalls full-series DVD was released this…
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
While waiting for 1920s blues diva Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey to show up at a run-down Chicago recording studio, a motley ensemble of musicians who make…
Seattle Neutrino Project
They're baaa-aaack: SNP returns to Pike Place and the Market Theatre for an all-new run, continuing in its auspicious quest to bridge the synaptic gap…
Best Films of 2004
The introductory haiku worked so well last year, how about we do it again? 2004: The year that was Dubya got back in. Fuck! Torment!…
Noises Off
A motley troupe of has-been and never-were actors dress-rehearse, tour in, and ultimately obliterate a hilariously idiotic British sex farce called Nothing On in the…
Red Ranger Came Calling and Carlotta's Late Night Wing Ding
Red Ranger Came Calling Book-It at Seattle Center House Theatre The average TIG reader (let alone the average TIG Curtain Call reader) probably isn't among…
A Very Long Engagement
I loved me some Amélie. It got tiring, though, to hear all the subsequent moaning about how artificial it was, how it created a world…