The Triplets of Belleville, The Cooler, Girl with a Pearl Earring
It's rare to witness an adult Seattle audience get really worked up over... well, anything, really. It's extremely uncommon for such an audience to clap…
Pride and Prejudice, Seattle Neutrino Project
Pride and Prejudicethru 2/15, Book-It Repertory Theatre at ACTResident Book-It Brit Marcus Goodwin's adaptation of the beloved 1813 Jane Austen novel returns to the Seattle…
Living Out
Playwright Lisa Loomer ambitiously explores issues of class, race, and parenthood in Living Out, a funny, insightful, and ultimately heart-wrenching play that's the best of…
The Last Samurai
In the week leading up to the release of The Last Samurai, I discovered a common feeling among my friends: an inexplicable hatred of Tom…
Angels in America, Big Fish, Mona Lisa Smile
Playwright Tony Kushner won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his brilliant two-part play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Set…
Over The Moon, Carlotta's Late Night Wing-Ding, The Crumple Zone
Over the Moonthru 12/6, Seattle RepThe new Stephen Dietz adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's The Small Bachelor is theatrical candy: pretty and brightly-colored, and overflowing…
Love Actually
Baggage claim at Sea-Tac, mid-2002. I'm meeting my visiting parents, up from Arkansas for a long weekend. My mom spots me in a crowd and…
21 Grams
The moment when one's life violently slips from normal routine to tragedy — especially those tragedies caused accidentally — is sudden and without warning. That…
Psycho
You can hear Imaginary Embracey, Imaginary Amie, and Imaginary Liz talk about Psycho on the June 24, 2019 episode of the Dead Beat Film Society…
Elephant
An ordinary day at an American high school. Odd autumnal calm descends as a beautiful boy (John McFarland) is late to classes after having to…