The Soft Rock Kid at ACT Theatre – February 19th – 27th
I got this e-mail from Mark Siano recently about his final production as Mark Siano and the Freedom Dancers. This show looks really cool so…
The Year of Magical Thinking at the Intiman Theater
Joan Didion is not the most empathetic of writers. In her studies of the 1960s and 70s, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, she…
Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert
The Seattle Rep's Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert is a big disappointment, but it's happy-spirited and well-meaning enough to make you feel…
Theater Review: Murderers
It's been an unusually cheap off-peak travel season for visitors to the Pacific Northwest. My parents are coming in from Arkansas this weekend, a friend…
Theater Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Two recent Truman Capote biopics presented fascinating takes on Capote's longsuffering friend Harper Lee. The always-good Catherine Keener (Capote) was all quiet strength and individualistic…
Theater Review: Prayer For My Enemy
Prayer for My Enemy is the latest Intiman world-premiere production by playwright Craig Lucas and director Bartlett Sher, a duo whose prior efforts have yielded…
Theater Review: Uncle Vanya
Just when you think the Rep and WET have all of the awesome scenic design talent this town can handle, along comes (of all things)…
Spring Curtain Call
Giving a so-so review can really be a bummer. I was all set to love me some Gem of the Ocean, the Rep's new mounting…
Mid-Fall Curtain Call
A Carlotta musical and new adaptations of two classic American stories are among the pre-Thanksgiving theater offerings around town You know the year is winding…
Infamous
"I don't know if I can autograph it, but perhaps I can initial it." Douglas McGrath's new flick Infamous finds itself in an unusual situation:…