Friday, July 19, 2013
The second annual Intiman Theatre Festival buoyant kicks off with a laugh-laden staging of Italian Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo's slapstick farce We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
Celebrating its 20th season, Repertory Actors Theatre (aka ReAct) scores a feast of fine performances with William Inge's Pulitzer Prize winning 1953 drama Picnic.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:38PMSunday, June 16, 2013
Portland Center Stage is premiering the stage musical adaptation in a promising production, yet it is clearly lacking in one of the most essential ingredients for the show to win acclaim sho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:31PMThe past week was a busy and undoubtedly satisfying one for Broadway book writer and producer Ken Davenport, what with his new musical version of Somewhere in Time having its world premiere …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Rapidly rising Seattle theatre company Balagan Theatre Company held an SRO season preview party at Seattle's Moore Theatre this week to tout an ambitious, all-musical season loaded with Seat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43AMThursday, May 23, 2013
This docu-drama is, in itself, a talky, rather verbose piece of writing, particularly in its first act, but director Roy Arauz and an able five-man cast render it an involving, emotionally a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:56PMThursday, May 16, 2013
It took Issaquah's venerable Village Theatre long enough to get around to it, but the company does itself proud with a fine production of Chicago, Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb's jazz-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
33 Variations concludes ArtsWest's 2012-2013 season on a very high note, giving us another Seattle premiere of a contemporary play by a distinguished Broadway playwright that Seattle otherwi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
In the capable hands of director Jay Irwin, the story of four adult men with various mental disabilities and their devoted but exasperated social worker comes through as the tender valentine…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Playwright Katie Forgette's darkly comic new play Assisted Living is perhaps best described as part 1984, part One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and part Cocoon.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50PMSunday, April 28, 2013
With the popular success of TV's "Mad Men," the jet-propelled production of Boeing-Boeing, a classic '60s farce by Marc Camoletti, is a perfectly timed treat to close out Seattle Repertory T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:49AMSaturday, April 27, 2013
Redmond's Second Story Repertory Theatre ... far and away the best version of the show I have witnessed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:29AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
What a feeling! The feeling was relief as the final curtain rang down on the touring produciton of Flashdance The Musical, a sorry attempt to make another dance musical film into a Broadway …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMNot a celebrity impersonation show by any means, It's A Good Day for Miss Peggy Lee, which had its first public performance this past Saturday at Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way, is a hea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMOh what a night! That is not only the title of one of the big hits by the seminal American singing group (OK, technically the title of the song is "December 1963"), but what might well be sa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12PMMonday, March 25, 2013
David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People receives a first-class production at the Seattle Rep, directed with panache, spirit and clarity by David Saint, a past associate Artistic Director at the R…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:29PMOh, if only the folks who've tried to successfully musicalize Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? had half the talent of the team that brought Grey Gardens to fruition as a stage musical.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PMSaturday, February 23, 2013
One of Seattle's longest lived musical theatre companies, Seattle Musical Theatre, has just jump started itself with a slick, savvy staging of the zany Off-Broadway hit musical Altar Boyz.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13PMThursday, February 21, 2013
A show pretty much unique in the annals of Broadway, Meredith Willson's Tony Award winning classic The Music Man hasn't marched into Seattle for a while now, so it is a pleasure to report th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:04PMSaturday, February 16, 2013
... the wonder of this production, through the uncanny skill of Directors Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, in collaboration with the brilliant Handspring Puppet Company, is making this tale …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06PMNext to Normal receives a totally worthy and achingly well performed production in its Seattle premiere, as a co-production of Balagan Theatre and Contemporary Classics.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
This is easily the fastest, funniest and naughtiest Broadway musical since Avenue Q.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:58PMThursday, November 29, 2012
This adult-skewed take on the "Sesame Street" formula is expertly directed by local wunderkind Eric Ankrim, with an able assist from veteran puppeteer Doug Willott, and the cast they have en…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:38PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Arriving in our Emerald City of Seattle to guest star in the opening weekend performances of Seattle Men's Chorus' holiday show Baby, It's Cold Outside, a much traveled Gasteyer, who had jus…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMMonday, November 12, 2012
When you hire the best talent to do one of the greatest, most enduring musicals, odds are you'll have a great show, and such is the case with Village Theatre's robust and hearty Fiddler on t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:03PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Though many (if not all) of Teatro ZinZanni's productions have not been site specific, allowing for productions in Teatro ZinZanni venues in both Seattle and San Francisco, the fall 2012 Sea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:39PMMarsha Norman's terse and harrowing drama 'Night Mother, a worthy Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1983, shows that it has lost none of its emotional wallop in KTO Productions' new staging at Odd Du…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:39PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
Jersey Boys co-authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's adaptation features all the most familiar characters from the Addams oeuvre in a plot that plays out like a re-tread of You Can't Ta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:34PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
Eugene Lee's Ozian settings, Kenneth Posner's lighting, and Susan Hilferty's eye-poppingly fantastic costumes remain in superb shape, despite the rigors of the road, and as much can be said …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:28PMPullman Porter Blues, Seattle based playwright Cheryl West's stirring family saga of three generations of African-American train porters has been carefully developed through workshops in rec…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:27PM 
