Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Pullman 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 03:27PMHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet plucks warmly at the heartstrings, while subtly reminding us of some of our own country's more shameful missteps.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:27PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era, under the spirited baton Steven Reinecke, with scintillating star vocals by Broadway vet Hugh Panaro, on a brief hiatus from his run in the title…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMVillage Theatre, which produced the show locally in 1991, has now mounted a handsome new production of this so-so adaptation of Marks Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by William Haup…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMThursday, September 27, 2012
Whatever else one can say about the brash, boisterous, and freewheeling musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson which opens Arts West's 2012-13 season, dull it ain't!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMSunday, July 22, 2012
This summer the sadly dormant Intiman Theatre, closed since last spring, is hoping to revive and reinvent itself with a summer theatre festival featuring a rep company in four wildly differe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMFriday, June 8, 2012
A one-season wonder and Best Musical Tony nominee arrived at Seattle's Paramount Theatre in its faithful national touring reproduction as a part of the Best of Broadway series, whose audienc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PMFriday, May 18, 2012
Cast impeccably, choreographed with giddy glee and gaudy grace by Kristin Holland Bohr, with masterful musical direction by maestros Tim Symons and Bruce Monroe, Village closes its 2011-2012…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26AMShe may no longer be a "GCB," with ABC failing to review her latest TV adventure, but sage star supreme Kristen Chenoweth recently rocked a full house at Seattle's Paramount as she launched …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26AMThursday, May 3, 2012
The play is Bruce Norris' response to Lorraine Hansberry's fifties classic A Raisin in the Sun, and for once a show lives up to all the hype, and then some, as directed with panache by Brade…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:10PMNeither done to death nor almost forgotten, the exuberant 1955 musical Damn Yankees resurfaces every few years and confirms that it is an entertainment to be reckoned with
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
For years, at least 15 or so by my count, Theater Schmeater has been honoring the memory of one of the most enduring television series of TV's golden age, Rod Serling's late 50's/early 60's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:20PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Feeling more like a revue of singles dating and all that goes with it, ACT Theatre and 5th Avenue Theatre have wasted an excellent cast and production on a piffle of a musical called First D…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMAny South Pacific rises or falls on the actor/singers playing out the key roles, and director Brenda Mueller, who has paced the near three-hour production as briskly as a passing island trad…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
The show, which was generally well received in a Tyne Daly headed production last year at New Jersey's George Street Playhouse, is an original musical taking place just before and after a bi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:46AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Conceived, compiled, directed and musically directed by prolific Centerstage! Resident Musical Director David Duvall, Tenderly is a concert with narration, not a dramatization of Clooney's s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:51PMAmidst the mainstream musicals and plays dotting the Seattle theatre landscape at present, local playwright Keri Healey's noir thriller Torso sticks out like a sore thumb. Perhaps appropriat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:50PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Director Christopher Zinovitch (also the ArtsWest Artistic director) showed good judgment in slotting the show for the company's 2011-2012 season, and has found a cast and star capable of ma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09PMThe meaning of "hot" in show business terms could currently be a synonym for playwright/screenwriter John Logan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:08PMThe third time around for the tour of the Abba songbook smash "Mamma Mia!" may seem a bit frayed to the critical eye, but Chiquitita, the opening night embraced it like a long lost friend.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:07PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
SecondStory Repertory, located in the Redmond Town Center about 20 minutes east of downtown Seattle, has been selling out most performances with the tantalizingly tawdry tale of murder and a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMDoug Wright is a compelling playwright who loves to write about fascinatingly bizarre folks, from the Marquis de Sade in Quills to the batty Beales of the musical Grey Gardens to the notorio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMThursday, February 16, 2012
With an African-American Jud Fry, and erotically charged choreography that has turned a few heads, the current production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Oklahoma!" has proven…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:37PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
... in their debut performance at their new home, Capitol Hill's Erickson Theatre, director Eric Ankrim and his high-octane cast opened a production that, for my taste, was far more captiva…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33AMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Broadway Bound is but one of many fine training programs for youth in theatre in the greater Seattle area, but the company definitely scored this past weekend, with the support of ACT Theatr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMFriday, December 2, 2011
This production of "A Christmas Carol" is good enough to brave a trip downtown during the holiday frenzy, affordably priced, and short enough that it can be a delightful capper to a day of h…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:22PMMonday, November 21, 2011
A civilized if somewhat amusement, as I recall of 15 years back, is now often laugh-out-loud funny, thanks primarily to Wright's emphasis on the laughter, and his casting of three out of fou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32AMSunday, November 6, 2011
Playwright Annie Baker's comedy/drama about a community college creative drama class is small scale, quirky and obviously able to be produced economically, just like an indie movie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:07PMFriday, November 4, 2011
Maybe it's just that noir ain't what it used to be, but this "Double Indemnity," which is definitely not camped up, just felt to me like a meandering exercise, all style and little substance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
After seeing her all-stops-out powerful performance as Aimee Semple McPherson in the new 5th Avenue musical "Saving Aimee" (which has set its sights on Broadway) there is nothing to do short…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:00AMSunday, October 2, 2011
Broadway director/choreographer and star Tommy Tune, too long away from the Great White Way, is far from complacent, as "Bonsoir Liliane!", his sparkling showcase for legendary singer/dancer…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06AM 
