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One of the most winning casts in Seattle musical history, and an out of the ordinary, strong adaptation of a Jane Austen novel with sterling silver book, music and lyrics, combine to make Ta…
"I love this version, and it fits perfectly within this circus world, and I am so happy John is there for both of us to share that because I was his stepmother in the original, and John is a…
If you long for the kind of melodrama between women that has tickled audiences ever since Clare Boothe Luce coined the phrase "Jungle Red," then Laura Schellhardt's prickly, witty, and even …
Director Hsieh and his cast create a true ensemble effort, and if the opening night pacing was a little erratic, that will surely evaporate through the run.
Funny Girl, the most rarely produced famous musical I can think of, has triumphantly returned to Issaquah's Village Theatre (where it was last produced some 20 years ago) and the seismic act…
Revised and rewritten a bit after a successful Bay Area stint, producer/writer Dane Ballard and composer/lyricist John Woods feature a vaudeville/burlesque-like troupe in a show that may rem…
Arts West's current production, directed in a breezy, lighthearted style by David Gassner, happily harkens back to the simpler, bare bones qualities of the original 1967 Off-Broadway version…
No question about it, the new musical version of E.M Forster's novel (and the likely better known Merchant-Ivory film version starring Helena Bonham Carter) A Room With A View is being given…
I am not inclined to gush, but gush away I shall over the most delightful new musical in many a season, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, which blew onto the stage of the Seattle Repertory Theatre…
"I'll be singing 'Stranger to the Rain,' which is hilarious because I'm from Seattle ...
n their third co-production in many years, the 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT Theatre have hit a vein of musical delight ...
Ives' tale, one rife with sexually provocative dialogue, takes place after a long day's journey turns into an even longer night for New York playwright/director Thomas, who has endured one e…
Monty Python's Spamalot at the 5th is as royally entertaining a slice of showbiz sautéed spam as one could hope for.
That the current production by Strawberry Theatre Workshop at the Erickson Theatre can be described as must-see theatre is as much due to Kramer's playwriting as it is to the steady and mast…
Though shock-talk shows like Springer's and that of his ex-bodyguard Steve Wilkos are on the wane, the material is still good for quite a few laughs, especially juxtaposed with an operatic s…
The musical Little Women, a troubled piece which replaced its songwriting team prior to a short Broadway life has toured to Seattle in the past without leaving any strong impression.
Audiences still flock to see Les Misérables live on stage. What they get at this production is a far better sung and impressively acted version than they got at the movie houses this time l…
Directed with clarity and an open heart by Lindsey Larson, the tale of a central Kentucky cave explorer whose entrapment became big news in the mid-1920s soars musically under the expert and…
Sir Alan Ayckbourn's plays are to Seattle's ACT Theatre what tea is to crumpets, fairly inseparable, and so it came as no surprise that the venerable playwright, who is often looked on as th…
Though handicapped by underwhelming special effects, director Louis Hobson gets to the heart of the tale, and yes there is one, thanks to an earnest and talented cast headed by a trio of Bro…
The musical does feature a very good, if derivative, musical score by the team of Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (currently represented on Broadway by First Date) and a staunch, Broadway ve…
