97 stories by "David-Edward Hughes"
Xanadu may never be art, but what it is, and especially so at Village Theatre, is a cotton-candy dream of an entertainment.
And in Erickson Theatre, an intimate house maybe one tenth the size of those you normally see Les Mis staged in, director Jake Groshong has impressively encapsulated the requisite visual swe…
In 2011 after the exit of Bartlett Sher and the unraveling and shuttering of Intiman Theatre not too far afterward, despite the efforts of then artistic director Kate Whoriskey, her associat…
Lippa's version of the legendary Joseph Moncure March poem was Off-Broadway in the 1999-2000 season, starring the talented likes of Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs alongside…
The 5th Avenue Theatre closes out its successful 2012-2013 season with a rousing production of the jaunty tale, full of humor, high energy and a wealth of great actor/singers to keep the shi…
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…
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.
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…
The 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 …
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Redmond's Second Story Repertory Theatre ... far and away the best version of the show I have witnessed.
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 …
Not 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…
Oh 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…
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…
Oh, 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.
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.
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…
... 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 …
