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Next 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.
This is easily the fastest, funniest and naughtiest Broadway musical since Avenue Q.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Marsha 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…
Why must a classic be embalmed?
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…
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 …
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…
Hotel 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.
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…
Village 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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
She 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 …
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…
Neither 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
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 …
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…
Any 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…
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…
