Completely reliant on the warmth and goodwill generated by its stars (rather than, say, its writing), this AARP-oriented dramedy strikes…
For all intents and purposes, the heroines of Meg Miroshnik’s The Tall Girls are not girls at all. Faced by…
Nobody goes to a romantic comedy looking for surprises. We go for affirmation that, in the face of suspicious data,…
As a second-year playwriting minor in college, I penned a pseudo-profound drama about a mother visiting her daughter in a…
Openings & Events Fred Birchman and Carolyn Krieg Birchman focuses on architecture and landscape in Reclamation Projects. Krieg shows equine…
Openings & Events • Capitol Hill Art Walk Along with the typical players, of note are a show by Japanese…
“Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next…
Author Events Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., 425-450-1765, kcls.org. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island),…
Stage Openings & Events and, and, and, Isabella Bootlegs In Samantha Cooper’s play, 17-year-old Brooklyn has to deal with a…
Opening Nights Ariadne auf Naxos McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 389-7676. $25 and up. See seattle opera.org for schedule. Ends…
Thursday, May 7 They Might Be Giants After 33 years together, TMBG remains a quintessential cult band that never made…
Opening ThisWeek The D Train Opens Fri., May 8 at Pacific Place, Sundance, and Thornton Place. Rated R. 98 minutes. Centered…
If you could shine a blacklight on American pop culture, you’d see Harvey Kurtzman’s DNA splattered all over it. And…
“Do you have to be miserable to be funny?” That’s the question at the center of Kevin Pollak’s documentary, signaling…
The characters in current superhero movies must’ve grown up reading comic books. In Marvel’s run of blockbusters, Iron Man and…
If you’ve ever been trapped in a cabin during a rainy summer-weekend getaway, you’ll know the feeling of cracking a…
Try to draw a straight line—I sure can’t—from Olivier Assayas’ sexy film-set shenanigans in Irma Vep (his 1996 breakthrough) to…
A popular basic-cable performer on The League and Kroll Show for the past half-dozen years, Nick Kroll can be forgiven…
In Book-It’s version of Chris Cleave’s 2008 novel (adapted and directed by Myra Platt), who in the world gets to…
The choice of Laura Griffith and Brandon O’Neill for Maggie and Brick—two examples of the superb casting of ACT’s current…
