It’s a crowd-pleaser, if laugh meters are the measure of pleasure.
In contrast to most theater about mental illness, which capitalizes on the dramatic irony of the audience knowing more than the sick person, The Other Place’s exchanges deliberately whip by at an audience-confusing pace.
When it comes to all-American 31-year-old “spinster” Sally Talley (Rebecca Olson), 42-year-old Jewish bachelor accountant Matt Friedman (Mike Dooly) has…
Few will forget the extraordinary ending director John Langs added to his 2010 Hamlet, in which—after umpteen poisonings and stabbings…
Nobody goes to a romantic comedy looking for surprises. We go for affirmation that, in the face of suspicious data,…
In Book-It’s version of Chris Cleave’s 2008 novel (adapted and directed by Myra Platt), who in the world gets to…
As Monica Lewinsky and Amanda Knox have incidents in their youth that will shadow their lives forever, so too does…
The characters in Laura Schellhardt’s custom-built comedy about status-grubbing female real-estate agents in Manhattan gaze imperiously at you in the…
The age-old dilemma of whether to preserve sad history or plow right over it undergirds many of August Wilson’s plays,…
Buried in the boilerplate of the real-estate contract-cum-program for Washington Ensemble Theatre’s world premiere is a term I had not…
Sex! Politics! Religion! Measure for Measure bulges with dinner-party taboos and municipal dilemmas. This succinct yet itchy “unfestive comedy,” per…
Civic Rep’s program notes read: “While the playwright suggests a specific time and place for the story, we have chosen…
One is hard-pressed to imagine a more productive presidency than Lyndon B. Johnson’s, yet how rarely does one imagine it…
I Never Betrayed the Revolution West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., 352-1777, westoflenin.com. $15–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2 p.m….
Blood Countess Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$20. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus Mon., Nov. 10. Ends Nov. 22….
Four years after Seattle Shakespeare’s indelibly satisfying Hamlet, there’s another notable local production of the play that shouldn’t be missed….
The Ferguson, Missouri, shooting death of Michael Brown and its ongoing national fallout provide a sadly auspicious moment in which…
There are many reasons to go to the theater, but to see something that feels like a film or a…
If you were looking for the play that most comprehensively distills the gestalt of the human condition, you’d probably settle…
Five hours, folks. That’s what we were in for at Book-It’s epic June adaptation of Michael Chabon’s epic Pulitzer-winner The…
A confident cast, savvy direction by R. Hamilton Wright, and superior staging and effects boost this comely production beyond the…
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Center Theatre at the Armory (Seattle Center), 216-0833, book-it.org. $25–$43. 6 p.m. Wed.–Sat.,…
The Price ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676, acttheatre.org. $20 and up. Runs Tues.–Sun. Ends June 22. Overshadowed by his…
Arcadia Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Dr. N., 524-1300, seattlepublictheater.org. $15–$29. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 2…
King Lear Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 733-8222, seattleshakespeare.org. $25–$48. Runs Wed.–Sun. Ends May 17. In this imagining of King…
Third ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. $45. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. Ends March 22. Liberal society…
Venus in Fur Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 443-2222, seattlerep.org. $12–$80. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun. plus matinees. Ends…
