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There is Seattle Fringe Festival going on that started at
the end of February and continues in March. Multiple solo and small shows,
often new material that people are developing, and usually about an hour in
length, so you can see more than one in a night. Here’s the link: http://seattlefringefestival.org/about-us/
March seems to “stand for” Musicals, this year! Openings
include Assassins at ACT Theatre
(co-pro’d with 5th Avenue), Parade
by Sound Theatre Company, EVITA at SecondStory Repertory, My Heart is the Drum at
Village Theatre, Violet at ArtsWest,
Cotton Patch Gospel at Taproot, and at the end of the month, My Night with
Janis Joplin at 5th Avenue! We surely have turned into a musical
theater town when no one was paying attention! Openings below.
Assassins, 5th Ave Theatre and ACT Theatre (at ACT Theatre),
3/3/16-5/15/16
A Stephen Sondheim musical about some of the most notorious
figures in American history—the assassins who tried (and in some cases
succeeded) to kill the President.
Violet, ArtsWest, 3/3/16-4/4/15
A disfigured young woman dreams of becoming beautiful. After
seeing a faith-healing minister on TV, she embarks on a bus trip across the
American south in hopes of finding the minister and healing her face. Along the
way, she learns the true meaning of beauty, courage and love. Written by
Jeanine Tesori, the 2015 Tony award winning composer of Fun Home.
The Reckoning, Pecora For The Public, The Repertory Collective,
3/3-19/16 (at Cornish blackbox)
This one man show immortalizes Italian-American Ferdinand
Pecora’s valiant effort to expose the malignant and deceptive practices of Wall
Street’s most elite financiers and bankers including JP Morgan Jr., based on
actual transcripts from the 1933 United States Senate Banking Committee
hearings to determine the root causes of the 1929 stock market crash.
Luna Gale, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 3/4-27/16
A veteran social worker takes on the custody battle over a
baby girl named Luna, but as she learns more about the family's past, she
begins to uncover long-buried memories of her own. Pamela Reed stars.
From Kings to
Controllers, Ghostlight Theatricals,
3/4-19/16
Based on Shakespeare's The
Rape of Lucrece, local playwright Stacy
Flood dives into current issues of discrimination against women in video games,
technology, and the arts. As one woman struggles to build a game that empowers,
she is met with trials throughout each aspect of her endeavor – from within the
gaming world and her own navigation of it.
EVITA, SecondStory Repertory, 3/4/16-4/3/16
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a
B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian
president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Death on the
Supermarket Shelf, Centerstage
Theatre, 3/4-26/16
A new play about the Tylenol poisonings that happened in
1982, when medicine did not come in safety-sealed containers!
Parade, Sound Theatre Company, 3/10-26/16, (at 12th
Avenue Arts)
Tony Award-winning musical. Based on the true story of the
trial of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jewish man living in Atlanta who was
tried and convicted of the murder of his thirteen-year-old employee, Mary
Phagan, in 1913. Frank's hanging by a lynch mob was pivotal to the founding of
the Anti-Defamation League as well as the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the
South.
Marching in Gucci:
Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Activist, Gay
City Arts, 3/10-13 and 3/17-20/16
A multimedia solo performance by Chad Goller-Sojourner that
chronicles his coming-of-age as a black gay AIDS activist in the ‘90s in New
York City. This veteran solo performer explores the his paradoxical
relationship of fighting to save lives of the unknown with simultaneously
engaging in multiple self-harming behaviors.
My Heart Is the Drum,
Village Theatre, Issaquah:
3/17/16-4/24/16; Everett: 4/29/16-5/22/16
World premiere. In the small village of Kafrona in Ghana,
one spirited young woman is determined to attend university, against all odds. She
defies her parents and risks everything to set off for the big city. But what
awaits her there is more dangerous than she dared imagine, and she finds that
more than just her dreams are at stake.
Mariela in the Desert,
Latino Theatre Projects,
3/17/16-4/9/16 (at Theatre Off Jackson)
A story of a noted Mexican artistic family during the rise
of the artistic movement known as Mexican Expressionism. It connects in its
atmosphere to relevant figures such as Orozco, Tina Modotti, Diego Rivera, and
Frida Kahlo.
Eulogy, K. Kent Co. Performance 3/18/16-4/16/16
(at West of Lenin)
Eleanor Mae (Kevin Kent) is “a petit medium” and her power to connect
"with the energies that flow from the living” mystify and amaze everyone
that come to mourn at Bolten’s Memorials where she is a professional mourner,
and leads services . . . The audience is encouraged to bring in their favorite
family photos, from tintype to Polaroid, where they are randomly chosen.
Mrs. Warren’s
Profession, Seattle Shakespeare
Company, 3/15/16-4/10/16
Vivie Warren benefited from opportunities not available to
her mother, Kitty Warren, who pulled herself out of the slums of London with
grit and guile. When they meet after many years apart, the long-kept secret of
Mrs. Warren’s financial success comes to the surface. As Vivie comes to grips
with the truth about her mother, she faces hard choices of her own.
Finian's Rainbow, Showtunes, 3/19,20/16 (at Benaroya Hall)
This old-fashioned musical and its message of racial harmony, justice and social equality remains relevant today. “Look To The Rainbow,” “Old Devil Moon,” and “How Are Things n Glocca Morra?” are classic tunes in this tale of Finian McLonergan, his daughter Sharon, the golden crock stolen from Leprechaun Og, as well as a racist Senator… but all is resolved and love, wealth and happiness descend on Rainbow Valley.
https://cart.seattlesymphony.org/single/SYOS.aspx?p=17200
Cotton Patch Gospel, Taproot, 3/23/16-4/23/16
This old-fashioned musical and its message of racial harmony, justice and social equality remains relevant today. “Look To The Rainbow,” “Old Devil Moon,” and “How Are Things n Glocca Morra?” are classic tunes in this tale of Finian McLonergan, his daughter Sharon, the golden crock stolen from Leprechaun Og, as well as a racist Senator… but all is resolved and love, wealth and happiness descend on Rainbow Valley.
https://cart.seattlesymphony.org/single/SYOS.aspx?p=17200
Cotton Patch Gospel, Taproot, 3/23/16-4/23/16
A revamped bluegrass musical, based on the story of Jesus’
birth.
Worse Than Tigers,
Red Stage (ACTLab), 3/24/16-4/16/16
A world premiere brought to you by Red Stage, Seattle's
newest theatre company. In a last ditch effort to save his floundering
marriage, Humphry has invited an old friend over for dinner, who turns out to
have been eaten by a tiger. When his wife’s ex-lover shows up instead, and the
man-eating tiger trails behind him, waiting at the door, that might be exactly
what they all really want. http://www.acttheatre.org/Tickets/OnStage/WorseThanTigers?date=3/23/2016#About
The Other Place, Seattle Public Theater, 3/24/16-4/17/16
Sharr White’s other play, after last month’s opening of Annapurna. Juliana Smithton (Seattle
well known actor, Amy Thone) is a successful neuroscientist on the brink of a
breakthrough in her field, but the rest of her life is unraveling. Her husband
has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped, and her health is in danger, as
she unravels a personal, 10-year-old mystery. Nominated for a Tony Award, an
Obie Award, and two Outer Circle Critic Awards including Outstanding New Play
of 2011.
brownsville song
(b-side for tray), Seattle Repertory
Theatre, 3/25/16-4/24/16
Playwright Kimber Lee brings her new play “home” to Seattle.
A senseless act of gang violence alters a high school senior’s dreams, leaving
his family to pick up the pieces and find hope and resilience within their
tight-knit Brooklyn borough
Belleville, MAP Theatre, 3/24/16-4/16/16 (at 12th
Ave Arts)
Zack and Abby seem to have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris:
a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and
Zack's noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby comes home
unexpectedly one afternoon, the small secrets and larger lies that have become
woven into the fabric of their lives are uncovered and shake their foundation. A
simmering romantic thriller that evokes strains of classic Hitchcock.
A Night with Janis
Joplin, 5th Ave Theatre,
3/25/16-4/17/16
Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis
Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the
queen of rock & roll. Share an evening with the woman fueled by such
unforgettable songs as “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Piece of My Heart,” “Mercedes Benz,” “Cry Baby” and “Summertime.”
The Tempest, New City Theater, 3/29/16-4/30/16
This production will likely be in the smallest space you can
fit a play. Shakespeare’s popular story of supernatural creatures will
alternate Mary Ewald and Peter Crook in the roles of Prospero and Caliban.
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