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A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Seattle Shakespeare Co.,
5/3/17-5/21/17 (at Cornish Playhouse)
This version of the classic “who loves who” comedy is placed
in the realm of 1930s movie musicals about show business. George Mount says,
“They're called backstage musicals. They’re movies about people on Broadway
putting on plays. So we're going to do a play, based on the movie genre.” A
band of local tradespeople gets mixed into the madness when one member is
transformed into a donkey. The fairy Puck, who initiated the foolery, sorts it
all out in time for a grand wedding and a nutty comic skit.
Skin, Deaf Spotlight, 5/4-7/17, 5/12-13/17 (at
12th Avenue Arts)
Deaf Spotlight is pleased to this story, which follows four
Deaf Queer women who are struggling to make sense of violence, sex, love and
friendship amidst a changing landscape, Seattle’s Capitol Hill. This will be
performed in ASL and subtitled English.
...And Starring Claire
from Hollywood, Macha Monkey Prods.,
5/5/17-6/3/17 (at 18th & Union) world premiere
A new play by local writer Jim Moran focuses on a serene
town on the Oregon coast. Formerly famous Hollywood actress, Claire Zimmer returns
home for personal reasons, agreeing to star in a local production of Noel
Coward’s Private Lives. Not everyone
is delighted with this turn of events. Chaos ensues when Hollywood and
community theatre egos clash in this farcical tale of coming home and starting
again.
Private Lives, Reboot Theatre Company, 5/5-20/17 (at
Slate Theater)
Amanda and Elyot are divorced from each other. They’ve
coincidentally booked honeymoon suites with their new (and wholly unsuitable)
spouses next to each other. Hilarity and passion ensue when Amanda and Elyot
rekindle both their romance and ire, with their new spouses in hot pursuit.
Gender swaps here may make an old chestnut seem new again!
Macbeth, Fern Shakespeare Co., 5/5-21/17 (at
Theatre 4, Armory)
New to Seattle, The Fern is in its fifth season of
production. The Fern specializes in
Original Practice Shakespeare, which breaks down the 'fourth wall' and presents
Shakespeare as it was presented in Shakespeare's time: directly to the
audience. Tempted by prophecies of three witches, Macbeth grapples with power,
greed and his ambitious wife. Can they spurn fate to make their own future, or
are they merely pawns in a much more sinister and powerful plan?
A gender neutral cast of eight actors portrays a total of
twenty-six characters.
Money and Run, Theatre Schmeater, 5/10/17-6/10/17
Wayne Rawley wrote
several plays in a series – a trailer trash epic series, as it was billed. Now
The Schmee is reprising all three in repertory (all in the same run) all
directed by Rawley! Straight from the small town of Creekbottom, smack dab in
the center of Cudrup County and not too far from the world famous Captain
Picklebug's Caves of Mystery. Saturdays, you can binge on all three at once.
Dreamgirls, Village Theatre, Issaquah: 5/11/17-7/2/17,
Everett: 7/7-30/17
This is the first time Village has produced this powerhouse
musical. Motown-inspired score, dynamic performances, and a moving look
behind-the-scenes of the entertainment business punctuate this story of an up-and-coming
girl group. Their transformation into a pop music phenomenon causes hard
lessons along the way about love, greed, adversity, and what it takes to get to
the top. We are already excited about the all local cast hard at work in
rehearsals!
Gutenberg the Musical,
Kate, Matt, Julia, and Pauls Presents,
5/12-22/17 (at the Jewel Box/Rendezvous)
If you haven’t seen this two-person musical spoof about
printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, prepare to have fun! A pair of
aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for a big, splashy musical.
With an unending supply of enthusiasm, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play
all the parts in their crass historical epic, with the hope that one of the
producers in attendance will give them a Broadway contract – fulfilling their
ill-advised dreams.
Cardinal Sins, Centerstage Theatre, 5/13/17-6/4/17
(world premier)
A tale of unrequited love told against the story of the
birth of freedom – the creation of the Magna Carta! A tragic love affair is woven
into the story of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1215, led rebellious
barons against the tyrannical King John and who formulated the Magna Carta, the
western world’s foundation document that has been the inspiration for, and the
cornerstone of, constitutional government.
Grand Concourse, Seattle Public Theater, 5/18/17-6/11/17
Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs
a Bronx soup kitchen where even the staff is needy, but lately her heart’s not
quite in it. When Emma - an idealistic but confused college dropout - arrives
to volunteer, her reckless mix of generosity and self-involvement pushes
Shelley to the breaking point.
The Realistic Joneses,
New Century Theatre Co.,
5/31/17-7/1/17
We meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and
Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than their identical
homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably
intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their
imperfect realities. A Will Eno play.
Barbecue, Intiman Theatre, 5/31/17-6/25/17 (at
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute)
Robert O’Hara, the talented playwright of Bootycandy, takes on the classic
American family story. Set in a park in Middle America, the play features the
O’Mallerys who are gathering to share some barbecue and straight talk with
their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her
siblings to stage an open-air intervention. With the whiskey flowing, family
dysfunction and stereotypes collide as the play poses the question: Is family
worse than addiction?
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