One of the most winning casts in Seattle musical history, and an out of the ordinary, strong adaptation of a Jane Austen novel with sterling silver book, music and lyrics, combine to make Ta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PM"I love this version, and it fits perfectly within this circus world, and I am so happy John is there for both of us to share that because I was his stepmother in the original, and John is a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15PMIf you long for the kind of melodrama between women that has tickled audiences ever since Clare Boothe Luce coined the phrase "Jungle Red," then Laura Schellhardt's prickly, witty, and even …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:42PMDirector Hsieh and his cast create a true ensemble effort, and if the opening night pacing was a little erratic, that will surely evaporate through the run.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14PMFunny Girl, the most rarely produced famous musical I can think of, has triumphantly returned to Issaquah's Village Theatre (where it was last produced some 20 years ago) and the seismic act…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMRevised and rewritten a bit after a successful Bay Area stint, producer/writer Dane Ballard and composer/lyricist John Woods feature a vaudeville/burlesque-like troupe in a show that may rem…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:41PMArts West's current production, directed in a breezy, lighthearted style by David Gassner, happily harkens back to the simpler, bare bones qualities of the original 1967 Off-Broadway version…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:41PMNo question about it, the new musical version of E.M Forster's novel (and the likely better known Merchant-Ivory film version starring Helena Bonham Carter) A Room With A View is being given…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:13PMI am not inclined to gush, but gush away I shall over the most delightful new musical in many a season, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, which blew onto the stage of the Seattle Repertory Theatre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:22AM"I'll be singing 'Stranger to the Rain,' which is hilarious because I'm from Seattle ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMn their third co-production in many years, the 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT Theatre have hit a vein of musical delight ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:07PMIves' tale, one rife with sexually provocative dialogue, takes place after a long day's journey turns into an even longer night for New York playwright/director Thomas, who has endured one e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMMonty Python's Spamalot at the 5th is as royally entertaining a slice of showbiz saut�ed spam as one could hope for.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:10PMThat the current production by Strawberry Theatre Workshop at the Erickson Theatre can be described as must-see theatre is as much due to Kramer's playwriting as it is to the steady and mast…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:55PMThough shock-talk shows like Springer's and that of his ex-bodyguard Steve Wilkos are on the wane, the material is still good for quite a few laughs, especially juxtaposed with an operatic s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:03PMThe musical Little Women, a troubled piece which replaced its songwriting team prior to a short Broadway life has toured to Seattle in the past without leaving any strong impression.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:20AMAudiences still flock to see Les Mis�rables live on stage. What they get at this production is a far better sung and impressively acted version than they got at the movie houses this time la…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:38PMDirected with clarity and an open heart by Lindsey Larson, the tale of a central Kentucky cave explorer whose entrapment became big news in the mid-1920s soars musically under the expert and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:37PMSir Alan Ayckbourn's plays are to Seattle's ACT Theatre what tea is to crumpets, fairly inseparable, and so it came as no surprise that the venerable playwright, who is often looked on as th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMThough handicapped by underwhelming special effects, director Louis Hobson gets to the heart of the tale, and yes there is one, thanks to an earnest and talented cast headed by a trio of Bro…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38AMThe musical does feature a very good, if derivative, musical score by the team of Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (currently represented on Broadway by First Date) and a staunch, Broadway ve…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:47PMXanadu may never be art, but what it is, and especially so at Village Theatre, is a cotton-candy dream of an entertainment.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39PMAnd in Erickson Theatre, an intimate house maybe one tenth the size of those you normally see Les Mis staged in, director Jake Groshong has impressively encapsulated the requisite visual swe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20PMIn 2011 after the exit of Bartlett Sher and the unraveling and shuttering of Intiman Theatre not too far afterward, despite the efforts of then artistic director Kate Whoriskey, her associat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20PMLippa's version of the legendary Joseph Moncure March poem was Off-Broadway in the 1999-2000 season, starring the talented likes of Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs alongside…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23AMThe 5th Avenue Theatre closes out its successful 2012-2013 season with a rousing production of the jaunty tale, full of humor, high energy and a wealth of great actor/singers to keep the shi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMThe second annual Intiman Theatre Festival buoyant kicks off with a laugh-laden staging of Italian Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo's slapstick farce We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, in a…
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