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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Village Theatre "Chicago" by David-Edward Hughes

It took Issaquah's venerable Village Theatre long enough to get around to it, but the company does itself proud with a fine production of Chicago, Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb's jazz-…

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

A Mesmerizing 33 Variations at ArtsWest by David-Edward Hughes

33 Variations concludes ArtsWest's 2012-2013 season on a very high note, giving us another Seattle premiere of a contemporary play by a distinguished Broadway playwright that Seattle otherwi…

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

"The Boys Next Door" at Seattle's Stageright by David-Edward Hughes

In the capable hands of director Jay Irwin, the story of four adult men with various mental disabilities and their devoted but exasperated social worker comes through as the tender valentine…

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

"Assisted Living" in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Playwright Katie Forgette's darkly comic new play Assisted Living is perhaps best described as part 1984, part One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and part Cocoon.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Seattle Rep "Boeing-Boeing" by David-Edward Hughes

With the popular success of TV's "Mad Men," the jet-propelled production of Boeing-Boeing, a classic '60s farce by Marc Camoletti, is a perfectly timed treat to close out Seattle Repertory T…

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

"Rent" in Redmond, WA by David-Edward Hughes

Redmond's Second Story Repertory Theatre ... far and away the best version of the show I have witnessed.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

"Flashdance The Musical" Stumbles into the Paramount by David-Edward Hughes

What a feeling! The feeling was relief as the final curtain rang down on the touring produciton of Flashdance The Musical, a sorry attempt to make another dance musical film into a Broadway …

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"It's A Good Day for Miss Peggy Lee" at Centerstage Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

Not a celebrity impersonation show by any means, It's A Good Day for Miss Peggy Lee, which had its first public performance this past Saturday at Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way, is a hea…

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"Jersey Boys" Tour in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Oh what a night! That is not only the title of one of the big hits by the seminal American singing group (OK, technically the title of the song is "December 1963"), but what might well be sa…

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Monday, March 25, 2013

"Good People" Very Good Indeed at Seattle Repertory Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People receives a first-class production at the Seattle Rep, directed with panache, spirit and clarity by David Saint, a past associate Artistic Director at the R…

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"Grey Gardens" Fascinates at ACT Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

Oh, if only the folks who've tried to successfully musicalize Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? had half the talent of the team that brought Grey Gardens to fruition as a stage musical.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Seattle Musical Theatre "Altar Boyz" by David-Edward Hughes

One of Seattle's longest lived musical theatre companies, Seattle Musical Theatre, has just jump started itself with a slick, savvy staging of the zany Off-Broadway hit musical Altar Boyz.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Noah Racey is "The Music Man" at 5th Avenue by David-Edward Hughes

A show pretty much unique in the annals of Broadway, Meredith Willson's Tony Award winning classic The Music Man hasn't marched into Seattle for a while now, so it is a pleasure to report th…

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

"War Horse" Tour in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

... the wonder of this production, through the uncanny skill of Directors Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, in collaboration with the brilliant Handspring Puppet Company, is making this tale …

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"Next to Normal" in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Next to Normal receives a totally worthy and achingly well performed production in its Seattle premiere, as a co-production of Balagan Theatre and Contemporary Classics.

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

National Tour of "The Book of Mormon" in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

This is easily the fastest, funniest and naughtiest Broadway musical since Avenue Q.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

"Avenue Q" at Seattle's Balagan Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

This adult-skewed take on the "Sesame Street" formula is expertly directed by local wunderkind Eric Ankrim, with an able assist from veteran puppeteer Doug Willott, and the cast they have en…

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Interview: Ana Gasteyer in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Arriving in our Emerald City of Seattle to guest star in the opening weekend performances of Seattle Men's Chorus' holiday show Baby, It's Cold Outside, a much traveled Gasteyer, who had jus…

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Monday, November 12, 2012

A Top-Drawer Fiddler Raises the Roof at Village Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

When you hire the best talent to do one of the greatest, most enduring musicals, odds are you'll have a great show, and such is the case with Village Theatre's robust and hearty Fiddler on t…

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Teatro ZinZanni Seattle "Return to Paradise" by David-Edward Hughes

Though many (if not all) of Teatro ZinZanni's productions have not been site specific, allowing for productions in Teatro ZinZanni venues in both Seattle and San Francisco, the fall 2012 Sea…

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"'Night Mother" in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Marsha Norman's terse and harrowing drama 'Night Mother, a worthy Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1983, shows that it has lost none of its emotional wallop in KTO Productions' new staging at Odd Du…

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Lyric Light Opera "My Fair Lady" by David-Edward Hughes

Why must a classic be embalmed?

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

"The Addams Family" Tour in Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

Jersey Boys co-authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's adaptation features all the most familiar characters from the Addams oeuvre in a plot that plays out like a re-tread of You Can't Ta…

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

As Wicked as Ever, the National Tour Returns to the Paramount by David-Edward Hughes

Eugene Lee's Ozian settings, Kenneth Posner's lighting, and Susan Hilferty's eye-poppingly fantastic costumes remain in superb shape, despite the rigors of the road, and as much can be said …

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Seattle Rep 50th Season Opener "Pullman Porter Blues" by David-Edward Hughes

Pullman Porter Blues, Seattle based playwright Cheryl West's stirring family saga of three generations of African-American train porters has been carefully developed through workshops in rec…

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Book-It Repertery "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by David-Edward Hughes

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet plucks warmly at the heartstrings, while subtly reminding us of some of our own country's more shameful missteps.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

"The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era" Seattle Symphony Pops by David-Edward Hughes

The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era, under the spirited baton Steven Reinecke, with scintillating star vocals by Broadway vet Hugh Panaro, on a brief hiatus from his run in the title…

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"Big River" at Seattle's Village Theatre by David-Edward Hughes

Village Theatre, which produced the show locally in 1991, has now mounted a handsome new production of this so-so adaptation of Marks Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by William Haup…

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Arts West "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" by David-Edward Hughes

Whatever else one can say about the brash, boisterous, and freewheeling musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson which opens Arts West's 2012-13 season, dull it ain't!

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

"Hedda Gabler" at Seattle's Intiman by David-Edward Hughes

This summer the sadly dormant Intiman Theatre, closed since last spring, is hoping to revive and reinvent itself with a summer theatre festival featuring a rep company in four wildly differe…

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Friday, June 8, 2012

"American Idiot" Tour Hits Seattle by David-Edward Hughes

A one-season wonder and Best Musical Tony nominee arrived at Seattle's Paramount Theatre in its faithful national touring reproduction as a part of the Best of Broadway series, whose audienc…

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