Looking Forward and Back, This Musical Sees a Relationship Unfold
Two casts animate this narrative told two ways. Jason Robert Brown’s relationship musical, The Last Five Years, runs through 3/16 in Seattle.
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Author: Jill Farrington Sweeney
Blues for an Alabama Sky Resonates in the Here and Now
Expressive high notes of the Harlem Renaissance give way to darker times in Seattle Rep’s beautifully staged slice-of-life drama. Blues for an Alabama Sky runs through 2/23.
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As This Trip Reminds, What’s Passed Down May Haunt You
Roommates, family baggage, and long-lost exes all pile in for this theatrical road trip. Marcus Gorman’s ‘Gold’ performs at Annex Theatre (on stage and streaming) through 2/8.
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Years Later, Wicked on Tour Still Sparks the Magic of Its Broadway Premiere
The movie comes out this week, but the live-on-stage Wicked just can’t be beat. Broadway’s blockbuster reimagination of Oz runs through 12/1 at the Paramount Theatre.
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Plates Empty, Stage Full in Port Townsend’s Café du Grand Boeuf
A tragicomedy spins a feast from thin air at Saltfire Theatre’s An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, through 11/24 in Port Townsend.
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This Wedding Party Invites You to Choose Your Own Drama (With Plenty of It)
A company known for its playful, devised works whisks audiences away to a wedding party of the gods. Dacha Theatre’s ‘The Pomegranate Tree’ runs through 11/9 at Theatre Off Jackson.
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In a Kitsap Operetta, It’s Pirates and Dungeons and Dragons
The Curse of the Red Mill, an original take on a century-old work, fits gamely into the theatre’s fantastical wheelhouse. It runs through 10/12 at Enoch City Arts.
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Who Dares Drink the Poisoned Wine? A Cult Leader and a Cowboy Investigate.
At turns lyrical and unsettling, Washington Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Cowboys with Questions’ is a well-timed dig into power and delusion. The new play by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth runs through 9/15.
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The Unsinkable ‘Titanish’
From the same crew as ‘A Very Die Hard Christmas’, The Habit’s parody of the summer blockbuster makes its third voyage at Seattle Public Theater, through 9/22.
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Awash in Nostalgia, ‘Twin Peep Show’ Flashes the Glory Days
A new cabaret from longtime collaborators Opal Peachey and Mark Siano had the Triple Door awash in nostalgic glow. Twin Peep Show performed through August 4.
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Sound Theatre Revisits an All-Too-Familiar Election
Sound Theatre’s 53% Of puts the spotlight on women, politically conservative and liberal alike, who voted in the 2016 election. It runs through 6/30.
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Adolescence and Angst in Bloom at Spring Awakening
A rock musical at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre (through 6/30) looks at youthful energy, sexuality, and repression.
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Absurdist Spins on Shakespeare Put Language in a Different Light
Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth, two linked short plays by Tom Stoppard, run through 6/16 at inD Theatre on Bainbridge Island.
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Keeping It Classic? It’s Elementary.
The famous sleuthing duo takes stage in Sherlock Holmes and the Precarious Position. It runs through June 22 at Taproot
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Writing Rivals Find the Light in ‘Unrivaled’
Through humor and big personalities, ‘Unrivaled’ looks at key pieces of Asian artistry over the centuries. The co-production from Seattle Public Theater and SIS Productions runs through 6/2.
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A Prolific Playwright’s Second Chapter Unfolds in Poulsbo
Chapter Two, Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical tale of a whirlwind romance, performs at Poulsbo’s Jewel Box Theatre through May 5.
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In This Satire, Old Plagues Are New Again
In ‘The Plague Master General (a bubonic comedy)’, Blue Hour Theatre Group puts a different spin on a familiar topic. It runs through 4/27 at West of Lenin.
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This Imaginative Take on a Russian Classic Is a Weird Story, Well-Told
Dacha Theatre’s imaginative new adaptation of the fantastical Russian classic, ‘The Master and Margarita’, runs through 4/13.
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Dark and Funny, Secrets Lurk in ‘The Moors’
Drawing inspiration from literary greats and feminist slasher heroines alike, ‘The Moors’ thrives in the shadows with a stellar cast and standout designs. It runs at Seattle Public Theater through April 14.
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Now Invading Bremerton’s Shores: A Rollicking Band of Deep Space Pirates
‘The Space Pirates of Penzance’, an original take on a musical classic, is a fun crossover of all sorts of geekery. It runs through April 6 at Enoch City Arts.
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With Science and Poetry, ‘Ada’ Unearths an Early Engine of Progress
Long before the computer as we know it, Ada Lovelace was busy dreaming it up. ‘Ada and the Engine’, Lauren Gunderson’s play about the early inventor, runs at Edmonds Driftwood Players through 3/17.
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