Table Read: On Cooking and Chemistry
Whether you’ve resolved to read more this year or are simply looking for a companion to wait out the rain, check out these sweet books.
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ON BOOK
Jonathan Van Ness: Dishing on the Page (And a Seattle Stage This Friday)
On screen, he’s the personality-forward, effervescent fifth of the Queer Eye team. Behind the glowing smiles and tresses, Jonathan Van Ness has a story to tell. Read about his new book here, ahead of his show at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on 12/9.
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Book Revue: In ‘Fearlessly Different’, an Autistic Actor Finds His Light
In his debut book, released today, Seattle-raised actor Mickey Rowe shares how autism guides, not stifles, his stage performance. ‘Fearlessly Different’ offers behind-the-scenes perspective on disability, acting, and difference as strength.
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With Unique Book Club, Coming Together by Staying Apart
As social isolation from the novel virus threatens to drive us all mad, novel book clubs bring Washingtonians together from afar.
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A Changing Belltown Still Has its Ghosts. In ‘Belltown Exposed’, They Come Alive.
This Sunday night, the Rendezvous decks the halls with decades past, with a unique, free, through-the-eras party and variety show called ‘Belltown Exposed’. It celebrates the release of Staci Bernstein’s new art photography book of the same name. NWT talked with Rendezvous owner Jane Kaplan about the show, the book, and the storied neighborhood.
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5 Questions with Playwright & Novelist Joy McCullough
‘Blood Water Paint’ imagines the great 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi in her studio, interacting with the apocryphal subjects who inspired her. NWT talked with playwright Joy McCullough about the work, ahead of the play’s opening this Friday with Macha Theatre Works.
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‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Can’t Quite Match the Magic of the Book
The stage adaptation of Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir of grief, on now through August 11 at ACT Theatre, is a beautifully performed, communal catharsis over the inevitability of death. But its attempt at universality leaves it a flattened version of the original.
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‘Citizen’ Powerfully Engages the Everyday of Racism in America
The book, by MacArthur Genius Claudia Rankine, is a masterwork. So is Sound Theatre and the Hansberry Project’s staging, in which all elements coalesce flawlessly into a challenging and invigorating production. It runs through July 28.
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Book Groups for People Who Actually Want to Read the Books
Discover great new reading and connect in person, with three book clubs built around shared interests — in this case, arts, theatre, and queer studies.
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