Here’s to the Ladies Who Launch
Broadway’s gender-flipped revival of ‘Company’ performs in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre through 7/28.
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REVIEW
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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A Canvas Bleak and Beautiful in Depression-Era ‘North Country’
If your American aesthetic is the stuff of Steinbeck, Fornés, and Dylan, you’ve finally got your musical. Girl From the North Country runs through 6/30 at the Paramount Theatre.
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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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Comin’ in Hot at Clyde’s
The heat is cranked way up, and not just on the stove, in Lynn Nottage’s diner-set play. Clyde’s runs through 6/30 at ArtsWest.
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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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Joyous or Creepy? This Ballet Toys With Both.
Celebratory choreography meets a voyeuristic doll tale and creepy visuals in this stylistic mashup. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Coppélia runs through June 9.
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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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Germinating New Works, This Women-Driven Local Festival Covers a Lot of Ground
Centering female playwrights and directors, The Shattered Glass Project’s festival of new works includes timely topics, historical time-travel, and camp-horror fantasy. It runs through 5/19.
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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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The Sagas of Suresh, in Creases and Pieces
A double-feature grows up with its characters, in a co-production from ReAct Theatre and Pratidhwani. Animals Out of Paper runs through 5/19; Letters of Suresh runs through 5/18.
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Gothic Beauty With the Grand Kyiv Ballet
Full of big leaps and gothic beauty, Grand Kyiv Ballet’s Giselle concludes its cross-country tour on Pacific Northwest stages. Two performances remain (in Arlington and Tacoma), through May 3.
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‘The Wedding Singer’ Is the Disaster-in-Love We Need Right Now
Filled with laughs and a cast of 30, ‘The Wedding Singer: The Musical Comedy’ brings the hit ’90s comedy to the stage. It runs through May 19 in Port Orchard.
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On Tour: ‘Aladdin’ the Musical Soars on Spectacle
Based on the Disney film, ‘Aladdin’ the musical brings family-friendly comedy and spectacle. It runs through 4/28 at the Paramount Theatre.
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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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Where Black Is Safe and Pure and Loud and Beautiful
dani tirrell’s joy-filled world premiere of ‘Leviticus or Love and to walk amongst HUMANS (Book I)’ runs through 4/21 at the Moore Theatre.
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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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Nature on an Epic Scale: The Seasons’ Canon
Crystal Pite’s epic makes a welcome return to Pacific Northwest Ballet, through 4/21. The Seasons’ Canon might be the most thrilling thing on stage.
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Toss It or Keep It? In Portland, One Duo Tries to Figure It Out.
Two people try to work out how to make things work — and if it’s even worth it — in this intimate play. Yohen runs through April 21 in Downtown Portland.
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The Thrust: What Language Is Home?
In English and Farsi, two plays on now in Seattle and Portland examine our relationships to home and others through language. ‘English’ runs through 4/28 at ArtsWest; ‘Nassim’ runs through 5/12 at Portland Center Stage.
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Classic Beetlejuice It’s Not. Welcome to The Lydia Show.
The national tour of Broadway’s Beetlejuice the musical, based on the late-’80s flick of the same name, is a hot ticket. It runs through April 7 at the Paramount Theatre.
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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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This Play Is Definitely the Worst
It’s all a setup, in this weird comedic dystopia. Or is it? ‘The Participants!’ runs through March 23 at Annex Theatre, and via livestream.
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Theatre People, This Ballet’s For You
The theatre magic in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘One Thousand Pieces’ is as prominent as the dances themselves. It makes for a great show. PNB’s latest contemporary mixed rep runs through March 24.
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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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It’s My Funeral, and I’ll Laugh If I Want To
As If Theatre Company deals in expansive topics through small and specific human stories. Its latest, a sharp British comedy, follows that theme but cranks up the laughs — a feat in a show about death. ‘Colder Than Here’ runs through March 30 in Kenmore.
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There’s Something Afoot at This (A-List) Party
Something’s Afoot, a spoofy-murdery-musical, runs at The 5th Avenue Theatre through March 24.
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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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The Thrust: Making History
Two very different plays take a look at the legacy of Shakespeare, while a world premiere sends us to the past to fix the present. They run on Seattle stages through late February.
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