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Chase D. Anderson March 22, 2024March 25, 2024 Annex Theatre, Catherine Blake Smith, Dan Ruiz Salvatura, Jesse Calixto, M. Keala Milles Jr., Patricia Haines-Ainsworth, Rachel Taggart, Yolanda Suarez

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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Chase D. Anderson February 7, 2024February 19, 2024 Annex Theatre, Nelle Tankus

5 Questions with Playwright Nelle Tankus

This week, Seattle playwright Nelle Tankus premieres ‘Tenderness – an anti-capitalist cyberpunk experience’ at Annex Theatre (running through 2/17). NWT talked with the playwright to learn more about her latest work and the inspirations behind it.

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NWTheatre August 26, 2019August 29, 2019 Annex Theatre, Bret Fetzer, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Lisa Viertel, Rick Miller, Tracy Leigh

Shanked in the Shower: The Caged ‘Kittens’ Are Back

The original cast returns to Annex for two nights this week, for a reading of Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s hit Kittens in a Cage — and its new sequel. It’s a two-show fundraiser for Annex Theatre.

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Chase D. Anderson August 4, 2019September 3, 2019 Adam Zopfi-Hulse, Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill, Catherine Blake Smith, Chad Ro, James Weidman, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Madison Jade Jones, Mike Gilson, Pilar O'Connell, Sasha Bailey, Val Brunetto, Zenaida Rose Smith

An Absurdist Comedy in the Dark, ‘The Neverborn’ Feels Just Right for Our Times

The latest from prolific, sweetly-creepy playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard hits all the right notes, in a comically disturbing play set in an eerily familiar fantastical parallel.

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Chase D. Anderson April 8, 2019November 14, 2021 Anastacia-Renee, Annex Theatre, Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Capitol Hill, Ebo Barton, Jalayna Carter, Kamari Bright, Naa Akua, Seattle, Simone Dawson

Honoring Black Lives & Mothers Stolen in ‘Queer, Mama. Crossroads’

The new play from Anastacia-Reneé, Seattle’s Civic Poet, deals with trauma, death, violence and loss, but does so from a perspective of voice and remembrance — a performative memorial, centered on Black queer mothers. It shows at Annex Theatre through May 4.