At This Retirement Home, Rest Is About the Only Thing Not Happening
In Kenmore, As If Theatre Company puts up another riotous comedy, this one set in the high-stakes world of retirement home wagering. Ripcord runs through 4/6.
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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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Kenmore’s ‘Quickies’ Get Quirkier With These New Prompts
The locally-sourced annual shorts fest stands out with its love for unique prompts and connection to its home base. It runs 8/11-13 in Kenmore.
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The Thrust: They’re No Fools
Women run the show in these very funny plays, which start from a place of “couldn’t get worse” but deliver tenderness and easy laughs. Three of them are on Puget Sound-area stages through April 2.
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NWTheatre Awards: Companies, Trends, & Touring Shows of 2022
Recognizing companies, touring shows, a trend, and even a single scene that made 2022 a year to remember.
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The Thrust: ‘Almost, Maine’ and Spirited, Northshore
From a relative theatre desert to abuzz with stories, As If Theatre Company and HEART Repertory Theatre have enlivened a Kenmore stage.
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The Thrust: In This Week’s Shows, the Rules Are What You Make Them
In two shows this week, strong female leads see their safe, comfortable social orders challenged. ‘The Cake’ from As If Theatre Company runs through 3/20 in Kenmore; and Village Theatre’s ‘The Book Club Play’ runs through 4/3 (in Issaquah) and 5/1 (in Everett).
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As If Wants Your Cakes. Live Girls! Wants Your Cupcakes.
An up-and-coming Kenmore theatre company wants your cake recipes ahead of its upcoming production; and the long-running Cupcake Reading Series wants your new play scripts. Both have deadlines next weekend.
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In ‘Kimberly Akimbo’, the Farcical and Familiar Combine in a Witty Family Tale
The latest from As If Theatre mixes humor and sadness in an unusual — but familiar — family tale, in which a teenager deals with self-centered parents, a drifter aunt, and a disease that advances her physical age far beyond her calendar years. ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ runs through October 20.
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‘Kenmore Quickies’: In Festivals of Shorts This Weekend, Local Cities Show Their Northwest Flavor
This weekend brought two lively slates, in two different media, of short, new works grounded here in the Northwest. One of such shows was As If Theatre Company’s brand-new ‘Kenmore Quickies’, a festival of locally-inspired 10-minute plays, which ends Sunday.
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Short Play Fests Abound, But These Quickies Might Be the Quirkiest
Eight short plays premiere this weekend at As If Theatre Company’s short-run festival, ‘Kenmore Quickies’. The plays spring from an unusual inspiration and a research process focused heavily on Kenmore’s local history.
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