Into the Neon Wilds: The 5th’s Spin on a Classic
The 5th’s modern, farcical production leans into the humor of the classic Sondheim fairy-tale mashup with a star-filled cast. It runs through March 5.
Read more
The 5th Avenue Theatre
NWTheatre Awards: Best-Loved Shows of 2022
All around the Sound, theatre and dance companies treated viewers to a lot of great performances in 2022. Here’s what stood out to NWTheatre as the most powerful, most memorable, most spectacular of the year.
Read more
Trip With the Griswolds: Farcical Fun or Musical Dud?
A new musical comedy, inspired by the family of decades-old ‘National Lampoon’ films, premiered this month at The 5th Avenue Theatre. It runs through 10/2.
Read more
‘Come From Away’ Finds Joy When the Journey Goes Nowhere
The sweet, standout touring musical performs at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre through 8/7.
Read more
The Thrust: Someone’s Pulling Our Leg With These Shows
Three comedies hit the right notes. The original musical ‘And So That Happened …’ and the farce ‘The Nerd’ close this weekend; the lightly risque ‘Skin Flick’ runs through the following week.
Read more
Sweat Now. Process Afterwords.
Two big productions on now, paint two American portraits, intimate and recognizable, in details both banal and destabilizing. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama runs through 5/22 at ACT Theatre; and a world-premiere musical at The 5th runs through 5/21.
Read more
The Thrust: Love Sets the Tone in These Shows
From an all-too-honest advice columnist to audience requests on the mic and a gambling bail-out, the love shown here covers pretty much everything but the romantic kind. Here are my takeaways from each.
Read more
Remembering Terrence McNally
Legendary playwright Terrence McNally died March 24 at age 81, of complications relating to the coronavirus. Seattle-based playwright Jim Moran remembers McNally, working alongside him, and the impact he had on Moran’s own work.
Read more
From Film to Broadway, ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Gets an Update at The 5th. It’s a Fun Show, with a Big Asterisk.
The stage adaptation of the ’90s movie is having its world premiere in Seattle, before moving straight to Broadway this spring. It’s a huge production with lovely design, and content that includes both fun updates and eye-rolling (and potentially harmful) trope. It runs through January 4.
Read more
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s ‘West Side Story’ Is Poetry in Motion
In collaboration with Spectrum Dance Theater, The 5th has put up an exquisite staging of the classic Bernstein/Sondheim/Laurents musical, inspired by Shakepeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It runs through June 23.
Read more