Lark Eden at Theater Schmeater: Earnest, Simple, and Touching Drama
John Allis talks about Lark Eden, a simple, straightforward tale told through the letters of three southern women which is being produced now at Theater Schmeater.
View ArticleStuck: the Right to Atrophy
Is the pursuit of the right to atrophy a dramatically compelling one? This is the question that continues to occur to me as I reflect on playwright Jessica Hatlo's Stuck, up now at Washington Ensemble...
View ArticleTaproot’s Freud’s Last Session: Philosophical Jousting In A Fictionalized...
The West Coast Premiere of Freud's Last Session, Taproot Theatre's latest production, theorizes the conversation held between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud; John Allis found much to ponder in the...
View ArticleDeath, Sex: Election Season
In an espoused effort to direct attention to the talents of playwrights, the nine ten-minute plays that comprise Balagan Theatre's shorts festival, Death, Sex: Election Season, draw from one pool of...
View ArticleSeattle Public Theater’s Back Back Back
In order to review Back Back Back, a play about three baseball players who struggle with the decision to use steroids, we appropriately sent a baseball fan with some knowledge of the issues at hand....
View Articleboom! theater company, New Works Festival, Phase II
The offerings of the New Works Festival, varying drastically in tone and form, are matched in a number of combinations throughout it, making for continuously-changing playbills. So that while Mountain...
View ArticleBook-It Rep’s The Art of Racing in the Rain
One of Seattle's bigger theater production companies stages a play centered around a talking dog. No, the Rep hasn't brought back Sylvia; instead Book-It Repertory has mounted The Art of Racing In The...
View Articleboom! theater’s New Works Festival: Over: Exposed & boatcanoetubfloaty
The boom! theater company is one of Seattle's more adventuresome young theater companies who recently concluded a six month New Works Festival, selections of which the company will take on tour later...
View ArticleMacha Monkey’s Sweet Nothing, a (grim) fairytale at Annex Theatre
John Allis returns with an in-depth look at Macha Monkey's latest production.
View ArticleKittens in a Cage at Annex Theatre
We’ll get to the vagina jokes, the lesbian obsessions, the greaser language, and the revealing costumes. These elements of Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s Kittens in a Cage, while varyingly successful in...
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