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1 A Q&A with director Wilson Milam, at the helm of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Arts
And if his appearance is distinctive, so is his persona. He's a walker who thinks nothing of hiking from Seattle Center to the U District on a misty morning.
2/8/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 As recession continues, look to some of Broadway's smaller gems Arts
The storied Broadway theater district has weathered more than a century of economic downturns, small and seismic. And there are heartening signs of life on today's Rialto, as theater marches on. But the Great White Way is not getting a pass in this recession.
2/6/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Review: Sunny 'Perô' is a tale of night and day, heartbreak and happiness Arts
So goes "Perô," the most recent collaboration between Seattle Children's Theatre and the Dutch troupe Speeltheater Holland — and among the most enchanting.
2/4/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Review: Sher's 'South Pacific' is an enchanting evening Arts
How could the Broadway musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II be revolutionary? Most have been giant commercial hits, popular with mainstream audiences to this day.
2/1/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Bart Sher's era: A closer look at Intiman Theatre over the past decade Arts
Bartlett Sher's artistic reign at Seattle's Intiman Theatre was eventful and triumphant. It was also uninspiring at times, but bracingly adventurous, too. And at its outstanding best, it was a reflection of the impassioned, articulate, impatient and richly gifted, ambitious man at the tiller.
2/1/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 'Bash for Bart' a heartfelt tribute to former Intiman Theatre chief Arts
Several hundred supporters and colleagues attended the Saturday-night event at Intiman to bid a fond farewell to Sher, who rose to international fame while charting an eclectic, ambitious course for the Seattle theater.
1/31/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Theater review: 'Edmond' is artfully staged in all its disturbing glory Arts
In his 80-minute one-act, "Edmond," David Mamet plunges us into the seamier side of the decade, in a harrowing morality tale of a middle-class Everyman on, and over, the verge. Relentlessly dark, savagely violent and mordantly comic, "Edmond" is meant to disturb.
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Review: 'Jihad Jones' aims for broad satire but misses a few laughs Arts
Making fun of the excesses and idiocies of the Hollywood dream factory (aka the movie biz) has been a favorite sport of playwrights since the advent of talkies.
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Restored 'South Pacific' sails into Seattle Arts
From the first bars of the love song "Some Enchanted Evening," the 1949 musical "South Pacific" sweeps you into one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's finest Broadway offerings.
1/28/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 ACT announces first budget surplus in more than 4 years Arts
With stringent cost-cutting, hundreds of new individual donors and a 23 percent increase in single-ticket sales during 2009, ACT is posting its first surplus in more than four years — an estimated $70,000. That includes making up for a cash shortfall of $780,000 from the previous year.
1/27/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Review: Fledgling company's 'Two by Pinter' are superb stagings of masterful work Arts
You've just stepped into the oeuvre of the late British dramatist Harold Pinter, a master of verbal hesitation and innuendo, subtle shock and violent awe.
1/26/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Seattle exports riding high on Broadway Entertainment
NEW YORK — One is a boyish bachelor cutup, whose Seattle high-school drama teacher is still his biggest booster. The other was a heartthrob leading man on Seattle musical stages, primed for a big break.
1/24/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Mamet, Simon, Pinter plays start this week on Seattle stages Arts
Another busy week for local stages, with vintage scripts by David Mamet, Neil Simon and Harold Pinter in the wings, along with a long-popular, one-woman play about one of our greatest (and shyest) American poets. A quick scan of the theatrical horizon: "Lost in Yonkers.
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Review: Disco balls and Greek gods loom large in the camp-tastic Broadway musical comedy 'Xanadu' Arts
The gods must be crazy, but a gaggle from the Greek pantheon are also having a disco-fueled, quip-filled blast in "Xanadu," the camp-tastic Broadway musical that just whisked into the Paramount Theatre on roller skates for a short touring run.
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Review: 'Speech and Debate' takes on the trials of teenhood Arts
Say you covet a lead role in your high school's production of the musical "Once Upon a Mattress," and your effing drama teacher won't cast you, so you and your Casio keyboard are taking to the Internet to live-stream your ranting meltdown to the world.
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Curio Confections bakes sweet sensations on The Ave Entertainment
What baker and candy-maker Maria Friedman means by the term is something quite different: straight-from-the-oven, high-quality goodies, whipped up at whim in her small cafe on the north end of University Way.
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Cirque du Soleil returns to Marymoor in June; tickets on sale Sunday Arts
The top international attraction Cirque du Soleil returns to the Seattle area this summer, right on cue, to pitch its Grand Chapiteau tent and perform its show "Kooza" at Marymoor Park in Redmond. The limited engagement runs June 3-27, but the company often extends its runs due to ticket demand.
1/20/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 'A Mountain of Crumbs': A Leningrad childhood during the Cold War Arts
In her native Leningrad, the budding Elena can't share the earnest patriotism purveyed by her mother and grammar school teachers. She finds compulsory meetings of the Young Pioneers (the Soviet Girl Scouts) "dreary." She resists the prevailing Cold War xenophobia.
1/16/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Broadway's 'Xanadu': movie dud to Broadway camp-fest Arts
If the thought of hearing the soft-rock hit "Have You Ever Been Mellow?" again is about as appealing to you as having ingrown-toenail surgery, you may have to revise that opinion. "Xanadu" the musical is coming to town.
1/16/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 'Speech and Debate' tackles teen issues with candor Arts
The Oregon capitol of Salem may seem like a sleepy burg on the outside. But in Stephen Karam's play "Speech and Debate," sex scandals involving adolescents simmer below the surface — inspiring three misfit high-school kids to take action by starting up a school debate society.
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results