A Grab Bag of Love and Laughs With These Shows
These modern, endearing, and lighthearted shows (many of them family-friendly) are great picks for your December entertainment — whether they’re Christmas shows or not.
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18th & Union
‘Mockingbird’ and the Familiar Haunt of White Supremacy
Now through 10/16 at The Paramount, the national tour of Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a strong production of a mighty familiar relic. Plus, a new work at MAP Theatre, on through 10/22, casts White Supremacy as a horror villain.
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Storytelling and Theatre Pack the Weekends at This New Festival
The first-ever Portable Performance Festival at 18th & Union is in full swing, with 20 or so shows in two weeks.
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Priced Out? These Seattle-Area Theatres Set Out to Price You In.
As the pandemic pause put production activity on hold, theatres took the opportunity to reassess their commitments. For some, that means making theatre more accessible than ever, including how much it costs to get in the door.
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Humanizing Mental Illness: The High Art of Lowbrow Opera
With ‘Diary of a Madman,’ Lowbrow Opera Collective humanizes society’s scorn for mental illness in a compelling 45-minute opera. It runs through November 21 at 18th & Union.
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Can You F***ing Not?
The Millennial experience gets an opera treatment in ‘#adulting’, from the classically trained singers of the Lowbrow Opera Collective. It runs through February 9 at 18th & Union.
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Sugar Plum Gary Is Coming to Town. Look Busy.
Once upon a time, Santa Claus came to visit. The only survivor would like to tell you about it.
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In ‘Chalk’, a Barrier of Mere Dust Keeps a Precarious Peace
Mary E. Brown and Jasmine Lomax spar in a futuristic, dystopian one-act that crackles with intensity from a mysterious backstory. It runs through November 3.
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From Idea to Stage: ‘Triple Threat’ & ‘Bread Crumbs’ Open at The Scratch
The Scratch, a free festival of new works, starts off tonight with two personal works by some of Seattle’s hottest artists: Nicholas Japaul Bernard and Jasmine Joshua, with development assistance and direction by Eddie DeHais. DeHais shared insight about the two autobiographical pieces, and guided NWT through the development process of each.
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In ‘Blackbird’, a Harrowing Return to a Haunting Past
A grown-up survivor demands answers for a past she can’t forget, from an abuser determined not to go there. The intense and vulnerable ‘Blackbird’ runs through June 15 at 18th & Union.
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5 Questions with Playwright Heidi Park
First-time playwright Heidi Park’s autobiographical show, ‘Black Sheep’, debuts this weekend at 18th & Union. NWT talked with Park and dramaturg Seayoung Yim (also a playwright), about the process of developing Park’s story for the stage.
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5 Questions with ‘Comic Stripper’ Woody Shticks
Ahead of his back-by-popular-demand show ‘Who Cares!’ at 18th & Union this weekend, we go deep with Woody Shticks on art, queerness, style, religion, and working the pole at Pony.
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MAP’s Latest, ‘Trevor,’ Is Funny and Repellent and Sad and Wonderful
In an excellent production, MAP Theatre’s ‘Trevor’ tells a true, sad story with a lot of humor, insight, and intrigue. It runs through March 30. Running alongside it (thru 3/25) is Jasmine Joshua’s ‘Bread Crumbs,’ a nonbinary solo show that’s solidly worth a visit.
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