Results tagged “artswest”

IS THAT FUNK I SMELL?: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, objectively speaking the best funk band in the world, play the Showbox SoDo tonight. We can’t think of anything to say about this that hasn’t been said, except that you owe it to yourself to see Clinton perform--after 50 years in the industry, he still brings it.

The wonderful thing about attending even a student production of Steven Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, like the one playing Wednesday-Saturday at ArtsWest in West Seattle (tix), is that you know the singing will be better than in the movie version.

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Gutenberg, Johann. "German printer born around the year 1400. Detailed records of his life and work are scant." Or so the audience is told by the fictional playwrights Doug Simon and Bud Davenport, based on their internet research. With what little info they do know about the inventor of the printing press, the fictional friends write and compose Gutenberg! The Musical! (through May 17th at ArtsWest, Wed.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 3 p.m. [no show on Mother’s Day, May 10] tix $32, $10 under 25), filling in the missing details of his life with what they charitably call "historical fiction." Scott Brown and Anthony King originally developed the show in 2005 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.

   

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A hit on the London and Broadway stage, as well as a 2006 movie, Alan Bennett's The History Boys (ArtsWest, Wed.-Sat., 7:30, Sat., Sun. 3 p.m. through March 29, Tix $10-$32) is making its Seattle premiere at West Seattle's favorite playhouse, ArtsWest. Christopher Zinovitch directs this nearly three-hour play.

Every once in a while, we reward someone who writes in with a long, but comprehensible rant comment by giving them their own post. This, readers, is one of those times. Behold, a guest review by someone who really, really like ArtsWest.

TEXAS TEA: For legal reasons we never visit West Seattle, but ArtsWest is putting on the political satire Black Gold, winner of the 2008 Smith Prize for Best New Play, and it sounds like something to see. It opens tonight, so tell us how it is.