HILARIOUS TOMFOOLERY: Andrew Connor of The Cody Rivers Show, a brilliant physical comedy group out of Bellingham, has brought MissoulaOblongata's newest show, The Last Hurrah of the Clementines, to Theatre Off Jackson. Connor, who has great taste, and is rumored to be the newest curator of Seattle Sketchfest, is pretty much guaranteed to bring in a winner. If you're not convinced, check out the synopsis: Late one night, a stranger knocks at the door of......

Sometimes you watch a play without ever leaving home; either it never leaves the neighborhood of the familiar or you don't. And sometimes a play invites you into its home--certain things are familiar or not, but the center is not your center, and you almost drunkenly try to make sense of it, slipping and willing your eyes to focus. It's not that you forget to tell yourself you know better, that's not a blue sky......

When we first meet him, 40-something actor Andrew Weems has gotten lost on his way to a reading in New York, and his peripatetic, rootless existence catches up to him--broke, burnt-out, and frozen in place, not knowing which direction to go, he sounds like Jack Lemmon in Death of an Acting-man: bitter, wry, crabby, self-defeated. In stewing over being lost, other travails present themselves (including a rat barking all night in the walls of his......

The Diary of Anne Frank @ the Intiman // through May 17 // // Tickets $10-$50 // Special talks and events on March 31, April 6, 10, 27, 28 and May 3 When this Seattlest was nine, we visited our grandparents in Brooklyn one weekend. While there, the synagogue hosted a book fair. Our grandparents, being a center of the temple community, went and took us with them. We still hold a distinct memory of......

POETRY: Eavan Boland is from Dublin, Ireland, and we take it that "Eavan" is a girl's name there. It's not immediately obvious, it it? She carries more of a charge in her than that boggy, peaty, old Seamus Heaney. One of her poems, The Pomegranate, begins: The only legend I have ever loved is the story of a daughter lost in hell. And found and rescued there. Love and blackmail are the gist of......

As if Bart Sher weren't enough artistic ordnance, Intiman is also packing Craig Lucas in its Associate Artistic Director holster. (That's Craig Lucas, author of the book for The Light in the Piazza, author of the plays Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul, and The Singing Forest, and author of the screenplays for Longtime Companion and The Secret Lives of Dentists.) Following up on his terrific adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Intiman is staging the......

Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya @ the Intiman Through July 18 // Intiman Theatre // Adults $48-$34 (Under-25 $10) "Uncle Vanya," says our friend as we're headed to the theater, "that's the Chekhov play where there's an old family estate...um...on the outskirts of Moscow...and there's a doctor running around." Okay, yes, it can feel like there's one big Chekhov play called Uncle Cherry Sisters or Three Seagull Orchard, but that's no reason to poke fun. Besides,......

The Light in the Piazza @ the Paramount Through April 29, Tickets $25-$72 The reviews are in, and it's unanimous: the light in this piazza is startlingly beautiful. Misha Berson puts it best: When the Adam Guettel-Craig Lucas show had its world premiere here at the Intiman Theatre in 2003, this tale of a mother and daughter's life-changing sojourn in 1953 Italy was a pen-and-ink sketch. In Bartlett Sher's splendid staging, it is now......

Monday PREQUEL TO MCARTNEY'S WINGS: Richie Unterberger, the author of several books on the history of rock, shows some film footage and plays some music recordings of unreleased Beatles material. He´s promoting his latest book, The Unreleased Beatles -- Music and Film. We had no idea they were in jail! (Ha! Because of the "unreleased" -- see how...oh...sure, we can move on.) 7pm // Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE GARDENING AT......

Monday FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Novelist, nonfiction author, and short story writer Terry Bisson has swept every honor in the science fiction field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He joins Hugo House's Writing Fantastic Fiction workshop series, where he will teach "Who Likes Short Shorts? We Like Short Shorts!" 7pm // Hugo House // $4 donation ARTS & LECTURES POETRY SERIES: "Poetry is what maintains our capacity for contemplation and difficulty." That's......

Monday LESS IS MORE: In Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life, Victoria Castle asks why we feel that nothing is ever enough. Castle's book shows us how to escape this malaise and become more relaxed and alive. Hopefully it doesn't involve crisscrossing the U.S. on a book tour. 7pm // Third Place Books // FREE NATURE WRITING: Robert Michael Pyle's Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps......

A Poem Collected From Press Materials on the Topic of Mark Strand Being Tonight's Poet in the Seattle Arts & Lectures Series at Intiman Theatre, 7:30pm, Tickets $20/$10 Students and Under 25 “Mark Strand has chosen the negative path, with loss as the first step towards fullness: it is also the opening to a transparent verbal perfection," murmurs Octavio Paz. “I seem to be a tourist on planet Earth,” Strand has said -- born......

Tuesday 7th >>> Foreigner at The Paramount. Be warned: whether you're cold as ice or hot-blooded, this is the kind of rock that leads to double-vision. *video: Urgent 8:00pm; $40-$150. The $150 includes a pre-show wine tasting and meet & greet. >>> Bonnie Prince Billy at The Tractor. Will Oldham has been keeping us at arm's length with the "Bonnie Prince Billy" moniker for years. We can pretend it isn't true, but it is.......

Our day started early at the KEXP Backyard stage where the Mountlake Terrace trio, Mon Frere, woke us up, got us moving, fed us our delicious brunch of new wave keyboard and guitar anthems. We headed straight there – hadn’t even had our coffee yet, still a bit bleary-eyed from the night before. But this seemed the way to go. Jump right in. Don’t tip-toe into the lake like a pussy. Just get in......

Picture the scene: Seattlest staff hunched over our Underwoods, trying to crank out a Pulitzer piece before deadline, the offices wreathed in Dan's editorial smoke -- and the phone rings. "Hello? Hello! Hold the line!" It's the local theaters, the Rep and Intiman, begging for attention. Actors! So needy. As we mentioned earlier, the late August Wilson's final play in his ten-cycle series, Radio Golf, is playing through February 18 at the Rep. At 6:30pm......

The musical “Light in the Piazza,” which had its premiere at Seattle's Intiman Theatre in 2003, moved on to Chicago, then Broadway, and bagged six Tonys last night. The New York Times notes it was the biggest single winner of the evening: The show, produced by the nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater, took six awards, sweeping the musical design categories and winning for its ambitious, complex score by Adam Guettel and the performance of its leading......

Seattlest has learned that Folklife, our favorite of the Seattle Center festivals, has gained the reputation of being a four-day conclave of smelly, weed-smoking, WTO-hating, free-loving hippies. Are there hippies at Folklife? Of course! But there are also old-timey banjo players, Ukranian folk dancers, West African griots and, as always, Artis the Spoonman. Stay away from the drum circles and your weekend can be hippie free. The big question at Bumbershoot is always "who's playing?"......