Across the country, there are an enormous amount of young couples with two kids. And the younger of those two kids is called "insurance." That abiding anxiety is what playwright Jenny Schwartz drags into the light with God's Ear (at WET through November 10, tickets $10-$18), a play in which the terrible has happened, a drowning, and a couple, Mel and Ted, have to negotiate the aftermath. Any play is largely about people talking, and......

Besides being in the running for Owner of the World's Most Glamorous Name, Katjana Vadeboncoeur plays the maternal hen Aunt Julia in blahblahblahBANG at On the Boards. To make a point of it, she sips then spits up her tea into a cup, complete with birdlike neck spasms, and hands it to her beloved, coddled nephew Yorgen Tesman -- who drinks it, onstage, to an audience of wrinkled noses. If you're an Ibsen fan (blahblahblahBANG......

Iphigenia in Aulis @ Washington Ensemble Theatre 8pm Thurs-Mon, through June 11; Tickets $18 general/$10 students, seniors Ellen McLaughlin's "meditation on feminism," Iphigenia and Other Daughters is an adaptation of three Greek plays. (The Chamber Theater just did the complete version, as it happens.) WET has taken the portion based on Iphigenia in Aulis (a 5-page section), and created a 50-minute performance. (We suspected it was a feminist reading because none of the men......

Saturday we went to go see The Museum Play at WET. We've been musing over what to tell you about it since then. It's a world premiere, see, and why give the story away? So few things these days have the opportunity to surprise us. If you don't care about that then by all means, read this Weekly review, or this bizarre, what-was-he-drinking? one in the P-I. [UPDATE: Here's the Stranger's AW! with a......

On Friday night Seattlest caught the Washington Ensemble Theatre's production of Crave. Not to be confused with one of our favorite restaurants in town, this play is the handicraft of Sarah Kane, a brilliant, troubled artist who spat out five intense and violent works before hanging herself at age 28. The marketing we've seen for the play would like you to think that the play is "sexy and brutal." Make no mistake---this play is......