Results tagged “moliere”

Last Saturday, people were getting turned away at the door of Stone Soup Theatre out on Stone Way, as the walkways were already filled with the sell-out crowd at the last night of Ghostlight Theatricals's annual "Battle of the Bards" contest. Onstage, a bevy of Ghostlight regulars put on selections from three adaptations (we use the term loosely) of theatre classics. The audience voted (one vote came with the ticket; additional votes could be purchased for $1) on their favorite, which would get produced the next year as their winter show. Last year's winner, Lauren Goldman Marshall's "rock n' roll" adaptation of Moliere's ).

We laughed ourselves silly during the buoyant slapstick farce that is The Miser (through April 6, tickets $20-$34), which was not really our plan. We'd meant to be stern with the Seattle Shakespeare Company--Moliere isn't Shakespeare. It's an obvious bait and switch.

It's not often that we can tell just from glancing at the stage that we'll like a play, but with the Seattle Rep's The Imaginary Invalid, we felt like great things were in store the moment we caught sight of the silly, sumptuous velvet hatbox of a set. (Runs through March 22; tickets $15-$59, $10 for 25-and-under.)

Culled from the film section of The Stranger:

It's SIFF's last bleary-eyed, numb-assed, popcorn-butter-fingered weekend, so if you haven't stopped in for some film-festy fun, you gotta act fast. We held Audrey upside-down and shook her until she gave us some selections -- no, no, you deserve the best. There's no telling how far we'd go to make you happy.

Through April 21, tickets $12/$10 students/seniors