Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'shakespearefestival'
February 12, 2008
Is live theater still relevant in a society where computer users can create high-quality video and distribute it almost instantly via the web? That's been the subject of an ongoing, rancorous debate between two Seattlest contributors, Jeremy and Charles, both former theater artists. Jeremy maintains the theater can yet be a powerful art form -- Charles feels it's a dying, irrelevant medium (most likely wounded by its own hand). To stir them up appropriately, the......
Continue Reading "American Theater: Not Dead Yet? A Seattlest Debate"March 15, 2007
As we were saying the other day, the Seattle Rep is producing a play next season by playwright (actor, screenwriter) Robert Schenkkan, who lives in Seattle and whom we first met at Victrola. (You know him for authoring the magisterial The Kentucky Cycle, or from his appearance on Star Trek: TNG or in Pump Up the Volume.) Seattlest: By the Waters of Babylon: it's a newer piece, right? What got you started on a......
Continue Reading "Seattlest Interviews Playwright Robert Schenkkan"