The first thing you need to know before you go to the Solo Performance Festival at the Theatre Off Jackson is that while the Theatre Off Jackson is at 7th and Jackson, one block up at 8th and Jackson sit two of the ID's most-loved restaurants: Green Leaf offers Vietnamese cuisine and the Szechuan Noodle Bowl, Chinese. The second thing is that the Green Leaf is remodeling and isn't open, so get that out of......

One-man theater performances like the ones going on in festival format at the Theatre Off Jackson right now require a lot of imagination from the audience. Imagine that there's a huge fantastical set, imagine that the person the actor is having a conversation with isn't the very same actor with a modified posture and voice and standing on the other side of the room. Imagine that you're there in the first place, for most of......

Friday Theatre: The Solo Performance Festival, SPF2: Sweatproof!, returns to the Theatre Off Jackson with a terrific lineup of uni-personned shows. In fact, tonight has a terrific lineup all on its own, thanks to the Unicycle Collective. Their MonoLodge 4 is an evening of solo shorts from Seattle veterans and up-and-coming talents: Keith Hitchcock, Jennifer Jasper, Troy Mink, K. Brian Neel, Becky Poole, Mary Purdy, Seth Rosenbloom, Mark Siano, and Jenna Bean Veatch. (Saturday......