Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'tonyawards'
December 7, 2007
"On October 1, when tickets went on sale for the Seattle premiere of Jersey Boys," the press release solemnly informs us, "all 5th Avenue Theatre box office records were broken." Obviously someones of a certain age miss their white doo wop. A big money-maker on Broadway, Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and how they ruled the airwaves between 1962 and 1967, on the strength of Valli's signature falsetto.......
Continue Reading "Get Out: Jersey Boys Opens @ the 5th Ave Tonight"April 19, 2007
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......
Continue Reading "Love, Practically: Light in the Piazza @ the Paramount"February 7, 2006
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......
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