We know everyone is all booked up with Halloween Madness but if you've got some spare time as the weekend comes to a close -- don't know what to do with it -- don't miss all that Seattle has to offer on this blustery autumn day. more ›

A pretty varied programming palette as theater companies reach to the distant past to get experimental; sarcastically explore race; take the piss out of Catholic clergy; and see what happens when the female orgasm takes the world by storm. more ›

Summer's here, time for theaters to get madcap or experimental...From Agatha Christie spoofs, to explorations of children's literature author EB White, pretty much anything goes. more ›

The Summer months are here; generally, what that means is that companies are focusing on shorter runs, or on park shows, and Dance becomes a more prominent fixture on the performance calendar. There will also be a marked uptick in variety shows, burlesque and vaudevillian types of entertainment. This week is no exception. more ›

Babs Gillespie is a product; she's a product that sells product at the ShopMore Network, which should give you an idea of the kinds of things she has to sell. As the lights come up, we join Babs just as she begins the last segment of her shift. She's hawking a gold-plated angel pin, and it quickly becomes evident that Babs is not working with a script. She talks about the quality of the pin, how much it costs, she asks for a close up of the item; all the while you hear each sale being tabulated as the calls come in, business is sporadic. more ›

Well, not really. Some fun stuff happened. But, if we’re judging it strictly by the weather, we might have ourselves a candidate for Worst Summer Ever. more ›

RECOMMENDED NW New Works Fest @ On the Boards. Week two of OtB's annual revue of the best experimental theatre, performance, and dance from around the Northwest. Last weekend was a blast, and this weekend there's eight completely different performers hitting two stages. The Studio Showcase plays tonight at 8 and Sat. and Sun. at 5, and the Mainstage performances are Sat. and Sun. at 8. (100 W. Roy St. Tix $14.) more ›

ONE WEEKEND ONLY biome @ Seattle Rep. Capacitor, a San Francisco-based performance group that mixes dance, multimedia, and science, is finally back in town with biome. Originally scheduled for January, the performance was canceled when flooding closed I-5. Now, Capacitor is finally back for two nights with a stunning visual exploration of the micro-habitat of the rain-forest canopy, based on a close collaboration with scientists in the International Canopy Network, including Evergreen College professor Dr. Nalini Nadkarni. (Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. 155 Mercer St. Tix $15-$25.) more ›

The hipster spaceman costumes of the soldiers in Titus are your first clue that this isn't a traditional take. So too with the decision to exsanguinate Shakespeare's goriest play--each character “bleeds” red, but it's not stage blood, but rhinestones, thumb tacks, feathers, even gummy worms. more ›

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Across the country, there are an enormous amount of young couples with two kids. And the younger of those two kids is called "insurance." more ›

Capitol Hill's trend-setting WET theater ensemble has a handy flyer about it stapled to telephone poles up and down 15th Avenue. But for those of you outside of flyer range, the play is called Gods Ear: (presumably as in, "From your mouth to..."). By Jenny Schwartz, the play was summed up in the august pages of the New York Times thusly: "a formally inventive and superbly performed drama about how the death of a son shatters a family, this ode to love, loss and the routines of life has the economy and dry wit of a Sondheim love song." It's a language play, which means that you'd better damn well enjoy listening to people speak. It opens Thursday, and runs (Thurs-Mon) through November 10. more ›

The Ten Thousand Things is a play by Seattle playwright Paul Mullin, showing at WET through June 16. Tickets are $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Shows are Thursdays through Mondays. more ›

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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 is WET's precocious interpretation of Hedda Gabler) this subtextual underlining may just elicit a desire to see the original. The difference here is that it's not a matter of moral fiber or willfulness. WET's cast reacts to their socially caged life with the stereotyped behavior of unhappy parrots, literally climbing the walls. Again and again, WET reminds you that they are real people doing real things, disgusting, sexy, risky things. If it's not "perfect," it's compelling as a high-wire act. more ›