"HISTORY IS ABOUT TO CRACK OPEN": Angels in America may be one of the most moving plays we've ever seen, and it's being reprised in Seattle for the second weekend in a row, before ending its run next week. The performance of the play's first part, "Millenium Approaches," is being performed by Absurd Reality Theatre at the Bagley Wright, in the small theater. May we suggest you head out to the theater and catch a......

Patrick Page's Swansong is the bread-and-butter of institutional theatres: an audience-pleasing show about the theatre (subject: William Shakespeare) that offers an emotional drama (Ben Jonson's love-hate relationship with Shakespeare) that's a tad bit intellectual and really dramatic and emotional. Imagine Amadeus, but with (slightly) less murder. We have little to fault with the production itself--for $20 it's a good price and tolerable time. It feels like watching a romantic comedy, and would probably make a......

When the Absurd Reality Theatre's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) kicked things off with a recitation of the flight attendant safety speech, Seattlest buckled up for a long night. Even though the production is advertised as "3 men, 37 plays, 90 minutes," the play dragged. And we're pretty sure it's not the work as written (by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer), since we've heard from friends who've seen......