RENT is Due at 5th Avenue

So … summer is trying to be present here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s not stellar as of late (in the ’70-something Fahrenheit, if we’re lucky), but hey, we’ll take what we can get. At least there are plenty of theatrical performances to fill our nights when it’s too chilly to sit outside without sweaters, [...]

Intiman is Back: Intiman Theatre Festival Summer 2012

In this hedonistic thing called life, we all suffer set backs. But it’s the negative things that make the positive things all the better. Sweeter, even. Intiman Theatre is back, dear hedonists. (Yay!) That’s right – it’s beaten back its financial woes, thanks in great part to the Seattle theatre community and its patrons – [...]

Mack The Knife in Seattle

Who (or what) is Mack the Knife? The answer: both. Aside from the nickname of Captain Macheath (a.k.a., Mackie Messer), the main character and dapper criminal (murderer, rapist, arsonist, and thief) in a musical theatrical production based on an 18th-century ballad opera written in 1728, “Mack the Knife” is the name of one of the [...]