Letter from Seattle: Theater, again
August 10, 2021
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
Seattle stages offer a variety of Christmas treats, but the big gifts are Broadway-aspiring musicals such as “Shout Sister Shout!”
In Seattle, Yussef El-Guindi sets off an uncivil war in his new play “People of the Book.”
The hit Broadway musical — visiting Portland this week — adds to a pop-culture tradition of shows about making your way in the world table by table.
NEW YORK – Staged with nonstop brio by Tina Landau, and adorned with a phantasmagorical set and Technicolor costumes, deliriously energetic performers and a peppy but largely forgettable pop music score by hitmakers ranging from Aerosmith to John Legend to Lady Antebellum,
