Octavio Solis’s ‘Quixote Nuevo’ quest
February 28, 2024
The Oregon playwright’s contemporary twist on Cervantes’ classic tale has tilted at a few shifting windmills of its own on its long journey to Portland Center Stage.
The Oregon playwright’s contemporary twist on Cervantes’ classic tale has tilted at a few shifting windmills of its own on its long journey to Portland Center Stage.
From a Cirque du Soleil hit to updates on Don Quixote and Maxim Gorky to an opera about Malcolm X and more, Seattle’s stages are bringing some heat to the chilly season.
Seattle’s theater companies are hoping a sleigh full of holiday shows will bring in audiences and help overcome a slow bounceback from the pandemic and a soaring cost of living.
As a new biography hits the book stands, Seattle theater critic Misha Berson recalls her own interactions with the late, great American playwright.
New faces in key places, final chapter for the lamented Book-It Rep, a little Jeeves and Wilde, and some Wagner at the opera keep the summer unsettled but hopping.
As the Tony Awards approach, Misha Berson takes a long deep look at the shows that are getting Broadway back on its feet.
As the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Proud” rolls into town, Misha Berson revels in memories of sweet sounds from the transistor radio as she was growing up near Detroit.
From the nouveau-cirque of Teatro ZinZanni to Jane Austen, Mr. Dickens, and some holiday noir, the city’s theater scene is flying high again.
After a long Covid layoff the Great White Way is bursting with energy, from “Hadestown” to “Six” to “A Strange Loop” and more.
“One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular”: At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.
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,
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