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Seattle theatre reviews (and the greater Puget Sound region, including Pacific Northwest theatre) with links to professional theatre reviewers from newspapers, radio and TV as well as user-submitted audience reviews. Shown on this page are theatre reviews from only currently running productions.
Reviews & Previews
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
The Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
But it would be hard to find a better production of the imperfect \"Diary of Anne Frank\" than the one Intiman Theatre just unveiled.
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The American Pilot |
The Stranger
Review by Brendan Kiley
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Chris Macdonald gives a tense, brooding performance as ... a battle-weary idealist who wants to be merciful, but also wants to do right.
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Lease: Seattle's Own Rock Opera |
The UW Daily
Review by Maddie Hall
Thursday, May 8, 2008
“Expect surprises and great things from Lease.”
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WELL |
Seattle P-I
Review by Joe Adcock
Thursday, May 8, 2008
\"Well,\" a fascinating, funny and poignant play that is now running at Richard Hugo House
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WELL |
Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
...a cheeky, fourth-wall-smashing seriocomedy about the collision of art and life...tricky and insightful...solid production...
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Lease: Seattle's Own Rock Opera |
Seattle Weekly
Review by Virginia Zech
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Lease is the improv fusion of Rent’s themes with the Emerald City’s stereotypical \"characters.\"
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Big Love |
SeattleActor.com
Review by Jerry Kraft
Monday, May 5, 2008
a performance that neatly controls a play always on the very edge of control.
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Busytown |
Seattle Times
Review by Tom Keough
Saturday, May 3, 2008
It\'s no wonder little ones are literally squealing with delight at Seattle Children\'s Theatre\'s
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Big Love |
Seattle Gay News
Review by Miryam Gordon
Friday, May 2, 2008
.it\'s edgy and physically challenging... The audience doesn\'t know if it should laugh or cry.
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Busytown |
Seattle P-I
Review by Joe Adcock
Friday, May 2, 2008
[Kling\'s] stage version of \"Busytown\" is wonderful
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Medea Knows Best |
Seattle PI
Review by Joe Adcock
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Medea character is best known as the sexy-but-scary witch princess in a 431 B.C. tragedy by Euripides. Seduced, exploited and abandoned by a hunky
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WELL |
Seattle PI
Preview by Joe Adcock
Thursday, May 1, 2008
For Lisa (the playwright), however, \
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The American Pilot |
Seattle Weekly
Review by Tim Appelo
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The characters are each marvelously drawn...fine acting...eerily beautiful music...sharp direction...
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Fathers and Sons by Michael Bradford |
Queen Anne News
Review by Nancy Worssam
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
\"Fathers and Sons,\" with its wry humor and dialogue in the mode of August Wilson, offers a compelling exploration of family. Its focus is, of course
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Ghost Sonata |
The Stranger
Review by Adam Sanders
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
easily the best thing about the production, jumping from aged calm to pit bull ferocity precisely when it\'s needed
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Big Love |
The Seattle Weekly
Review by Tim Appello
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
...the most artful anarchy Balagan has staged.
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Big Love |
The Stranger
Review by Paul Constant
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
sexy and ridiculous and clever. I can’t recall the last time I had so much fun in a Seattle theater.
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Your Job Sucks |
Seattle Weekly
Review by Virginia Zech
Sunday, April 27, 2008
..a silly and sensational celebration of office idiosyncrasy.
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The Highest Tide |
The Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Sunday, April 27, 2008
\"The Highest Tide\" communicates what not enough high-school biology classes do: the majesty, mystery and excitement of the sea around us.
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Busytown |
ParentMap
Review by Kristen Dobson
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Busytown is one of the best things I\'ve seen on stage in a while
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The Conference of the Birds |
Kitsap Sun
Review by Michael C. Moore
Sunday, April 27, 2008
[D]irector Marc Wineblatt\'s rich and utterly satisfying production ... is one gorgeous, mind-bending and moving ride.
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The Highest Tide |
Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Book-It aces \"Highest Tide,\" Olympia coming-of-age story
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Busytown |
Seattle Weekly
Review by David Stoesz
Friday, April 25, 2008
This world premiere... radiates with simple, silly joy
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Busytown |
Seattle P-I
Preview by Joe Adcock
Friday, April 25, 2008
The wonderful thing about Seattle theater and Seattle actors is the way they embrace comedy
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The Conference of the Birds |
Port Townsend-Jefferson County Leader
Review by Kathie Meyer, Arts Editor
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Not everyone will agree on what \'just happened\' upon emerging from the theater, but everyone should find something personal to take away...
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The Highest Tide |
Magnolia News
Review by Nancy Worssam
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
And teach it does. Through the adventures of its main character, Miles O\'Malley a 14-year-old boy with prodigious knowledge of the world beneath the
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The Conference of the Birds |
SeattleActor.com
Review by Jerry Kraft
Saturday, April 19, 2008
[T]he quality of this work stands up to any of the smaller theatres (and many productions at the majors) in the City.
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
Queen Anne News
Review by Starla Smith
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Having seen Portman\'s ethereal turn, this critic considers DeVito\'s shining portrayal to be far more realistic. She\'s both engaging and believable
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
Seattle Weekly
Review by Tim Appelo
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Lucy DeVito proves a sturdy starlet to play Anne Frank. She combines the brassy sass of her mom, Cheers\' Rhea Perlman, and the runty, hunched shoulde
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
The Stranger
Review by Paul Constant
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
DeVito\'s Anne is a fidgety, talkative ball of hyperactivity, and not at all a saint.
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
Seattlepi.com
Review by Joe Adcock
Monday, March 31, 2008
Since 1955, when it won a Pulitzer Prize, the dramatic adaptation of Anne Frank\'s diary has been performed all over the world
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According to Coyote |
Everett Herald
Review by Alice Kalso
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Theatergoers young and old sat riveted as a seasoned storyteller regaled them with legend after legend.
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According to Coyote |
Seattle Times
Review by Tom Keough
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Gene Tagaban, a charismatic, entertaining storyteller, proves a graceful narrator-actor in director Sheila Daniels\' remount of the one-man play.
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Shrek the Musical |
The Seattle Times
Preview by Misha Berson
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The producers of the new show \"Shrek the Musical\" have announced the casting of three major roles in the production,
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According to Coyote |
ParentMap
Review by Kris Collingridge
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Tagaban, dressed in jeans and using simple props, is compelling onstage – he evokes diverse characters with powerful, economical movements
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According to Coyote |
Seattle P-I
Review by Joe Adcock
Monday, March 17, 2008
\"According to Coyote,\" the play, is itself legendary.
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Jet City Improv |
The Stranger
Review by Meg van Huygen
Thursday, January 15, 2004
"Seattle's only fantastic improv theater."
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
The Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
Whether she shines as Anne, or misses the mark, DeVito is sure of one thing. \"It\'s wonderful,\" she says, before heading off to rehearsal, \"to do a
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User-Submitted Reviews
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The American Pilot |
| Theater Schmeater continues to produce great plays simply and with magnificent results.
Direction, performances and design are excellent. Beautiful ... | -Aimee Bruneau
May 9, 2008, 12:02 am
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Aurelia's Oratorio |
| Stunning visual gags had the audience gasping with wonder and delight. Take the kiddies of all ages for this magical romp. A surprise every other mi ... | -Susan Connors
May 8, 2008, 12:14 pm
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Fathers and Sons by Michael Bradford |
| ACT's current offering, "Fathers and Sons," delivers outstanding performances by Tracey Leigh and Reginald Andre Jackson, whose stage chemistry isn't ... | -Kristin Alexander
May 3, 2008, 7:55 pm
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The Conference of the Birds |
| “The Conference of the Birds”, inspired by an epic Persian poem by Farid Ud-din Attar long before being transformed into theatre by Peter Brook and hi ... | -Steve Treacy
April 20, 2008, 2:02 pm
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Ghost Sonata |
| I saw this play on opening night with a group of graduate student "Strindberg Scholars." We went to a bar afterwards and talked about our impressions ... | -Steeplechase Productions
April 14, 2008, 7:48 pm
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The Psychedelic Show |
| This is a great show. I loved it! What a fun time! | -Aaron Allshouse
March 30, 2008, 4:03 am
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Bobby McFerrin |
| This review is my own opinion of the Bobby McFerrin concert. Statements are my own opinions and interpretations as to Bobby's behaviour during the con ... | -Larry Brown
March 11, 2008, 10:32 am
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