Elevator Thoughts (aka Tweet): Ghost Train play at Centerstage Theatre. Great scary show for Halloween. So much chilling anticipation. Wished the dreadful crabby ole spinster had more lines. Unexpected ending reminiscent of Scooby Doo. #spooky #theatre
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it if you like scary theatre with limited number of scenes.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Theatre Company : Centerstage Theatre
Venue: Dumas Bay Centre – 3200 SW Dash Point Rd, Federal Way, WA 98023
Elevator Thoughts (aka Tweet): “The Foreigner” play w/ As If Theatre Company at Kenmore Community Club. Intriguing accents. The backwoods American caricatures made me thankful I left the South. But the cute innocent simpleton & the Southern old woman were so endearing. #reinvention #theatre
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it if you like community theatre.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4.25 stars
Other Rant(s)
What a strange second half of the second act!
Other Thought(s)
Pretty uncomfortably shocking decision to wear KKK costumes on the stage but I guess it was integral to the conflict resolution. Similar to how the “Sound of Music” displays the Nazi flag.
Theatre Company : As-if Theatre Company
Venue: Kenmore Community Club – 7304 NE 175th St, Kenmore, WA 98028
Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “What the Constitution Means to Me” at Seattle Rep. Intellectually stimulating mashup between a TED Talk, play, & debate. Appreciate the free ACLU book of rights. The 4th wall was broken. Abolish or keep the constitution? #speech #USA #UnitedStates #penumbra #theatre #feminism
Type: Play-ish Show/Talk
Recommendation: See it if you like TED Talks, debates, law, or feminism. Don’t see it if you’re looking for a play with a plot.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Other Rants
There were a lot of random tangents but I guess they were required for comic relief.
Theater Company: Seattle Rep
Venue: Seattle Rep – 155 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109
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Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “Swimming While Drowning” play at ArtsWest. Delightful funny repartee between runaway teenagers that are total opposites rooming together at a gay homeless shelter. Sweet innocent bed scene. What was the address at the end? #poetry #lgbt
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it if you like plays with only 2 actors and plays that are mostly dialogue. I usually don’t but this wasn’t bad.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Theater Company: ArtsWest
Venue: ArtsWest – 4711 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116
Actors: Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Beth Pollack, Jasmine Lomax, Sofía Raquel Sánchez, Quetzie Taborga, Carolynne Wilcox. Photo: Anthony Floyd
Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “In the Time of the #Butterflies” play adaptation of the book w/ Book-It Repertory Theatre at Seattle Center. Extraordinary Mirabal mariposa sisters fight against “El Jefe’s” tyranny in the Dominican Republic. Timely piece for the invasion in Ukraine. #butterfly #mariposas #dominicanRepublic #theatre
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it especially if you like history.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Theater Company: Book-it Repertory Theatre
Venue: Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory – 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109
