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Timothy McCuen Piggee: Working For A Living
Timothy McCuen Piggee, a mainstay of the Seattle theatre community, is in the director’s chair for Showtunes’ 2015-2016 season closer, WORKING.
Watch This: My Favorite Party Ever
The first Bowiemas I attended was held in a warehouse of questionable structural integrity overlooking Gasworks park. Santa isn’t real, but Bowie was real and as far as I’m concerned performed real magic.
Making Lemonade With the Future of the Album
If a cultural juggernaut like Beyoncé can create something as formally radical as Lemonade without anyone even noticing, surely that says some things about the fate of the album as we know it.
Comeback is Back for a Down and Dirty Reunion
You know that only an exceedingly rare and precious jewel of an event could drag me out of semi-retirement as Gay Seattle’s premier nightlife tell-you-what-to-do-er. But Comeback at Chop Suey is that rare and precious jewel.
Adam Kaplan Dances Cross-Country in Kinky Boots
“I can’t really believe that just three years ago I was watching this show on Broadway, and now here I am doing the national tour,” says rising musical comedy star Adam Kaplan of the journey he has traveled in the national tour of the Tony Award®-Winning Broadway...
Ry’s Ru-minations: Reading With Mother
Whoa, children. We’re now at the Top 5, and the competition is steep! In this week’s 90-minute episode, the queens clashed and bickered about whose esthetic was better than whose. Basically, “My drag is draggier than your drag will ever be!” And of course, Derrick...
Critical Condition: Power vs. Passion
Aaron Posner’s stage version of the popular Chaim Potok’s popular novel My Name is Asher Lev, from New Century Theatre Company at 12th Avenue Arts, is a powerful yet distant theatre experience.
Watch This: Royal and the Radio Flyer
One night my friends, fellow explorers of abandoned buildings who I’ll call Royal and #2, wanted to go far south where they had discovered some promisingly ramshackle houses.
Whitney Mongé Is One Hard Working Woman
From recording to performing almost constantly to managing herself as a business, you can’t question Whitney Mongé’s commitment to her career and her craft.
Ry’s Ru-minations: Rigged RuPaulitics
In case your racist uncle hasn’t praised Trump or Cruz in a while, or it’s been more than 5 minutes since you’ve heard a Bernie supporter crucify Hillary for not being poor enough, fret not. Look no further than RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 to experience all the...
Road Warriors: Broadway’s James Judy on the Road
I had the pleasure last week of interviewing the delightful James Judy from the cast of the Newsies National Tour. Judy is playing the role of Snyder, a despicable low-life running a so-called “refuge” for wayward boys. He also understudies the role of publishing...
Watch This: A Nose For Every Occasion
I spent my childhood riding any object that would roll in a relatively straight line and climbing anything vertical. I was cautious and durable—I came home from exploring notorious “Dead Man’s Cave” in Karkeek Park (so named because a corpse was once found in it) with...
The Divine Revelation of Raven Matthews
Raven Matthews. Photo by Ivan Mršić. There’s a lot of bullshit music floating around on the internet. The fact that any kid with a synthesizer and Soundcloud can produce and disseminate their work in an instant is incredible, but for every M. I. A. or Grimes that...
Ry’s Ru-minations: The Wizarding World of RuPaul
Ding, dong, the bitch is dead, and Acid Betty has left Season 8’s Lollipop Guild to rejoice for another episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race! Tensions are mounting as seven queens remain, but Naomi felt the most heat after surviving elimination last week. “I let Ru down,”...
Critical Condition: Heart’s in the Right Place With Village Theatre’s My Heart is the Drum
My Heart is the Drum, currently filling houses at Issaquah’s Village Theatre, is the penultimate show of their 2015-2016 season. It has a big heart and big problems, but also a fervent and hugely talented cast. They present this original musical (seen here first at...