September 2018 Preview
You guys, it's been a crazy month already and I'm overwhelmed. I just returned from a weekend in Vegas and since my only theatrical experience over the weekend was Mariah Carey's The Butterfly Returns (SO enjoyable, we love a diva), I'm very ready for dark Seattle stages.
In The News:
At the tail end of August, Seattle Weekly listed their Best of Seattle 2018 Food&Drink awards and none other than the Head Chef/Co-Creator of Cafe Nordo, the wonderful Erin Brindley, was named Best Chef!? I'm so pleased, and couldn't agree more. My father reached out to me to finally express his interest in going to a show, and I'm realizing that my semi-secret obsession is going to be a lot more popular this season! I've rarely seen empty seats at the venue and now tickets are going to go faster than ever. Rats.
You can read the full listing here:
https://www.seattleweekly.com/food/best-of-seattle-2018-food-drink/
AND THEN this week it was publicly announced that the General Director of the Seattle Opera, Aidan Lang, will be stepping down after 5 seasons. His focus on diversifying casts and audiences and pushing the Opera to prioritize accessibility will hopefully carry on after he leaves at the end of this season. As a member of the Seattle Opera Bravo group, I'm saddened by this news but am very interested to see who replaces him (maybe a her?? Fingers crossed!).
Seattle Times announcement:
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/seattle-opera-head-aidan-lang-to-step-down-in-2019/
Upcoming:
Due to travel plans this month, I only have two (2) performances scheduled. One is Jane Eyre (the Book-It one, not the ArtsWest musical that's happening in a few months. Should I go see both and do a compare/contrast? Probably.). I love a great book adaptation. The production of Dorian Gray that Book-It put on a few months ago was so true to the book, I was crying angry tears when Dorian was being a manipulative, abusive monster. Chip Sherman was SO GOOD, I absolutely despised him. It was everything I wanted, and was far superior to the strange immersive adaptations I had seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a few years ago.
The other is Seattle Shakespeare's Richard III, which combines two of my favorite things: castle plots + all-female cast. WE LOVE LADY KILLERS! I love all female Shakespeare So Much, especially after seeing the INCREDIBLE Macbeth at the Seattle Rep earlier this summer. School girls putting on a murder show for themselves in a very creepy field held me at the edge of my seat the entire two hours. A very young and talented cast of seven 18-27 year-old women, I can't wait to say "I saw them when..." in a few years. It was probably the best piece of theater I've seen in at least the past three years, and I'm furious that most of the cast is younger than me.
(You can check out the program and read the cast bios of these amazing young ladies here:
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1718/MB/DeeperLook/Encore)
I also have tickets to a few movies at the 70MM Film Festival (couldn't pass up the chance to watch Alfred Hitchcock on the big screen!), as well as to a screening of The Innocents presented by the Opera Bravo group to prepare us all for October's The Turning of the Screw. Maybe it's not live theater, but I'll take what I can get.
In The News:
At the tail end of August, Seattle Weekly listed their Best of Seattle 2018 Food&Drink awards and none other than the Head Chef/Co-Creator of Cafe Nordo, the wonderful Erin Brindley, was named Best Chef!? I'm so pleased, and couldn't agree more. My father reached out to me to finally express his interest in going to a show, and I'm realizing that my semi-secret obsession is going to be a lot more popular this season! I've rarely seen empty seats at the venue and now tickets are going to go faster than ever. Rats.
You can read the full listing here:
https://www.seattleweekly.com/food/best-of-seattle-2018-food-drink/
AND THEN this week it was publicly announced that the General Director of the Seattle Opera, Aidan Lang, will be stepping down after 5 seasons. His focus on diversifying casts and audiences and pushing the Opera to prioritize accessibility will hopefully carry on after he leaves at the end of this season. As a member of the Seattle Opera Bravo group, I'm saddened by this news but am very interested to see who replaces him (maybe a her?? Fingers crossed!).
Seattle Times announcement:
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/seattle-opera-head-aidan-lang-to-step-down-in-2019/
Upcoming:
Due to travel plans this month, I only have two (2) performances scheduled. One is Jane Eyre (the Book-It one, not the ArtsWest musical that's happening in a few months. Should I go see both and do a compare/contrast? Probably.). I love a great book adaptation. The production of Dorian Gray that Book-It put on a few months ago was so true to the book, I was crying angry tears when Dorian was being a manipulative, abusive monster. Chip Sherman was SO GOOD, I absolutely despised him. It was everything I wanted, and was far superior to the strange immersive adaptations I had seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a few years ago.
The other is Seattle Shakespeare's Richard III, which combines two of my favorite things: castle plots + all-female cast. WE LOVE LADY KILLERS! I love all female Shakespeare So Much, especially after seeing the INCREDIBLE Macbeth at the Seattle Rep earlier this summer. School girls putting on a murder show for themselves in a very creepy field held me at the edge of my seat the entire two hours. A very young and talented cast of seven 18-27 year-old women, I can't wait to say "I saw them when..." in a few years. It was probably the best piece of theater I've seen in at least the past three years, and I'm furious that most of the cast is younger than me.
(You can check out the program and read the cast bios of these amazing young ladies here:
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1718/MB/DeeperLook/Encore)
I also have tickets to a few movies at the 70MM Film Festival (couldn't pass up the chance to watch Alfred Hitchcock on the big screen!), as well as to a screening of The Innocents presented by the Opera Bravo group to prepare us all for October's The Turning of the Screw. Maybe it's not live theater, but I'll take what I can get.
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