Review: DAMN YANKEES at Reboot Theatre Company
Dear Readers, if you’ve seen a show from Reboot Theatre Company, you know they like to tackle old gems and turn them on their heads with non-traditional casting and perspectives. And just like when companies attempt to transplant Shakespeare or other works into different locales or time periods, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. The major test on whether it works, for me at least, is “does the change lend itself to a new an interesting perspective of the piece?” Fortunately, Reboot’s current production of “Damn Yankees” does give us a new and interesting perspective. Unfortunately, the execution of that perspective needs some work.
Holiday Panto CINDERELLA Comes to Centerstage Theatre Next Month
Centerstage Theatre has announced their 2022 holiday panto, Cinderella. Great entertainment for family members from age 5 to 95; it runs from November 26- December 18, 2022 with four weekly performances at the Knutzen Family Theater on Dumas Bay in Federal Way, WA.
PUSS IN BOOTS Panto Will Be Performed at Centerstage Theatre This Month
Centerstage's wildly popular Holiday tradition makes its playful and irreverent return after a two year hiatus. Brought to you by the same writing, music, and dance team as 2019's 'Robin Hood', this year's brand new offering is the story “Puss in Boots”…with a Panto twist, of course.
ROBIN HOOD Comes to Centerstage This November-December
Centerstage Theatre is ringing in the Holidays with our twelfth annual Holiday Pantomime! This year we are presenting an all-new show, Robin Hood. Written by local director, actor, and playwright Vince Brady, this show comes to you from the team that brought the critically acclaimed and record-breaking Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. British Pantomime is a unique and hilarious take on fairy tales and pop culture a?' if you've never seen one, you're about to discover your new favorite Holiday tradition.
Centerstage Presents RAPUNZEL: A British Pantomime
Centerstage Theatre presents the second show of its 2018-19 season and our eleventh annual Holiday Pantomime! We are kicking off the most festive time of the year with a brand new Pantomime, RAPUNZEL. Full of high energy song and dance, beloved routines, and jokes for every age, RAPUNZEL was written by VINCE BRADY, critically acclaimed actor/director and playwright of last year's best selling Pantomime, Beauty and the Beast.
Centerstage Presents RAPUNZEL: A British Pantomime
Centerstage Theatre presents the second show of its 2018-19 season and our eleventh annual Holiday Pantomime! We are kicking off the most festive time of the year with a brand new Pantomime, RAPUNZEL. Full of high energy song and dance, beloved routines, and jokes for every age, RAPUNZEL was written by VINCE BRADY, critically acclaimed actor/director and playwright of last year's best selling Pantomime, Beauty and the Beast.
BWW Review: Fairy Tale Princesses Get Real in DISENCHANTED from Mamches
A few years back, Dear Readers, I stumbled on an article about a new little show called 'Disenchanted', about Fairy Tale Princesses in a musical revue telling about how life ain't so happily ever after and since I always love a good dose of snark I instantly became obsessed. I followed its journey, hoping it might come to a city near me or at least one I was visiting and even corresponded with the creators, book writer, composer and lyricist Dennis T Giancino and director Fiely A Matias who were kind enough to get me some sample recordings which only deepened my obsession (and put Siri in a tizzy as she has to censor herself when attempting to repeat back to me the original title). Well now, by the grace of the theater Gods and the good folks at Mamches Productions, that wonderful revue has come to Seattle and with the original creators in tow with Giancino directing this time and Matias assisting. And while the gloriousness of those scathing songs is there, the show itself needs a bit more settling time and some technical help to be truly great.
Photo Flash: DEBUTANTE BALL Hits the Stage at the Laurie Beechman
On February 6th, 'Debutante Ball' featured 10 young performers making their New York stage debut at the Laurie Beechman theatre, singing brand new songs by Landon Braverman & Derek P. Hassler, Maggie Kate Coleman & Julia Meinwald, Joey Contreras, Rob DelGaudio & Kaley McMahon, Kyle Ewalt & Michael Ian Walker, Mishaela Faucher & Jason Michael Snow, Paul Fujimoto, David Levinson, Michael Mott & Zoe Samuel, Alexander Sage Oyen, Bradford Proctor, Alex Rubin & Mark Sanderlin, Sam Salmond, Zack Zadek.