Category Theatre
Seattle for the Fourth – Waterfalls and Musical Theatre
The parental units are in Seattle to celebrate America! Highlights from day one: – Brunch! – Naps! (No photos out of respect for the sleeping) – Snoqualmie Falls! – Dancing minors! (also, miners!)
New York – Towers and windows and sign language on New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day is typically pretty dull. The parties from the night before are over, and although it’s technically a holiday, it’s one that you celebrate while knowing that you’ve still got a long, greyish stretch of winter before the distant summer. That said, if you’re willing to get up early(ish), New Year’s Day is a great day to […]
New York – Theatre Day!
We knew that the bulk of our first full day in New York would be spent sitting in dark theaters — we had tickets to both matinee and evening performances — so we decided to start off with a hearty Belgian brunch at Le Pain Quotidien . . . Belgian hot chocolate, which you make […]
Puerto Vallarta (Day 3) – Marietas Islands
A couple weeks before this trip, Justin and I had the following conversation: JDK: How are you when you travel? JJD: Awesome. I’m awesome when I travel. JDK: Okay, so what does that mean? JJD: [gleefully] Well, for one thing, it means that I’m going to be okay with sitting on the beach for approximately one […]
Angels, Part 2
The second part of Angels in America, which I saw last night, was generally better than the first part. There was a different energy — less despair; more anger, hope, reconciliation — and some of the characters changed in interesting ways. The depiction of Mormonism was slightly more nuanced, and I appreciated that, whatever else […]
Angels, Part 1
Hey, hey — midweek theatre debauchery two weeks in a row! Tonight’s performance: Part 1 of the Intiman Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. The play is long (3 hours) and complicated (the reviews in the Seattle Times and Seattle Met lay it out pretty well, with at least one typo) and I’m not sure what […]
You know what fall means . . .
Theatre season is back!!! To kick it off, we caught tonight’s performance of A Chorus Line at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Nothing more decadent than leaving work at 5pm to meet friends for dinner and a play ON A WEEKNIGHT!! Such a great show. I saw the Broadway revival in New York several years ago, […]
Seoul (Day 2) – Mozart! Das Musical
Amanda and I have a tradition of seeing bombastic American action films while traveling abroad (think Transformers III in Lima). I’m not sure yet if we’ll manage such a screening on this trip, but I think Mozart! das Musical — a bombastic Austrian musical — might be a near-perfect alternative. We stumbled upon this treasure while taking refuge […]
Don’t Rain on My Parade
Memorial Day weekend! The unofficial start to summer! Time for beach and sun and humidity! Oh wait. I live in Seattle now, where it’s in the low sixties and rainy. I’ve been warned/assured by exactly everyone I’ve met that summer starts on July 4. But still — summer or no summer, it’s a holiday weekend […]
The Henrys IV
Shakespeare wrote two plays about Henry IV of England — winningly titled Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 — and the Shakespeare Theatre Company is currently performing both of them. I saw the first one last week, the second one last night. Seeing them back to back like that really brought out […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 