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- Fall Arts Guide | Theater: cornucopia of premieres, Broadway hits - Seattle Times
- Fall Arts Guide | Music & Nightlife: Rockin' on past summer - Seattle Times
- Following Along on a Long Road Trip with Google Maps - Associated Content
- An Orange County Guide to the Location and Destinations of "The O.C." - Associated Content
| Fall Arts Guide | Theater: cornucopia of premieres, Broadway hits - Seattle Times Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:59 PM PDT Originally published September 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM | Page modified September 7, 2010 at 11:20 PM Autumn is always the busiest time in Seattle-area theater, with all the larger, mid-sized and many of the fringe companies going full blast. During the fall season, one thing to keep an eye out for is the enticing array of Seattle premieres of heralded contemporary plays and new Broadway hit musicals. Flagship Seattle Repertory Theatre opens its 2010-11 season with the Tony Award-winning "God of Carnage" (Oct. 1-24), Yasmina Reza's barbed comedy about well-heeled, overprotective parents going ballistic over their kids' schoolyard spat. ACT Theatre continues its focus on leading British playwright Martin McDonagh, with the local debut of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" (Oct. 15-Nov. 14), his savage comedy about a volatile IRA hitman. Neil LaBute's provocative Broadway study of male-female dynamics, "reasons to be pretty" (Sept. 8-Oct. 2) gets an airing at West Seattle's ArtsWest. And Seattle Public Theatre introduces a Theresa Rebeck thriller, "Mauritius" (Oct. 1-24), set in the rarefied world of stamp collectors. As for musicals new to local stages, the 5th Avenue Theatre brings in a tour of the vivacious, Tony-honored salsa-and-rap tuner, "In the Heights" (Sept. 28-Oct. 17) while Paramount Theatre hosts the hot ballroom revue "Burn the Floor" (Sept. 14-19). And for the younger set, the Kevin Kling-Richard Gray musical romp "Lyle the Crocodile" (Nov. 18-Jan. 9) is set to regale local young'uns at Seattle Children's Theatre. Few major world-premiere works are slated, but look out for Intiman Theatre's new take on Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic wronged-woman saga, "The Scarlet Letter" (Oct. 22-Dec. 5), scripted by leading dramatist Naomi Iizuka. Teatro ZinZanni - Love, Chaos & Dinner A three-hour evening of cirque, comedy and cabaret with a five-course dinner designed by celebrated Northwest chef Tom Douglas. The latest edition brings back the inimitable clowns Christine Deaver and Kevin Kent, portraying a bawdy vaudeville couple (who like to mess with the audience). The Green Sheep The return of the delightful, very accessible interactive show for very young kids based on the color and shape learning book for preschoolers, "Where is the Green Sheep?" Dinner with Friends SecondStory Repertory opens its 2010-11 season with Donald Margulies' Pulitzer prize-winning Off-Broadway play which tracks the tensions and ties between two troubled modern couples. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde An Olympia staging of Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of the bone-chilling Robert Louis Stevenson story about a proper Victorian physician, Dr. Jekyll, whose rampaging alter ego is the monstrous Mr. Hyde. Playborhood An evening of improvisation where characters from different theatrical genres interact. The Swan Artattack tackles Elizabeth Egloff's drama about a Nebraska woman's emotional-erotic journey, after a swan crashes into her living room window. Sleuth Anthony Shaffer's mystery play about the cat-and-mouse rivalry of two whodunit writers. Staged by Tacoma Little Theatre. Once in a Lifetime An Edmonds staging of the Kaufman and Hart comedy about three vaudeville performers who try their luck in 1930s Hollywood. A Doctor in Spite of Himself A classic Molière comedy, timed to mirror our national health-care debate. Christopher Bayes directs and Broadway actor Daniel Breaker ("Passing Strange") in a new version of the romp. reasons to be pretty ArtsWest opens its 2010-11 season with the Seattle premiere of Neil LaBute's Broadway play about male machismo, female insecurity over their looks and other conflicts and concerns among factory co-workers and their significant others. Rapture of the Deep Balagan Theatre stages a "surreal play-with-music" based on playwright Eric Lane Barnes' experiences growing up in the shadow of his dead Uncle Jimmy. Camelot "Camelot! Camelot! I know it sounds a bit bizarre…" The Broadway musical hit, based on T.H. White's "The Once and Future King," imagines the realm of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table. Arcana A collection of six short plays and two monologues about the state of modern relationships by John Logenbaugh, inspired by the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Chicago "Come on babe, why don't we paint the town..." A community staging of Bob Fosse's jazzy flapper show. Dixie Swim Club An Olympia staging of a comedy about the annual reunion of five female college friends. The Mouse That Roared A community staging of Christopher Sergel's comedy about a tiny nation that whimsically declares war on the United States. The Lady with All the Answers Before there was Dr. Phil or Judge Judy, there was trusted advice columnist Ann Landers, who imparts her wit and wisdom in this one-woman play by David Rambo, a writer and producer on TV's "C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation" series. Les Miserables A student version of the Broadway musical based on the famed Victor Hugo novel. Cirque du Soleil: Alegria The ever-enthralling Cirque du Soleil stops in Tacoma for a week with a "baroque ode to the energy, grace and power of youth." The Full Monty "Let it go..." The Village Theatre opens its 2010/11 season with this clever, boisterous Broadway musical that borrows the plot of the same-titled hit film but successfully moves the action from industrial England to economically depressed Buffalo, N.Y., where a group of discouraged, unemployed men join forces to produce a male strip-tease show. Judy Sings Judy "Somewhere, over the rainbow..." Local performer Judy Ann Moulton, backed by a 12-piece orchestra, sings the songs of Judy Garland. Five Gold Rings The North American premiere of a family drama about love and emptiness by Joanna Laurens. The Glass Menagerie Theater Schmeater stages Tennessee Williams' breakthrough work, a visceral and poetic "memory" play about a restless young man and his family, struggling through the Depression in a shabby St. Louis apartment. Directed by J.D. Lloyd. The Belle of Amherst Maria Glanz encores her graceful, well-praised portrayal of Emily Dickinson in a return engagement of Sound Theatre Company's production of William Luce's one-woman bio-drama about the famed poet. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Fall Arts Guide | Music & Nightlife: Rockin' on past summer - Seattle Times Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:59 PM PDT Originally published September 7, 2010 at 7:05 PM | Page modified September 7, 2010 at 11:18 PM Deal: Eat, drink, boogie It's dinner and a show, Ballard-style, as venerable dive Hattie's Hat and alt-country mecca the Tractor Tavern team up for a cool combo deal. Hit Hattie's for dinner before or after a show at the Tractor, present your ticket or will-call confirmation to your server and get one meal half price with the purchase of a meal of equal or greater value. The offer's good seven nights a week; dinner's served 5 to 10 p.m. The supercheap can max out on Hattie's $2-$4 appetizer happy hour, served 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight all week — nachos, fish tacos, spinach casserole and more — while digging Hattie's killer jukebox and some of the stiffest drinks in the 'hood. Highlights at the Tractor this fall include upstate-NYC roots ruffians the Felice Brothers Oct. 6 and L.A. Americana-pop pretty boys Dawes Nov. 18 (206-784-0175 or www.hattieshat.com). Summer? We hardly knew 'er! Actually, this year we're considering fall an official extension of our stunted summer. We're expecting a fair season in more ways than one — weather-wise, of course, and have you seen the lineup for the Puyallup Fair? Kenny Rogers with the Tacoma Symphony, Sept. 13. Queensryche and Tesla, Sept. 20. Hall and Oates, Sept. 22. The city, however, delivers the most awesome for your autumn. Seattle will ignore shorter days and falling leaves and instead keep the summer soundtrack cranked to 11 past Halloween. First, fall festivals: There's a bunch. Decibel Festival, that internationally renowned confab of cutting-edge electronic music, returns to various venues across the city Sept. 22-26. Also returning to various venues across Ballard is the local-music-centric Reverb Fest on Oct 9. And new this year, with an ambitious agenda that includes Big Boi, the Vaselines, Belle and Sebastian and many more, is City Arts Fest, Oct. 20-23. Nonfestival concerts are typically rife this season (the reason it's called "Rocktober"). Swamp-boogie master Dr. John makes his annual pilgrimage from the Crescent City to the Emerald City through Sept. 12. Moody indie rockers the National come to Marymoor Park Sept. 11. KeyArena hosts Almost in Chains, aka the relaunched Alice in Chains, on Oct. 8 and virtually real rockers Gorillaz Nov. 2. At the Showbox, intellectual-soul outfit Dirty Projectors plays Sept. 30 and indie dance band Caribou plays Oct. 4; Ben Gibbard of Zooey Deschanel/Death Cab for Cutie hits the Croc Nov. 3. At the Paramount: the Flaming Lips (Sept. 27), the Black Keys (Oct. 2) and the Blue Scholars (Oct. 20). If you'd rather laugh out loud than rock out louder, check out the Moore's lineup: Comedian Adam Carolla (Sept. 10), Seattle native/cubicle Nazi Rainn Wilson plays Oct. 23, and Louis CK, creator of the legendary Pootie Tang, plays Nov. 12. Phew! Is it winter yet? The Gaslight Anthem With AMERICAN SLANG, The Gaslight Anthem makes an extraordinary leap forward towards that very goal. The New Jersey-based band's third long player reveals a remarkably powerful rock 'n' roll outfit honed by two years of nearly non-stop touring. Singer/guitarist Fallon's passionate lyrical approach has grown more personal and introspective, his raw throated vocals stronger and more resonant against the band's pulse-pounding dynamic force. Songs like "Bring It On," "Orphans" and the rousing title track bristle and burn with the spirit of soul, the energy of punk, and the artistic ambition of any hall of famer you'd care to name. AMERICAN SLANG is the battle cry of a great band finding its own voice and using it to shout to the rooftops and beyond. Slide to Freedom with Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt One of the best slide guitarists in Canada, Doug Cox, teams up with Salil Bhatt, one of best slide instrumentalists in India, to create an intriguing fuse of blues and Indian music. Cox is known as a son of the northern prairie devoted to the swampiest of southern blues, whereas Bhatt is the Eddie Van Halen of Indian Carnatic music.This collaboration resulted in a Juno nomination for World Music Album of the Year with their newest album, Slide to Freedom 2: Make a Better World. The Black Keys It's too facile to call the Black Keys counterparts of the White Stripes: they share several surface similarities -- their names are color-coded, they hail from the Midwest, they're guitar-and-drum blues-rock duos -- but the Black Keys are their own distinct thing, a tougher, rougher rock band with a purist streak that never surfaces in the Stripes. But that's not to say that the Black Keys are blues traditionalists: even on their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up, they covered the Beatles' psychedelic classic "She Said She Said," indicating a fascination with sound and texture that would later take hold on such latter-day albums as 2008's Attack & Release, where guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney teamed up with sonic architect Danger Mouse. In between those two records, the duo established the Black Keys as a rock & roll band with a brutal, primal force, and songwriters of considerable depth, as evidenced on such fine albums as 2003's Thickfreakness and 2004's Rubber Factory. Jason Derulo A truly multi-talented artist knows no creative boundaries. This is the case with Jason Derulo the Miami-bred 20 year old singer, dancer, songwriter and actor whose smash debut single "Whatcha Say" heralds the arrival of a major new talent. Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo De La Vida Since moving to Mexico at the end of 2006, Doc Severinesen has kept a busy performance schedule and made new discoveries in two very talent musicians from Mexico. Together with these gentlemen, Doc has crafted an innovative and exciting program. EL RITMO DE LA VIDA is, of course, 'the rhythm of life', a very apt description of Gil Gutierrez and Pedro Cartas and their music. Uncle Bonsai Back by popular demand! Uncle Bonsai, the acoustic folk-pop trio that is as quirky and lovable as their adopted hometown of Seattle returns yet again to KPC, and this time with their first new album in more than 10 years! Critics rave about their humor, technical ability, and seemingly effortless way of keeping an audience enthralled and coming back for more. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Following Along on a Long Road Trip with Google Maps - Associated Content Posted: 07 Sep 2010 06:13 PM PDT A few weeks ago my sister Linda, her hubby Bob, his sister Lorraine and her hubby Jerry decided to take a trip from Edison, New Jersey to Leesville, Louisiana. Rather than use any of their cars, they decided to rent a  Since it was not plausible for me to tag along, I decided to tag along on the internet. This way I did not have to be cramped in the back seat of a Honda Civic for innumerable hours seeing the same tree over and over again and then having to be removed from the back seat with the Jaws of Life. I have not seen Little G since the last time he came to visit and since our families are so close, I consider him my nephew too. So I got on Google Maps and followed them on the journey. It was fun as we text messaged or spoke to each other as they were on their way. They did have a GPS, but I had more fun being their tour guide as they rode along on highways that I have never been on. Each day they would start out letting me know where they were and I would chart the route on Google Maps. I'd tell them how far it was to the next town and one time they took a detour and I told them they were going the wrong way. I even gave them a journal, but they wrote about ten words in it. Had I been there, I'd be writing from the time I left as long as I didn't have to take a turn behind the wheel. So they made it to Leesville, Louisiana and did not immediately find Little G. Mind you, Little G is a soldier and built like a truck, but we have always called him that, so why stop now? He was on twenty-four hour duty the first day they got there so they went to the hotel and got some much needed rest before seeing them the next day. So much for surprising them with a visit and driving over fourteen hundred miles to get there! This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| An Orange County Guide to the Location and Destinations of "The O.C." - Associated Content Posted: 07 Sep 2010 03:28 PM PDT Many people outside of California have heard of Orange County but are not quite sure where it is. When people hear about celebrities who are spotted in Orange County or reality shows based on Orange County residents  Where is Orange County located? Orange County is located along the Pacific Coast bordering Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. North Orange County borders South Los Angeles at the city of Long Beach and South Orange County borders Camp Pendelton before you get to North San Diego. Where is Orange County: Nearby Destinations You can drive from Las Vegas to Orange County in about four hours according to Google maps but you should always consider traffic when driving through Southern California. A day trip from San Diego near attractions such as Sea World are usually estimated to be one hour and a half. From Legoland San Diego which is in the northern area of San Diego expect about an hour drive. Driving north from Los Angeles to Orange County may take longer then driving south because traffic is congested once you enter Los Angeles County. There are less driving lanes to make things worse. From Santa Monica to Orange County expect a two hour drive during high traffic daylight hours or weekends. Where is Orange County: Attractions You can spend a lifetime living in Orange County and never run out of things to do. North Orange County houses some of the most popular amusement parks in the country including Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim. Knotts Berry Farm and Knotts Soak City is located in Buena Park along with popular attractions like Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament. Central Orange County is home to the Santa Ana Art District. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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