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Reaching new Heights with Danny Bolero
by Eric Andrews-Katz -
SGN Contributing Writer
In the Heights
5th Avenue Theatre
September 28 -
October 17
If you see a musical that deals with cultural traditions and people migrating to a new country, you may think you're seeing some old-fashioned revival. If you add in parents wanting something more for their chil more |
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Headliners at A/PI Pageant:
Massive Monkees, Arnaldo!, Smokee, Shanghai Pearl
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Associate Editor
The Asian Pacific Islander (A/PI) International Pageant, held Saturday at Neighbours, promises to be a night of glamorous pageantry. Once a year, the pageant features the best in beauty, talent, and diversity within the LGBT Asian community. This year, however, the A/PI Council is promis more
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Vampire Weekend gives impressive show, despite small crowd
by Albert Rodriguez -
SGN A&E Writer
Vampire Weekend
September 22
Paramount Theatre
This wasn't how everything was supposed to turn out. Vampire Weekend was to have played in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,000 at Marymoor Park last month, on a subtly cool evening with the backdrop of a gorg more
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Luxurious Sloth party treats guests like kings
by James Whitely -
SGN Staff Writer
Seven Deadly Sins'
Sloth dance party
September 18
Neumos
The fourth dance night in the 'Seven Deadly Sins' party series, Sloth, packed Neumos on Saturday, September 18 until the early hours of Sunday morning. Patrons took taxis to avoid the early-m more
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Airborne Toxic Event raw, sexy, and heartbreaking
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Associate Editor
The Airborne Toxic Event
September 18
Town Hall
The Airborne Toxic Event moved over the Town Hall crowd on September 18 like a chemical cloud of rock 'n' roll true grit. Performing inside a venue that is half-church/half-auditorium and backed by the Ca more
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Revelatory Breaking the Code a tour de force
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Breaking the Code
Strawberry Theatre
Workshop
Through October 9
Biographies can be tricky. They can feel like boring classroom filmstrips you're forced to watch, or they can bring history to life in searingly immediate terms. Breaking the Code at Stra more
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Plenty of reasons
to see Pretty
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Reasons to be Pretty
ArtsWest
Through October 2
Neil LaBute is known for incisive dialogue and tackling social relationship questions head-on. Recently, his play Fat Pig was produced locally, addressing the issue of size in relationships, where an overweight but more
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Sex in Seattle's 18th episode continues complex story
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
SiS Productions' Episode 18: An Everyday Kind of Love
Richard Hugo House
Through October 9
SiS Productions is also known as Sex in Seattle Productions. Part of why it got named that way is due to the now 10-year-old soap opera they've been presenting about more
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Doctor brings sublime clowning to Intiman
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
A Doctor In Spite of Himself
Intiman Theatre
Through October 10
Top-notch clowning is a real joy, because clowning is often done as an after-thought or considered a sort of lowbrow improvisational funny bit. When it's really good - and it's really good in more
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ACT stages one-woman show about Ann Landers
by Milton W. Hamlin -
SGN A&E Writer
The Lady With
All The Answers
Bullitt Theatre
Through October 31
In a first for ACT, a mainstage show is being staged in the intimate Bullitt Cabaret space, now temporarily titled the Bullitt Theatre. The former dining room of the much-remodeled and more
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Win tickets to see Hawaiian artist Brother Noland live
It's an escape to paradise - sort of.
The contemporary, cool island sounds of Brother Noland is the closest you'll get to Hawaii (until you actually go there). Dubbed the 'Father of Jawaiian Music,' the critically acclaimed artist is en route to Seattle for a one-night-only performance September 27 at The Triple Door.
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Cider House rules at Book-It Repertory
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
The Cider House Rules, Part Two: In Other Parts of the World
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Through October 16
Book-It Repertory continues its tour-de-force production of The Cider House Rules this fall with Part Two: In Other Parts of the World. More accurately, you can see more
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