Seattle Twist

A New Solo Play Written & Performed by David Schmader
Directed by Matthew Richter

Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 20-Feb. 4, 8 p.m.

A comedy about unfunny things, “A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem,” commissioned by Richard Hugo House, is writer/performer David Schmader’s solo play about the dramatic life upheaval that drove him to spend a decade “living every day like it’s your last!”—a profoundly ridiculous adventure that finds Schmader aiming his pointy-headed, fall-off-your-seat wit at marriage, Mormons and the type of relaxation that comes from watching a baby get a spray tan.

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Tickets are $20/$15 for students and are available online, by calling (206) 322-7030 or at Hugo House during normal business hours.

Doors open at 7 p.m., and the bar will be open prior to and following performances.

Written and performed by David Schmader

Directed by Matt Richter

 The BURNING HOUSE, a marionette opera
by Carter Family Marionettes

 April 29 – May 8, 2011

Esterhazy, Franz Josef Haydn created this opera especially for The Royal Marionette Theater at Esterhaza Palace. This opera features splendid live baroque music lead by the internationally acclaimed Margriet Tindemans.

Exquisite cast and sets by Carter Family Marionettes. The Carter Family presented this opera to sold-out crowds at the Sanssouci Palace Theatre of Frederick the Great.

“The Burning House” makes a triumphant return from Europe with a limited engagement of only two-weekends in Seattle.

Don’t miss your chance to see this masterpiece of music and marionettes!

SHOWTIMES:
Fridays at 8pm / Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm / Sundays at 2pm

Tickets available at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/131198

or call: (800)838-3006

Review of Carter Family Marionettes’ production of “The Burning House” from Berlin’s newspaper: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/wen-die-liebe-je-entzuendet/722300.html

Opening today at the Northwest Puppet Center and playing through November 21st.

A whimsical new production by Northwest Puppet Center’s founding artistic directors, Christine & Stephen Carter.

This show combines the famous tale of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” with the plot from a 19th century Parisian puppet play by Louis Emil Duranty about a  magician’s ill-fated picnic.

Get ready for the buckets to fly in this classical and comical work of puppet theater!

The Northwest Puppet Center is located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood

9123 – 15th Ave  NE, Seattle, WA 98115-3111

Showtimes
Sat. 1pm & 3pm
Sun. 1pm & 3pm

Advance tickets available online or by phone:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/118860
1(800)838-3006

If you’d like to attend all the performances in the 2010-2011 Season,
save money with a subscription:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/118379

Tickets and subscriptions also available at the box office 30 minutes
before each show.

When you visit the puppet center be sure to visit the Puppetry Museum.

Currently on display:

BURATTINI, MARIONETTE & PUPI
An exhibit honoring Italy‘s contributions to the art of puppetry.

This exhibit features puppets from Bergamo, Milano, Sicilia and from Italian repertoire created by Seattle’s own Carter Family Marionettes.

Included in the exhibit are artifacts from the 18th and 19th century.

Museum exhibit open before and after performances or by appointment.

Northwest Puppet Center

(206)523-2579
info@nwpuppet.org

http://nwpuppet.org/apprentice.html

October 12th – Joey Arias and Eliot Douglass in “Strange Fruit”

Tuesday October 12, 7:30 PM The Triple Door

For those of you who are uninitiated to the magic that Joey Arias conjures up when he takes to the stage to sing the songs of Billie Holiday you are in for a treat and will be delighted by this sublime 90 minute sojourn of song and banter.  A dear friends mother (now in her 80’s) came to see the show last year sums it up best “ I never thought I would live to see Billie Holiday perform live!” or Christopher Frizelle of The Stranger “It will blow your fucking head open! ”, mind bending indeed.

For one night only, the legendary New York performance artist  Joey Arias and Eliot Douglass will appear at the Triple Door, performing original works alongside the material of Ms. Holiday–as only Joey Arias can conjure her. A two-time “Critic’s Choice” and “Pick of the Week” (Los Angeles Times), Seattle Gay News writer Sara Michelle Fetters said this of his last Triple Door performance:  “To say he left victorious would be something of an understatement… the only thing strange about this particular fruit is just how darn brilliant he really is.” -SGN, April 9 ’08

Seattle musicians Craig Flory – Saxophone, Geoff Harper -Bass and Denali Williams – Drums will be joining Joey and Eliot on stage Tuesday night.

Buy Tickets for this event HERE

October 16th – Arias With A Twist : The Docufantasy

Saturday, October 16, 5:00PM , The Egyptian Theatre

Bobby Sheehan; 2010; US; 88 min.

When legendary performance artist Joey Arias and internationally renowned puppeteer Basil Twist collaborated to make the avant-garde show “Arias with a Twist,” the result was a trip into the dreamworld imaginations of two extraordinary artists. In between jaw-droppingly beautiful scenes from the show’s world tour, this Docufantasy explores the lives and art of both Arias and Twist. Along the way, we met their friends and collaborators, including Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Klaus Nomi, Jim Henson, Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Elvira, Pee-wee Herman, Paula the Swedish Housewife, and many others. Be prepared for a groundbreaking, magical, and surreal experience! Read more about this event HERE

I’m an honored to be joining up with Three Dollar Bill Cinema to extend a limited offer joint cover to attend both of the spectacular Joey Arias events to hit  Seattle this October!

For $25 you can attend both “Strange Fruit” at The Triple Door October 12th, and the Docufantasy “Arias with a Twist”‘ at The Lesbian Gay Film Festival, October 16th at The Egyptian. Joey will be staying on after his performance at The Triple Door to attend the screening on Saturday and partake in a Q&A.

To take advantage of this offer please call The Triple Door Box Office 206- 838-4333 and use the code ” Holiday” to make your reservation. You will receive a voucher to attend the screening on October 16, when you check in with the hostess at The Triple Door to attend “Strange Fruit”.

House of Thee UnHoly Returns!!!

And how auspicious to be opening on The Autumnal Equinox with a Spectacular Full Moon in Aries!

The Swedish Housewife Present:

House of Thee UnHoly includes 13 Dancers,3 Singers and 5 Musicians who take you on a 90 minute epic psychedelic 70?s trip down memory lane of nonstop Sex! Drugs! And Rock & Roll!! That will leave you dazed, confused and ecstatic! This collaborative production draws from a kaleidoscopic disciplinary range of virtuoso actors, singers, musicians, and talented modern, ballet and burlesque dancers.  The incredibly accomplished cast of 21 vanguard contributors each bring unique magic to this landmark Rock-lesque extravaganza where Righteous Rock meets Busby Berkeley and Benny Hill . Now in it’s 4th year!!!

Dancers- Waxie Moon, Lily Verlaine, Miss Indigo Blue, Miss Inga Ingenue, Lou Henry Hoover, Heidi Von Haught, Polly Wood, Leroi The Girl Boi- NYC, Gerard Delacroix, Douglas Ridings, Paris Original, Lydia McLane our “Living Loving Maid” and The Swedish Housewife

Sirens on Thee Rocks -  Sarah Rudinoff, Nick Garrison, Jen Ayers

Thee Mighty Arms of Thor- Darren Loucas Lead – Guitar & Harmonica, Andy Stoller – Bass, Charlie Lorme – Drums, Ryan Burns – Keyboards, Paul Fisher – Rhythm Guitar

“Broadway Level Burlesque”  – The Seattle Weekly
Five shows  performed over three days –

Dates and Times :  September 23, 8PM  17+ / September 24 & 25 , 7:30 17+ & 10PM 21+

Tickets: $25 Advance/ $28 Day of
Tickets Online
Box Office: 206-838-4333

The Triple Door

216 Union Street

Seattle WA

Visit www.swedishhousewife.com for more info

Friday July 23rd at 1 p.m, Teatro ZinZanni opera diva Juliana Rambaldi and gentleman juggler and accordionist Sergiy Krutikov perform in the lobby and entrance of the MarQueen Hotel at 600 Queen Anne Ave. N. on lower Queen Anne near the theater.

“I felt like I was Huck Finn attending his own funeral or Jimmy Stewart in that movie where the angel walks him back through his life. I was braced for a lampooning, and I didn’t expect to be so touched” -Joni Mitchell

John Kelly brought down the house at The Triple Door in 2008 and we expect no less from him this year! Ever since John appeared as Joni Mitchell at the very first Wigstock in the Fabulous 80′s, he has cast a spell of illusion that has continued to captivate audiences, including the subject matter herself, Joni Mitchell the poet, painter and singer.

In this loving homage John Kelly the renowned two time Obie Award winning actor and extremely gifted performance artist inhabits the persona of Joni in a very intimate 90-minute journey through song and reflections on life. “And it ain’t no Drag” –Steve Weicking

“People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me — they’re too personal,” Joni Mitchell explained recently in a rare interview with Matt Diehl for the LA Times. “Apparently, nobody told John Kelly not to try adapting her songs.”

The Triple Door- 216 Union Street, SEA WA 98101

Door at 6:00PM

Show at 8:00PM

BUY Tickets-  $22 advance / $25 day of show , 206- 838-4333

This event is All Ages

Brought to you by The Swedish Housewife

The Swedish Housewife Presents

“Night, Sleep, Death and The Stars” (thank you Walt Whitman), An evening with Nick Garrison

Darkly comic and sweetly heartbreaking, an evening with Seattle chanteur and performance artist Nick Garrison will take you on a rocking musical journey that mixes original songs, classic covers (from Weimar-era cabaret tunes about plucky whores to stadium sized Rock Anthems about gender warriors), and horrifying, hilarious true stories to create a truly mind-bending and deeply entertaining musical extravaganza. Featuring the talents of Chris Jeffries on piano, Branden Romans on guitar and special drop in surprise guests.

About the Talent:

Nick Garrison- perhaps best known to Seattle audiences from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, is an actor, writer and singer who has performed his work to acclaim around the country and abroad for the past 16 years. His original cabaret shows include “Randee Sparks: Semi-Precious” and “What You Sing Might Save You” and he plays music all around Seattle in his bands Sissyfist and The Love Markets.

Chris Jeffries-  (Stranger Genius Award winner) is an acclaimed composer/lyricist whose works include “Vera Wilde”, “The Fatty Arbuckle Spookhouse Revue”, “I See London, I See France” and “The Glory Booty Club”.

Branden Romans – is an accomplished musician, actor and singer who last appeared with Nick Garrison in “What You Sing Might Save You”.

Saturday June 5th

West Hall- 915 East Pike Street, SEA WA 98122

Door & Cocktail Hour at 9:00PM

Show at 10:00PM

Tickets $15 advance / $20 day of show/ This event is 21+

BUY TICKETS online or call 1-800-838-3006

The second show in a series of five for “Thee Wild Herring Cabaret  – a Smorgasbord of the Avant-garde“

Joey Arias (Legendary performer and star of Cirque du Soliel’s Zumanity) and Sherry Vine (International drag darling and founding member of Theatre Couture) present their newest cabaret collaboration – Looking Back At The Future!  The dynamic duo of drag have performed their other smash show; SINsation and StarLust, all over the world; including Berlin, Vienna, Manchester, Helsinki, Tallinn, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Montreal and New York City.  Looking Back At The Future is sexy and funny with songs from The Andrew Sisters, Guns and Roses, Billie Holiday, Lady GaGa and more.

May 5th

West Hall- 915 East Pike Street, SEA WA 98122

Door at 9:15PM, Show at 10:00PM

Tickets $20 advance / $25 day of show

BUY TICKETS HERE

This event is 21+

For information about the entire series please click here! Thee Wild Herring Cabaret

Join a Glimmer performer for a pre-show cocktail. Talk about dance and creativity. Talk about life. Talk about the weather. Anything goes. This opportunity is reserved for only 24 ticketholders per show (six per dancer). Get a group of friends together and shake up your regular pre-show routine.

How it works: Call ACT once you’ve purchased your tickets and tell the representative you’d like to sign up for a pre-show cocktail. (If other ticketholders will be joining you, let ACT know.) We’ll contact you directly as to where to meet. It’s a dutch date–you pay for your drink, we’ll pay for ours. From there, you and your performer will take a Seattle spring stroll over to ACT’s Bullitt Cabaret together.

Tickets: FREE with paid ticket to Glimmer performance
Reserve with ticket purchase, phone only (206) 292-7676
www.acttheatre.org

Pre-Show Cocktails with Glimmer Cast
Lingo’s version of a V.I.P. backstage pass
April 22-May 15, Thurs-Sat, 6pm (pre-show)

A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light
Commissioned by ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab
Presented by ACT, Seattle Art Museum and Lingo

In 2006, KT began investigating the relationship between audience and artist with the primary goal of creating a more tangible intimacy between the two. This search has led her to seek out more potent environments that ask the performer and the witness to confront each other as unique individuals who bring to the exchange their personal histories and desires. A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light, in all its forms, is an outcropping of this search.

Sylvia O’Stayformore, a longtime drag hostess and fixture on Capitol hill, is taking the new light rail to explore the city. She has taken the lead pianist of her previous band, Pocket Hercules, and they are off to explore the world. First stop Orient Express. Join Sylvia and Tor Middlewood as they explore rare Bacharach, vaudeville standards, girl group songs and original compositions. It’s true intimate cabaret at it’s finest. The train cars are small so come early to get a good seat where all the action is. Dinner and Drinks are served all night.

Tor Middlewood has an abiding love for 60s Pop of all kinds, but Girl Group artists and French Pop in particular. Since he encountered reactions ranging from bewilderment to dismay when suggesting to the heterosexual musicians he’s worked with trying to work Girl Group songs into their repertoire, he thought he may as well give a drag queen performer a try. Good thing he did. He has found in Sylvia an alacrity and openness to so many kinds of music he loves, it has set the beehive, or should we say anthill, of his mind a-whirl with the possibilities.

Tor, who plays guitar as well as keyboards, has played Rock of all kinds with a plethora of musicians and can bring the RAWK with the best of them, but, feeling it’s not quite right for him to stuff a sock in his pants and perm his hair, and due to the fact that he doesn’t have a Marshall stack, has decided to turn his talent elsewhere…. for the time being. Certain songs he’s written which were turned down by other musical outfits he is in and has been in can now find an audience. He calls his pairing with Sylvia O “a little twisted, but overall, perfect. Now this is fun!”

Orient Express Restaurant and Lounge 2963 4th Ave. S. (SODO) Seattle WA. Show runs every Thursday night (January and February) from 8:00pm-10:00pm No Cover

Thursday, January 7, 2010 08:00 PM – Thursday February 25th, 2010

Restaurant reservations and information: 206-682-0683

This sounds like so much fun!

Hosted by Dan Savage, benefiting Equal Rights Washington at The Paramount Theater. $99 VIP Tickets with 100% of each ticket will be donated to ERW.
Ticket includes: Main floor, reserved performance seating to the 1/20 performance of Xanadu AND admission to a special after-party following the performance at Chapel to celebrate Equal Rights Washington with members of the cast of Xanadu and Dan Savage. Plus music, appetizers & a no-host bar.

To purchase tickets to this performance go to The Stranger website.

Can’t make it on January 20th? You can support Equal Rights Washington throughout the Seattle engagement January 19th thru 24th of Xanadu. Got to STGpresents.org and use the promotional code: ERW when you make your purchase and a $5 donation from each ticket you order will go towards this amazing organization!

Annex Triple Header
Three layers of wild comedy at Annex Theatre
Fri & Sat nights, Nov 27 to Dec 19, at 7, 9 & 11pm
$10-12 general / $5 student

Annex Theatre presents a triple-header of comedy for the holiday season! Four very different comedies take the stage:

At 7 pm: It Came From Under The Tree
At 9 pm: Comedy Fist Fight (Nov 27-Dec 5); Repeatedly. In The Face. (Dec 11-19)
At 11 pm: Penguins, Ep. 1: “Heaven The Hard Way”

CHEAPER THEATER!
We’re offering a Triple Header Pass: you can see all three shows for only $25! One $25 pass gets you into each show, on any night you choose! Split ‘em up, or see ‘em all at once! Save $7 and see three great shows!

Trolloween is the Birthday celebration for Seattle’s famous Fremont Troll.

October 31st is the Trolls 20th Birthday!

It is held on his Birthday October 31st at 7pm sharp.
The celebration  starts with the Troll under the Aurora Bridge (Troll Ave & N 36th St), as he loves a good laugh and a great story.   Then revelers will be off for the annual Haunt of Fremont (a procession of costumed dancers & performers (& you) taking over the streets of Fremont.)

This 20th anniversary of the birth of the Fremont Troll, you’ll be experiencing the tale of  Dante’s Inferno. Many seasoned artists and performers will present their twisted and whacky version of this dark tale, known to us as: ‘Just a little lover’s spat ~ honey’.

Rain or dry, revelers will sing, dance, marvel, and laugh their way through the dark underbelly of Dante and Fremont.   This is an unsweetened and piquant family event with plenty of fun to scare the laughs out of any stoic kid or stogy adult.

Vamola

Come dressed as your favorite dead celebrity and take part in our costume walk across the final stage, under the Fremont Bridge, for the appreciation of your community.

If you can lend a hand to help pull off this fabulous piece of street theater, meet by the Troll at 6:30pm & check in with the volunteer coordinator to get a job.

p.s. Find your place in hell by taking this quiz: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

For those with a predilection for things dark and heathen, it’s well worth a trip down to Portland for the Conflux Dark Arts Festival this Friday and Saturday. Last year’s event was very strong and varied in musical and visual performances and deserved even a larger audience than it had. This year’s event features steampunk favorites Abney Park and Seattle goth veterans Legion Within among many other performances.

For information and tickets see the Conflux MySpace page.

(For additional photos of last year’s event, see Pete’s Conflux flickr set.)