“Fast Girls”: Most of us at one time or another have known that guy with commitment issues. In Diana Amsterdam’s “Fast Girls,” a Northwest premiere play, the one with such issues is a woman and this role reversal ends with comic results.
The play begins this week with a show tonight at Edge of the World Theatre in Edmonds. It runs through Oct. 27.
The fast girl is a 35-year-old woman who’s afraid of commitment and who plays the field to the point where her front door is a revolving door where boyfriends pass through as frequently as one-night stands. This lifestyle has convinced the woman’s Jewish mother that a change must take place. The mom plans and executes an “intervention.” Afterward the unlucky-in-love best friend hounds the heroine for details, and the long-suffering ex-boyfriend pines over her from a safe distance. Recommended for adults.
“Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged”: It’s a spectacle of Shakespeare: 37 plays and 154 sonnets in under two hours. And when it’s over, you’ll be exhausted from laughing out loud and applauding.
This abridged Shakespeare is tonight only at Edmonds Center for the Arts.
This whirlwind tribute to the Bard was put together by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. They take the audience on a wacky ride through some of Shakespeare’s most memorable works and add such props as a football, swordplay and hip-hop music. Then there’s the usual blend of madcap humor, puns and pratfalls, and sight gags that makes this a most irreverent and hilarious evening of Shakespeare.
“The Women”: ACT Theatre leaps into the new fall season with this comedy that features 16 of Seattle’s most beloved leading ladies, a story by Clare Boothe Luce and lots of dry, witty humor.
“The Women” opens tonight and runs through Nov. 18 at ACT Theatre in Seattle.
The story centers around a super-stylish group of ladies, one of whom is living with a cheating husband. The group is certainly a backstabbing lunch crowd but the occasions of venomously funny sarcasm and gossip make this show endearing. In the end emerges the kind of friendship only women can provide each other.
The cast members live in the Seattle area and all have extensive credits onstage at ACT and at other leading theaters. ACT’s artistic director Kurt Beattie said the theater is sharing this cast with the community as a celebration of a “precious resource.” Since the beginning of the year, the costume shop has also been working on more than 100, 1930’s couture costumes for this production.
“HMS Pinafore”: Skagit Opera presents this Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall with the opening at 7:30 tonight.
Stage director Christine Goff and conductor Bernard Kwiram have worked together to provide a rollicking start to the season.
“Dinah Was”: Get ready for the queen’s arrival in Seattle — that’s the Queen of Blues Dinah Washington.
The show opens Saturday at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center with performances through Nov. 18.
“Dinah Was” is the musical production that celebrates the life and times of jazz and blues legend Dinah Washington, who played hard and fast and was the mold upon which many blues divas modeled themselves. She once said during a London show: “There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me). Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.”
The show incorporates many popular songs from the singer’s 20-year career such as “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes,” “I Wanna Be Loved,” and “Come Rain or Come Shine.” The production also showcases some highlights of her rocky life including lifelong struggles with weight, drugs and love.
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