L. Nicol Cabe

In the past couple of years, I’ve been to see a fair number of shows at Annex Theatre. Though a small, fringe theatre in an odd upstairs space in Capitol Hill, they have always impressed me with the high quality of writing, production, and acting in their shows. Nearly all of their plays are thought-provoking [...]

After many years of waiting, I finally had the opportunity to see one of the 4 days of 14/48. Afterward, my theatre partner and I had an interesting discussion about time-based art, and what the benefits vs downsides are. He’s not in favor of it, generally, because it doesn’t allow space for the creative process. [...]

Last year, I examined, in an armchair statistics way, what Seattle theatre was like based on SeattlePerforms.com and how many of the theatres’ websites still existed. This year, I don’t have that much to say. Aside from the Intiman crumbling, which I’ve been blogging about pretty extensively, there hasn’t been much development. Not that I’ve [...]

I’ve spent much of my holiday reading about the Occupy movement, which I have been woefully uneducated about – partly because of being busy, partly because of underreporting from trusted sources. I also tend to read a lot about theatre while I’m on vacations, just generally, so when B. Michael Peterson posted “On artists making [...]

This article, 7 Reasons Why Theatre Makes Our Lives Better, is from TheatreWashington.org is really old news now, but I finally got around to reading it this morning. I don’t agree with all of them, of course, but two specifically were right up my alley. So, naturally, I thought I’d repost them. Second, theatre is [...]

Lots of theatre news lately, apparently. Seattle Times featured a short piece about the future of the Intiman’s space, and how they are considering using it as the Intiman itself rebuilds. According to Deborah Daoust, director of communications for city-run Seattle Center, the center is now eyeing a summer residency for the Intiman and considering [...]

You’ve all probably gathered by now that I work in theatre. I admin for a large theatre, I direct and dramaturg for smaller theatres, I write theatrical pieces (sometimes, in my quieter moments), I used to act, I’m on the board of a clown company, I’m delving further into the world of physical theatre, I [...]

An antidote to the derp of the last post! Yay! First, and most importantly, there’s a new writer’s group forming at Seattle Rep. They are specifically Northwest playwrights, too. This is a very exciting development from a large theatre company, although they have a pretty toned-down expectation of the group. Participants in the group will [...]

There’s been some interesting bits on art from around the world this week. The most painful and derpy of them all is news about conservative Catholic organizations protesting a play which, from what I can gather, deals with a sad, difficult, depressing, and very real subject — a dying elderly parent. It’s not pleasant to [...]

Finally, I managed to see a show opening weekend! Good for me. “little world” is part puppet show, part kids’ show, and part very adult tragedy. Here’s the blurb from the Seattle U website: A woman creates and retreats to a little world of her own… a safe place where she can hide from all [...]