L. Nicol Cabe

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 [...]

I am an avid reader of Bitch Magazine — I’ve even subscribed for the past 5 years. I skim their Twitter feed, I’m Facebook friends with them … but I rarely read the blogs. I read the magazine cover to cover every quarter, but I haven’t kept up with the company as it launched itself [...]

I don’t know what else to say about “The Wild Plan,” except what the title says — oh my fucking GAWD. With an implied “AWESOME” for emphasis. We believe that theatre is about community. Our Wild Plan is to create shared experiences through story and spectacle and song―not to mention beer and wine and food, [...]

In my continuing mission to go see new, locally produced works this year, I went to see one of the final performances of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, produced at A Contemporary Theatre, as part of their collaboration with the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival to produce new work in the Pacific Northwest. [...]

Look, I just moved across town, okay? That’s exhausting and expensive. I have things to say, but currently, little mind with which to say them. Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll start watching “Weeds” on Netflix Streaming. Also, these don’t really have anything to do with theatre, but they do have more generally to do with [...]

It’s dorky and sentimental, but these have been sitting on my desktop for awhile, and occasionally they actually make me feel better. Everyone is familiar by now with “How to Feel Miserable as an Artist” by Keri Smith. But here’s a couple more that I like. Inspiration vs. Immitation by Lydian Vargas And How to [...]

So it’s time for a link round-up. Ads Implant False Memories: this is one of those articles that reminds me how strange the human brain is. On the other hand, interesting comment about how sympathetic our memories are, too. By feeling attached to something, whether through repeated viewing or emotional attachment (and probably both is [...]

I’ve been thinking for months about the Intiman’s crisis — from their major fundraising campaign to their downfall. Reactions ranged from a desperation to save the theatre — mainly because it was one of the few venues tentatively able to pay actors a “living wage” (if you think minimum is living) — to schadenfreude. Questions [...]