Writer/director Tina Satter draws on Chekhov’s letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew the darkness, beauty, and history of Chekhov’s iconic play The Seagull and its resonances with her Half Straddle ensemble. Seagull (Thinking of you) is a personal look at performance, failure, and... View it now
Performance: Jan 14, 2013 | The New Ohio Theatre | Length: 75 min | Added: May 14, 2013
Haunting images interface with a cast of three, juxtaposing the past and present, real and virtual, as a constant shifting illusion at the intersection of dance, visual art, and live music. The audiovisual elements engulf the audience, who is invited to make their own choices about where to experience the work.... View it now
Performance: Jan 14, 2013 | PS 122 | Length: 60 min | Added: April 16, 2013
A man departs for the US–Mexican border and vanishes before reaching his destination: Amarillo, Texas. Through stunning projected images, bilingual monologues and a sea of displaced objects and natural elements, this renowned company reconstructs his journey in a multimedia performance that... View it now
Performance: Nov 9, 2012 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: 60 min | Added: March 19, 2013
As the visual and performance worlds continue to collide, Kyle Loven is a difficult artist to categorize. An object maker with theatrical designs, his Rube Goldberg-esque Loss Machine unearths a world of lost items, misplaced thoughts and fractured journeys all housed within an intricately detailed set. Digging... View it now
Performance: Dec 9, 2012 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: 75 min | Added: February 20, 2013
In 1960s Mexico, young revolutionaries took up arms in a desperate attempt to change society. A few decades later, the children of those guerilleros retrace the struggles of their elders, revealing this shadowed chapter of Mexican history through the personal experiences of one woman, Margarita Urías. El Rumor del... View it now
Performance: Sep 9, 2012 | Winningstad Theater | Portland, OR | Length: 100 min | Added: February 19, 2013
"artistically wild, scientifically accurate movement/theater..." - The Denver Post
Noted video and performing artist Michelle Ellsworth unleashes a one woman, multimedia portrayal of Clytemnestra, the woman left behind as her husband Agamemnon serves as leader of the Greeks in Troy. In Phone Homer she uses series of... View it now
Performance: Mar 17, 2012 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: 60 min | Added: December 17, 2012
Wunderbaum, a Dutch-Flemish group of actors/musicians performs a high-energy concert spectacle about dreams, choices and possibilities set in Antartica.
"Antarctica is the place where you fall down when the earth shakes and go nowhere else sticks." Inspired by this quote from the documentary Encounters at the... View it now
Performance: May 5, 2012 | Fusebox Festival | Austin, TX | Length: 90 min | Added: October 11, 2012
Seattle's leading art collective spent 2 months transforming On the Boards' building from a recognizably respectable institution to a delightfully convoluted artistic tangle with unconventional surprise performances at every turn. Watch as people came to wander the "new" On the Boards and be charmed by the boundless... View it now
Performance: Sept 15 - 18, 2011 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: coming soon | Added: July 3, 2012
It’s 1999 in Buenos Aires. Mario, Laura, Pablo, and Vicky are in their mid-twenties and ready for careers, love, and adulthood. Over the next decade, Argentina’s economy will collapse and their lives will take a series of unexpected turns. In this fast-paced, multilayered “mega fiction,” director Mariano Pensotti... View it now
Performance: Feb 11, 2012 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: 110 min | Added: May 30, 2012
Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey offer a surreal, visually arresting examination of the gap between cause and effect in A Crack in Everything. The evening-length work explores the enduring questions of justice posed in the Greek tragedy The Oresteia through dramatic video and costumes,... View it now
Performance: Dec 3, 2011 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | Length: 70 min | Added: April 11, 2012