Performance Critiques
A Not-So-Queer Story About a Queer Story
TeenTix contributor Cecilia Carroll encourages readers to experience Paula Vogel's Indecent, finding additional complexity of the queer representation and visibility in a primarily Jewish story.
The Man With the Bomb: Washington Ensemble Theatre's B
Washington Ensemble Theatre's B brings up questions about anarchy, revolution, propaganda, critical history, and violence for Becs Richards and the review team.
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Seeing the Sunrise Starts with Survival
TeenTix contributor Jaiden Borowski emphasizes the power of storytelling with Seattle Rep's A Thousand Splendid Suns, an adaptation of The New York Times bestselling novel about war, love, and perseverance.
Social Satire for the NPR Crowd? Intiman Theatre's Native Gardens
Steph Hankinson and the review team examine the wildness, wickedness, and wokeness of Intiman Theatre's production of Karen ZacarÃas's political comedy Native Gardens.
Discomforting the Audience: Racial Satire in Artswest's An Octoroon
Steph Hankinson and the review team examine how Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon rides the line between critiquing melodrama and exploiting its emotional devices.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Blood Quantum: Native American Identity in Jihae Park's Peerless
Lydia Heberling and the review team highlight Jihae Park's success at "capturing the complexity of claiming and expressing Indigeneity" in Peerless along with potential decolonial narratives, performing on unceded Duwamish territory.