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Brendan Kiley—who writes about theater, drugs, and more for The Stranger—has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Forward, UTNE Reader, and the gently pedagogical pages of Education Update. He went to high school on Bainbridge Island, then attended the UW and the University of Chicago.

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Date

  • Features

    A Theater Noir

    A Gorgeously Brutal New Play by Keri Healey
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Theater

    A Theater Noir

    A Gorgeously Brutal New Play by Keri Healey
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Theater

    Happy Talk

    The Grotesque Comedy of Dina Martina and Samuel Beckett
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Music

    Fuck You, Lady Gaga

    The Grimy, Sleazy Stumblebum Brass Band
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Happy Days’

    How happy is Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days?
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • News

    Clash of the Middlemen

    Is Costco's Initiative to Privatize Liquor Sales Coming Back to Bite It in the Ass?
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • Theater

    Red at Seattle Repertory Theatre

    Red at Seattle Repertory Theatre
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • Suggests

    Stew & the Negro Problem

    Stew is a roly-poly African American musician who wears snappy chapeaus and leads the Negro Problem—along with his collaborator Heidi Rodewald—which plays smart, jazzy rock songs with a sharp satirical bite.
    Posted on 02/29/2012
  • Theater

    Men Are Pygs

    A Deliciously Savage Pygmalion
    Posted on 02/29/2012
  • Suggests

    tEEth

    The Portland-based company tEEth makes technically innovative and emotionally engrossing performances about love, self-loathing, and the other high peaks and low ditches of life.
    Posted on 02/15/2012
  • Books

    With It You Devalue Still

    The Loom of Ruin: Beach Reading for Rockers
    Posted on 02/15/2012
  • Theater

    Old Is the New New

    The Cold War and Don Quixote at Pacific Northwest Ballet
    Posted on 02/08/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘I Am My Own Wife’

    Charlotte von Mahlsdorf is the world-famous transvestite who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in women’s clothing.
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Features

    Church or Cult?

    The Freaky, Controlling, Cultish Ways of Mars Hill Church
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Film

    Roman Rommel

    Ralph Fiennes's Coriolanus Is a Beast
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Music

    Please Lord, Help Me Get My Shit Together

    The Sharpness and Softness of Erin Jorgensen's Redemption
    Posted on 01/25/2012
  • Theater

    "I Only Want to Provoke Myself"

    Banned in Lebanon, Live at On the Boards: Rabih Mroué
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Theater

    Love and Death

    The Callers: A New Musical About Phony Psychics and Phone Sex
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Redemption’

    Singer and marimba player Erin Jorgensen is like that magic lamp in The Arabian Nights: deceptively small and full of power you cannot imagine.
    Posted on 01/11/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Looking for a Missing Employee’

    Beirut-based performer Rabih Mroué has been making work since 1990, but this is his first (and long-overdue) US tour.
    Posted on 01/11/2012

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