So you wanna see a show this weekend? Let us help you help yourself (or something) with a quick, drive-by tour of all stuff playing this weekend that we've already sat through. (Or at least gotten a preview taste of.)
Let's begin with a haiku for the futuristic Ed, Downloaded at WET:
Control of your afterlife
When you've been cheating
Here's the rest of our current theater section in three-word bursts:
American Wee-Pie at Seattle Public Theater: Light twee pie.
A Great Wilderness at Seattle Rep: Ex-gay drama, aloof.
The Normal Heart by Strawberry Theatre Workshop: AIDS, '80s, infuriating.
Black Like Us at Annex: Passing —> multigenerational fallout.
The Sleeping Beauty at Pacific Northwest Ballet: Story ballet nerdfest.
Where's Papi? at Eclectic Theater: Fledgling solo performer.
The Room Nobody Knows at On the Boards: Japanese, psychosexual, surreal.
The Icelandic Illumination Rangers at WET: Better than cartoons!
And a three-worder for Ed, Downloaded, because why not? "Bechdel test: fail."
Good luck, everyone!