We chatted with Jude and Jen from Izilla Toys over the weekend, and they mentioned they'll be shrinking the footprint of their Wallingford Center shop by half in the next several weeks, moving out of the South side of their space entirely. "It's just too much space for us," Jen said, to which Jude added "the Wallingford store sells differently than the Capitol Hill store does, we have to adapt to that." They say Lorig, the Wallingford Center property management company,…
In these gloomy days of late winter, sometimes a good belly laugh is exactly what you need. And who better than an English writer to show the hilariousness of people going nuts in a repressive society and a damp climate? With that, here are my quick "pros vs. cons" of Green Lake's Bathhouse Theater's latest production, My Wonderful Day, by Alan Ayckbourn: Cons I don't pay good money to see the gut of a middle-aged man on stage. Especially wearing superhero…
Apparently, it's theater day here at Wallyhood. Adding to Helen's review of My Wonderful Day, we have a note from the Stone Soup Theatre on Stone Way, where they're opening a new show this Friday, Feb 4th, Paual Vogel's How I Learned to Drive. We reprint the release here almost in its entirety, because it is at once a press release, a book report and an homage to music, youth and sexuality. The 1998 Pulitzer prize-winning play (also winner of Obie,…