When was the last time you went out and saw live theater? Perhaps it will come as no surprise to hear that when we were in high school, we were in the drama club. We're pretty sure we were the president or something. In the course of our four acned years, we performed in a dozen or more plays, more than a few by Christopher Durang: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Actor's Nightmare, etc. They were always…
Want to meet one of your neighbors? How about Ryan Childers? He lives on 45th St down near Latona. By day, he's a preschool teacher. By night, he's Mellersh Wilton, an uptight and businesslike British gentleman following his wife to a villa in Italy. At least that's the character he's playing in Taproot Theater's production of Enchanted April. Ryan, who was born in Port Angeles but moved to Seattle 6 years ago (and to Wallingford 2 years ago), has been acting…
Sometimes we feel sorry for the U District because it doesn't have a blog of its own (and because it must be tough to put up with that stale beer smell). Anyway, that's why we'll sometimes run stories about what's going on over there, even though we try to focus on Wallingford. Kris asked us to mention that the UW Drama School is having a free open house for their newly renovated Jones Playhouse (4045 University Way NE) this Friday, October…