18TH AND UNION

by Jay Irwin - February 10, 2024

The MAP Theatre gang is back, Dear Readers, and as usual they’re not ones to shy away from the bizarre with their latest offering, “Blood Countess” by Kelleen Conway Blanchard. This gothic, horror, sex, comedy doesn’t pull any punches. I just question if it needed all the punches it landed....

by A.A. Cristi - October 20, 2023

Spooky Stories 'Round the Bonfire: Local teens perform three spooky short plays addressing youth fears. October 23 at 7:30pm at 18th and Union. Pay-what-you-choose tickets available....

by BWW Special Offer - March 22, 2023

Special Offer: West Coast Premiere of Meet Me at Dawn, by Zinnie Harris...

by Jay Irwin - October 08, 2022

If you’ve ever seen a MAP Theatre show, Dear Readers, then you know they tend toward the odd little stories laced with humor, but ultimately fairly dark and twisted. But you also know they tend to do those odd little stories, quite well. Their current production of Brian Dang’s “A White Haunting” is...

by A.A. Cristi - November 02, 2021

In St. Petersburg, Russia in 1835, a low-ranking Russian official--Aksentiy Ivanovich Poprischin, the 'Madman'--into the insanity and despair, which Nikolai Gogol hauntingly depicted in diary format almost two centuries ago....

by Stephi Wild - August 01, 2021

In the one woman show, 'The Hermit & The Chariot,' Greta, Molly Tollefson's great grandmother, comes back from the dead to discuss Molly's nebulous 20's, what it means to be hopeful during the unhopefulest of times, and the Holocaust over a tarot reading....

by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2021

The Williams Project will share a co-presentation of Raisins in a Glass of Milk 2021, this year's new iteration of an annual play series created directly from the words, poetry, and stories of Artists of Color. ...

by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2021

The creatives behind the new musical The Lamplighter recently chatted about the show in a new interview from 5th Avenue Theatre. The interview features Sara Porkalob (Book & Story), Justin Huertas (Music, Lyrics, & Story) and Kirsten deLohr Helland (Story)....