By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent
Shows of Jewish interest this year in the 13th Annual Seattle Fringe Festival range from a hip-hop duo to several solo shows.
The longest running fringe festival in the United States, the Seattle Fringe Festival includes 94 theater companies in about 500 performances.
The festival runs from Sept. 17–Oct. 1, and features 10 separate venues all within walking distance of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, along with three Bring-Your-Own venues — located within a 10-minute radius of the Hill — and a busking stage for outdoor artists. As with last year, artists set their own ticket prices. Tickets for individual shows range from $6 to $20; most average around $10. Seattle Fringe Festival shows begin at 6 p.m. weekdays and noon on weekends, on the various stages. Call the central box office at Broadway Performance Hall at 206-322-2018 or visit www.seattlefringe.org for tickets and information.
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Winners of the 2000 Fringe Artistic Picks, Seattle’s own Kazoo! returns with The Kazoo! Bible, a satire of Biblical proportions. Comic sketches and songs are used to look at politics, human foibles and religion, through an ironic lens focused on the Bible.
90-minute sketch comedy show recommended for ages 14 and older
Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 8:30 p.m.
Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 28 at 2 p.m.
Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave.
$12 general admission, $10 for students and seniors, www.kazoo.tv
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Jewish co-authors/performers Jerome Saibil and Eli Batalion retell the Biblical story of Job through hip-hop in their highly acclaimed comedy, JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical. The show, based in Providence, R.I., has toured throughout Canada and the U.S., and makes its Seattle premiere here.
60-minute play recommended for ages four and older.
Sept. 18 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 19 at 10 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 1 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 8 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 9:45 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 6 p.m.
Capitol Hill Arts Center
$13 general admission, $10 for students and seniors. www.FDLTproductions.com.
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Writer/actress Penny Orloff performs her own musical solo show, Jewish Thighs on Broadway, loosely based on her misadventures of a life in showbiz.
90-minute play is recommended for ages 14 and older.
Sept. 20 at 6:45 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 25 at 10:45 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 9 p.m.
Richard Hugo House, 1634 – 11th Ave.
$12 general admission, $10 for students and seniors. www.webopus.net/orloff.
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Vivien Straus performs her own one-woman show, Getting it Wrong, a comedy about the true misadventures of a Jewish farm girl, her obscure immigrant father, a boyfriend, and the cows that tried to save her. Straus played to standing-room-only audiences at the San Francisco Fringe Festival.
60-minute show recommended for ages 14 and older.
Sept. 19 at 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 5:15 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 2:45 p.m.
Sept. 24 at 9:45 p.m.
Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 28 at 4:15 p.m.
Richard Hugo House.
$14 general admission, $12 for students and seniors. www.gettingitwrong.com.
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Israeli-American actor Ami Dayan of Boulder, Colo. performs Dario Fo’s A Tale of A Tiger, a comedy about a dying soldier who is saved by a tigress, becomes a healer, a guru and finally himself. This show has been performed nationally and internationally.
75-minute play is recommended for ages four and older.
Sept. 18 at 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 5:45 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 2:45 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 8:15 p.m.
Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 11 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 4:45 p.m.
Freehold Studio, 2nd Floor, 1529 – 10th Ave.
$15 general admission, $12 for students and seniors. www.amidayan.com.
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Contact Theatre Seattle presents Robert Radcliffe’s The Nazi Nearest You, about a “cured” gay man and his favorite aunt, Gerda, whose Nazi history comes back to haunt her.
105 minutes long drama recommended for ages 10 and older.
Sept. 19 at 10:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 9:45 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 8 p.m.
Sept. 28 at 3:15 p.m.
Freehold Studio
$12 general admission, $8 for students and seniors. Tickets are two for the price of one for the Sept. 23 performance.
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Fishy Productions presents a comedy written and directed by occasional Transcript correspondent Rita Weinstein. Something Fishy This Way Comes is about indecisive bride-to-be Harriet Guildenstern. The day before she is to marry, her long-dead mother Jocasta appears, demanding that Harriet avenge her murder.
90-minute play recommended for ages 14 and older.
Sept. 20 at 7 p.m.
Sept. 24 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.
Chamber Theater, 4th Floor, 915 E Pine St.
$8 general admission, $6 for students and seniors.
Tickets are two for the price of one for the Sept. 24 performance.
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Theatre Wide Open presents PR Golem, a comedy about a supermodel.
75-minute show is recommended for ages 10 and older.
Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 4:15 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 10 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 11:45 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 3:45 p.m.
Sept. 28 at 7:15 p.m.
Odd Duck Studio, 1214 – 10th Ave.
$10 general admission, $8 for students and seniors. www.theatrewideopen.org.
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Matthew Korahais of Brooklyn, N.Y. brings his one-man show, Walk North, to Seattle. The performance includes text drawn from interviews with New Yorkers affected by the Sept. 11th attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
45-minute play recommended for ages 14 and older.
Sept. 20 at 8:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 10 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 3 p.m.
NW Actors Studio Cabaret, 3rd floor, 1100 E Pike.
$12 general admission, $6 for students and seniors.
Tickets are two for the price of one for the Sept. 23 performance.
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Actor/playwright Michael Walsh, of New York, presents his own spin on Sept. 11 in his solo performance of Between Take Off & Landing. Based on true events, the show centers on Walsh’s unexpected trip to Canada and the 10,000 people of Gander, Newfoundland who welcomed 12,000 Aer Lingus Airlines Flight 105 passengers into their town and their homes.
90-minute play is recommended for ages 14 and older.
Sept. 19 at 11 p.m.
Sept. 21 at 6 p.m.
Sept. 23 at 8 p.m.
Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m.
NW Actors Studio, 2nd floor, 1100 E Pike.
$10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets are two for the price of one for the Sept. 23 performance.