Category: Press
This Seattle theater company plans to use AI in its play—The Seattle Times
By Dusty Somers In Elmer Rice’s 1923 play “The Adding Machine,” an office drone is plunged into existential crisis when his accounting job is replaced by mechanical technology. A hundred years later, artificial intelligence promises (or threatens) to do much more: write all our emails, create all our spreadsheets. And maybe, perform in all our…
‘The Adding Machine’ asks if AI has a future in the theatre—KUOW
By Diana Opong and Alec Cowan When tech companies began announcing advanced artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, there was widespread enthusiasm. AI was going to make mundane jobs more efficient; it was going to reshape entire industries and creative processes; and it was going to free up time for humans to do things that were,…
6 must-see Seattle theater shows in fall 2024—The Seattle Times
More than 100 years ago, Elmer Rice wrote a play about an accountant, Mr. Zero, who loses his job to a new piece of technology, an adding machine, then murders his boss and is executed and sent to the afterlife. In 2024, theater company The Feast is updating the script with the help of the…
How Seattle theater company The Feast’s play using AI turned out—The Seattle Times
By Dusty Somers By the time our new technological overlords decide to take our jobs, let’s hope they’ve fine-tuned the compassion settings. In “The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play,” pencil-pushing protagonist Mr. Zero — played in turns by everyone in the cast — endures layers of indignity, losing his job to a machine and…
Review: THE ADDING MACHINE from The Feast
By Jay Irwin The machines are coming for our livelihoods, Dear Readers. That was the fear a century ago with the 1923 play “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice. And that sentiment still holds true today with many terrified of the advancements of Artificial Intelligence or AI. And that’s what this new production “The Adding Machine:…
8 Seattle artists share how they survive in the expensive city—The Seattle Times
By Margo Vansynghel There are a thousand different ways to be an artist. For some, it’s a viable full-time career. But according to The Seattle Times 2024 Affordability for Artists Survey, that’s become increasingly difficult in ever-expensive Seattle. Here are eight creatives, in their own words, on how they make it work.
How Seattle can support its artists despite rising prices—The Seattle Time
By Margo Vansynghel, Gemma Wilson, Moira Macdonald and Michael Rietmulder Basic income, affordable housing and free health care for artists. These may sound like pie-in-the-sky ideas, but multiple organizations here and across the country are making it happen. These are among the many solutions and ideas King County-based artists, in our Seattle Times 2024 Affordability for Artists Survey, say could help…
A revived 1964 Broadway play has a message for Seattle liberals—Crosscut
by Margo Vansynghel Considered a lesser-known work by the ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ author, ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ makes its PNW debut at Erickson Theatre. What does it mean to live your values — to go beyond declarations, bumper stickers and yard signs? The late playwright Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) delved into this…
‘Sign’ of the Times: Lorraine Hansberry’s 2nd Play Gets 2 New Looks—American Theatre Magazine
By Soyica Diggs Colbert A Raisin in the Sun cast a long shadow, even over its author, Lorraine Hansberry. The young Black woman’s hit play shook up the American theatre scene with its 1959 Broadway premiere, with its groundbreaking depiction of a Black family and a Black tragic hero. After that success, she continued to write plays, as…
For the first time, James Baldwin’s ‘The Amen Corner’ takes Seattle audiences to church
By Mike Davis, Libby Denkmann, Noel Gasca The communities we’re a part of in our youth often have a tremendous impact in influencing the people we become. For writer James Baldwin, the time he spent in the Black church as he grew up in Harlem played a big role in shaping his identity, and the…