We like to think of creativity as a mysterious, indeterminate quality that resists being measured. But it's also a potent economic reality, as the National Endowment for the Arts emphasizes — through the drama of statistics — in a comprehensive new report [PDF] [http://www.arts.gov/research/Artists
Andrew Weems stars in Namaste Man, directed by Bart Sher, a fascinating one-man play that shuttles between boyhood memories and Eastern wisdom, New York and Nepal.
The handsome new space is a striking work of architecture, and the exhibits make up a "meta-museum," continually asking questions about how a museum should relate to its community.
He brings his glorious adaptation of Handel's Allegro-Penseroso to the Paramount, in a collaboration with the Seattle Symphony. This amazing work, which defiantly launched Morris' international career in 1988, still gracefully bears its heavy reputation.
The production opens with a stunning scene, but there are a few fatal mistakes in this play about fate and war.
