source: scifiwire.com
published: April 9, 2009
author: Fred Topel
James Marsters, who plays the evil Lord Piccolo in the upcoming Dragonball Evolution, told SCI FI Wire that the green makeup he wore took a lot longer to apply than the gnarly vampire foreheads he wore as Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
source: modbee.com
published: April 3, 2009
author: Marijke Rowland
‘Dragonball’ role just next in long line for Modesto-bred actor
Modesto native James Marsters has been getting into character for his role as the villainous Lord Piccolo in “Dragonball Evolution” for the past six years.
He just didn’t know it at the time.
source: The Seattle Times
published: October 3, 1996
author: Misha Berson
“Crazy For You,” book by Ken Ludwig, songs by George and Ira Gershwin. At Jane Addams Theatre, through Oct. 19. 363-2809. “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare. At the Ethnic Cultural Center through Oct. 27. 467-1382.
Garnished with gems from the George and Ira Gershwin songbook, on musical grounds alone “Crazy For You” made a good Broadway bet. The charms of the 1992 Tony Award-winner extended beyond the gold-plated score, however.
source: Chicago Tribune
published: November 2, 1989
author: Richard Christiansen
The new Genesis Theatre’s production of Christopher Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent,” which takes place in a tomb, takes place in a basement, which has been made up to look like a tomb.
source: The Seattle Times
published: January 16, 1996
author: Lauren Ray Pollard
“The Investigation,” by Peter Weiss, directed by Liane Davidson. Produced by New Mercury Theatre and A Theatre Under the Influence at Brown Bag Theatre in the Newmark Center, 1401 Second Ave., Thursdays-Sundays, through Jan. 28. 524-6887.
When it premiered in 1965, Peter Weiss’ “The Investigation” did so on 17 German stages simultaneously. Weiss, best known for his 1964 play “Marat/Sade,” forged “The Investigation” out of transcripts from the 1964 Auschwitz war-crimes trial and, as a result, set a new benchmark in the field of documentary theater.
source: The Seattle Times
section: Entertainment, Page: C5
published: October 2, 1996
author: Joe Adcock
If Shakespeare’s 1601 romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” were a 1940s MGM musical, the result would be something like the current Seattle Shakespeare Festival production.
Shakespeare’s song lyrics are set to big band swing. Women wear slinky satin gowns that cling and sway when they tango, fox-trot, waltz or Charleston with the tuxedoed men (which they do very often).
source: The Seattle Times
published: March 4, 1996
author: Misha Berson (Seattle Times Theater Critic)
“Scotland Road” by Jeffrey Hatcher. Directed by Eddie Levi Lee. Produced by Empty Space Theatre, 3509 Fremont Ave. N. Tuesdays-Sundays through March 30. 547-7500.
The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of those epic disasters we can never seem to get enough of.
Dozens of books, scores of magazine stories, several Hollywood movies and numerous TV documentaries on the subject have not slaked our fascination with the 1912 tragedy at sea. Even novelist Thomas Hardy had something to say about the debacle, in his haunting poem “Convergence of the Twain.”
source: The Seattle Times
section: Entertainment, Page: C3
published: June 15, 1993
author: Joe Adcock
My unaided imagination cannot produce any reason for reviving this 17th-century Spanish drama. However, aid is available.
New Mercury Theatre director James Marsters explains in the show’s program why he is staging Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s “Life Is a Dream.” His note says, in part, “We have, all of us, been wronged; we are, all of us, seeking revenge on innocence; and we, all of us, need to journey towards humility and forgiveness.”
source: The Seattle Times
section: Entertainment, Page: C4
published: April 27, 1993
author: Joe Adcock
We may have had a bad day, but not once during that whole unhappy 24-hour period was our pancreas colonized by alien invaders so that we exploded in excruciating agony while giving birth to an unspeakable monster that will destroy the universe.
source: The Seattle Times
section: Entertainment, Page: D1
published: January 8, 1994
author: Joe Adcock (Theater Critic)
No hate literature written by man-despising women could make men seem more pathetic and vicious than the works of internationally celebrated playwright David Mamet.
Seattle audiences are well-positioned right now to witness the ill-fated male strivings in Mamet’s dramas. Three of his plays opened here this week.
source: The Seattle Times
published: February 1, 1991
author: Marshall Gooch
“A Phoenix Too Frequent,” by Christopher Fry, New Mercury Theater. Tonight and tomorrow, First Christian Church, 1632 Broadway (basement theater), 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m.; through Feb. 23. $6, 324-0979.
source: Los Angeles Times
published: August 17, 2000
author: Philip Brandes
Amid endless debate over the proliferating horror of school shootings, one perspective in short supply is that of the most impacted demographic–teenagers. The Blank Theatre Company compensates for some of that neglect with an all-professional staging of 19-year-old Victor Kaufold’s “The Why” at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.
source: Variety.com
published: March 15, 2005
author: Justin Chang (Copy Editor)
Filmed in Toronto by Once Upon a Time Films in association with Darius Films. Executive producers, Stanley M. Brooks, John Fasano, Nicholas D. Tabarrok. Producer, Aaron Barnett; director, Gary Burns; writer, Shelley Evans, based on the short story “Unlucky Pierre” by Marvin J. Wolf and Katherine Mader.
source: Variety.com
published: August 16, 2000
place: Hudson Mainstage Theatre; 88 seats
author: Steven Oxman
A Blank Theatre Co. presentation in association with the Hudson Mainstage Theatre of a one-act play by Victor Kaufold. Producers, Noah Wyle, Christopher Steele. Directed, designed by Daniel Henning.
source: Chicago Sun-Times
section: Weekend Chicago
published: June 21, 1989
author: Richard Christiansen (Entertainment editor)
credit: web.archive – James Marsters.com
“Incorruptible,” Christopher Cartmill’s fabulously ambitious, panoramic drama about the French Revolution, is exploding across the stage of Bailiwick Repertory.
The two-part, six-hour production features a cast of 16 actor-singers playing nearly 100 roles: frenzied revolutionaries, bloodthirsty peasants, corrupt priests, blustering magistrates, pontificating philosophers, a prophet, a madwoman and a pious pornographer, among others.
source: Chicago Tribune
section: Tempo
published: September 29, 1988
author: Sid Smith (Entertainment editor)
credit: credit: James Marsters.com – The Unofficial website
“Mortal Risk,” a new play by Chicagoan Ron Mark now at the Chicago Cooperative Stage, is a grisly tale of psychological murder.
The killer, a young sufferer of the rare disorder known as multiple personality, mutilates his victims, raping their dead bodies and gouging their organs for display in their own refrigerators.
source: The Seattle Times
published: October 14, 1996
author: Tom Orr
Theater review “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Directed by Terry Edward Moore. Produced by Seattle Shakespeare Festival at the University of Washington’s Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. N.E. Plays in repertory with “Twelfth Night” through Oct. 27. 467-1382.
source: Seattle Post
published: September 13, 1993
author: Joe Adcock (Theatre critic)
“Criminals in Love” contains an example of high-definition criticism: “Bon Jovi makes me puke,” says one young woman. “Bon Jovi makes me puke twice,” says her friend.
source: Seattle Post
published: October 24, 1996
author: Joe Adcock (Theatre critic)
Some thoroughly admirable poets are thoroughly detestable people, or so we often gather from memoirs written by great poets’ significant others. This admirable/detestable dichotomy certainly applies to Shakespeare’s greatest poet, Macbeth.
source: Seattle Post
published: August 27, 1993
author: Joe Adcock (Theatre critic)
James Marsters says he hasn’t actually lost any friends as a result of his current project. “But I have made some friends mad.”
The culprit: “Criminals in Love,” a dark comedy by Toronto playwright George F. Walker. Marsters, co-artistic director at New Mercury Theatre, is directing a production of “Criminals in Love” that previews Wednesday and opens Thursday.