McCarthy and Grant shine in eloquently moving Can You Ever Forgive Me?
by Sara Michelle Fetters
SGN A&E Writer
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Now playing
Once upon a time Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) was a vaunted celebrity biographer who chronicled the lives of artists like Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead
see FORGIVE ME? page 7
Pacific Musicworks’ exquisite Monteverdi concert both exciting and sublime
Monteverdi Masterworks – Photo by
by Sharon Cumberland
A&E Writer
The sanctuary of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood was a wonderful setting for Pacific MusicWorks’s presentation of sacred
Delicately intimate What They Had an emotional powerhouse
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer
WHAT THEY HAD Now playing
After her mother Ruth (Blythe Danner) leaves the house to walk the streets during a raging snowstorm, California chef Bridget (Hilary Swank) rushes home to Chicago
see WHAT THEY HAD page 5
Mike Daisey’s A People’s History a riveting reflection on America
music by the baroque master, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). The sanctuary’s soaring nave, raked floor, and comfortable pews were particularly well-suited for sacred music, and allowed everyone in the audience to see and hear the musicians clearly. Thirteen performers – eight singers and five instrumentalists –filled the space with psalms, sacred sonnets, and sections of the mass that were simultaneously exciting and sublime.
see MONTEVERDI page 3
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY WITH MIKE DAISEY SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE Through November 25
Mike Daisey has an uncanny ability to cut subject matter down to bite-sized incisive bits of information. If you have never
heard him opine, you owe it to yourself to pay a visit, at least once, to his current sitdown at Seattle Repertory Theatre!
In this iteration, in his A People’s History, Daisey has decided to compare, in his roundabout, talk-about-everything-at-once way of discussing things, his own public school U.S. history education during high school (i.e., the textbook used in his classroom) with Howard Zinn’s seminal book, see PEOPLE'S HISTORY page 3
Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight
Bill Mohn
Mike Daisey – Photo by Sabrina Fonseca
Blythe Danner and Hilary Swank in What They Had – Photo courtesy of Bleecker Street