Slip this clipping into the “Seattle’s-Big-Houses-May-Not-Care-Much-about-Seattle’s-Locally-Grown-Plays-But-the-International-Media-Sure-Does” file. You know, it’s that one that’s getting a little over-stuffed by now with pieces like NPR’s On the Media’s story about the first edition of NewsWrights United’s Living Newpaper (you can listen here), and the UK’s Guardian covering both Seattle’s hosting of the Outrageous Fortune discussion as well as Just Wrought’s vibrant comment stream regarding the Intiman debacle.
This time it’s the vaunted magazine American Theatre giving Scot Augustson a little much deserved love for the opening of his latest Sgt. Rigsby joint, Shadow Odyssey, produced by Printers Devil Theatre at Theatre Off Jackson. Apparently this side-bar shout out doesn’t appear on line, but only in the print version. So I asked Scot to send me a scan. Scot apologized to me for his “Flintstone scanning technology”. (I’m picturing a bird with a pen in its beak, furiously copying the page and then flying with it to my house in Green Lake. Once I take the image, he turns to the camera, shrugs and squawks, “It’s a living!”)
I’m going to see Shadow Odyssey tonight, opening night, ‘cuz I’m cool that way. But whatever you do, you better get your tix soon, before all the folks flying in from all over America buy up all the seats.