Seattle Gay News
Issue 3, Volume 46, January 19, 2018
Arts & Entertainment
Così fan tutte a problematic opera for our times
2018 Academy Award nominations predictions
Expecting big things for Lady Bird, Get Out, Shape of Water and Three Billboards
Marina Costa-Jackson as Fiordiligi and Ginger Costa-Jackson as Dorabella in Così fan tutte – Photo by Philip Newton
by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer SEATTLE OPERA COSÌ FAN TUTTE WOLFGANG MOZART LORENZO DA PONTE MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL January 13 (Opening Night Cast) (Also, 1/24 & 1/27)
Seattle Opera is advertising its current production of Così fan tutte as “Mozart’s Opera About Sex.” True enough, but all of Mozart’s operas are about sex, as the preopening night lecturer (University of Washington’s Stephen Rumph) pointed out. Consider the famous seducer of Don Giovanni who has 1,003 conquests in Spain alone;
see COSÌ FAN TUTTE page 5
– Photo courtesy of ABC / Jeff Lipsky
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer It can safely be said that predicting the nominees, let alone the eventual winners, of the 90th annual Academy Awards, is as difficult this year as it has ever been. There are
no clear frontrunners like Moonlight and La La Land from last year or Spotlight, The Big Sick and The Revenant in 2016. This isn’t like 2013 where it became a foregone conclusion that Argo was going to sweep
see OSCAR NOMS page 8
Seattle Theater Writers Timon of Athens would announce the (Seventh be a 1%-er now Annual) 2017 Gypsy Rose Lee Awards nominations!
Mary Ewald and Michael Winters in Timon of Athens – Photo by John Ulman
by Miryam Gordon, SGN A&E Writer
(l-r) Hoodoo Love – Photo by Luke S. Walker, Lydia – Photo by John Ulman, Ragtime – Photo by Mark Kitaoka, Teh Internet Is Serious Business – Photo by Jeff Carpenter
see GYPSY NOMS page 6
TIMON OF ATHENS SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Through February 4
We all know that Oprah was born dirt poor and achieved the American Dream and is part of the 1%. Maybe some people like her because she’s rich and she’s generous and she might give them a car….. What if she suddenly ran out of money and could no longer
see TIMON OF ATHENS page 7