Seattle Gay News
Issue 3, Volume 45, January 20, 2017
Arts & Entertainment
And the 2016 Gypsy Rose Lee Award nominees are!
(center) Adam Standley and company in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Photo by Mark Kitaoka
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer Seattle Theater Writers, Seattle’s only critics circle, announces the Sixth Annual Nominations of the 2016 Gypsy Rose Lee Awards! Spanning 28 theater companies and
59 productions, from the largest and most prominent to small, humble and innovative, the Gypsy Rose Lee Awards honor as much professional theater as we reviewers can cram into our year. Well known large companies such as Seattle Repertory Theatre with 6 nominasee GYPSY AWARDS page 6
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series opens at Seattle Art Museum Jan. 21
The Migration Series, Panel 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north., 1940–41, Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917–2000, casein tempera on hardboard 12 x 18 in., Acquired 1942, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of artist Jacob Lawrence’s birth, the Seattle Art Museum presents “Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series” (January 21-April 23). Thanks to a major loan from The Museum of Modern of Art in New York (MoMA) and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, all 60 panels of Law-
rence’s masterwork The Migration Series – depicting the exodus of African Americans from the rural South between World War I and World War II – will be shown together for the first time in more than two decades on the West Coast. see JACOB LAWRENCE page 12
Seattle Opera’s La Traviata 89th Annual Academy brilliantly sung but marred Awards nominations by production concept predictions
(left) Maya Lahyani (Flora) and Corinne Winters (Violetta) in La Traviata – Photo by Jacob Lucas
by Sharon Cumberland SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE OPERA LA TRAVIATA MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL (OPENING NIGHT CAST) January 14 (thru 1/28)
Alexander Dumas fils was only 23 years old when he wrote La Dame aux Camélias, the novel Verdi adapted as La Traviata. Dumas’ passionate love affair with a Parisian courtesan inspired one of the best versions of the classic prostitute-with-asee LA TRAVIATA page 5
Hidden Figures – Photo courtesy of foxmovies.com
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer It’s that time of year again. This coming Tuesday morning, January 24, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will announce the nominees for the 89th Academy Awards, and it’s likely
that after two years of #OscarSoWhite becoming a major controversy Oscar voters can rest easy that’s unlikely to be the case this year. With Barry Jenkins Moonlight winning more Best Picture awards from critics groups (including the Seattle see PREDICTIONS page 8