Seattle Gay News
Issue 27, Volume 41, July 5, 2013
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Perennial Paula Still funny after all these years
Fearless
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paulapoundstone.com
PAULA POUNDSTONE PANTAGES THEATER, TACOMA July 12 Comedy is and always has been a man’s world. Paula Poundstone, however, is one woman who has muscled her way into the industry and continues to draw audiences across the country to her live performances. The Alabama-born comedian launched her professional career during the early ’80s in San Francisco – a career that has now extended into its fourth decade. If you want to call Poundstone anything, call her a survivor. Still going strong, the veteran comic appears next weekend at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater, as part of Tacoma Pride (www.tacomapride.org) Via e-mail, here’s what she had to say to SGN. Albert Rodriguez: You’ve performed many times in the SeattleTacoma area. Do you have any fond memories of either? Paula Poundstone: I used to love looking around the bookstore
in Pioneer Square. I also recall buying a lunch box at a “peanut butter and jelly” store in Seattle, which I think is fairly unusual, and the glass-blowing place in Tacoma is unbelievable. Honestly, though, my fondest memories of the Seattle-Tacoma area are the audience members. Their energy is fantastic. I often bomb in the city I play after there, because I get all over-confident from having too much fun with the Seattle-Tacoma crowd. Rodriguez: For anyone who hasn’t seen you in concert, can you describe a Paula Poundstone live experience? Poundstone: The “live Paula Poundstone experience” includes top-ofthe-line audience members. When I used to work clubs where there was a headliner, a middle act, and an emcee, guys
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Intiman’s second
flashes
annual festival
explores a quartet
SGN ’s 2013 summer movie preview (pt. 2)
of ‘taboo’ topics
by Michelle Sanders Special to the SGN
INTIMAN THEATRE FESTIVAL Through September 15 Summer is here, which means it’s time for the Intiman Theatre Festival. This year’s festival brings to life four plays that talk about topics a polite person shouldn’t discuss at dinner: race, sex, politics, and money, and in-
cludes a brand-new musical about America’s first openly Transgender mayor. Intiman produces theater that is relevant to our time and as diverse as the community in which we live, and this year is producing four underrepresented stories with a creative team that is equally divided by gender. Seattle Gay News has the full scoop on each of the plays.
TROUBLE IN MIND By Alice Childress, directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton New York, 1957: An integrated theater company gathers to rehearse a new play – the one they hope will be the next big hit on the Great White Way. Against the backdrop of misperceptions and stereotypes within
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer The second half of the Summer Movie silly season begins this week with the release of Disney’s fantastically expensive The Lone Ranger and Universal’s animated sequel Despicable Me 2, both studios hopeful that their respective flicks will inch them one step closer to box office dominance. But while these films are born from beloved properties and characters that are near and dear to many potential viewers’ hearts, the truth of the matter is that both July and August are shockingly short on reboots, reimaginings, or sequels. For the most part, the stu-
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Hayley Young
(l-r) Mark Anders in Stu For Silverton, Tracy Michelle Hughes in Trouble In Mind, Aishe Keita in Lysistrata, Burton Curtis in We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!
legendary pictures
by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
Pacific Rim
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