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Up Next...The Underpants

photo credit: Damian Vines Photography

photo credit: Damian Vines Photography

Up Next: 

The Underpants 

a play by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin

February 13-March 1, 2015 at the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham, WA

Directed by Teresa Thuman, Artistic Director of 2014 TPS Gregory Award winner Theatre Company of the Year.

Renowned performer and writer Steve Martin provides a reinvigorated satire adapted from the 1910 German play about Louise and Theo Maske, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, Theo thinks the incident will cost him his job as a government clerk. Louise’s momentary display does not result in the feared scandal, but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Maske’s home. Oblivious to their amorous objectives, Theo splits the room between them, happy to collect rent from both a foppish poet and a whiny hypochondriac. Filled with off-the-wall humor, wordplay, and masterful banter, The Underpants is relevant in the most entertaining of ways.

For tickets and more show information please visit Mount Baker Theatre's website.

The Hours of Life

Reviews are in for The Hours of Life – 

I expected to be moved, but I wasn't expecting to be dazzled, and I was both. Theatre22's world premiere of their new musical, The Hours of Life, is a triumph of talented people making smart decisions that inform the play from every angle, from set to staging, script, cast, singing and score. I was hooked from the opening moments when the chorus streamed onstage from all corners for their opening number, singing 'The Machinery of Man,' looking and sounding like a Broadway production.  – Doug Hamilton, Seattle Gay News
[T]he cast was well-balanced and quite effective. They all had excellent focus and a convincing impression of the period and of the world in which Poe lived...
...[A] young woman named Anna Power, very attractively played by Jennifer Ewing...
...[A] wonderful evening of musical theater and exceptionally well-produced, convincingly acted and both intellectually and emotionally stimulating.  – Jerry Kraft, SeattleActor.com
 I had the pleasure of seeing this original new musical by Paul Lewis on its opening night and was stunned into submission by a wealth of talent from the cast and crew on this Theatre22 production...I strongly recommend catching this wonderful musical. – Geoff Finney, Copious Love Suggests: The Hours of Love

Thank you to all who made this production a success!  

The Hours of Life closed December 14, 2014 after playing a full run of 12 performances at the Cornish Studio Theatre in Seattle Center.


Electric Man, the movie

Exciting news for Electric Man – 

Charlie Adlard, artist of the comic series The Walking Dead, caught up with the EM team recently and this is what he had to say. “I really enjoyed Electric Man and the makers should be applauded for creating something so good out of so little. It’s a great combination of slice-of-life comedy/drama with the strange world of comics fandom… watch it!”

Electric Man is currently available on DVD, Hulu+, iTunes and other digital platforms. For more, visit the film's website.

Electric Man was produced in Edinburgh on a paltry, shoestring budget of approximately £55,000, but it’s a film which deserves acclaim not because it’s indie, nor because of the fact that it’s Scotland’s first comedy superhero film, but rather because it is simply lots of fun to watch. This is a film which packs lots of love and affection into its run time and which is a sweet love letter to both the superhero genre and comic book subculture. Geeks, freaks, villains and beautiful people – there’s something here for pretty much everyone.

"Media Muppet’s editor, Billy, has requested (demanded) that I point out just how beautifully stunning and geekily sexy actress Jennifer Ewing is in her portrayal of the sultry Lauren." 

- Cara Jenkins, Media Muppet Online

Kitsap Sun 2012 Best of Theatre Awards

Feb 8, 2013

Jennifer was thrilled to be awarded special mention for her performance of Viola in Twelfth Night in the Best Actress (Non-Musical) category of the Kitsap Sun’s Reviewer’s Choice Awards for the 2012 season! Twelfth Night also received a nod in the Best Show (Non-Musical) category. 

Many thanks and congratulations to Key City Public Theatre, and the wonderful cast and creative team behind Twelfth Night!

"Ewing...[is] equally at home with not only punch lines, but with the characters' elements of pathos, as well, and [is] just as good when reacting to the lines of others as [she is] when delivering [her] own. The way [Viola and Olivia] let their uneasy acquaintance foment is particularly well-played. 

"It's a laugh a minute, minimum, for two hours; a treat for the eyes, the ears, the intellect and the funny bone, all in a picnic scenario."  – Michael C. Moore, Kitsap Sun
 

The full article can be read on the Kitsap Sun’s website.