...and the Winner is...US! Jan 31, 2011
by Eric P
Wow, that was a total performance tsunami!
...tEEth! Congrats to them and all of the incredible participants.
It was a remarkable evening! Familiar faces making the rounds...like an art party. Everyone's hepped up and excited about tonight's show and are punting ideas about who will take this evening's vote. Look's like I'm not in the front row tonight...as the seats are rapidly swept up by a phalanx of teenage girls, giddy with excitement!
Audience votes determined that The Offshore Project will proceed to the final night.
Stay tuned for more updates on who will be joining them on Sunday. For info or tickets, see the performance page.
The Waiting List for Saturday's AWARD Show performance is full. We will start a second, slim-chance-of-getting-in, cash only waiting list at 7pm at our upstairs lobby box office. Who knows? Sometimes these people do get in. Give it a shot if you're feeling adventurous!
Want to know what happened on Friday night? Check out the following:
OtB A.W.A.R.D. Show: Night Two: City Arts
Did I go home and sleep last night? Time is jello because here I am in my same front row seat and am seeing the same people. It's a bit of a social scene here for A.W.A.R.D show #2 with everyone milling about, having casual conversation. Lights out, show time, people sit. "So You Think You Can Dance" Seattle style, night number two.
Audience votes determined that tEEth will proceed to the final night.
Stay tuned for more updates on who will be joining them on Sunday. For info or tickets, see the performance page.
Devotion, coming to OtB Mar 10 - 13, recently opened at NYC's The Kitchen to great critical praise. Check out the reviews that have come out so far:
"Matters of Faith, Prayer And Physical Exertion" - New York Times
Here's what's being written about Thursday night of The A.W.A.R.D. Show!:
"zoe | juniper Takes Night #1 of The A.W.A.R.D. Show! at OtB" - The SunBreak
Did you attend the first night of performances? Are you coming another night? We want your thoughts on the experience of watching and then voting on dance. How was it for you?
A sold out crowd being politely asked to scoot in and take the lone empty seats as the aisles back up.
Audience votes determined that zoe | juniper will proceed to the final night.
Stay tuned for more updates on who will be joining them on Sunday. For info or tickets, see the performance page.
Seattle Times, Crosscut and Seattle Weekly have both begun weighing in on The A.W.A.R.D. Show! opening tonight:
The Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances of THE AWARD Show are SOLD OUT.
Right now, the Sunday AWARD Show Finale is sold out. Fifty tickets are still on hold until midnight on Saturday. This is to ensure that the person/group winning on Saturday will still have some tickets available for the Finale.
If you're still looking for Sunday tickets, this is your best shot!
Read Jeremy Barker's take on the participants this year, the changing stakes and why you should be heading to OtB to help give $10,000 to one of the 12 artists in this week's The A.W.A.R.D. Show!.
Radoslaw Rychcik and company have just rounded out their North American tour with a final stop at the excellent PuSh Festival in Vancouver BC (check out what they have going on for the remainder of the festival). Since their departure a couple more reviews have been published:
[Washington Ensemble Theatre's Noah Benezra sent us a blog AND posted a blog conversation with another ensemble member on the WET blog. Read that conversation here!]
Here's a sampling of the comments I received in my inbox today:
[I'm posting some of the reviews I've received in my inbox today - enjoy! -Jessica]
The SunBreak's Michael Baker just posted his take on In the Solitude of Cotton Fields:
Byron wrote up a review of In the SOlitude of Cotton Fields on his blog. Read "The Big Gay Polish Show?"
More from Seattlest's Omar Willey on last night's performance of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields here.
Hear what else seattlepi.com's Alice Kaderlan has to say about In the Solitude of Cotton Fields on the Feet First blog.
Here's another sampler of what we're hearing from last night's audiences:
I've been looking forward to my exposure to the Polish group for months!
Please note this is written after a long night hanging out with the infamous Poles. I am tired, I am wasted, I am hungry, I am euphoric.
Did you come see Radosław Rychcik | Stefan Zeromski Theatre? What'd you think of the performance? Leave a comment with your thoughts!
Check out our featured bar snack for this weekend - vodka infused gummies, perfect for a Polish-punk-rock-theater performance!

See you there!
Read what Brendan Kiley at the Stranger and Steven Le
The company has landed and we're busily prepping for Thursday's opening. Check out some of the reactions to In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in other cities in the US when it made a couple stops in the fall:
[We always include a note from OtB's Lane Czaplinski and Sarah Wilke in our programs and Performance Prospectus. Get a little peek from the inside about our show next week after the jump!]
Check out the 2 page spread Stage Directions published about OntheBoards.tv in their January 2011 edition!
"Live performance can’t be replaced by streaming video, just like cellphones could never replace landlines.
Wait, what?