Here are the reviews from over the weekend. It's not too late to catch the show - there are still some tickets available for tonight!

"In On the Boards solo show, Charles Smith explores levels of misunderstanding" - Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

By Jim Demetre

There's a giant intellect hammering away inside the slim form of Charles Smith. Angelic troubadour on display along with the other old world instruments merrily pinging small hammers, filling our entrance into the studio theater with a birdsong of lilting, sweet thrumming. Warming up, his delicate, precise hands nevertheless apparently sometimes hit the wrong keys...as his face will tell you. Grimace, eyes widening, a shrug, slight sigh...begin again. The performance is already afoot as I can see personality at play and in connection with his instrument.

In Tobias Wolff’s story “Bullet in the Brain,” a curmudgeonly book critic is shot at point blank range by a bank robber whose linguistic clichés the critic can’t help mocking. The bullet’s physical speed of 900 feet per second, becomes “a pathetically sluggish, glacial pace compared to the synaptic lighting” inside the critic’s skull. “Once it entered the brain,” Wolff writes, “the bullet came under the mediation of brain time.”

Charles Smith uses 3 instruments in his show that you won't find everywhere. Here's a little tour of what you'll see on the stage:

Hammered Dulcimer

[Image courtesy of whamdiddle.com]

We have just released new tickets for this weekend's performance of My Arm is Up in the Air, meaning that the previously sold out night are now available!

Get your tickets now. The news is so fresh that we're still waiting for our ticketing site to refresh with a link, but you can call 206.217.9888 to snatch up a ticket in the meantime.

Wondering where our discounts went when buying online? They're still there! Choose the number of tickets on the first page (even though the only choice you'll see is full price general admission). On the SECOND PAGE, you will see our regular discounts and can choose which ever (if any) apply at that point. We're not sure why this extra step suddenly showed up. But we've contacted our online ticket provider (Tickets.com) to help resolve this issue.