Seattle Theatre Group (Venue Partner)
The Neptune Theatre
1303 Northeast 45th St.
206.467.5510
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Sarah Vowell
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Saturday Mar 10 (8pm)
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$32.50
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“When she's not appearing in a They Might Be Giants documentary (Gigantic) or voicing animated Disney characters (The Incredibles), Sarah Vowell is performing alchemy. By infusing cold, hard history with intelligent humor and attitude, Vowell transforms even the driest subjects (Puritans, anyone?) into scandal-slathered, rib-tickling entertainment. Author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot and The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell can make you care about almost anything. She puts her spicing-up-history skills to the test with her most recent book, Unfamiliar Fishes, a history of 19th Century Hawaii. With her inimitable voice, this former This American Life star is a performer on the page and the stage. Come for the entertainment, stay for the knowledge.”
Elissa Ball, Flavorpill
Sarah Vowell is the New York Times’ bestselling author of five nonfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer.
