Freddie Ljungberg Signs for Seattle

Big time soccer has arrived in Seattle as Sounders FC officially unveiled Swedish legend Freddie Ljungberg as their designated player for 2009. The attacking midfielder won 71 caps for Sweden scoring 14 goals, and captained them in Euro 2008. His club career is best known for his nine years at Arsenal in North London. Playing in a very successful side alongside greats such as Thierry Henry, Robert Pirès, Sol Campbell, Patrick Viera, and Dennis Bergkamp, he won two league titles and three FA Cups in England including a league and cup double in 2002. Ljungberg’s arrival signals the end of months of speculation about who Sounders FC would sign as their Designated Player, or indeed whether they would even sign one at all. Houston Dynamo and Columbus Crew are currently the two most successful clubs in the MLS and both have opted to play without one. Ljungberg’s salary is $2.5m a year and he is contracted to Seattle Sounders FC for two years. Full and comprehensive coverage from the press conference

Sounders FC to Unveil Designated Player

Freddie Ljungberg May be the Man to Lead Sounders FC Charge There will be a press conference to announce Seattle Sounders FC's new Designated Player for the 2009 MLS season. Retired Sweden captain Freddie Ljunbgberg is the favourite to be unveiled. More details here

Sounders Fly Out to Argentina as 2011 MLS Deadline Passes

Sounders Head to Argentina as MLS Cities are Announced. Estudiantes de la Plata, Platense, Rosario Central, and CA Jorge Griffa Are Opponents as Sounders Thank Players It's a big day for soccer in both Seattle and North America. Seattle Sounders players fly out to Argentina to play four friendly games with the words of Adrian Hanauer that "we’ve told all of the players, they all have a chance" fresh in their minds. In another story, MLS announced the applicants for the two places in 2011. Full Story and List of Applicants

Three Musketeers - Seattle rep

Seattle Repertory Theatre brings us a new fast- paced adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeer directed by Kyle Donnelly. This is a family-friendly version with a modern twist. Don’t worry the sword-fighting fun of the original is core to this fun action packed adventure. amlines Dumas’ complex story and adds a beloved kid sister (Sabine) who sets upon Paris with her brother d’Artagnan. Why should the boys have all the fun? Sabine is a delightfully modern, spunky addition performed by Montana von Fliss. Other standout performances by Jim Abele as the evil Cardinal Richelieu and Alban Dennis as the dim-witted but loveable King Louis XIII add to the mix. Full Review

Adrian Hanauer Seattle Sounders Interview

'I’ll do whatever’s necessary for the team to succeed.' On November 11, 2007, Major League Soccer announced that the next expansion franchise was to be based in Seattle. It was a dream come true for many but none more than Adrian Hanauer, owner of the Seattle team plying its trade in the United Soccer League at the time. Hanauer had brought together an ownership consortium consisting of Hollywood producer Joe Roth, himself, Vulcan Sports and Entertainment (owners of the NFL Seattle Seahawks) and comedian Drew Carey. The Seahawks brought a wealth of marketing experience and QWest Field, Carey brought the novel approach of making Seattle Sounders FC, as it is to become, a membership based organization where the General Manager is elected by the club members. In bringing an MLS franchise to Seattle, a dream had been fulfilled. Now the task of building as team, a fan base and a economically viable business has begun. And Hanauer's in charge. Prost Amerika sat down with him and tried to get some insight about his vision to see what the club he is shaping will look like, and became the first to reminisce about the end of the USL era in Seattle in his first full length interview since Seattle Sounders turned the page on the USL chapter of its life. Click Here for the Full Interview

All the King's Men - Intiman Theatre

Eleven years after Long’s death, Robert Penn Warren wrote “All the King’s Men” for which he received his first Pulitzer Prize a year later. Based on the life of Long, the play’s focal point is the career of Willie Stark, a self-proclaimed hick politician, who began his political life conducting an honest fight against a construction contract being awarded nepotistically. However, learning that politics is a dirty game, Stark begins his transformation into the manipulative end product. Adrian Hall created this adaptation of the novel in 1987 for the resident acting company of the Trinity Repertory Company of Rhode Island. 18 actors take the stage and the musical works of Randy Newman are part of Hall’s adaptation. In this Intiman performance, directed by Pam McKinnon, Leo Marks takes the lead role of Jack Burden, a journalist who ends up working for Stark. All the King's Men Full Review

The Night Watcher by Charlayne Woodard

Some people like one person shows, some do not. If you’re one of those that do, then The Night Watcher is a show that you should not miss. Charlayne Woodard wrote and performed this show and if there was one phrase that was continually overheard on leaving the theatre, that phrase would be “She’s amazingly talented, isn’t she?” It begins with Charlayne receiving a call from Alfre Woodard (no relation) asking Charlayne who is black and her husband Harris who is white to adopt a mixed race baby. In declining the offer, Charlayne and her husband Harris realize that biological parenthood is not for them. "I can’t have a baby. If I have a baby...I can’t be the baby, right Harris?" Full Review