Maybe spontaneously seeing The Diary of Anne Frank...

Maybe spontaneously seeing The Diary of Anne Frank on our mother-daughter girls' night out wasn't the wisest decision ever, but our unhappiness as we left the theatre was purely because of the subject matter and not the experience. It's a nice, small venue; there really isn't a bad seat in the house. The performances and staging were polished and professional--especially admirable since we attended the preview. It was a weeknight during Spring Break with a lot of children in the audience, and it was such an engrossing production (and they were such beautifully behaved children) that my own immersion in the story was never interrupted with talking or fidgeting. We are infrequent visitors to the Seattle Children's Theatre (we've also seen Holes and A Tale of Two Cities), but it has consistently been a high-quality theatre experience.