GreenStage, which calls itself “Seattle’s Shakespeare in the park company,” goes indoors for an October revival of Titus Andronicus. GreenStage calls director Tony Driscoll’s adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, first performed in 1995, an “over-the-top, comedic, and extra bloody production... a special Halloween treat that deserves resurrection.”
It plays Oct. 9-31, 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sun., in the rental meeting space at 2115 5th Ave. Admission is free (donations will be accepted). Attendees are warned that “the front row of the audience may be a splash zone.” More info: greenstage.org.

In other theater news, Open Circle Theater presents Madness Out of Time, its eighth annual H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. Local playwrights Dustin Engstrom and Ron Sandahl have adapted Lovecraft’s novella “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,” the author’s longest work. It plays Oct. 9-Nov. 14 in the Open Circle/Freehold space, 2222 2nd Ave. Info/reservations: OCTheater.com.
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The St. Joseph’s Chapel space in the Josephinum building, Second and Stewart, is becoming Christ Our Lord Catholic Church, a full-service Catholic congregation. Its first services will be at Easter 2010. Meanwhile, the traditional Latin masses formerly held at St. Joseph’s are being held temporarily at St. Alphonso’s Church, 5816 15th Ave. NW.
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The banking industry may or may not be on the rebound, but Key Bank has put its money on Belltown. Its new branch, originally announced in May, is now open in the First and Wall storefront that previously served as an art space and a condo sales office.
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Our partners at Belltown Ballet & Conditioning, 2306 4th Ave., now offers “Roar Yoga,” described by instructor Meghan Werner as “an all-levels vinyasa flow yoga class,” noon-1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. The first class is free; subsequent sessions are $10. Info: roaryoga.com.
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“Bluefestival” has nothing to do with blues music. It’s a major educational event devoted to “Sustainable Oceans and Sustainable Futures.” Panels, speakers, films, and exhibits will explore what organizers call “the importance of restoring and protecting aquatic health, sustainability and productivity.”

It’s all on Oct. 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., in the Maritime Event Center on Pier 66. Admission is $5; see bluefestival.org for info.
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 It’s official: Seattle’s now in the midst of a genuine Condo Glut. The evidence: developer Schnitzer West’s Sept. 27 auction of 83 unsold units in its Gallery (2911 2nd Ave. in Belltown) and Brix (536 Broadway E.) buildings. The auction was held at the Grand Hyatt downtown. Some units were offered at more than half off their original pre-construction prices.

The result: All the units sold, swiftly. According to SeattleCondoReview.com, the units in the Gallery building sold at an average of 68 percent of their previous listing price, or $439 per square foot. (Units at Brix sold at an average of 70 percent of their previous listing price.)

Schnitzer’s auction sales agent, Accelerated Marketing Partners, says further units will be offered at another event, yet to be scheduled.

Schnitzer founder Dan Ivanoff told KUOW he’d known condos were “a very speculative product type” when he expanded into residential from commercial development: “...When you catch the market wrong, you can have to sell stuff at certain discounts, and have to move through your inventory.”
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Belltown filmmaker James Longley, subject of a “Bell Awards” profile in the July 2007 Belltown Messenger, has received a prestigious $500,000 “genius grant” from the Macarthur Foundation. The foundation’s statement says Longley’s “intimate portraits of people in politically volatile countries in the Middle East are deepening our understanding of the historical and cultural dimensions of the region’s conflicts. For his low-budget, self-financed films, Longley lives among ordinary families, gaining access to people in places rarely chronicled on film by Westerners.”