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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2019 by Moira Macdonald, Brendan Kiley and Michael Rietmulder

From Elton John's farewell tour to the "Downton Abbey" movie, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Review: The Williams Project stages bleak ‘Small Craft Warnings,’ with surprising burst of human kindness by Brendan Kiley

Tennessee Williams' “Small Craft Warnings” happens in a dive bar called Monk’s Place and The Williams Project immerses us among the battered characters, with a setup at Washington Hall…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, July 26, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for August 2019 by Moira Macdonald, Brendan Kiley and Michael Rietmulder

From The Rolling Stones and THING music festival to Seattle Art Fair, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Seattle’s Intiman Theatre tries a radical experiment, giving away every ticket for free by Brendan Kiley

Seattle's Intiman Theatre is giving "radical hospitality" a try, giving away for free every ticket to its new show, "The Events." Other theaters, including Kent's Theatre Battery, are doing …

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

The beauty of monsters: An interview with actor and musical-theater writer Justin Huertas by Brendan Kiley

Actor and musical-theater writer Justin Huertas, whose musical "The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion" is on at ArtsWest through July 28, has a soft spot for monsters — their awkwardn…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, June 28, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for July 2019 by Moira Macdonald, Brendan Kiley and Michael Rietmulder

From the Capitol Hill Block Party to "Spider-Man: Far From Home," our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, June 14, 2019

‘The Agitators,’ about the decades-long friendship of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, unfolds like a scrapbook by Brendan Kiley

"The Agitators," a 2017 play by Mat Smart and directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, currently at West of Lenin, unfolds like a scrapbook, with snippets of conversation between Douglass and Anth…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Thursday, June 13, 2019

‘Blackbird’ takes a steely and unflinching look at a powder-keg topic by Brendan Kiley

“Blackbird,” David Harrower’s 2005, Olivier Award-winning play, currently staged at 18th and Union by White Rabbits Inc., is a small, powerful, two-character nail bomb.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 06:00PM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Why you must see the extraordinary, painfully poetic ‘Pass Over’ at ACT by Brendan Kiley

There's nothing like hearing Antoinette Nwandu's lyrical, painful and beautiful play (about two black men trapped on a battered city corner, their fantasies about how to find an exit, and th…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 11:46AM
Friday, May 31, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2019 by Moira Macdonald, Brendan Kiley and Michael Rietmulder

From Brandi Carlile at the Gorge to "Toy Story 4," our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Franklin High School students, inspired by the Black Panther Party, help create set designs for a new play by Brendan Kiley

Franklin students are helping work on set design for "Don't Call It a Riot!," a play by local writer Amontaine Aurore about activism in Seattle, particularly the Black Panther Party in the …

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, May 24, 2019

‘The Arsonists’ review: 1950s play sounds like an indictment of politics in the age of Facebook by Brendan Kiley

Seattle-based theater company The Horse in Motion mounts a lively production of "The Arsonists," a 1950s play that has lived several lives with several interpretations.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 05:44PM
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Seattle theater community holds fundraiser for local actors whose daughter was diagnosed with cancer by Brendan Kiley

The theater community has rallied around longtime local actors Amy Thone and Hans Altwies, whose daughter, Stella Altwies, was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer last month. A benefit conce…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, May 17, 2019

From Shakespeare to kids’ shows, here are outdoor theater shows you’ll be seeing around Puget Sound in summer 2019 by Brendan Kiley

Here are some of the outdoor theater productions happening this summer in Seattle and around the Puget Sound area.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

A ‘magazine’ that’s performed onstage, with much audience interaction — Pop-Up Magazine comes to Seattle by Brendan Kiley

The ephemeral event — in which writers, editors and photographers bring stories about politics, culture, technology, architecture, science, relationships and more — lives briefly in a c…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Thursday, May 2, 2019

A small Seattle theater takes a gamble, importing an experimental New York show by Brendan Kiley

"Singlet," the gloriously dizzying two-person show imported from New York by Washington Ensemble Theatre, is the kind of experimental theater Seattle should be thirsty for.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

2019 Tony Award nominees include former Seattleite Heidi Schreck by Brendan Kiley

The 2019 Tony Award nominations are in and a few nominees have local ties, notably Heidi Schreck's almost-solo show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," which is up for best play. Schreck…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 05:24PM

Chekhov’s gun control: Seattle directors wrestle with staging violence in the age of mass shootings by Brendan Kiley

Some plays feature guns as an important part of their plots. But directors wrestle with how to stage gun violence, especially now, when flashing a gun in a theater charges the atmosphere in …

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM

Four questions for playwright Julia Cho about ‘Office Hour’ and staging gun violence by Brendan Kiley

Julia Cho's play "Office Hour," partly impelled by the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, runs May 2-26 at ArtsWest in Seattle.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Friday, April 26, 2019

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019 by Brendan Kiley, Moira Macdonald and Michael Rietmulder

From the Seattle International Film Festival to Fisherman's Village Music Festival, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Thursday, April 18, 2019

This play set in a U.S.-run interrogation center takes place in the exact room where the playwright became a U.S. citizen by Brendan Kiley

Pony World Theatre stages Yussef El Guindi's harrowing "Language Rooms" in the old U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service building where thousands of detainees arrived, left and sometim…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Of Satan and Stalin: How a wild party in Moscow inspired a scene in a novel that became a play by Brendan Kiley

One night in 1935, writer Mikhail Bulgakov went to a wild party at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Moscow. Critics suspect that evening inspired the phantasmagoric scene of Satan's full-m…

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Monday, March 25, 2019

She’s baaaack: Nora makes an ambivalent return in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at Seattle Rep by Brendan Kiley

Seattle Repertory Theatre stages Lucas Hnath's follow-up to Henrik Ibsen's door slam heard 'round the world.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

‘Caught’ at Intiman Theatre gets too caught up trying to pull rugs out from under its audience by Brendan Kiley

The first half hour or so may be the most intriguing part of Christopher Chen's 2014 play, before the playwright starts throwing in reveal after reveal.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 01:05PM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

When the show cannot go on: Seattle theaters reckon with cost of snow by Brendan Kiley

When the snow hits, how do theaters decide whether to pull the plug on a weekend of shows? How much money do they lose? And how can they possibly catch up?

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 03:53PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Book-It takes on the raw pain, gallows humor of addiction with ‘American Junkie’ by Brendan Kiley

Book-It is adapting Tom Hansen's "American Junkie," his precise, raw, plain-spoken memoir about becoming a heroin user and dealer in Seattle's music scene, to the stage.

SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Theater That Will Make Your Life Better This Fall by Brendan Kiley

Here for you are a multitude of events worth surviving autumn for. Attending these events will make you smarter, sexier, and less likely to become one of those people who relate primarily to…

SOURCE: The Stranger at 05:58PM

Genius Awards: 2010 Stranger Theater Genius Marya Sea Kaminski by Brendan Kiley

Sitting on the front porch of her house in Ravenna, during the final interview for this profile, actor Marya Sea Kaminksi paused, like she was teetering between saying something or holding i…

SOURCE: The Stranger at 05:58PM

Different Ways to Lose Your Marbles Two New Postcards from the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Brendan Kiley

Review: Babs the Dodo at Washington Ensemble Theatre. By Michael Mitnick. Directed by Elise Hunt.

SOURCE: The Stranger at 05:58PM
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Staff Shuffle at Seattle Repertory Theatre: Seven Jobs Eliminated (To Be Replaced by Three or Four New Ones) - Slog - The Stranger by Brendan Kiley

Last Friday, Seattle Repertory Theatre made a major internal announcement, informing staff of a significant structural overhaul that will eliminate seven jobs—six full-time and one part-ti…

SOURCE: The Stranger at 10:18PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards