Monday, May 20, 2024
This year's summer slate includes beloved musicals, intriguing dance performances and plenty of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:00PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
ACT Contemporary Theatre takes on the Tony Award-winning play tracing the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, April 19, 2024
WET, which has its roots in a UW classroom and became a launchpad for theater artists, has never lost its playful, experimental ethos, including in its new show, "Scrambling the Goose."
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:00PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Actor, composer and director Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako talks about helming her debut production for a professional union house.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, March 11, 2024
The new mystery that's running at The Fifth Avenue Theatre, "Something's Afoot," features a lovely set design. Little else goes right, our critic argues.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:00PMThursday, January 11, 2024
Pearl Lam's "XXX Island," which aims to humorously interrogate the exploitation that can come with reality TV, runs Jan. 18-20 at 18th and Union.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
ArtsWest's new holiday variety show is a charming meta backstage musical, in which a group of artists are trying to finish writing a new holiday variety show.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
This play, commissioned at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I, wasn't one of Shakespeare's finest. But the actors in this Seattle production really make it sing.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:00PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
In Boni B. Alvarez’s “Bloodletting,” on stage from Pork Filled Productions starting Oct. 19, a pair of siblings encounter an aswang, a malevolent creature.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, September 29, 2023
Sofia Ghassaei, a 19-year-old Seattle playwright and poet who is an autistic nonspeaker, wrote "Love Letters," streaming on YouTube and screening soon at Seattle Film Institute.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
In Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e," now on stage from Washington Ensemble Theatre, two sisters grapple with renovating their childhood home on an HGTV-style reality show.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, August 30, 2023
The multi-Tony Award winner brings her solo show “Don’t Monkey with Broadway" to town in a benefit for Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:00PMThursday, August 24, 2023
Kent's Theatre Battery started offering its tickets for free in 2016. It's back now with its first live performance since the pandemic.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
More than 60 people, mostly community members who are nonprofessional performers, take to the stage Aug. 25-27 in Seattle Rep's Public Works staging of Shakespeare's classic.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, August 3, 2023
The musical boasts a diverse cast of female, transgender and nonbinary actors, but reframing the 1969 show at a deeper level proves difficult.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:23PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
While many theater and performing arts seasons will begin in earnest next month, there's still an intriguing selection of performances around town in August.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
The city's flagship playhouse named Dámaso Rodríguez, former artistic director at Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre, to the role. He succeeds Braden Abraham.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:00PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Star Bobbi Kotula has the audience eating out of the palm of her hand in Village Theatre's production, running through July 30 at Everett Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Musical lovers, rejoice! Big touring shows and locally produced musicals grace our stages in July and August. Here are six recommendations for tuners and more.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Nicholas Japaul Bernard made a splash playing Hedwig at ArtsWest in 2018. Back in the title role in a new production, he talks about staging the show in today's climate.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
David Greig's adaptation of Stanisław Lem's sci-fi novel crafts an elemental portrait of grief and isolation that happens to take place on a space station.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Sound Theatre Company's production of Martyna Majok’s critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play includes a host of accessible performances.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Seattle theater artist Justin Huertas' world-premiere musical is at Seattle Rep through June 11.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
"How to Break" is onstage in a world-premiere production at Village Theatre, which has shepherded the show’s development for years.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Playwright and UW assistant professor Nikki Yeboah's "11th & Pine," based on interviews with community members, has a public reading scheduled for March 17-19.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
Before Weedman popped up on TV, she cemented a reputation in Seattle as a fearlessly self-lacerating monologist. She returns to those roots with "Lauren Weedman BLOWS."
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
Karen Rodriguez gives a fully realized performance as 15-year-old Júlia in Seattle Rep's purposeful staging of this adaptation of a young-adult novel.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
In "An Endless Shift" at ArtsWest, Gloria Alcalá personifies five health care workers, using their words, verbatim, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, January 2, 2023
Debra Ann Byrd's solo show "The World’s a Stage: Becoming Othello, A Black Girl’s Journey" opens at Seattle Shakespeare Company Jan. 6.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Drag superstars Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme talk about their Seattle roots, making difficult topics funny and Monsoon's upcoming Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:00PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Before her Broadway star turn and TV writing career, Heidi Schreck cut her teeth on and behind the stages of an adventurous Seattle fringe theater company.
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