Thursday, 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.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, September 5, 2022
Sayet's show "Where We Belong," opening soon at Seattle Rep, includes an accountability rider with requirements such as a commitment to never employ redface again.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2022
Just weeks before the Sept. 9 opening of Theatre22's second show of 2022, the company announced that that would be its final production. Here's why.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Hundreds of performances and a pandemic later, the “Come From Away” national tour is back at the 5th Avenue Theatre, running through Aug. 7.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
“Hadestown,” winner of eight Tony Awards including best musical, makes its touring debut in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre July 12-17.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, May 13, 2022
5th Avenue's "Afterwords" fails to meaningfully grapple with topics like grief and addiction. But a talented cast shines.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
WET's first full-length live production since the pandemic is shiny, sugary and gleefully nonsensical.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Mike Lew's “Teenage Dick," a reimagining of Shakespeare's “Richard III," is onstage at Seattle Rep through April 3.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, March 10, 2022
"The Thin Place," opening later this month at ACT Theatre, is by Lucas Hnath, known for his cerebral and formally adventurous plays.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, February 15, 2022
The world premiere of “The Fifth Wave,” presented by Macha Theatre Works, finally makes it to the stage. It runs through Feb. 27 at West of Lenin.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
"Hotter Than Egypt" marks the fifth world premiere staging at ACT Theatre for Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi. It's a lighter effort than some of his past works.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Seattle Shakespeare Company's “Drum and Colours” program, which features a cast made up entirely of people of color, pairs “Hamlet” and “As You Like It,”
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, February 3, 2022
Now on stage at ArtsWest, this world premiere production sketches a vivid characterization of a loving if suddenly tenuous bond between father-figure (Lamar Legend, who also directed) and so…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, January 27, 2022
In the plays of Yussef El Guindi, the Egyptian-born Seattle writer, characters from different backgrounds fumble for common ground. His latest, “Hotter Than Egypt,” opens soon at ACT The…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
There’s never been a Village Theatre without Robb Hunt. He was part of a group that founded the Issaquah-based institution in 1979 and, at the end of this season, he will step down, follow…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Village Theatre's first full production since reopening from pandemic closures in 2020 is “Songs for a New World,” from composer Jason Robert Brown, a two-time Tony winner for “Parade�…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, December 20, 2021
Director Bartlett Sher, onetime artistic director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre, talks about reviving "My Fair Lady" for current times. The touring production runs at the Paramount Theatre De…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
"We've Battled Monsters Before" showcases Justin Huertas' brand of charming fantasy-tinged chamber musical, while also presenting the joys and heartaches of Huertas' Filipino heritage and a …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, November 29, 2021
Taproot Theatre's first play back from pandemic closures is "Babette's Feast," adapted from Isak Dinesen's 1950 short story, about a refugee from Paris who cooks a lavish feast for a pious f…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
Book-It Repertory Theatre will begin live performances again early next year, but the company is kicking off this hybrid season with two more recorded audio dramas. The first — "Zen and th…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFriday, October 29, 2021
Seattle's Pony World Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Blake Hackler’s play, in which three sisters growing up in small-town East Texas take divergent paths to cope with their sh…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, October 25, 2021
Nearly two dozen events, from theater to dance and more, are slated for Sound Theatre Company’s Making Waves Fall Arts Festival. They mark simultaneously a bold reentrance into live perfor…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
“Jesus Christ Superstar” is on stage Oct. 5-10 at the Paramount Theatre, the second stop on the revived tour after a run in Portland, and marking the return of the Broadway at the Paramo…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Performed outdoors, through Aug. 29, The Williams Project's 'Marisol,' about a post-apocalyptic apocalypse, feels relevant to our current slate of crises, as its characters repeatedly discov…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, July 19, 2021
From July 23-Aug. 8, Wooden O, the outdoor theater arm of Seattle Shakespeare Company, will stage “The Comedy of Errors.” The silly and slapstick-y farce will be seen in parks around the…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
ELEVATE is a program from Seattle Theatre Group that showcases spoken-word performance from Black and brown artists. Its inaugural show, a filmed performance that will feature poetry and his…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Intiman’s STARFISH Project offers free after-school technical theater training for high school students. This year's project is reaching its culmination with a filmed performance that will…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMWednesday, April 14, 2021
A new initiative from Seattle's The Hansberry Project and Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company aims to co-commission, co-develop and co-premiere new plays by Black writers. A virtual read…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
In Keiko Green’s “Wad,” a high schooler begins a pen-pal relationship with a death-row prisoner. ACT Theatre's filmed production, a showcase for three of its core company members, stre…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMMonday, March 8, 2021
Kent-based Theatre Battery addresses some of J.K. Rowling's statements last year in what it bills as a queer fanfiction parody stop-motion animation series, "Lego Harry Potter and the Transg…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThursday, February 11, 2021
Nearly a year after the Paramount Theatre went dark, Seattle Theatre Group (which operates the Paramount) and Broadway at the Paramount have announced new dates for the 2021-2022 season, inc…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM 
