Thursday, December 30, 2021
Fingers crossed and fervent wishes sent for the end of the pandemic, here are some of the arts-and-culture events we're looking forward to in the new year, from a Billie Eilish concert to na…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Ms. Pak-Man, a bulbous, golden, eternally vain train wreck of a lounge act, debuted in Seattle in 2017 and was a hit with audiences. Now co-creator Scott Shoemaker returns with a show featur…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 1, 2021
On July 9, writer/performer David Schmader brings his improbably wonderful annotated screening of the catastrophically bad, painfully misogynist movie, "Showgirls" " about the back-stabby wo…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
Seattle ticketing company Brown Paper Tickets has agreed to pay $9 million in restitution to an estimated 45,000 customers at both ends of the company's business model: ticket buyers owed re…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:27PM[SHARE]To settle a lawsuit, Seattle company Brown Paper Tickets has agreed to pay $9 million in restitution to an estimated 45,000 customers at both ends of its business model: ticket buyers owed r…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2021
Tucked inside Congress' latest round of small-business relief is some rare good news for restaurants, hotels and the performing arts " sectors that have been especially hard hit by COVID-19 …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 19, 2020
Dozens of Seattle theater leaders have been meeting for months, aiming to overhaul everything " boards, audiences, casting and more " to create an anti-racist future. It's groundbreaking wor…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Even as we cozy up in our quarantine outposts for isolated holiday celebrations, much of Seattle's theater community has created virtual holiday shows to enjoy from the best seat in your hou…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2020
On the Boards presents "A Thousand Ways Part Two: An Encounter," in which two strangers are both performers and audience. It's part of the three-part "A Thousand Ways" by New York-based thea…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
This week, the Friday Foundation, a new Seattle entity, gave $9 million to nine Seattle arts organization " mostly for new work. The gifts are a legacy from the late philanthropists Jane Lan…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2020
Intiman Theatre finally has a new home. The Seattle institution is settling on Capitol Hill at Seattle Central College, where it will become the only nationally known regional theater attach…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2020
After receiving nearly 600 consumer complaints from around the country about Brown Paper Tickets, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Seattle…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:28PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2020
How are local arts groups and musicians holding up and what do they have planned this fall, despite the restrictions? Here, they tell us in their own words, offering a snapshot of how some a…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Attorneys in Seattle have filed two legal actions against Brown Paper Tickets, which has been beset by complaints that it owes artists money. Filed last month, one of the legal actions is on…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Many theaters have turned to digital programming. Now, a few Seattle theaters have announced slightly more inventive, refined and ambitious season plans: audio dramas, online choose-your-own…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2020
It's tough to find silver linings in 2020. In a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, though, artists have continued to create and will keep doing so, no matter the circumstances. Here's a …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2020
For "The Line," playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen interviewed real health care workers in New York City. The play, presented by The Public Theater, streams online for free through Au…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2020
A blowup around this year's Artist Trust's Artist Innovator Award has become a kind of referendum on the 33-year-old nonprofit that supports Washington artists and distributes nearly half a …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 11:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Performing arts organizations were among the first to close their doors in the pandemic shutdown and will likely be among the last to reopen. Even when they are allowed to turn on the lig…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2020
How do we rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic? Do we try to reestablish the status quo of January 2020, or should we take this enforced pause " triggered by the twin forces of coronavirus …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The twin pressures of the coronavirus pandemic and economy-snarling lockdown have dramatically changed just about every aspect of life. As the country begins to emerge from stay-home orders,…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
ArtsFund on Monday announced new projections about pandemic-related losses in regional arts, cultural and scientific nonprofits, as well as its first round of coronavirus-related relief gran…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:40PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2020
Earlier this year, clients of the Seattle-based online ticket broker " many of them artists and small-business owners " said they haven't been paid for events, some dating back to last year.…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2020
Petra Karr, who with her husband, Chris, founded what became the theater company ACT 1, died on April 7.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2020
From the Capitol Hill Arts District Streaming Festival to a virtual benefit for "unconventional venues and the gig and production workers that make them possible," here are the streaming and…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The coronavirus-shutdown crisis has ripped through Seattle's arts and culture scene, guillotining income for individual artists and organizations while they scramble to cut expenses.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Artists and arts groups say money they expected from Seattle-based Brown Paper Tickets either didn't arrive, or the checks bounced, or money was deposited, then got sucked back out of bank a…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:46PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2020
ArtsFund, along with a coalition of arts organizations, is working to launch an emergency relief fund for arts organizations in King County. Artist Trust is launching a relief fund to help i…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
On Tuesday, the City of Seattle announced a $1.1 million, arts-specific recovery package and rent suspension for cultural organizations, designed to help an arts sector heavily hit by the co…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:05PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
Whatever comes of the novel coronavirus tumult, the economic crisis is happening now. The needs for arts workers " gigging artists, teachers, staffers at arts institutions "Â are piling up…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM[SHARE] 
