Friday, 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Seattle theater artist Justin Huertas' world-premiere musical is at Seattle Rep through June 11.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
WET's first full-length live production since the pandemic is shiny, sugary and gleefully nonsensical.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM 
