This year's summer slate includes beloved musicals, intriguing dance performances and plenty of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 04:00PMACT Contemporary Theatre takes on the Tony Award-winning play tracing the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWET, 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: www.seattletimes.com at 04:00PMActor, composer and director Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako talks about helming her debut production for a professional union house.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThe 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: www.seattletimes.com at 04:00PMPearl 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMArtsWest'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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThis 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: www.seattletimes.com at 04:00PMIn 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMSofia 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 09:00AMIn 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 09:00AMThe 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 04:00PMKent'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 09:00AMMore 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 09:00AMThe 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 07:23PMWhile 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 09:00AMThe 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 03:00PMStar 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 09:00AMMusical 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 09:00AMNicholas 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 09:00AMDavid 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 09:00AMSound 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 09:00AMSeattle theater artist Justin Huertas' world-premiere musical is at Seattle Rep through June 11.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM"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 09:00AMPlaywright 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 09:00AMBefore 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 09:00AMKaren 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 09:00AMIn "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 09:00AMDebra 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 09:00AMDrag 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 02:00PMBefore 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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