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 09:00AMSayet'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 09:00AMJust 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 09:00AMHundreds 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 09:00AM“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 09:00AM5th Avenue's "Afterwords" fails to meaningfully grapple with topics like grief and addiction. But a talented cast shines.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWET's first full-length live production since the pandemic is shiny, sugary and gleefully nonsensical.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMMike Lew's “Teenage Dick," a reimagining of Shakespeare's “Richard III," is onstage at Seattle Rep through April 3.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM"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 09:00AMThe 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"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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMSeattle 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMNow 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMIn 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThere’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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMVillage 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMDirector 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM"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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMTaproot 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMBook-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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMSeattle'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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMNearly 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM“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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMPerformed 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMFrom 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMELEVATE 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMIntiman’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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMA 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMIn 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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMKent-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: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMNearly 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…
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