Tuesday, April 30, 2024
One Broadway veteran with local ties scooped up three Tony noms this year, while another is nominated for her performance in a musical inspired by Alicia Keys.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 04:28PMThursday, July 13, 2023
The six wives of King Henry VIII have arrived at the Paramount, competing for your sympathy and applause in an audacious pop musical.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 06:46PMThursday, October 6, 2022
Aaron Sorkin, who adapted the Harper Lee novel for the play coming to Paramount Theatre Oct. 11-16, discusses his evolving feelings about the novel and more.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 19, 2022
John Aylward, for more than 40 years a quintessential Seattle actor and a force of nature onstage, died on May 16.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 07:50PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
The seriocomic, affectionate but bloated musical revolves (literally) around a character representing Jane Austen, with her fictional offspring dancing, singing and emoting around her.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Valerie Curtis-Newton directs Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau's multi-dimensional tale.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-nominated Broadway play “Indecent" has its local debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre. And “Everything Is Illuminated,” based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s book,…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 26, 2019
Intiman Theatre’s final entry of its 2019 season is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist written by Eisa Davis.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
In this perceptive and unfailingly intelligent one-act work, forcefully performed and precisely staged by Really Really Theatre Group, finding consensus is difficult in an era when the fate …
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
It's Shakespeare-in-the-park season! Wooden O and Greenstage are among the companies presenting live, mostly free shows in open-air locations from Seattle to Port Townsend to Mount Vernon.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 11, 2019
In 2003, Didion lost her husband and sometime literary collaborator John Gregory Dunne and witnessed the sudden, catastrophic illness of their only child. Emerging from that experience, Didi…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Joseph P. McCarthy appeared in shows by ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Strawberry Theatre Workshop and other companies over the years. In addition, he appe…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 08:15PMMonday, July 8, 2019
Martin Charnin, who won a Tony Award for the score of the Broadway hit “Annie,” and who lived in Issaquah during the 2000s when he became active in the Seattle theater scene, died Saturd…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 03:47PMThursday, June 20, 2019
This dramatization of Imbolo Mbue’s best-selling novel runs through June 30.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Here are tips to help you plan your trip — and info on what'll happen if there's wildfire smoke.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMGarrett takes on a nationally respected, multistage theater complex that's one of the largest and oldest theater companies in the country.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Bill Berry’s current 5th Avenue staging of “West Side Story,” based on his hit 2007 version for the company, brings to life with flair and propulsion the saga of young ardor, bigotry a…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 30, 2019
Nia Vardalos' stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's collection of advice columns transcends its limitations to become a celebration of the big picture, as well as “the ordinary miraculous�…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMFriday, May 24, 2019
As a new run of "West Side Story" at the 5th Avenue Theatre approaches, this Broadway classic based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” remains popular and current across generations. …
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMMonday, April 15, 2019
How does Cafe Nordo's hardworking cast of nearly a dozen local actors juggle more than 30 roles in "Jitterbug Perfume" while also serving food?
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
The A-list talent involved in "Marie, Dancing Still" have fashioned a sincere, attractive, overtly sentimental musical that is admirably performed and satisfies in some ways. But it leans to…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 22, 2019
“Marie, Dancing Still," a much-anticipated, Broadway-bound new show with some big names behind it, debuts this month at the 5th Ave, which has a new artistic director eager to make his mar…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Jerry Dixon, who brings decades of showbiz experience, says: "People feel beat-up by what’s going on in our country and are glad for the escapism of musicals."
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
In ACT Theatre's "Romeo + Juliet," Joshua Castille, as Romeo, will discourse primarily through American Sign Language (ASL). Gabriella O’ Fallon, as Juliet, will deliver her lines in spoke…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
"Two Trains Running" starring EUGENE LEE, DAVID EMERSON TONEY & CARLTON BYRD is essentially a blues song saturated with humor, big dreams and painful memories.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 04:51PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Intiman Theatre's staging of "A Doctor in Spite of Himself" combines old gags and new, with wide-ranging musical nods from French baroque opera to "The Music Man" to hip-hop in a tale of a w…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:58PMACT's 2011 roster of plays includes a mystery, urban comedy and premieres.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:58PMMonday, September 8, 2014
Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson’s picks for fall theatergoers.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:17PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Sunday, November 25, 2012
The mood at New York City's Neil Simon Theatre was upbeat on the evening of Nov. 15, as the new musical "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson" had its premiere on Broadw…
SOURCE: seattletimes.com at 04:46AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Fans of Mark St. Germain's one-act "Freud's Last Session," as well as the Bellevue psychologist acting as adviser to the local production, are drawn to the play's articulate exploration of F…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:11PM 
