Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" happens in a dive bar called Monk's Place and The Williams Project immerses us among the battered characters, with a setup at Washington Hall that …
Seattle's Intiman Theatre is giving "radical hospitality" a try, giving away for free every ticket to its new show, "The Events." Other theaters, including Kent's Theatre Battery, are doing …
Actor and musical-theater writer Justin Huertas, whose musical "The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion" is on at ArtsWest through July 28, has a soft spot for monsters " their awkwardn…
"The Agitators," a 2017 play by Mat Smart and directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, currently at West of Lenin, unfolds like a scrapbook, with snippets of conversation between Douglass and Anth…
"Blackbird," David Harrower's 2005, Olivier Award-winning play, currently staged at 18th and Union by White Rabbits Inc., is a small, powerful, two-character nail bomb.
There's nothing like hearing Antoinette Nwandu's lyrical, painful and beautiful play (about two black men trapped on a battered city corner, their fantasies about how to find an exit, and th…
Franklin students are helping work on set design for "Don't Call It a Riot!," a play by local writer Amontaine Aurore about activism in Seattle, particularly the Black Panther Party in th…
Seattle-based theater company The Horse in Motion mounts a lively production of "The Arsonists," a 1950s play that has lived several lives with several interpretations.
The theater community has rallied around longtime local actors Amy Thone and Hans Altwies, whose daughter, Stella Altwies, was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer last month. A benefit conce…
Here are some of the outdoor theater productions happening this summer in Seattle and around the Puget Sound area.
The ephemeral event " in which writers, editors and photographers bring stories about politics, culture, technology, architecture, science, relationships and more " lives briefly in a cit…
"Singlet," the gloriously dizzying two-person show imported from New York by Washington Ensemble Theatre, is the kind of experimental theater Seattle should be thirsty for.
The 2019 Tony Award nominations are in and a few nominees have local ties, notably Heidi Schreck's almost-solo show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," which is up for best play. Sch…
Some plays feature guns as an important part of their plots. But directors wrestle with how to stage gun violence, especially now, when flashing a gun in a theater charges the atmosphere in …
Julia Cho's play "Office Hour," partly impelled by the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, runs May 2-26 at ArtsWest in Seattle.
Pony World Theatre stages Yussef El Guindi's harrowing "Language Rooms" in the old U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service building where thousands of detainees arrived, left and sometim…
One night in 1935, writer Mikhail Bulgakov went to a wild party at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Moscow. Critics suspect that evening inspired the phantasmagoric scene of Satan's full-m…
Seattle Repertory Theatre stages Lucas Hnath's follow-up to Henrik Ibsen's door slam heard 'round the world.
The first half hour or so may be the most intriguing part of Christopher Chen's 2014 play, before the playwright starts throwing in reveal after reveal.
When the snow hits, how do theaters decide whether to pull the plug on a weekend of shows? How much money do they lose? And how can they possibly catch up?
Book-It is adapting Tom Hansen's "American Junkie," his precise, raw, plain-spoken memoir about becoming a heroin user and dealer in Seattle's music scene, to the stage.
Review: Babs the Dodo at Washington Ensemble Theatre. By Michael Mitnick. Directed by Elise Hunt.
Here for you are a multitude of events worth surviving autumn for. Attending these events will make you smarter, sexier, and less likely to become one of those people who relate primarily to…
Sitting on the front porch of her house in Ravenna, during the final interview for this profile, actor Marya Sea Kaminksi paused, like she was teetering between saying something or holding i…
Last Friday, Seattle Repertory Theatre made a major internal announcement, informing staff of a significant structural overhaul that will eliminate seven jobs"six full-time and one part-time…