109 stories by "Jerald Pierce"
Featuring work from six local artists and a new development process, "And So That Happened ..." looks to find hope in the events of the last two years.
Leah Nanako Winkler's parody of "white people by the water" plays takes on the works of Chekhov and Shepard, but Intiman's take falls short of coalescing.
Sylvia Khoury's "Selling Kabul" gives actor Yousof Sultani a chance to tell a story deeply connected to his family and the people in Afghanistan.
Crediting Seattle with setting the stage for her growth as a writer, Yim's win puts her name on the national scene.
Starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Oscar nominee David Strathairn, Ibsen's "Ghosts" pits morals and truth against each other and the audience in between.
This spin on the 1982 story by Rachel Ingalls offers a surreal journey of self discovery as love blooms between a housewife and a creature from the sea.
From understudies to digital production to a lot of testing, theaters are parsing new ways to do business as they step back on stage.
Seattle Public Theater's production of "Pipeline," despite outstanding performances from the actors, falls just shy of its full potential.
600 Highwaymen use the final chapter of their triptych to bring strangers together and start to process the pandemic's mental and emotional fallout.
As Washington and King County drop COVID-19 masking and vaccination requirements this month, what arts groups and venues are doing is varied.
The leaders of Hedgebrook, Seattle Arts & Lectures and Macha Theatre Works are making room for writers to be, and find, themselves.
"Freestyle Love Supreme," infused with a unique blend of freestyle rap, hip-hop and improvisation, invites audiences to reconnect with the joy of live theater.
Before she takes the Broadway stage, Porkalob offers Seattle a look at the second installment of her intimate series of memoir plays.
Welcome to the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society. Chris Bean will be making his directorial debut, and for the next two hours his cast will be telling you the story of "The Murder at Haversh…
Once the "on air" light goes on, the story of George Bailey in Bedford Falls is told at a brisk pace, broken up only a couple of times by "commercial breaks" that include sung jingles and au…
With its "Futurology" season, guided by co-artistic directors Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo, Teatro Vista offers a glimpse at the future of the company.
Audiences can get an early look at theater's future. "New Stages is a really important part of our new-work pipeline," said director of new works Jonathan L. Green. "It feels great to be get…
On the first night of Hanukkah, a quirky band of actors comes across a town and they look to trade a story for food and shelter. That story tells the tale of Hershel as he spends Hanukkah ou…
"Hundred Days" allows love to shine through the darkness of grief. The story plays out over the course of essentially an hour-and-a-half concert featuring a mix of folk and punk music.
When the cast bursts onto the stage with a blast of warm energy against the quickly cooling Chicago weather, it's clear that there are few better ways to spend 90 minutes than with gas stati…
The play follows two tracks: One, with a young Wayland wanting to move away from the racism he's facing in Mississippi and to Chicago. In the other, Della Rose sits dreaming of a chance for …
As the Mercury Theater reopens, it looks to become a place for artistic growth and community. "For those audience members coming back, it's still going to be the same great Mercury that they…
Now called the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, the historic venue company will undergo a series of renovations, beginning with a $4 million first-floor project.
Inspired by real accounts of women in a U.K. prison, this Chicago premiere is presented by Shattered Globe Theatre in association with Interrobang Theatre Project.
Tucked away in a corner of the Loop, "Drunk Shakespeare," created by Scott Griffin and David Hudson, sets about telling the story of Macbeth's rise to and fall from power through improvisati…
