15 stories by "Moira Macdonald"
Here are some potential accomplishments that might be achieved at this year's Oscar ceremony.
Mike Miles retired in January after 52 years of working at the Paramount, 40 of them as the theater's technical director. Here's what he's seen, from backstage, over the years.
"We're finding the play but the play is finding us": David Strathairn talks about performing a new translation of the classic Henrik Ibsen play "Ghosts."
After two years without a musical, Roosevelt High School's theater department is returning with something new: welcoming football players into the cast of "Mamma Mia!"
"The Nutcracker," at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is the latest local arts production to present a sensory-friendly performance, so that neurodiverse audience members can enjoy the show with th…
The announcements of live, in-person fall seasons from Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera represent an optimistic leap into the unknown, and an example of how local arts organization…
Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (in his final movie role) and the ensemble cast give masterful performances in Netflix's stellar version of playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom…
Many nonprofit arts organizations, which depend on annual fundraising galas to draw big donations, instead hosted virtual galas this year. But can entirely virtual events generate the kind o…
The film, based on Ahamefule J. Oluo's autobiographical one-man musical show "Now I'm Fine" and by his "This American Life" story "The Wedding Crasher," will stream for 24 hours beginning at…
The coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate Seattle's arts and entertainment community, with Seattle Art Museum, ACT Theatre, Chihuly Garden & Glass and the Space Needle all experien…
For the musical "Frozen," an actor, by means of a nearly 50-pound design so elaborate that it's called a puppet rather than a costume, is transformed into a four-legged, hoofed and antlered …
This is a call to action: Let's go out and experience art and entertainment together, whenever and wherever we can. And let's just, when we do that, think about the person next to us.
If you've seen "Wicked," you know how very green the witch Elphaba is. Here's a backstage peek at how the face, neck and hands of the actor who plays Elphaba become the color of very, very c…
Why have there been so few ballet-themed musicals? The biggest challenge is finding performers with a strong background in classical ballet who can also sing " while on pointe! " and act. "M…
A fashion designer who founded his own company more than 30 years ago, Isaac Mizrahi recently penned "I.M.: A Memoir." His cabaret show "I&Me" is like a companion piece to "I.M." " an au…
