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Reginald Andre Jackson has acted in Seattle for more than 30 years. During the pandemic, he put in time playwriting, creating "History of Theatre."
Opening near the end of prom season and right at the beginning of Pride month, The 5th Avenue Theatre couldn't have picked a better time to host "The Prom."
Many Seattle performing-arts organizations are requiring masks through the end of their 2021-22 seasons, and some are still requiring proof of vaccination.
Washington's Heritage Arts Apprenticeship Program partners master teachers and apprentices to hand down culturally specific artistic traditions.
Book-It Repertory Theatre is adapting Amy Tan's look at the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters. Here's how it's doing it.
Two years into concerted efforts to make theater a more anti-racist industry, some progress has been made. But the work needs to continue as theaters reopen.
Inspire Washington is touring to provide cultural organizations with information on resources as they work to recover from pandemic closures.
"Riverwood," co-produced by LANGSTON and Seattle Public Theater, follows the lives of five people directly affected by gentrification.
The folks who hand out Tony Awards believe five is not enough for Angela Lansbury.
Check out this Seattle Times roundup of fun Seattle-area events to fill out your summer calendar.
The extension from the Broadway League, a trade group that sets coronavirus policy on Broadway, comes as New York rides out another COVID wave.
John Aylward, for more than 40 years a quintessential Seattle actor and a force of nature onstage, died on May 16.
Many companies have moved back inside, but there's still great variety for anyone looking to experience performances in the open air this summer.
5th Avenue's "Afterwords" fails to meaningfully grapple with topics like grief and addiction. But a talented cast shines.
ACT's production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning play finally takes the stage after its 2020 cancellation, reminding audiences to know who is on your side.
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.
Joshua Cohen's "The Netanyahus," a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has wo…
Top nominees entering this year's Tony Awards will be the musicals "A Strange Loop," "MJ" and "Paradise Square," each of which earned nominations in double figures Monday.
"A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's drama about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man is an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
The industry hopes that ending vaccine checks will make theatergoing more attractive, and that the remaining mask mandate will help keep audiences safe as cases have risen.
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.
Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.
Seattle's Sound Theatre Company turns its lens on the early 20th-century play that became a Hollywood film and led to the pop-culture term "gaslighting."
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.
WET's first full-length live production since the pandemic is shiny, sugary and gleefully nonsensical.
