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Two inventive Off-Broadway shows " "Here Lies Love" and "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" " feed audiences' appetite for immersive theatrical experiences.
In ReAct's production of the theater classic "Picnic," the sexual mores of the 1950s still resonate today.
Intiman Theatre Festival artistic director Andrew Russell is staging four summer shows that he says "create a conversation" about things like sex, race and money. Will they sell seats?
The 5th Avenue's big-splash staging of the G & S classic "The Pirates of Penzance" will feature Broadway trouper Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as the young would-be swashbuckler Frederic, Seattle ac…
Seattle troupe Unexpected Productions celebrates its 30th anniversary with 30 continuous hours of improv, during the weekend of June 28.
How to catch a screening of "The Audience," starring Helen Mirren; learn more about "Annie" on PBS; and a sure-to-be-a-singalong showing of "Grease" at The Triple Door.
Aidan Lang, director of New Zealand Opera, will become general director of the Seattle Opera in September 2014, after the retirement of longtime general director Speight Jenkins.
Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theater, back from a tour of Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, debuts artistic director Donald Byrd's latest piece, "Autopsy of Love," June 20-29, 2013.
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Live Girls! Theater and other drama outfits are offering staged public readings of hot-off-the-computer scripts during the weekend of June 16, 2013, and beyond.
The school won the grand prize for its staging of "The Drowsy Chaperone," and the honor for outstanding chorus performance, at Tuesday's ceremony.
The feel-good musical "Kinky Boots," with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won a leading six 2013 Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical, best score and best lead…
Rising ticket prices, falling attendance and the late arrival of several new musical hits mark a Broadway season to be honored Sunday night in the Tony Awards telecast.
A review of the terrific ACT Theatre staging of Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities," playing through June 30, 2013.
Best-selling Spokane author Jess Walter's comic novel "The Financial Lives of the Poets" is being dramatized by Book-It Repertory Theatre, June 12-30, 2013.
A few predictions from Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson regarding the 2013 Tony Awards: "Matilda" over "Kinky Boots," and Cicely Tyson for her role in "The Trip to Bountiful."
The theater piece "In the Land of Rain & Salmon: Jewish Voices of the Northwest: 1880-1920," drawn from oral histories and other material, debuts at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2, at Langston Hughes…
Longtime film and stage actors Pamela Reed and Kevin Tighe co-star as a Palm Springs conservative couple with family issues in "Other Desert Cities" at ACT Theatre, through June 30, 2013.
A review of the touring production of "Fela!," the story of Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti, at Seattle's Paramount Theatre through June 2, 2013.
A review of Village Theatre's smart staging of the musical "Chicago." The show plays at the Francis J. Gaudette Theatre in Issaquah through June 29, 2013.
An interview with Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones about 'Fela!,' the musical about Afrobeat star Fela Kuti, which is coming to Seattle May 28-June 2, 2013.
An interview with Christopher Wheeldon, who is creating a world-premiere ballet for Pacific Northwest Ballet's upcoming "Director's Choice" program.
Seattle Opera invites the public to celebrate composer Richard Wagner's birthday (and get ready for the "Ring" cycle) with a singalong, a costume contest, cake and other fun on May 22, 2013.
Seattle theatergoers can choose from "Bach at Leipzig," "The Language Archive" and new works by female playwrights.
"The Vagina Monologues" author Eve Ensler discusses her new book, "In the Body of the World," which is about coping with advanced uterine cancer, in a Saturday benefit for Planned Parenthood…
