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Intiman Theatre announced it will return in 2013 with a second summer festival of plays, building on the same 2012 format that brought back the theater after a near-collapse in 2011.
The mood at New York City's Neil Simon Theatre was upbeat on the evening of Nov. 15, as the new musical "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson" had its premiere on Broadw…
A review of "Avenue Q," being staged by Seattle's Balagan Theatre through Dec. 15, 2012.
Puget Sound-area stages promise a sleighful of holiday entertainment in the 2012 season, featuring Scrooge, a very large elf and The Winter Wonderettes, to name a few.
Seattle's Byrd Ensemble, led by Markdavin Obenza, kicks off the holiday performance season with "What Sweeter Music," a program of song and story, Nov. 24-25, 2012. Parnassus Project musicia…
Seattle's Donald Byrd thrills with "Contested Space," his first piece for Dance Theatre of Harlem, in town at the Moore Theatre through Nov. 17, 2012.
The regular cast of holiday productions is back: "A Christmas Carol," "Black Nativity," "Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant." Plus the return of "Inspecting Carol."
From the Sweet Deal Dept.: Seattle Shakespeare Company is offering a free Twinkie to the first 90 people who subscribe to the theatre's 2012-2013 season. Why only 90? Upon news of the demise…
A review of Village Theatre's production of "Fiddler on the Roof."
5th Avenue Theatre artistic director David Armstrong is making his Broadway directing debut this week with "Scandalous," which had an early run in Seattle " another Broadway move for the vet…
A review of "Amarillo," by Mexican theater company Teatro LÃnea de Sombra, at On the Boards. Continues through Nov. 11, 2012.
Before the big rush of Christmas shows, some Seattle companies are offering song-and-dance entertainments with no yuletide ties: Teatro ZinZanni, Village Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Seattle Ch…
Six Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers are featured in a new photography book titled "Dancers Among Us" by Jordan Matter.
High-schoolers interested in attending Music of Remembrance's Nov. 16 or 18 presentation of the Viktor Ullmann opera "Emperor of Atlantis" are in luck: MOR is offering free admission to the …
A review of Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of "Antony and Cleopatra," running through Nov. 18, 2012, at Intiman Playhouse at Seattle Center.
Starting immediately, Seattle Theater Group will donate $5 from each ticket purchased for the Seattle performances by the Dance Theater of Harlem to the Red Cross, to help East Coast victims…
A review of the Seattle Repertory Theatre staging of Tennessee Williams' classic "The Glass Menagerie," running through Dec. 2, 2012.
Stage director John Langs has been appointed to the new full-time post of associate artistic director at ACT Theatre in Seattle. Langs will join ACT in January 2013.
Theatre Puget Sound handed out the annual Gregory Awards for theater excellence at ACT Theatre on Monday night.
A review of the touring production of "The Addams Family," making a stop at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre through Nov. 11, 2012.
The Seattle Children's Theatre production "Danny, King of the Basement" by David S. Craig (through Nov. 18, 2012) gives young audiences a thoughtful yet entertaining look into the lives of k…
A review of Caryl Churchill's "The Skriker," the story of a shape-shifting being chasing two teens in London, being staged at Erickson Theatre through Nov. 11, 2012.
Seattle Repertory Theatre announces the works slated for its New Play Program, running Jan. 5-Feb. 3, 2013, and they include plays by Justin Huertas, Samuel D. Hunter, Robert Schenkkan and E…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic:
Crystal Pite's "The Tempest Replica," performed by her troupe Kidd Pivot, reinvents Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with dazzling dance and stage wizardry. It's at On the Boards through Oct. 25,…
