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Theatre 9/12 stages a delightfully absurd "Everything in the Garden" by Giles Cooper and Edward Albee " about a family obsessed with keeping up with the neighbors.
Times theater critic Misha Berson paid a recent visit to the 2011 Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and shares her take on "The Pirates of Penzance," "Ghost Light," "Henry IV, Part Two,…
"Porgy and Bess," being staged by Seattle Opera July 30-Aug. 20, 2011, has seen its fortunes rise and fall since its 1935 debut because of its depiction of Southern black life. Times critic …
Disney's live-action musical "Aladdin" debuts at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre.
Seattle's Washington Ensemble Theatre announces the 2011-12 season, opening in September with Joshua Conkel's "MilkMilk Lemonade."
A review of "Cloud Nine," Caryl Churchill's 1979 breakthrough play, staged in Seattle by Strawberry Theatre Workshop. It's a somber take on a thoughtful, poignant script, directed by Nick Ga…
Bagley Wright, the influential Seattle arts patron, philanthropist, and one of the original investors in the Space Needle, has died.
Wooden O's "Macbeth" stars Reginald Andre Jackson as the lead in The Scottish Play; meanwhile, Greenstage puts on "The Tempest." Also this summer: Wooden O is staging "The Comedy of Errors" …
The Seattle Public Library will host free previews of Seattle Opera's upcoming production of the Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess" at various...
Seattle's ACT Theatre tries out a new pay-what-you-can system for rush tickets.
Summer's here, and the time is right for big, broad, wacky " and free " comedies for young children in an outdoor theater setting.
On New Year's Eve the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will give its final performance, at the Park Avenue Armory. In the meantime, the company is moving in waters at once familiar and utterly…
"Wonderland: Alice Adventures" is a series of free performances by theater simple at parks in and around Seattle July 16-Aug. 6, 2011.
Playgoers who planned to see "August: Osage County" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as a couple of other plays slated for the stately Angus Bowmer Theater, will find themselves a…
It's good to be a cheap date in the Puget Sound region " during outdoor-theater season, which kicks off with the annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival in Volunteer Park.
Taproot Theatre announces 36th season; Theatre9/12 opens Albee play in new home.
Seattle's Intiman Theatre, which canceled its 2011 season in April, is talking with local theater artists about ideas for the company's revival.
The 5th Avenue Theatre's world-premiere musical "Aladdin" is something of a departure from the Disney-animated film it's based on, with more of an old-fashioned musical-comedy feeling and re…
Performers who have worked with a particular dresser for many years say actor-dresser relationships are more spiritual than transactional.
A review of Seattle author Yussef El Guindi's illuminating new romantic comedy, which charts the challenges and rewards of a love affair between an Egyptian immigrant cabbie and a rough-edge…
Four Shakespeare plays performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 2010 will be shown in movie theaters this summer.
Famed British playwright Harold Pinter's comic and eerie plays are getting new life at Seattle's ACT Theatre, in a reading series and upcoming festival organized by noted actor Frank Corrado.
Jim Lynch's "Border Songs," Ivan Doig's "Prairie Nocturne" and Garth Stein's "The Art of Racing in the Rain" will be adapted for the stage by Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre next season.
NW New Works Festival at Seattle's On the Boards wraps it up with a strong Mainstage Showcase.
Actor John Cullum, 81, whose last Shakespeare in the Park performances came almost 50 years ago and who is in previews for "Measure for Measure" and "All's Well That Ends Well," has few peer…
