On Tuesday, the City of Seattle announced a $1.1 million, arts-specific recovery package and rent suspension for cultural organizations, designed to help an arts sector heavily hit by the co…
Whatever comes of the novel coronavirus tumult, the economic crisis is happening now. The needs for arts workers " gigging artists, teachers, staffers at arts institutions "Â are piling up…
Even before the ban, concern about the novel coronavirus fed into steep drops in ticket sales and canceled fundraising galas, school performances and corporate gigs. Now, arts organizations …
As John Cameron Mitchell comes to Seattle's Moore Theatre Feb. 27, we revisit why his "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" was such a phenomenon at Re-bar 20 years ago.
Virginia Wright, along with her late husband Bagley Wright, created the region's largest collection of modern and contemporary art and donated much of it to Seattle Art Museum.
You might not think "True West" and "Our Country's Good" have much in common besides being written by white authors at either end of the '80s. But the accident of them running in concurrent …
The hugely popular musical "Hamilton" will return to Seattle as part of Broadway at The Paramount's 2020-21 season.
The 13-year-old girls (and one boy) of Clare Barron's "Dance Nation," produced by Washington Ensemble Theatre, live and sometimes nearly die for competitive dance. And there's nothing cute a…
Elby Brosch's "Drama Tops, this is for you," running Jan. 28-30 at Washington Hall, was largely built in minutes-long segments for nightclubs and drag shows.
With a dash of science fiction, Darren Canady's thought experiment of a play at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute explores reparations.
From the reopening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum to the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Sweat," here are five arts events to put on your calendar in 2020.
From the creation of Seattle Art Fair to the opening " and closing " of various arts venues, here are some of the memorable developments of the past decade in the local arts and culture scen…
From the wider effects of "Hamilton" to a show that was an empty stage with six naked people and zero words, here are the theater moments of the past decade that stuck with theater reviewer …
"A Very Die Hard Christmas" just might be another Seattle Christmas theater tradition in the making, while "Head Over Heels" pairs an epic, 16th-century romance with songs by The Go-Go's.
Musician and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo's earlier show, "Now I'm Fine," played at On the Boards, the Moore, New York City's Public Theater and beyond, and was made into a film co-written by …
Shortly after a fundraising gala brunch earlier this month, Intiman announced it had raised $130,000 toward its goal of $200,000 by the end of 2019, and reconstituted its board.
Theatre22 presents two plays: "White," in which an art-world comedy ushers in some breathtakingly cutting critiques, and "The Revolutionists," a lighthearted companion piece " if you can cal…
"The Great Moment" sometimes prompts an unintentional but inevitable question: Why are we politely sitting here stretching someone else's time when we could be out in the world making the mo…
After its winter world premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, the new musical "Mrs. Doubtfire" will go on to Broadway to open in spring 2020.
"The Christians," Lucas Hnath's strange but compelling 2014 drama, is now being performed in real churches around Seattle by Pony World Theatre.
Seattle's Intiman Theatre announced Thursday that the board and staff have come up with a plan to keep the theater open.
Intiman's board of directors says the 47-year-old arts organization, which successfully wiped out roughly $2.7 million in debt, is now out of money and might have to close in October. But th…
An Iraq war veteran returns with a complex wife and a troublesome tale in this world premiere from playwright Yussef El Guindi, who pens exquisitely understated dialogue with devils hiding i…
Compared to an evening of Netflix and Uber Eats, theater is downright risky. But it's also an immediate, communal experience that can flirt with the sublime.
The fall theater season is looking a little feisty this year, from a play about a megachurch pastor who's suddenly not so sure about that whole hell thing, to a rumination on the still-shock…