When Scott and Pam Nolte founded Seattle's Taproot Theatre in 1976, it was a small touring company of actors that performed in churches, schools and libraries. They've since built a theater …
Dozens of Seattle theater leaders have been meeting for months, aiming to overhaul everything " boards, audiences, casting and more " to create an anti-racist future. It's groundbreaking wor…
Lift your spirits this rainy weekend with these things you can do around the Seattle area on the last weekend before Christmas.
Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (in his final movie role) and the ensemble cast give masterful performances in Netflix's stellar version of playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom…
Even as we cozy up in our quarantine outposts for isolated holiday celebrations, much of Seattle's theater community has created virtual holiday shows to enjoy from the best seat in your hou…
"Changer: The Radio Play," originally created as a stage play until COVID restrictions hit, conveys the power of storytelling, traveling back in time to delve into origin myths and forward t…
Ann Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and beyond, has di…
Editor's note: On Dec. 8, Gov. Jay Inslee extended restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. While most of the events listed below are outdoors or online, we adv…
Local performing arts groups project that their virtual holiday shows will bring in only a fraction of their usual holiday revenues. Yet many are proceeding, in new ways and formats, hopeful…
Try these takeout recommendations, expand your reading list and spend your weekend doing these other activities.
Longtime KUOW arts and culture reporter Marcie Sillman is retiring 35 years to the day after she started with the Seattle public radio station. Not long into the new year, though, she plans …
Here are some virtual or properly distanced events we think should be on your radar.
If you're still recovering from a Thanksgiving food coma, here are some fun, relaxing things you can do over the next few days.
Douglas Q. Barnett turned his theater, founded in 1969, into a nationally-known showcase for Black writers, actors and dancers.
NEW YORK (AP) " Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he's been yearning to do for months " sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of "Ain't Too Pro…
Book-It Repertory Theatre launches its audioplay season with its adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's "Childfinder," a tale of a divided society battling for power and freedom, fitting for our …
Seattle Theatre Group, operator of the Paramount, Moore, and Neptune theaters, is implementing a second wave of staff reductions. With this second round, STG will have reduced its staff by 8…
MILAN (AP) " In a signal of rebirth, the Donizetti theater in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, reopened this weekend after three years of renovat…
Many nonprofit arts organizations, which depend on annual fundraising galas to draw big donations, instead hosted virtual galas this year. But can entirely virtual events generate the kind o…
Gov. Jay Inslee released a set of new coronavirus restrictions on Nov. 15. Here's a detailed look at what's allowed and what's not between now and at least Dec. 14.
On the Boards presents "A Thousand Ways Part Two: An Encounter," in which two strangers are both performers and audience. It's part of the three-part "A Thousand Ways" by New York-based thea…
Geoffrey Palmer, a British character actor with jowly cheeks and a hangdog expression who was best known to American audiences for starring opposite Judi Dench in the long-running sitcom "As…
NEW YORK (AP) " Andrew Lloyd Webber is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of his "Jesus Christ Superstar" album with the first single from his latest musical, "Cinderella." The …
Marge Champion hoofed across the screen with Gower Champion in a reigning husband-and-wife duo at the heyday of Hollywood musicals and the dawn of television.
This week, the Friday Foundation, a new Seattle entity, gave $9 million to nine Seattle arts organization " mostly for new work. The gifts are a legacy from the late philanthropists Jane Lan…