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Intiman Theatre finally has a new home. The Seattle institution is settling on Capitol Hill at Seattle Central College, where it will become the only nationally known regional theater attach…
Celebrated stage and screen actor Anthony Chisholm has died at age 77. His talent management company confirmed the news on a social media post. The cause of death was not immediately known. …
NEW YORK " Delayed and truncated, the 2020 Tony Award nominations were finally announced on Thursday, laying out the contenders in a painfully thin Broadway season upended and abridged by th…
After receiving nearly 600 consumer complaints from around the country about Brown Paper Tickets, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Seattle…
Despite coronavirus pandemic restrictions, arts organizations in the Seattle area are still finding ways to create and present work. Over the next few months, we will update this list with a…
How are local arts groups and musicians holding up and what do they have planned this fall, despite the restrictions? Here, they tell us in their own words, offering a snapshot of how some a…
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the entire world into a tailspin, upending a lot of what we think things should look like, including a fall arts season. Seattle's fall arts scene looks d…
Many theaters have turned to digital programming. Now, a few Seattle theaters have announced slightly more inventive, refined and ambitious season plans: audio dramas, online choose-your-own…
Attorneys in Seattle have filed two legal actions against Brown Paper Tickets, which has been beset by complaints that it owes artists money. Filed last month, one of the legal actions is on…
It's tough to find silver linings in 2020. In a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, though, artists have continued to create and will keep doing so, no matter the circumstances. Here's a …
Seattle-area venues plan to join others nationwide and light up in red Tuesday night to raise awareness of the live entertainment industry and workers who are hurting during the pandemic shu…
Stephen Terrell, a beloved stage director, choreographer, dancer, actor and singer who was, for a number of years in the 1990s, one of the busiest theater talents in the Seattle area, died J…
As the George Floyd protests continue throughout the country, Dimitri Woods, a performance artist from Seattle, takes stock of the situation. There's room for hope, but we also have to be re…
The film, based on Ahamefule J. Oluo's autobiographical one-man musical show "Now I'm Fine" and by his "This American Life" story "The Wedding Crasher," will stream for 24 hours beginning at…
Calling artists and arts organizations: Do you have an arts event (virtual or otherwise) planned for between Sept. 13 and Thanksgiving? If so, we'd like to know about it for our Seattle Time…
Daniel Rian worked at Boeing for almost four decades. He also was a volunteer firefighter and EMT, chauffeuring legendary Seattle clowns J.P. Patches and Gertrude via firetruck in local para…
BURLINGTON, Vt. " On an idyllic summer evening not far from the shore of Lake Champlain, the immortal words of William Shakespeare float from a lush backyard, professionally performed " for …
For "The Line," playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen interviewed real health care workers in New York City. The play, presented by The Public Theater, streams online for free through Au…
A blowup around this year's Artist Trust's Artist Innovator Award has become a kind of referendum on the 33-year-old nonprofit that supports Washington artists and distributes nearly half a …
NEW YORK (AP) " Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as "Waitress," "A Bronx Tale" and "Bullets Over Broadway," has died i…
Seattle Theatre Group, operator of the Paramount, Moore and Neptune theaters, will reduce staffing by about 70%, the organization said Thursday.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate Seattle's arts and entertainment community, with Seattle Art Museum, ACT Theatre, Chihuly Garden & Glass and the Space Needle all experien…
Nearly every anecdote in our brief interview had the same plot: the country's best-known AIDS activist publicly abusing the country's best-known AIDS doctor " and then privately apologizing …
Performing arts organizations were among the first to close their doors in the pandemic shutdown and will likely be among the last to reopen. Even when they are allowed to turn on the lig…
Rich Gray was asked to write a song thanking front-line workers, to be performed by children connected to youth theaters around the country, including Seattle Children's Theatre.