Seattle's Intiman Theatre is giving "radical hospitality" a try, giving away for free every ticket to its new show, "The Events." Other theaters, including Kent's Theatre Battery, are doing …
WASHINGTON " Weather aside, it will be a sunny day in December at the Kennedy Center Honors, when Big Bird, Elmo and the rest of "Sesame Street" make history as the first television program …
Ten years after a brutal attack killed her partner, Jennifer Hopper is hosting a fundraiser concert to help other victims heal.
It's Shakespeare-in-the-park season! Wooden O and Greenstage are among the companies presenting live, mostly free shows in open-air locations from Seattle to Port Townsend to Mount Vernon.
In 2003, Didion lost her husband and sometime literary collaborator John Gregory Dunne and witnessed the sudden, catastrophic illness of their only child. Emerging from that experience, Didi…
Joseph P. McCarthy appeared in shows by ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Strawberry Theatre Workshop and other companies over the years. In addition, he appe…
Two writers for The Seattle Times attend "Bon Appétit!: The Julia Child Operetta," in which family stories about Julia Child combine with opera, and the result is a (literal) chocolate cake…
LOS ANGELES (AP) " Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in television, theater, and movies, such as "Men in Black," and win an Emmy …
Martin Charnin, who won a Tony Award for the score of the Broadway hit "Annie," and who lived in Issaquah during the 2000s when he became active in the Seattle theater scene, died Saturday.
MILAN (AP) " Woody Allen said Tuesday as he prepared for his directing debut at Milan's La Scala opera house that he has "always had a warm and affectionate following in Europe." Allen was g…
Actor and musical-theater writer Justin Huertas, whose musical "The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion" is on at ArtsWest through July 28, has a soft spot for monsters " their awkwardn…
From the Capitol Hill Block Party to "Spider-Man: Far From Home," our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
BOSTON (AP) " A young man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a resort island bar in 2016 filed a lawsuit against the actor, who is also fighting a criminal charge stemming from the a…
This dramatization of Imbolo Mbue's best-selling novel runs through June 30.
If you've seen "Wicked," you know how very green the witch Elphaba is. Here's a backstage peek at how the face, neck and hands of the actor who plays Elphaba become the color of very, very c…
"The Agitators," a 2017 play by Mat Smart and directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, currently at West of Lenin, unfolds like a scrapbook, with snippets of conversation between Douglass and Anth…
"Blackbird," David Harrower's 2005, Olivier Award-winning play, currently staged at 18th and Union by White Rabbits Inc., is a small, powerful, two-character nail bomb.
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Garrett takes on a nationally respected, multistage theater complex that's one of the largest and oldest theater companies in the country.
There's nothing like hearing Antoinette Nwandu's lyrical, painful and beautiful play (about two black men trapped on a battered city corner, their fantasies about how to find an exit, and th…
Bill Berry's current 5th Avenue staging of "West Side Story," based on his hit 2007 version for the company, brings to life with flair and propulsion the saga of young ardor, bigotry and str…
On Sunday night at the Tony Awards, James Corden hosted for the second time and "Hadestown" dominated a hard-working but unsurprising ceremony. Laura Linney and Audra McDonald fake-fought in…
NEW YORK (AP) " When effervescent actress Ali Stroker came onstage to accept her historic trophy as the first actor in a wheelchair to win a Tony, it wasn't just the feel-good moment of the …
NEW YORK " Billy Porter has been shutting down red carpets all year, cutting through seas of traditional gowns and tuxes in gender-bending, head-turning garments. In January, he owned the Os…
NEW YORK (AP) " When she sings, Ali Stroker says, she has "no limitations." That was clear on Sunday as Stroker performed and made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to capture a Ton…