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NEW YORK (AP) " Select winners at the 2019 Tony Awards. Best Musical: "Hadestown" Best Play: "The Ferryman" Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Stephanie J. Block,…
NEW YORK (AP) " TV talk show host James Corden steps back into the role of Tony Award host Sunday, not planning anything too political and not worried about any online snark. "I hope people …
The musical, based on the 1993 film starring Robin Williams, has some big Broadway names attached, including four-time Tony Award winning director Jerry Zaks.
From Brandi Carlile at the Gorge to "Toy Story 4," our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
Nia Vardalos' stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's collection of advice columns transcends its limitations to become a celebration of the big picture, as well as "the ordinary miraculous" " …
Franklin students are helping work on set design for "Don't Call It a Riot!," a play by local writer Amontaine Aurore about activism in Seattle, particularly the Black Panther Party in th…
The arts educator, who died May 10, made every kid feel like a star.
Seattle-based theater company The Horse in Motion mounts a lively production of "The Arsonists," a 1950s play that has lived several lives with several interpretations.
As a new run of "West Side Story" at the 5th Avenue Theatre approaches, this Broadway classic based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" remains popular and current across generations.
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The theater community has rallied around longtime local actors Amy Thone and Hans Altwies, whose daughter, Stella Altwies, was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer last month. A benefit conce…
Here are some of the outdoor theater productions happening this summer in Seattle and around the Puget Sound area.
Most fans know "Kim's Convenience" from its three seasons on Netflix. But it began as a play. And Seattle audiences will get to see that play at Taproot Theatre starting May 15.
The ephemeral event " in which writers, editors and photographers bring stories about politics, culture, technology, architecture, science, relationships and more " lives briefly in a cit…
"Singlet," the gloriously dizzying two-person show imported from New York by Washington Ensemble Theatre, is the kind of experimental theater Seattle should be thirsty for.
The 2019 Tony Award nominations are in and a few nominees have local ties, notably Heidi Schreck's almost-solo show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," which is up for best play. Sch…
Some plays feature guns as an important part of their plots. But directors wrestle with how to stage gun violence, especially now, when flashing a gun in a theater charges the atmosphere in …
Julia Cho's play "Office Hour," partly impelled by the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, runs May 2-26 at ArtsWest in Seattle.
LONDON (AP) " Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a Samuel Beckett double bill. The Old Vic Theatre says the former "Harry Potter" star will appear alongside Alan Cumming in…
NEW YORK (AP) " "Hadestown," singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical "Ain't Too Proud," buil…
From the Seattle International Film Festival to Fisherman's Village Music Festival, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
His breakthrough, "When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?," opened Off-Broadway in 1973 and centered on a Vietnam War veteran who holds a New Mexico diner hostage.
Pony World Theatre stages Yussef El Guindi's harrowing "Language Rooms" in the old U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service building where thousands of detainees arrived, left and sometim…
As an activist-artist herself, director Valerie Curtis-Newton finds common ground in the community of black women and the art-activism portrayed in her latest production, Christina Ham's "Ni…
"Devi," the newest dance-drama production from Seattle-based South Asian arts group Pratidhwani, in collaboration with ACT Theatre, is based on an 1884 Bengali novel about a downtrodden woma…
How does Cafe Nordo's hardworking cast of nearly a dozen local actors juggle more than 30 roles in "Jitterbug Perfume" while also serving food?
