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Pacific Northwest Ballet today announced that it is planning to replace its Maurice Sendak/Kent Stowell "Nutcracker" in 2015 with a new production, marrying George Balanchine's time-tested 1…
A concert version of "Gigi," a rarely-performed show based on the Oscar-winning movie musical and a romantic novella, will be performed in the spring at the 5th Avenue Theatre, the the…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: Seattle Theater Writers, a network of local drama critics for publications and blogs that is led by freelance reviewer Miryam Gordon, has ann…
Soprano Nicole Haslett, 24, is the winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Northwest's Regional Auditions, held Sunday at Benaroya Hall. Haslett, from New Jersey, is currently a pa…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: Local actors Zach and Ashley Adair were injured Saturday while crossing a Seattle street, friends and colleagues report. Zac Epstein and othe…
Christmas is midweek, FCOL. You've got a whole weekend to fill before it gets here, with last-minute chores and abstention from all the holiday food. Herewith, five ways to relax, immersed i…
The spirit of giving is alive and well in Burien. After a Tuesday-morning fire rendered the Burien Community Center unusable for the Burien Actors Theatre to continue its "Coney Island Chris…
Actor Christopher Evan Welch, a native Texan well-known to Seattle audiences from his school/work here, died Monday in Los Angeles. Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson shares this: The…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: Four years after an arson blaze gutted much of the Eleanor Roosevelt Building, a block-long Greenwood building complex owned by Taproot Theat…
Here at ArtsPage HQ, we are thankful for you, our readers (of the blog, and The Seattle Times as a whole). We're also thankful that we live in such an arts-rich city, one that rewards us man…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: The musical comedy "First Date," which premiered at Seattle's ACT Theatre in spring of 2012, will end a six-month Broadway date a…
When Seattle Times arts writer Michael Upchurch heard of the recent death of Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, he pulled out of his files a 1992 interview he undertook with her when she was visi…
Due to "a misunderstanding around contract terms," including higher rent than expected, Balagan Theatre has canceled its holiday show, "A Very Merry (Unauthorized) Children's Scientology…
Calling professional artists, worldwide: If you have a penchant for large public art projects, and you also have a preference for, say, $1 million, here's the opportunity you've been looking…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: A dancing man in a light-colored suit emerges slowly from the darkness, then the shadows and on into the light. Once fully illumina…
Interested in opera, theater and ballet, but can't get to the Met or the West End? All kinds of performing arts now come to your local movie theater, in HD. We list a few.
Along with all the new plays, there's plenty of behind-the-scenes news from the theater world: "As the curtain went up on ArtsWest's new show, Lauren Gunderson's "The Taming," the theater al…
Rain and leaves are falling, and productions new and familiar are landing on the stages at local theater companies. Plenty of choices, for all ages; here's a selection: ""Broke-ology," now a…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: Mary Ewald, a leading Seattle actress, and her director husband, New City Theatre founder-artistic director  John Kazanjian, are the recip…
From Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: Theater Schmeater is bringing more fringe drama  back to Belltown. After departing its longtime location on Capitol Hill, due to the devel…
From Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson: The producers of "Aladdin," the new musical from Disney, have announced the cast for the show's Broadway premiere. And there are some fami…
Zoë Alexis Scott has been hired to lead Seattle Public Theater. She comes to SPT from The Grand, an historic theater and nonprofit in Maine, where she was executive director from 2008…
From Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson: West Seattle's playhouse and gallery ArtsWest has named  Laura Lee, who has been serving as interim managing director, as the organization'…
From Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson: Mark Chenovick has been hired as the interim executive director for Seattle Musical Theatre, as his first act in the post, he's appointed Troy…
From Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson: Â Â Â Â Â The board of directors of ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery has appointed a three-person artistic transition team to oversee…
