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Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play, "The Mountaintop," imagines the great civil-rights leader writing his final, fateful speech in Memphis, Tenn.
The Metropolitan Opera has reached labor agreements with the remaining unions that had expired contracts, averting the threat of a lockout with about a month to go before the season is sched…
A review of the works kicking off the Seattle Beckett Festival, being held at West of Lenin and other venues.
ACT Theatre in Seattle will celebrate its 50th season in 2014 with reprises of plays by Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard and contemporary works " including a world premiere.
A panel of theater artists as well as more than 300 others took part in the Artistic Freedom & Artistic Responsibility Forum in Seattle, organized in response to controversy around a local…
Premiered here 20 years ago, "Angels in America" is once again being staged by Intiman, and once again is still wondrous.
Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson reports on classics and new works in the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, including "Richard III," "The Tempest," and "A Wrinkle i…
A review of the Sound Theatre Company's production of "School for Lies," a modern take on Moliere's masterful "The Misanthrope."
A review of "Urinetown," a coproduction by Balagan Theatre and Seattle Musical Theatre. Through Aug. 24, 2014.
It's hard to pinpoint the most moving event in Saturday night's "Speight Celebration Concert," as fans said goodbye to the stellar 31-year tenure of Seattle Opera general director Speight Je…
A review of ReAct Theatre's production of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still," which looks at the personal lives of war correspondents.
David Danholt and Issachah Savage dominated the International Wagner Competition at McCaw Hall on Aug. 7, 2014.
Seattle theaters and artists join together in a citywide celebration of writer Samuel Beckett's works, starting with a slate of his one-acts at West of Lenin.
You can't run an opera company without a few mishaps and a lot of memorable moments. Seattle Opera's retiring general director, Speight Jenkins, shares a few of each from his 31 years in the…
Seattle Opera's longtime director, Speight Jenkins, came to Seattle with no experience staging opera and is retiring, after 31 years, as a highly respected impresario beloved by singers and …
With an hour to spare before Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb's vow of a 12:01 a.m. Friday deadline that would trigger a lockout, the company announced it had agreed to a federa…
"Urinetown" opens and Seattle premieres of plays by David Ives and Donald Margulies hit local stages in early August.
ACT Theatre presents a one-man, multicharacter play about Seattle native Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
A review of ACT Theatre's "An Evening of One Acts," whose highlight is a Sam Shepard short play of 1969, "The Unseen Hand."
Reviews of Wooden O's 2014 summer shows in Seattle-area parks.
Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson provides some historical context for the debate surrounding the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society's 2014 production of "The Mikado."
Meet the Aono Jikken Ensemble, providing traditional accompaniment (instruments, narration) to showings of silent Japanese films since 1997. Their next gig is Deco Night at Seattle Asian Art…
The entertainer with the gravelly voice and impeccable comic timing died July 17 of natural causes at her home in Michigan. She was best known for her stage work, particularly her solo "Elai…
Seattle playwright Robert Schenkkan will adapt his play "All the Way," which won the best-play Tony, for HBO. Bryan Cranston will play LBJ.
