Theatre22 presents two plays: "White," in which an art-world comedy ushers in some breathtakingly cutting critiques, and "The Revolutionists," a lighthearted companion piece " if you can cal…
"The Great Moment" sometimes prompts an unintentional but inevitable question: Why are we politely sitting here stretching someone else's time when we could be out in the world making the mo…
From concerts by Olympia-born Sleater-Kinney to a celebration of a new book by local author Lindy West, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertain…
After its winter world premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, the new musical "Mrs. Doubtfire" will go on to Broadway to open in spring 2020.
"The Christians," Lucas Hnath's strange but compelling 2014 drama, is now being performed in real churches around Seattle by Pony World Theatre.
Seattle's Intiman Theatre announced Thursday that the board and staff have come up with a plan to keep the theater open.
Intiman's board of directors says the 47-year-old arts organization, which successfully wiped out roughly $2.7 million in debt, is now out of money and might have to close in October. But th…
An Iraq war veteran returns with a complex wife and a troublesome tale in this world premiere from playwright Yussef El Guindi, who pens exquisitely understated dialogue with devils hiding i…
Compared to an evening of Netflix and Uber Eats, theater is downright risky. But it's also an immediate, communal experience that can flirt with the sublime.
The fall theater season is looking a little feisty this year, from a play about a megachurch pastor who's suddenly not so sure about that whole hell thing, to a rumination on the still-shock…
From Elton John's farewell tour to the "Downton Abbey" movie, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" happens in a dive bar called Monk's Place and The Williams Project immerses us among the battered characters, with a setup at Washington Hall that …
From The Rolling Stones and THING music festival to Seattle Art Fair, our Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month's most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events.
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 …
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.
"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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…