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This year's summer slate includes beloved musicals, intriguing dance performances and plenty of Shakespeare.
ACT Contemporary Theatre takes on the Tony Award-winning play tracing the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers financial services firm.
WET, which has its roots in a UW classroom and became a launchpad for theater artists, has never lost its playful, experimental ethos, including in its new show, "Scrambling the Goose."
Actor, composer and director Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako talks about helming her debut production for a professional union house.
The new mystery that's running at The Fifth Avenue Theatre, "Something's Afoot," features a lovely set design. Little else goes right, our critic argues.
Pearl Lam's "XXX Island," which aims to humorously interrogate the exploitation that can come with reality TV, runs Jan. 18-20 at 18th and Union.
ArtsWest's new holiday variety show is a charming meta backstage musical, in which a group of artists are trying to finish writing a new holiday variety show.
This play, commissioned at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I, wasn't one of Shakespeare's finest. But the actors in this Seattle production really make it sing.
In Boni B. Alvarez's "Bloodletting," on stage from Pork Filled Productions starting Oct. 19, a pair of siblings encounter an aswang, a malevolent creature.
Sofia Ghassaei, a 19-year-old Seattle playwright and poet who is an autistic nonspeaker, wrote "Love Letters," streaming on YouTube and screening soon at Seattle Film Institute.
In Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e," now on stage from Washington Ensemble Theatre, two sisters grapple with renovating their childhood home on an HGTV-style reality show.
The multi-Tony Award winner brings her solo show "Don't Monkey with Broadway" to town in a benefit for Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus.
Kent's Theatre Battery started offering its tickets for free in 2016. It's back now with its first live performance since the pandemic.
More than 60 people, mostly community members who are nonprofessional performers, take to the stage Aug. 25-27 in Seattle Rep's Public Works staging of Shakespeare's classic.
The musical boasts a diverse cast of female, transgender and nonbinary actors, but reframing the 1969 show at a deeper level proves difficult.
While many theater and performing arts seasons will begin in earnest next month, there's still an intriguing selection of performances around town in August.
The city's flagship playhouse named Dámaso RodrÃguez, former artistic director at Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre, to the role. He succeeds Braden Abraham.
Star Bobbi Kotula has the audience eating out of the palm of her hand in Village Theatre's production, running through July 30 at Everett Performing Arts Center.
Musical lovers, rejoice! Big touring shows and locally produced musicals grace our stages in July and August. Here are six recommendations for tuners and more.
Nicholas Japaul Bernard made a splash playing Hedwig at ArtsWest in 2018. Back in the title role in a new production, he talks about staging the show in today's climate.
David Greig's adaptation of Stanisław Lem's sci-fi novel crafts an elemental portrait of grief and isolation that happens to take place on a space station.
Sound Theatre Company's production of Martyna Majok's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play includes a host of accessible performances.
Seattle theater artist Justin Huertas' world-premiere musical is at Seattle Rep through June 11.
"How to Break" is onstage in a world-premiere production at Village Theatre, which has shepherded the show's development for years.
Playwright and UW assistant professor Nikki Yeboah's "11th & Pine," based on interviews with community members, has a public reading scheduled for March 17-19.
