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Seattle's Pony World Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Blake Hackler's play, in which three sisters growing up in small-town East Texas take divergent paths to cope with their shar…
Nearly two dozen events, from theater to dance and more, are slated for Sound Theatre Company's Making Waves Fall Arts Festival. They mark simultaneously a bold reentrance into live performa…
"Jesus Christ Superstar" is on stage Oct. 5-10 at the Paramount Theatre, the second stop on the revived tour after a run in Portland, and marking the return of the Broadway at the Paramount …
Performed outdoors, through Aug. 29, The Williams Project's 'Marisol,' about a post-apocalyptic apocalypse, feels relevant to our current slate of crises, as its characters repeatedly discov…
From July 23-Aug. 8, Wooden O, the outdoor theater arm of Seattle Shakespeare Company, will stage "The Comedy of Errors." The silly and slapstick-y farce will be seen in parks around the Sea…
ELEVATE is a program from Seattle Theatre Group that showcases spoken-word performance from Black and brown artists. Its inaugural show, a filmed performance that will feature poetry and his…
Intiman's STARFISH Project offers free after-school technical theater training for high school students. This year's project is reaching its culmination with a filmed performance that will s…
A new initiative from Seattle's The Hansberry Project and Atlanta's True Colors Theatre Company aims to co-commission, co-develop and co-premiere new plays by Black writers. A virtual readin…
In Keiko Green's "Wad," a high schooler begins a pen-pal relationship with a death-row prisoner. ACT Theatre's filmed production, a showcase for three of its core company members, streams on…
Kent-based Theatre Battery addresses some of J.K. Rowling's statements last year in what it bills as a queer fanfiction parody stop-motion animation series, "Lego Harry Potter and the Transg…
Nearly a year after the Paramount Theatre went dark, Seattle Theatre Group (which operates the Paramount) and Broadway at the Paramount have announced new dates for the 2021-2022 season, inc…
Since his time at Intiman, Bartlett Sher has become one of the most sought-after directors on Broadway. His revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," which ran on Broadway in 2015-2016, comes to the…
Seattle Shakespeare Company's artistic director George Mount says "The Rivals," running through Feb. 2 at Center Theatre, has "great wit [and] really distinctive comedic characters."
The 1993 film "Mrs. Doubtfire," starring Robin Williams, was a huge hit. Will this new musical, currently receiving its world premiere at the 5th Ave before heading to Broadway, find similar…
It's clear Book-It thought they could improve on their 2017 musical adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy novel about a young woman who must contend with life-altering spells, a dastardly…
For nearly 20 years, the 5th Ave has served as a testing ground for new work, developing shows and giving them the out-of-town tryout that's a rite of passage on the path to the Great White …
"Club Sandwich," a noir-influenced adventure, opens Sept. 19 at Broadway Performance Hall.
"As You Like It" is part of Seattle Rep's Public Works program, which seeks to draw people to participate in theater through free classes, workshops and the creation of collaborative stage s…
Roger Guenveur Smith, whose one-man shows about Rodney King and Huey P. Newton were brought to the big screen by Spike Lee, is bringing his solo show "Frederick Douglass Now" to the stage at…