'Kimberly Akimbo': A quick-aging teen's musical dash through time Misha BersonThe Broadway hit, the touching and often funny tale of a girl whose body ages rapidly far beyond her years, sett…
Letter from Seattle: Holiday greetings from Jeeves, John Waters & more Misha BersonHeading north during the holiday season? Seattle's theaters are hoisting multiple cups of onstage seaso…
Dámaso RodrÃguez and the skin of Seattle's teeth Misha BersonThe former artistic director of Portland's Artists Rep picks Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth," which he directed t…
Curtains up on Seattle's new theater season Misha BersonAs the city's vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip t…
Letter from New York: So many good shows, so little time Misha BersonAs Broadway revs up for this year's Tony Awards, Misha Berson takes in the tales of "Stereophonic," "The Outsiders," "Wat…
One Broadway veteran with local ties scooped up three Tony noms this year, while another is nominated for her performance in a musical inspired by Alicia Keys.
The six wives of King Henry VIII have arrived at the Paramount, competing for your sympathy and applause in an audacious pop musical.
Aaron Sorkin, who adapted the Harper Lee novel for the play coming to Paramount Theatre Oct. 11-16, discusses his evolving feelings about the novel and more.
John Aylward, for more than 40 years a quintessential Seattle actor and a force of nature onstage, died on May 16.
The seriocomic, affectionate but bloated musical revolves (literally) around a character representing Jane Austen, with her fictional offspring dancing, singing and emoting around her.
Valerie Curtis-Newton directs Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau's multi-dimensional tale.
Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated Broadway play "Indecent" has its local debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre. And "Everything Is Illuminated," based on Jonathan Safran Foer's book, premieres…
Intiman Theatre's final entry of its 2019 season is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist written by Eisa Davis.
In this perceptive and unfailingly intelligent one-act work, forcefully performed and precisely staged by Really Really Theatre Group, finding consensus is difficult in an era when the fate …
It's Shakespeare-in-the-park season! Wooden O and Greenstage are among the companies presenting live, mostly free shows in open-air locations from Seattle to Port Townsend to Mount Vernon.
In 2003, Didion lost her husband and sometime literary collaborator John Gregory Dunne and witnessed the sudden, catastrophic illness of their only child. Emerging from that experience, Didi…
Joseph P. McCarthy appeared in shows by ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Strawberry Theatre Workshop and other companies over the years. In addition, he appe…
Martin Charnin, who won a Tony Award for the score of the Broadway hit "Annie," and who lived in Issaquah during the 2000s when he became active in the Seattle theater scene, died Saturday.
This dramatization of Imbolo Mbue's best-selling novel runs through June 30.
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Garrett takes on a nationally respected, multistage theater complex that's one of the largest and oldest theater companies in the country.
Bill Berry's current 5th Avenue staging of "West Side Story," based on his hit 2007 version for the company, brings to life with flair and propulsion the saga of young ardor, bigotry and str…
Nia Vardalos' stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's collection of advice columns transcends its limitations to become a celebration of the big picture, as well as "the ordinary miraculous" " …
As a new run of "West Side Story" at the 5th Avenue Theatre approaches, this Broadway classic based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" remains popular and current across generations. Bu…
How does Cafe Nordo's hardworking cast of nearly a dozen local actors juggle more than 30 roles in "Jitterbug Perfume" while also serving food?