Performing Arts

Virtual programming creates new opportunities for Seattle arts organizations

Virtual programming creates new opportunities for Seattle arts organizations

Digital programs allow groups to reach new audiences

Manual Cinema’s ‘Ada/Ava’ from April 2020.

On the Boards’ Northwest New Works Festival Spotlight: Dance Filmmaker Kiana Harris

On the Boards’ Northwest New Works Festival Spotlight: Dance Filmmaker Kiana Harris

Get to know this emerging artist who presents her new dance film, “Rivers of Nine,” at On the Boards’ 35th annual festival highlighting new and experimental work

“I rarely have been interested in creating work onstage,” says dance filmmaker Kiana Harris; “I knew I wanted to continue with dance but craved a new artistic medium.” For this Cornish College alumnus and Anchorage native, that meant moving from live performance to film. Her latest, “Rivers of Nine,” the third in her AJE IJO series…

‘Mean Girls’ Meets Machiavelli in Seattle Rep’s ‘MacBeth’

‘Mean Girls’ Meets Machiavelli in Seattle Rep’s ‘MacBeth’

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents a twisted all-female twist on the classic drama

Charlotte Schweiger (MacBeth and Company of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “MacBeth”

Review: Village Theatre’s Divine ‘Hairspray’

Review: Village Theatre’s Divine ‘Hairspray’

Remember how fun the show was 16 years ago? It still is

The cast of Hairspray. Hairspray Production photo.

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

ArtsWest Adapts a Dated Melodrama For the Times

"An Octoroon" will have a first look show on April 3 and then will run from April 19 to May 13.

From left to right: Actors Mike Dooly, Lamar Legend and Jose Abaoag each play three roles in ArtsWest’s “An Octoroon”

Macha Theatre Works' 'Smoke & Dust' Kicks Up History’s Dirt

Macha Theatre Works’ ‘Smoke & Dust’ Kicks Up History’s Dirt

A new play considers an extraordinary female composer’s life with a timely twist. Our review

Bianca Raso as Liv/Barbara Strozzi and James Lyle as Josh/Giovanni Vidman in Joy McCullough-Carranza’s ‘Smoke & Dust’

In West of Lenin's ‘Big Rock,' Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

In West of Lenin’s ‘Big Rock,’ Dad and Daughter Take Each Other for Granite

Sonya Schneider’s new play touches on family trauma, with mixed results

Todd Jefferson Moore (Sands), Meg McLynn (Signe) and Evan Whitfield (Hamish) in Big Rock at West of Lenin, 2018.

The Quick and Dirty on Seattle’s Hamilton Lottery

The Quick and Dirty on Seattle’s Hamilton Lottery

Still confused about those $10 Hamilton tickets? Here’s some do’s and don’ts to get you started.

If you don’t feel like paying $240 or more for Hamilton tickets, we don’t blame you. But you may have a chance on getting tickets without selling your kidney. Hamilton’s producers launched Seattle’s $10 #HAM4HAM ticket lottery on Sunday, Feb. 4. Here are the basics do’s and don’ts you need to know: DO download the…

Local Theatre Legend on August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" and Leaving Seattle

Local Theatre Legend on August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” and Leaving Seattle

After 16 years in Seattle, most recently as associate artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Marya Sea Kaminski says farewell to Seattle with an August Wilson play.

That wailing you heard rising from Seattle’s theater community last Dec. 5 was a cry of pain at the announcement that Marya Sea Kaminski would be leaving Seattle Repertory Theatre after three years as associate artistic director to take the position of artistic director for Pittsburgh Public Theater. Losing her as an administrator was only…

'Straight White Men' Wants to Shake You Up; 'Peerless' Actually Does

‘Straight White Men’ Wants to Shake You Up; ‘Peerless’ Actually Does

What's race got to do with it? Quite a bit, two new plays tell us.

Corinne Magin as M and Maile Wong as L in ‘Peerless’ at ArtsWest.

Q&A: Mark Siano, Composer and Star of "Bohemia" at the Triple Door

Q&A: Mark Siano, Composer and Star of “Bohemia” at the Triple Door

"Let’s go to a place where you can drink, socialize, see a sexy show, and listen to some Chopin and Dvorak. That’s my kind of evening."

Photo by Julia Nardin.

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