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Get Outside! Here’s Your Guide to the Outdoor Theatre Season for 2025.
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Get Outside! Here’s Your Guide to the Outdoor Theatre Season for 2025.

July 6, 2025 NWTheatre
Great Queer Reads for (Year-Round) Pride
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Great Queer Reads for (Year-Round) Pride

July 5, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
Happiest Returns: The Most Anticipated Sequels of 2025
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Happiest Returns: The Most Anticipated Sequels of 2025

July 4, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
On Book: A Little Light Reading (5 Picks for June)
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On Book: A Little Light Reading (5 Picks for June)

June 3, 2025 Chase D. Anderson

Reviews

Keeping Hope Alive in ‘Golden’
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Keeping Hope Alive in ‘Golden’

May 8, 2025 Chase D. Anderson

The latest from playwright Andrew Lee Creech is playful and sharp, holding hope and seeking change in desperate times. The world premiere runs through 5/11.

Regency Wears Chucks at This Austen Ball
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Regency Wears Chucks at This Austen Ball

April 16, 2025 Jill Farrington Sweeney
With the Star-Crossed Lovers, Pacific Northwest Ballet Flexes Its Theatrical Might
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With the Star-Crossed Lovers, Pacific Northwest Ballet Flexes Its Theatrical Might

April 12, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
At This Retirement Home, Rest Is About the Only Thing Not Happening
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At This Retirement Home, Rest Is About the Only Thing Not Happening

April 2, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
A Rockin’ Reboot (With a Punk Rock Twist)
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A Rockin’ Reboot (With a Punk Rock Twist)

April 1, 2025 Jill Farrington Sweeney
Waitress Serves a Welcome Respite
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Waitress Serves a Welcome Respite

March 27, 2025 Chase D. Anderson

Releases

Great Queer Reads for (Year-Round) Pride
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Great Queer Reads for (Year-Round) Pride

July 5, 2025 Chase D. Anderson

History and pop culture, futuristic and genre anthologies, rom-coms, graphic novels, and more — here’s a rainbow of just-out great queer books (plus a couple classics).

Happiest Returns: The Most Anticipated Sequels of 2025
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Happiest Returns: The Most Anticipated Sequels of 2025

July 4, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
On Book: A Little Light Reading (5 Picks for June)
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On Book: A Little Light Reading (5 Picks for June)

June 3, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
On Book: Spring Awakenings (5 Picks)
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On Book: Spring Awakenings (5 Picks)

May 24, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
On Book: 5 Sweet Escapes in a World of Worry (Picks for December)
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On Book: 5 Sweet Escapes in a World of Worry (Picks for December)

December 3, 2024 Chase D. Anderson

Spotlight

Get Outside! Here’s Your Guide to the Outdoor Theatre Season for 2025.
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Get Outside! Here’s Your Guide to the Outdoor Theatre Season for 2025.

July 6, 2025 NWTheatre

There’s much to see in the sun this season. Here’s where to find the touring parks shows and outdoor stages, in Seattle and all around the Sound.

Doing Indie Bookstore Day Your Way
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Doing Indie Bookstore Day Your Way

April 25, 2025 Chase D. Anderson
Poking the Bard: Shakespeare Is Old and New Again on Seattle-Area Stages
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Poking the Bard: Shakespeare Is Old and New Again on Seattle-Area Stages

February 2, 2024 Chase D. Anderson
Priced Out? These Seattle-Area Theatres Set Out to Price You In.
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Priced Out? These Seattle-Area Theatres Set Out to Price You In.

February 24, 2022 Chase D. Anderson

Interviews

5 Questions with Playwright Nelle Tankus
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5 Questions with Playwright Nelle Tankus

February 7, 2024 Chase D. Anderson

This week, Seattle playwright Nelle Tankus premieres ‘Tenderness – an anti-capitalist cyberpunk experience’ at Annex Theatre (running through 2/17). NWT talked with the playwright to learn more about her latest work and the inspirations behind it. 

5 Questions With Multi-Faceted Comedian Lauren Weedman
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5 Questions With Multi-Faceted Comedian Lauren Weedman

February 18, 2023 Chase D. Anderson
5 (More) Questions with the Broadway-Bound Sara Porkalob
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5 (More) Questions with the Broadway-Bound Sara Porkalob

March 22, 2022 Chase D. Anderson
5 Questions with Magician & Theatre-Maker Maritess Zurbano
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5 Questions with Magician & Theatre-Maker Maritess Zurbano

March 6, 2020 Rachel Delmar
5 Questions with Choreographer & Dancer Sean Dorsey
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5 Questions with Choreographer & Dancer Sean Dorsey

October 17, 2019 Chase D. Anderson
5 Questions with Playwright & Novelist Joy McCullough
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5 Questions with Playwright & Novelist Joy McCullough

September 9, 2019 Chase D. Anderson

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