Seattle-Area Performance & Art
Village Theatre’s latest production boasts strong performers, but its staging attempts too much. ‘Songs for a New World’ runs through February 13 in Issaquah, followed by a run in Everett through March 13. Plus: next month, check out a new musical from Village’s talented teenagers.
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‘We’ve Battled Monsters Before’, the season-opener at ArtsWest and the latest Justin Huertas musical, is available for online viewing through January 20.
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Daredevil dancers open an exciting series of performances at the UW’s Meany Center, and a robust lineup of new dance works take stage around Seattle in January.
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After a brief holiday lull, NWTheatre is back in action. Here’s how we’ll help you support your favorite arts organizations in whatever ways you feel comfortable.
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Some beloved Christmas traditions return this week, including a fearsome Santa, an anonymous cast, and a new iteration of ‘The Harlem Nutcracker’. Plus, loads more holiday shows for any mood, and a few non-holiday ones as well.
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Loads more Christmas shows open up this week, from irreverent to classic, along with a host of continuing runs. Plus, some great locally oriented films showing on a (home) screen near you, and a handful of college productions, short runs, and audio dramas.
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A big wave of openings awaits this week, with some new works and a whole bunch of Christmas shows (from Olympia to Marysville).
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With ‘Diary of a Madman,’ Lowbrow Opera Collective humanizes society’s scorn for mental illness in a compelling 45-minute opera. It runs through November 21 at 18th & Union.
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Earlier this year, the rock band Always Naked released an album called “Sex Sells,” along with a music video starring two Seattle-area theatre artists. With next week’s arrival of their third full-length album, the band finally gets to throw a release party. They play the High Dive on November 27.
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Live performance isn’t fully back yet, but it’s certainly getting into the swing of things this season. Here are some shows to check out this weekend, whether you feel like sitting on the couch at home, or in a theatre seat, or … at a field out in the rain.
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In ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’, one evening’s concert captures the downward spiral of an American musical icon. Alexandria J. Henderson’s performance puts the singer’s highs and lows on display; it’s just as beautiful to watch as it is heartbreaking. ‘Lady Day’ runs through November 27 in downtown Olympia.
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‘Until the Flood’, Dael Orlandersmith’s interview-based solo show about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, gets a multi-actor staging at Harlequin Productions in Olympia. It runs through December 4.
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Here are six hand-picked, worth-your-time, probably-uplifting things to do or see this week.
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Here are five hand-picked, worth-your-time, probably-uplifting things to do or see this week.
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As social isolation from the novel virus threatens to drive us all mad, novel book clubs bring Washingtonians together from afar.
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With all the performance cancellations and social distancing, no doubt many of us will be spending some quality time with the TV. Here are some shows that are holding my attention these days.
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What’s billed as the story of a jazz great taking care of unfinished business after his untimely death, winds up a tale of addiction to drugs and White women. It runs through March 7.
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Village Theatre gives a lovely production to ‘She Loves Me’, a rehashed musical based on the same 1930s story that inspired the ’90s film ‘You’ve Got Mail’. It runs in Everett through March 22.
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An up-and-coming Kenmore theatre company wants your cake recipes ahead of its upcoming production; and the long-running Cupcake Reading Series wants your new play scripts. Both have deadlines next weekend.
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‘Admissions’ looks at diversity in the wild world of top prep schools, but provokes tough questions of privilege in arenas far beyond that elite enclave. It runs at Seattle Public Theater through February 23.
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Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s latest is a dark look at criminology and injustice, set in an early British prison colony in Australia. It runs through February 22 at 12th Avenue Arts.
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‘Steel Magnolias’ at Taproot Theatre (thru 2/29) and Tacoma Musical Playhouse’s ‘Beehive’ (thru 2/16) center strong female characters, from an ’80s small-town salon to world-class stages of the ’60s.
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This month, there are plenty of ways to feel the love, with someone special or on the town by yourself. Here are my personal picks for February.
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Dani Tirrell’s ‘Black Bois’, which premiered in April 2018 at On the Boards, returns this year on Valentine’s Day at the Moore Theatre. It’s a multi-genre love letter to Black community, healing, and joy.
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The newly imagined Seattle Asian Art Museum, at the center of bustling-but-serene Volunteer Park, reopens after three years of large-scale renovations. Inside is a bounty of art that’s gorgeous in its breadth and contrasts.
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This weekend, Sharon Nyree Williams brings ‘Dare to Claim the Sky’ to ACT Theatre, alongside work from three other solo performers; and On the Boards features five dancers and seven durational works in its own solo fest later this month.
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The classic farce goes behind the scenes of what might be the worst show ever. Harlequin’s production of it is slapstick that’s as smart, and funny, as it gets. ‘Noises Off’ runs in Olympia through February 8.
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The Millennial experience gets an opera treatment in ‘#adulting’, from the classically trained singers of the Lowbrow Opera Collective. It runs through February 9 at 18th & Union.
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The new work by dancer/choreographer Elby Brosch looks at trans experience alongside binary and non-binary identities. It runs through 1/30.
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The South Korean artist uses a trio of chatty rice cookers to delve into the dark and desolate sides of his country’s past and present. The U.S. premiere of ‘Cuckoo’ runs at On the Boards through January 26.
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