NWTheatre Awards: Companies, Trends, & Touring Shows of 2022
Recognizing companies, touring shows, a trend, and even a single scene that made 2022 a year to remember.
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NWTheatre Awards: Best-Loved Shows of 2022
All around the Sound, theatre and dance companies treated viewers to a lot of great performances in 2022. Here’s what stood out to NWTheatre as the most powerful, most memorable, most spectacular of the year.
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Priced Out? These Seattle-Area Theatres Set Out to Price You In.
As the pandemic pause put production activity on hold, theatres took the opportunity to reassess their commitments. For some, that means making theatre more accessible than ever, including how much it costs to get in the door.
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Always Naked Finally Get Their Big Release
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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Remembering Terrence McNally
Legendary playwright Terrence McNally died March 24 at age 81, of complications relating to the coronavirus. Seattle-based playwright Jim Moran remembers McNally, working alongside him, and the impact he had on Moran’s own work.
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With Unique Book Club, Coming Together by Staying Apart
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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Why Theatre, and Theatres, Need You Right Now
Theatre-maker and arts administrator Kathy Hsieh on the community of theatre, the devastation the virus has wrought, and why theatres sure could use your help right now.
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Avoiding the Plague? Here Are Some Small-Screen Options to Try.
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 to Watch) February 2020 Edition
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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‘Black Bois’ Takes the Big Stage This Week, to Another Sold-Out House
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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Seattle’s Asian Art Museum Opens Up Again This Week. Here’s an Early Look.
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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Solo Fest: Dare to Claim the Stage
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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Sugar Plum Gary Is Coming to Town. Look Busy.
Once upon a time, Santa Claus came to visit. The only survivor would like to tell you about it.
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‘As You Like It’ Reinvented: a Dazzling Community Epic
The Public Works Seattle production, comprised almost entirely of community members not accustomed to the mainstage, reimagines what theatre can be. It runs only through this weekend. And it’s a must-see.
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Shanked in the Shower: The Caged ‘Kittens’ Are Back
The original cast returns to Annex for two nights this week, for a reading of Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s hit Kittens in a Cage — and its new sequel. It’s a two-show fundraiser for Annex Theatre.
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Director’s Notes: New Musical ‘Breakup Bench’ at The Scratch this Week
The Scratch, a free festival of new works, begins its “In Pencil” staged readings series today with a new musical by Rheanna Atendido, called ‘Breakup Bench’. Director Hattie Claire Andres shared insight about the new musical.
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From Idea to Stage: ‘Triple Threat’ & ‘Bread Crumbs’ Open at The Scratch
The Scratch, a free festival of new works, starts off tonight with two personal works by some of Seattle’s hottest artists: Nicholas Japaul Bernard and Jasmine Joshua, with development assistance and direction by Eddie DeHais. DeHais shared insight about the two autobiographical pieces, and guided NWT through the development process of each.
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Village’s New Musicals Fest Is Among the Best in New Works. But It Could Reach a Wider Audience.
Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals is among the coolest shows in town, showing off new work with fantastic casts. But attendance is limited — and both for Village Theatre and for audiences regularly starved of relevant theatre, that may be an opportunity missed beyond the weekend.
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Short Play Fests Abound, But These Quickies Might Be the Quirkiest
Eight short plays premiere this weekend at As If Theatre Company’s short-run festival, ‘Kenmore Quickies’. The plays spring from an unusual inspiration and a research process focused heavily on Kenmore’s local history.
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‘The Laramie Project’, Relevant Now as Ever, Takes Stage at Seattle Central College
In a resurgent climate of hate, Seattle Central’s Drama department revisits ‘The Laramie Project’, an interview-based play written in the aftermath of a vicious crime. It runs at the Erickson Theater, beginning this Thursday (May 30) through June 8.
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Ligia Lewis’s Unexpectedly New Piece, at On the Boards this Weekend, Is About as ‘In the Moment’ as It Gets
A last-minute obstacle, courtesy of the United States government, derailed the visiting choreographer’s planned performance of Sorrow Swag, one of two shows Lewis was slated to present at On the Boards this weekend. In its stead, Lewis has re-envisioned the piece — and, with help from her musician brother, will dance the work herself.
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Powerful Artist Jono Vaughan Speaks at Tacoma Art Museum this Thursday
Jono Vaughan’s ‘Project 42’ calls out the shortened life expectancy of transgender people, through visual and performative memorials to trans people who were murdered. She talks about the work — which uses handcrafted dresses, complex prints, and dance — on April 4 at Tacoma Art Museum.
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‘Fashion Is ART’ Lives Up to Its Name
A fashion show at the Tacoma Art Museum, produced by Fashion District NW, brought inventive & artistic looks to the runway in a free-flowing environment. The next show, Couture & Cars, is July 20.
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The Other Georgetown: Base & ‘12 Minutes Max’
Hidden away among active industrial warehouses, Equinox Studios and the area immediately surrounding them (“Equiblox”?) offer a big variety of arts, plus a taproom, in an environment that provides an apt, creative backdrop for exploring new art forms. This Sunday & Monday, ’12 Minutes Max’ (formerly at On the Boards) is a great excuse to head there.
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Book Groups for People Who Actually Want to Read the Books
Discover great new reading and connect in person, with three book clubs built around shared interests — in this case, arts, theatre, and queer studies.
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