HAPPENINGS

Highlights this week include openings of a jazz legend opera and a dystopian classic; short runs of local dance festivals; and a can’t-miss play that closes this weekend. 

What’s happening around town this week? Plenty — including some shows closing that you won’t want to miss.

Highlights this week include a diverse slate of openings, from prep school to monsters, and low-brown opera to fairy-tale ballet.  

This week includes a few notable openings and great-looking shows across all the genres. From mainstage theatre to basement salons, opera stars to talking rice cookers, imagination on pages to dancers on walls — this week is one to explore.   

A packed January gets underway, with a surge of theatre shows opening alongside short-runs in dance and more. Here’s what’s happening this week.  

Happy new year! Here’s what’s happening this week, to start your arts year off right.

A bunch of Christmas shows and other big runs close out the year, with a few days to catch them if you missed them. In the new year, a sprinkling of shows is there to keep you entertained in an otherwise quiet week. 

This week continues the robust month of “shows that are Christmas shows” and “shows that are not Christmas shows,” with lots of variety to choose from. Here are some things happening this week. 

Loads of Christmas shows are opening this week. Here’s where you can find those, plus a few alternatives.

Highlights this week include new works in dance, two shows supporting queer communities, and a wide array of theatre performances, from the south Sound to Skagit County. 

This week is a relatively calm one, but with good options — from new dance works, to a playwrights-versus-poets throwdown, to a double-feature of modern plays. 

From haunted tales to talented teenagers, in theatre, dance, and variety, there’s a lot going on this week. Here’s what we recommend.

This week brings some fun seasonal openings, two anticipated dance picks, and several closings to catch before they’re gone.   

October slows down a bit from the September rush of shows, but offers some great picks nonetheless. Highlights this week include shows oriented around food, and a few intriguing openings.  

It’s surprising to realize this is the last roundup before October, and yet here we are. After the big rush of September theatre openings, this week brings a welcome relative calm, with a few openings and closings to note, and several short-runs and one-offs we’re excited about. 

Here comes another busy week in theatre and performance, with at least eight openings, some notable short runs, and the

A wildly busy theatre month continues with several more openings. Here’s what to look for this week in theatre openings, short-runs, and other performance arts. 

Labor Day weekend means a slow week for theatre. Here are some good picks anyway.

Highlights include a bustling First Thursday, two openings of intriguing new works, and a free arts & performance festival; plus, a 20-hour come-and-go showing of new dance, and the return of new play readings to Solo Bar. 

Highlights this week include three terrific shows that are closing (so cram them in if you can); plus three multi-artist festivals that run only this weekend; and an important fundraiser reading next week. 

Highlights this week included two terrific shows at Cafe Nordo’s Cullinarium and its underground Knife Room; plus, a great big fashion show, loads of one-offs, one show that lasts 24 hours, and another that’s created entirely within that same span. 

Highlights this week included two outstanding musicals (one classic, one new); plus, upcoming outdoor shows in abundance, celebrations of Black artistry, delicious dinner theatre & cabarets, and more.

Highlights this week included a cabaret, a drag show, and two family epics; plus, an upcoming show at Velocity, the (free!) Arts in Nature Festival, and tons of stuff for Seattle’s Pride weekend. 

Highlights this week included an early look at a new musical, and some impressive student works; plus, a new musical in-development shows at Village Theatre, some anticipated openings, and Team Dresch returns with a (sold-out) Seattle show.

Highlights this week included a culinary delight and a strange and fiery think piece in Pioneer Square; a rock show at the Village Theatre; plus, tons of upcoming openings to look forward to, along with a few big closings.