Keeping Hope Alive in ‘Golden’
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.
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REVIEW
Regency Wears Chucks at This Austen Ball
Dacha Theatre’s rollicking modern ball maintains everything to love about Jane Austen’s enduring character. Kate Hamill’s ‘Emma’ runs through 4/19.
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With the Star-Crossed Lovers, Pacific Northwest Ballet Flexes Its Theatrical Might
The classic tragic tale gets a major ballet lift. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is reimagined in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette, at Pacific Northwest Ballet through 4/20.
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At This Retirement Home, Rest Is About the Only Thing Not Happening
In Kenmore, As If Theatre Company puts up another riotous comedy, this one set in the high-stakes world of retirement home wagering. Ripcord runs through 4/6.
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A Rockin’ Reboot (With a Punk Rock Twist)
A punk rock reboot of the musical Oliver!, a spin on the literary classic, hits all the right notes. Reboot Theatre Company’s production runs through 4/5 at Theatre Off Jackson.
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Waitress Serves a Welcome Respite
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Waitress is full of sweetness, energy, and warmth. It performs in Seattle through 3/30, followed by a tour to Houston in April.
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‘Is This a Room’ Finds Its Script in a Transcript
Few shows are unforgettable. Here’s an exception. Harlequin Productions’ blistering real-life drama, ‘Is This a Room’, runs through 3/23 in Olympia.
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Looking Forward and Back, This Musical Sees a Relationship Unfold
Two casts animate this narrative told two ways. Jason Robert Brown’s relationship musical, The Last Five Years, runs through 3/16 in Seattle.
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Blues for an Alabama Sky Resonates in the Here and Now
Expressive high notes of the Harlem Renaissance give way to darker times in Seattle Rep’s beautifully staged slice-of-life drama. Blues for an Alabama Sky runs through 2/23.
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As This Trip Reminds, What’s Passed Down May Haunt You
Roommates, family baggage, and long-lost exes all pile in for this theatrical road trip. Marcus Gorman’s ‘Gold’ performs at Annex Theatre (on stage and streaming) through 2/8.
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From Pointe to Skies, Stars Shine in PNB’s New PNW ‘Sleeping Beauty’
The storied ballet gets a fresh, locally inspired look in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s massive new production. The Sleeping Beauty performs through 2/9.
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This Famously Fantastical Nanny Is a Joy Through Generations
The stage version of this famously fantastical nanny brings a big spoonful of sugar for the holidays. The 5th Avenue Theatre’s joyous production of Mary Poppins runs through 12/29.
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PNB’s Holiday Magic Endures With These Waltzes
Even for a longtime attendee, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s festive tradition still packs plenty of Christmas magic. George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker performs through 12/28.
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Years Later, Wicked on Tour Still Sparks the Magic of Its Broadway Premiere
The movie comes out this week, but the live-on-stage Wicked just can’t be beat. Broadway’s blockbuster reimagination of Oz runs through 12/1 at the Paramount Theatre.
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Plates Empty, Stage Full in Port Townsend’s Café du Grand Boeuf
A tragicomedy spins a feast from thin air at Saltfire Theatre’s An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, through 11/24 in Port Townsend.
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This Wedding Party Invites You to Choose Your Own Drama (With Plenty of It)
A company known for its playful, devised works whisks audiences away to a wedding party of the gods. Dacha Theatre’s ‘The Pomegranate Tree’ runs through 11/9 at Theatre Off Jackson.
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A Welcome Reprieve: Finding Energy in Unexpected Dances
A trio of Balanchine works gives a surprising recharge at a necessary time. ‘All Balanchine’ performs at Pacific Northwest Ballet through November 10.
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From Grounded to Dreamlike, Pilobolus Dances the Whole of Human Experience
Contemporary dance company Pilobolus performs five exciting and varied works in re:CREATION, at Seattle’s Meany Center through 10/19.
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In a Kitsap Operetta, It’s Pirates and Dungeons and Dragons
The Curse of the Red Mill, an original take on a century-old work, fits gamely into the theatre’s fantastical wheelhouse. It runs through 10/12 at Enoch City Arts.
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Can’t Rain on Her Parade
Fanny Brice’s star shines in Funny Girl, performing now through 9/29 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, on the Broadway revival’s first national tour.
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Who Dares Drink the Poisoned Wine? A Cult Leader and a Cowboy Investigate.
At turns lyrical and unsettling, Washington Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Cowboys with Questions’ is a well-timed dig into power and delusion. The new play by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth runs through 9/15.
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The Unsinkable ‘Titanish’
From the same crew as ‘A Very Die Hard Christmas’, The Habit’s parody of the summer blockbuster makes its third voyage at Seattle Public Theater, through 9/22.
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Growing Up With Peter Pan
The Broadway tour of the musical Peter Pan aims for broad appeal. The Seattle run performs at the Paramount Theatre through August 25, and heads to Portland thereafter.
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Awash in Nostalgia, ‘Twin Peep Show’ Flashes the Glory Days
A new cabaret from longtime collaborators Opal Peachey and Mark Siano had the Triple Door awash in nostalgic glow. Twin Peep Show performed through August 4.
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Here’s to the Ladies Who Launch
Broadway’s gender-flipped revival of ‘Company’ performs in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre through 7/28.
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Sound Theatre Revisits an All-Too-Familiar Election
Sound Theatre’s 53% Of puts the spotlight on women, politically conservative and liberal alike, who voted in the 2016 election. It runs through 6/30.
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A Canvas Bleak and Beautiful in Depression-Era ‘North Country’
If your American aesthetic is the stuff of Steinbeck, Fornés, and Dylan, you’ve finally got your musical. Girl From the North Country runs through 6/30 at the Paramount Theatre.
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Adolescence and Angst in Bloom at Spring Awakening
A rock musical at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre (through 6/30) looks at youthful energy, sexuality, and repression.
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Comin’ in Hot at Clyde’s
The heat is cranked way up, and not just on the stove, in Lynn Nottage’s diner-set play. Clyde’s runs through 6/30 at ArtsWest.
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Absurdist Spins on Shakespeare Put Language in a Different Light
Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth, two linked short plays by Tom Stoppard, run through 6/16 at inD Theatre on Bainbridge Island.
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