6 Things to Brighten Your Life This Week
Here are six hand-picked, worth-your-time, probably-uplifting things to do or see this week.
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5 Things to Brighten Your Life This Week
Here are five hand-picked, worth-your-time, probably-uplifting things to do or see this week.
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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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(In sickness and in health…) What’s On, What’s Off?
In light of COVID-19, here is what we’ve heard at this time regarding March and April shows. This will be updated frequently.
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5 Questions with Magician & Theatre-Maker Maritess Zurbano
NWT talks with the internationally acclaimed magician about decolonizing magic, real-life magic vs. illusion, and her upcoming show at The Rendezvous (March 8-10).
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Seattle Opera’s ‘Yardbird’ Tells a Story, But a Tired One
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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Old-Timey Rom-Com Heads to Village Theatre in Everett
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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As If Wants Your Cakes. Live Girls! Wants Your Cupcakes.
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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Spare 12 Minutes? A Favorite Short-Form Performance Fest Returns This Weekend.
New curators, new artists, new works. Those are the basic building blocks of the long-running series ’12 Minutes Max’. The latest installment is February 23-24.
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Why Are All the White Administrators Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
‘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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A Darker Play-Within-a-Play Takes Shape in ‘Our Country’s Good’
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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This Week in Arts: Wednesday Roundup (2/19)
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.
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In Two ‘80s Theatrical Creations, Strong Women and Big Hair
‘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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(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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This Week in Arts: Wednesday Roundup (2/5)
What’s happening around town this week? Plenty — including some shows closing that you won’t want to miss.
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The Funniest Thing On Right Now? That’s Easy — It’s ‘Noises Off’
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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Can You F***ing Not?
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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Sibling Rivalry and Male Ego Converge in ‘True West’
A war between siblings unearths the rotten underbelly of male ego and its generational reverberations in ‘True West’, Sam Shepard’s dark comedy. It runs through February 16 at Seattle Rep.
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This Week in Arts: Wednesday Roundup (1/29)
Highlights this week include a diverse slate of openings, from prep school to monsters, and low-brown opera to fairy-tale ballet.
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‘Drama Tops’ Explores the Switchy Territory of Gendered Experience
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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Jaha Koo Pairs the Deadly Serious with the Whimsical in ‘Cuckoo’
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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In Tchaikovsky’s Dramatic Composition, an Uninspiring Man Gets a Gorgeous Opera
Seattle Opera’s take on Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is beautiful, in instrument, voice, and design, with a lusciously lyrical delivery makes up for a rather uninspired plot. It runs through January 25.
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Teenage Highs and Lows Make for Outsized Drama in ‘Dance Nation’
Female empowerment and adolescent awkwardness join forces in Washington Ensemble Theatre’s latest, fueled by standout choreography and a star-dusted cast. It runs through February 3.
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This Week in Arts: Wednesday Roundup (1/22)
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.
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