This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (5/27)
This one is a blissfully calm week in openings, giving you a chance to catch up on any continuing runs
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Sweat Now. Process Afterwords.
Two big productions on now, paint two American portraits, intimate and recognizable, in details both banal and destabilizing. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama runs through 5/22 at ACT Theatre; and a world-premiere musical at The 5th runs through 5/21.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (5/18)
Catch a don’t-miss production before it closes this weekend — and then go check out the abundance of other offerings this week, including new works from local playwrights, dance premieres, and a whole cast of puppets.
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The Herons and the Swans
A viewing of Mark Morris’ contemporary short works and Kent Stowell’s classic ‘Swan Lake’, at Pacific Northwest Ballet, finds surprising connections among them. Digital access to ‘Swan Lake’ is available through 5/16.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (5/11)
This week, take some fantastical journeys into Wonderland, and catch a few of the many plays and musicals around town ready to match any artistic mood.
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Seattle Rep Adds ’20×30′ Playwrights; Three of Them Have Local Shows Up Right Now
Seattle Rep’s new playwrights’ commission asks 20 playwrights to imagine our environment at a pivotal time. You can see works by some of those playwrights on local stages, from Seattle to Olympia, right now.
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Dance-Variety Show ‘Space 50’ Warms the Soul (And the 9th Planet)
A futuristic new show from ‘Buttcracker’ series creators Diana Cardiff and Sara Jinks brings dance into outer space. ‘Space 50’ ran through May 1.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (5/6)
This week, catch a highly recommended Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that just opened, a world-premiere original musical, a trans-centering film festival, and loads of ways to celebrate the moms in your life.
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On Screen: The Many Love Languages of ‘Translations’, Seattle’s Trans Film Fest
One of the nation’s longest-running trans-focused film festivals returns, with in-person screenings on 5/7 and four days of virtual access (through 5/8). Here is some recommended viewing among the many features and short films available.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/29)
It’s a busy week, with unique dance performances around time and place; timely plays examining the very-human impacts of war; and plenty more to fit every mood.
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Blast From the Past & Into the Future With These Dance Groups
One is held in a long-decommissioned steam plant. The other looks to the skies. This weekend, catch two unique shows inspired by time and space.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/21)
This week’s shows include works by Seattle-connected masters of theatre and dance. Plus, opportunities to get reacquainted with local theatre companies, and plenty of continuing runs all around town.
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Women Run the Show in ‘9 to 5’
Mega-talented cast and musicians shine in this Showtunes short run, a musical workplace comedy of sexism, revenge, and fresh thinking. It runs through April 16.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/15)
This week’s slight slowdown in theatre openings gives you a chance to catch up on anything you’ve missed, with a robust slate of continuing runs. Plus, dance openings and an outstanding short-run musical.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/8)
Another busy round of Seattle-area theatre, with as much variety as this week’s weather.
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The Thrust: With This Week’s Shows, It’s All in the Family
Diverse in form, these shows feature family at the heart of them.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/1)
Spring into spring with this fun mix of shows.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/24)
It’d be hard to come up with a week of shows more fun and varied than this lineup. This weekend features ritual, a ton of dance, and an irreverent original opera’s premiere, plus a bunch of theatre openings.
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Ailey. Jones. Mullikin. An Impressive Slate of Dance, of Global and Local Renown, This Weekend.
This weekend offers the most loaded roster of dance shows in recent memory, as two acclaimed New York-based companies tour to Seattle, and a locally based choreographer/filmmaker duo premieres their new work.
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5 (More) Questions with the Broadway-Bound Sara Porkalob
Sara Porkalob has taken Seattle by storm. Now she heads for the East Coast to perform in the Broadway revival of ‘1776’ and work on the third in her Dragon Cycle. NWT talked with her as she prepared for the journey.
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Plotting New Paths: Four Contemporary Works
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Rep 4, ‘Plot Points’, highlights a new generation of dance. It performs through March 27, and streams online through April 4.
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The Thrust: Quick Takes on 5 Shows This Week
Having trouble choosing what to see among the rush of shows this weekend? Here are my takeaways from five of them to help you decide.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/16)
A big variety in openings this week, including the timely Pipeline, a new works series, and new takes on Shakespeare;
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Book Revue: In ‘Fearlessly Different’, an Autistic Actor Finds His Light
In his debut book, released today, Seattle-raised actor Mickey Rowe shares how autism guides, not stifles, his stage performance. ‘Fearlessly Different’ offers behind-the-scenes perspective on disability, acting, and difference as strength.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/10)
A big variety in openings this week, including the timely ‘Pipeline’, a new works series, and new takes on Shakespeare; plus, loads of continuing runs to catch before they close, including the new opera ‘Blue’.
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The Thrust: In This Week’s Shows, the Rules Are What You Make Them
In two shows this week, strong female leads see their safe, comfortable social orders challenged. ‘The Cake’ from As If Theatre Company runs through 3/20 in Kenmore; and Village Theatre’s ‘The Book Club Play’ runs through 4/3 (in Issaquah) and 5/1 (in Everett).
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March’s Stage Madness: The Other Big Dance
At least 10 dance shows, featuring dozens of artists, swarm Seattle’s stages this month. Whether you favor brand new pieces in-development or iconic works, emerging choreographers or legendary dance companies, tiny stages or the area’s largest, you’ll find all of that and more.
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Patiently Waiting: Contemporary Dance Works Take Shape to Premiere
On March 8, dance company The Gray premieres new work by Beth Terwilleger. Meanwhile, new works take shape to premiere this spring, part of the James Ray Residency Project at Seattle International Dance Festival.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/2)
Variety’s the theme this week, with dance festivals, comedic plays, touring musicals, and more opening up. Plus, a small-stage drama (closing this week) and a big-stage opera are both recommended viewing.
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Red, Black, and Blue: An American Portrait at Seattle Opera
The gorgeous new opera ‘Blue’ presents a portrait of a middle-class Black family and their chosen families, galvanized by a joy and a tragedy. The West Coast premiere runs through March 12.
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