This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/18)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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In This Satire, Old Plagues Are New Again
In ‘The Plague Master General (a bubonic comedy)’, Blue Hour Theatre Group puts a different spin on a familiar topic. It runs through 4/27 at West of Lenin.
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Nature on an Epic Scale: The Seasons’ Canon
Crystal Pite’s epic makes a welcome return to Pacific Northwest Ballet, through 4/21. The Seasons’ Canon might be the most thrilling thing on stage.
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Toss It or Keep It? In Portland, One Duo Tries to Figure It Out.
Two people try to work out how to make things work — and if it’s even worth it — in this intimate play. Yohen runs through April 21 in Downtown Portland.
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The Thrust: What Language Is Home?
In English and Farsi, two plays on now in Seattle and Portland examine our relationships to home and others through language. ‘English’ runs through 4/28 at ArtsWest; ‘Nassim’ runs through 5/12 at Portland Center Stage.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/11)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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Classic Beetlejuice It’s Not. Welcome to The Lydia Show.
The national tour of Broadway’s Beetlejuice the musical, based on the late-’80s flick of the same name, is a hot ticket. It runs through April 7 at the Paramount Theatre.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (4/3)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week and next.
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This Imaginative Take on a Russian Classic Is a Weird Story, Well-Told
Dacha Theatre’s imaginative new adaptation of the fantastical Russian classic, ‘The Master and Margarita’, runs through 4/13.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/27)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week and next.
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Dark and Funny, Secrets Lurk in ‘The Moors’
Drawing inspiration from literary greats and feminist slasher heroines alike, ‘The Moors’ thrives in the shadows with a stellar cast and standout designs. It runs at Seattle Public Theater through April 14.
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This Play Is Definitely the Worst
It’s all a setup, in this weird comedic dystopia. Or is it? ‘The Participants!’ runs through March 23 at Annex Theatre, and via livestream.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/21)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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Theatre People, This Ballet’s For You
The theatre magic in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘One Thousand Pieces’ is as prominent as the dances themselves. It makes for a great show. PNB’s latest contemporary mixed rep runs through March 24.
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Now Invading Bremerton’s Shores: A Rollicking Band of Deep Space Pirates
‘The Space Pirates of Penzance’, an original take on a musical classic, is a fun crossover of all sorts of geekery. It runs through April 6 at Enoch City Arts.
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It’s My Funeral, and I’ll Laugh If I Want To
As If Theatre Company deals in expansive topics through small and specific human stories. Its latest, a sharp British comedy, follows that theme but cranks up the laughs — a feat in a show about death. ‘Colder Than Here’ runs through March 30 in Kenmore.
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Some Big Stages Are Set for 2025. Who’s Doing What?
Pacific Northwest Ballet just announced its 2024-25 season, hot on the heels of season announcements from The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, Village Theatre, and Broadway at The Paramount. Now that most of the biggest stages in musicals and dance are set, here’s a look at their seasons.
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There’s Something Afoot at This (A-List) Party
Something’s Afoot, a spoofy-murdery-musical, runs at The 5th Avenue Theatre through March 24.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/13)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week (and an early look at the week after, too).
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With Science and Poetry, ‘Ada’ Unearths an Early Engine of Progress
Long before the computer as we know it, Ada Lovelace was busy dreaming it up. ‘Ada and the Engine’, Lauren Gunderson’s play about the early inventor, runs at Edmonds Driftwood Players through 3/17.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (3/7)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week (and an early look at the week after, too).
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On Book: Ghosts in Plain View
Ghosts of Segregation, an impressive new book, gives a fresh look at familiar visuals by digging into their past. Photographer Richard Frishman will discuss the book on 3/9 at a Whidbey Island event.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (2/29)
There’s plenty to leap for this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (2/22)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (2/14)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week (and an early look at the week after, too).
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The Thrust: Making History
Two very different plays take a look at the legacy of Shakespeare, while a world premiere sends us to the past to fix the present. They run on Seattle stages through late February.
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5 Questions with Playwright Nelle Tankus
This week, Seattle playwright Nelle Tankus premieres ‘Tenderness – an anti-capitalist cyberpunk experience’ at Annex Theatre (running through 2/17). NWT talked with the playwright to learn more about her latest work and the inspirations behind it.
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This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (2/7)
There’s plenty to see this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week.
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Swan Lake Is a Respite in Beauty (and Tragedy)
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s classic Swan Lake continues to enthrall. It runs through February 11.
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Poking the Bard: Shakespeare Is Old and New Again on Seattle-Area Stages
The First Folio, the published collection of Shakespeare works, celebrated its 400th birthday last year. On Seattle-area stages this year, new plays, and new takes on the classics, probe the Bard’s continued relevance.
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