Top Arts Stories

The Weekly Wire

Seattle Weekly Staff
This week's recommended events. More >>

Arts Features

  • The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    By Seattle Weekly Critics

    WEDNESDAY 2/1 Books: Chord of Resolution Rock lit is on the rise. Soon after Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award,... More >>

  • Opening Nights: Cradle and All

    By Margaret Friedman

    Warning: Children may cause exhaustion, sexual deprivation, and marital stress. It's not a terribly new insight, and Daniel Goldfarb's cautionary... More >>

  • Opening Nights: How to Write a New Book for the Bible

    By Margaret Friedman

    Bill Cain's autobiographical play about caring for his mother during her last six months of life is both a miracle and a mess. Despite defying... More >>

  • Four by Four

    By Gavin Borchert

    Bartok's String Quartet no. 4—with its antagonistic opening, bad-dreamish slow movement, and aggressive fury—is possibly his... More >>

  • Night and Day

    By Gavin Borchert

    If in his first concerts with the Seattle Symphony last fall, music director Ludovic Morlot staked his claim with unconventional programming and... More >>

  • The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    By Seattle Weekly Critics

    WEDNESDAY 1/25 Books: Greene With Envy? Having literary idols is generally a bad idea. How many careers have been squandered trying to drink like... More >>

  • Opening Nights: The Callers

    By Kevin Phinney

    Camp is not just a summer destination, as the talented WET ensemble proves all too painfully in The Callers, the troupe's first attempt at an... More >>

  • Opening Nights: Project 5

    By Sandra Kurtz

    Seattle Dance Project is celebrating its fifth anniversary in "Project 5" with a pair of new works and a handful of revivals. The program... More >>

  • Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic

    By Gavin Borchert

    It's emblematic of Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot's devotion to new music that the first commission of his tenure (co-sponsored with... More >>

  • The Fussy Eye: Nuclear Family

    By Brian Miller

    Not many murals outlast the buildings on which they were once mounted, and fewer still can survive more than one move. The old City Light... More >>

  • The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    By Seattle Weekly Critics

    THURSDAY /1/19 Books: Brother, Can You Spare a Tax Break? Though he lives near the Beltway, What's the Matter With Kansas? author Thomas Frank is... More >>

  • Opening Nights: Attila

    By Gavin Borchert

    Seattle Opera's production of Verdi's Attila is like an Italian opera reimagined by Spike TV. The martial score's heavy on swagger and light on... More >>

  • Ear Supply: The Borrowers

    By Gavin Borchert

    For centuries, composers in the Western tradition based music on other people's music without thinking anything of it—all the way back to... More >>

  • Spinning the Oldies

    By Brian Miller

    There are many good intentions to The Listening Room, perhaps 2,000 of them—the approximate number of albums Theaster Gates salvaged from... More >>

  • The Fussy Eye: Implied Visage

    By Brian Miller

    There are a number of busts and portraits in the group show waggishly called Give Me Head, but my favorite wouldn't look out of place at the... More >>

VOICE Daily Deals

Find an Arts Event

for free stuff, theater info & more!

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

From the Print Edition

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events
By Seattle Weekly Critics

WEDNESDAY 2/1 Books: Chord of Resolution Rock lit is on the rise. Soon after Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award, Brooklyn-based Jennifer Egan was awarded the 2011… More >>

Opening Nights: <i>Cradle and All</i> Opening Nights: Cradle and All
By Margaret Friedman

Warning: Children may cause exhaustion, sexual deprivation, and marital stress. It's not a terribly new insight, and Daniel Goldfarb's cautionary tale of bourgeois suffering in Brooklyn Heights doesn't break any… More >>

Opening Nights: <i>How to Write a New Book for the Bible</i> Opening Nights: How to Write a New Book for the Bible
By Margaret Friedman

Bill Cain's autobiographical play about caring for his mother during her last six months of life is both a miracle and a mess. Despite defying nearly every law of playwriting,… More >>

Four by Four Four by Four
By Gavin Borchert

Bartok's String Quartet no. 4—with its antagonistic opening, bad-dreamish slow movement, and aggressive fury—is possibly his gnarliest, and since the Seattle Chamber Music Society treats music this uncompromising gingerly, it's… More >>

Night and Day Night and Day
By Gavin Borchert

If in his first concerts with the Seattle Symphony last fall, music director Ludovic Morlot staked his claim with unconventional programming and an enthusiasm for the modern, his return last… More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events
By Seattle Weekly Critics

WEDNESDAY 1/25 Books: Greene With Envy? Having literary idols is generally a bad idea. How many careers have been squandered trying to drink like Hemingway or mope like Plath? Pico Iyer is… More >>

Opening Nights: <i>The Callers</i> Opening Nights: The Callers
By Kevin Phinney

Camp is not just a summer destination, as the talented WET ensemble proves all too painfully in The Callers, the troupe's first attempt at an original musical (leaving aside Robopop,… More >>

Opening Nights: <i>Project 5</i> Opening Nights: Project 5
By Sandra Kurtz

Seattle Dance Project is celebrating its fifth anniversary in "Project 5" with a pair of new works and a handful of revivals. The program continues SDP's exploration of material that… More >>

Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic Ear Supply: Obsessive and Ecstatic
By Gavin Borchert

It's emblematic of Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot's devotion to new music that the first commission of his tenure (co-sponsored with orchestras in Manitoba and Ontario) was given to Nico… More >>

The Fussy Eye: Nuclear Family The Fussy Eye: Nuclear Family
By Brian Miller

Not many murals outlast the buildings on which they were once mounted, and fewer still can survive more than one move. The old City Light building on Third (between Madison… More >>


Now Click This

About Us | Work for Seattle Weekly | Esubscribe | Free Classifieds | Seattle Weekly Advertising | National Online Advertising | Mobile | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Problem With the Site? | RSS | Site Map
© 2012 Seattle Weekly, LLC, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
Profile | Newsletters | Mobile
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy