Imagine the pitch meeting for Get Hard: “What’s not funny about prison rape? Am I right?” “Or using ‘keister’ as…
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” That famous axiom is supposed to illuminate the absurdity of crossing two…
Opening ThisWeek Get Hard Opens Fri., March 27 at Sundance Cinemas and other theaters. Rated R. 100 Minutes. Imagine the pitch…
Opening Nights Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well & Living in Paris ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676, acttheatre.org. $15–$49. 7:30…
Unless you read The Guardian online or watch the BBC, you may not be familiar with the masterfully sly and…
Wednesday, March 25 Deviant Septet Surely realizing it was unsustainable, two composers who contemporaneously took the orchestra to its hypertrophied…
Stage Openings & Events The Best of Enemies A KKK member and a civil-rights activist are forced to integrate a…
Right from the first scene, in which pianist Seymour Bernstein talks his way through his thought process for fingering a…
One measure of a good horror movie is not how often you jump when the monster bangs out from behind…
For people of a certain age, these names may act as a time machine back to the 1970s: The Amazing…
The setup here might promise routine road comedy: A sad and lonely Japanese woman, who somehow believes the 1996 Coen…
Well, someone’s been hitting the gym. Since Liam Neeson announced his looming retirement from AARP action movies, Sean Penn and…
Author Events • Paul Beatty He reads from his satirical new novel on race relations, The Sellout. Seattle Central Library,…
Author Events Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., 425-450-1765, kcls.org. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island),…
Openings & Events Change-Seed Twenty-five artists from Hong Kong seek to update the U.S. on shifts in contemporary art created…
William Forsythe may be a choreographer, but he sounded a bit like an engineer during a Pacific Northwest Ballet lecture-demonstration…
The characters in Laura Schellhardt’s custom-built comedy about status-grubbing female real-estate agents in Manhattan gaze imperiously at you in the…
Some composers have it so tough: Worrying over how to fulfill a request for a piece by Toscanini—who at the…
That sound you’re hearing is no one talking about House of Cards Season 3. Or maybe it’s crickets with a…
Opening Nights The Comparables 155 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 443-2222. $17–$102. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sun. plus some Wed. & weekend matinees; see…
