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Baird as Brünnhilde: reaching for conviction.

Arts & Culture

Stage Review: Seattle Opera’s Ring

New singers struggle to fit comfortably into a beloved production.

Double date: Pham and Hynes play all the roles.

Arts & Culture

Stage Preview: Helsinki Syndrome’s Oscar Party

Two performance-art provocateurs explore the importance of reinventing Earnest.

Midori: Finding the beauty in Soviet iconoclasm.

Arts & Culture

The SSO’s Hot Streak

Schwarz and his orchestra have been on an end-of-season tear.

Eat Drink Toke

Where: Juan Colorado8709 14th Ave. S. (South Park)206-764-9379Time of Entry: Sunday, 1

Where: Juan Colorado8709 14th Ave. S. (South Park)206-764-9379Time of Entry: Sunday, 1 p.m.-ish. But Juan Colorado had been…

Music

“Gloria””I Drove All Night””Hungry Like the Wolf”

“Gloria””I Drove All Night””Hungry Like the Wolf”

News

The Seattle Symphony has announced the formation of a search committee, led

The Seattle Symphony has announced the formation of a search committee, led by former first lady Nancy B.…

News

Wanted to double-check my hometown’s population (it came up in conversation), and

Wanted to double-check my hometown’s population (it came up in conversation), and found this at the head of…

Heading toward Sunday: Panaro (left) as Seurat with an earlier experiment.

Arts & Culture

Stage Review: The 5th Ave.’s Luminous Sunday

Bit by bit, bringing Seurat and Sondheim to life.

News

If classical music is to survive, goes one line of thought, it’ll

If classical music is to survive, goes one line of thought, it’ll have to appeal to the texting,…

Eat Drink Toke

Where: Marie Callender’s, 9538 First Ave N.E., 526-5785, www.mcpies.com.When: Sunday morning, April

Where: Marie Callender’s, 9538 First Ave N.E., 526-5785, www.mcpies.com.When: Sunday morning, April 5.The Soak: Flyover-America to the core…

News

Screams the headline on a just-received press release from Intiman:”SEATTLE– On Wednesday,

Screams the headline on a just-received press release from Intiman:”SEATTLE– On Wednesday, April 1, the Hammering Man, one…

News

Plus-one is one of the 22,000 people who bought Sounders season tickets,

Plus-one is one of the 22,000 people who bought Sounders season tickets, so he brought me last night…

Two Penelopes too many: Pudwell (left), with puppet and puppeteer.

Arts & Culture

William Kentridge: the Opera

The music is glorious, but the puppets just get in the way.

News

Now that I think about it, duh: Why hasn’t this occurred to

Now that I think about it, duh: Why hasn’t this occurred to anyone else yet? Drama, spectacle, emotion,…

Attention magnet Walewska as Judith: Don’t open the door!

Arts & Culture

Grindings and Flutterings at Seattle Opera

Robert Lepage’s double production of one-acts, finally performed by SO, makes opera a living art.

The Pacific Rims will pay tribute to Cage.

Arts & Culture

Spring Arts: John Cage’s Pioneering Drumbeats

An avant-gardist’s innovations resound at Cornish to this day.

Collins and DiMarco: Slow-going.

Arts & Culture

Victorian Secrets

It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

Working up some heat: David Adam Moore and Larissa Yudina.

Arts & Culture

French Confection

Seattle Opera lingers over Bizet’s dreamy fairy tale.

Bernett is some kind of hero.

Film

PICK Breakfast With Scot: Our Kind of Gay Hero

Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a deeply closeted sportscaster and ex–Maple Leaf; Sam (Ben Shenkman) is his patient partner.…

Arts & Culture

Space Oddity

A real-life tabloid triangle inspires a new chamber opera by a jazz master.