Arts & Culture
The winking tenor
A semicomic opera gets a semibalanced treatment.
Arts & Culture
Newborn butterfly
The Seattle Opera takes over a hockey rink with some skillful debuts.
Eat Drink Toke
Noodle Ranch
I ended up at the Noodle Ranch on one of those first warm sunny days we had a…
Arts & Culture
Blue Tuesdays
Seattle Rep's end-of-life play may be uplifting, but it left our reviewer down in the dumps.
Film
Hair High
Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Thurs., March 23–Wed., March 29. Not rated. 75 minutes.
Arts & Culture
“Have we ever really heard the Seattle Symphony?” was a common refrain
“Have we ever really heard the Seattle Symphony?” was a common refrain last weekend as Gerard Schwarz and…
Arts & Culture
High and Low Notes
Seattle Opera marshals Wagner's Ring—and fights a small budget battle on the side.
Arts & Culture
People Who Need People
Seattle Opera's Don Pasquale is missing the humor of humanity.
Arts & Culture
Yo Ho Ho Ho
Gilbert & Sullivan Society's Pirates of Penzance finds a perfect balance of sense and nonsense.
Arts & Culture
Elizabeth Wilson
The so-called “Shostakovich Wars” (the most heated controversy in classical music since the period-instrument revival) pit those who…
Arts & Culture
Three times four
The evolution of the string quartet gets played out on local stages.
