Local Arts News
You can’t shut down the arts.
Theater Review
Despite strong performances and comedic zest, it’s hard to not get hung up on the befuddling ending of Seattle Shakespeare’s latest production.
Stage
Turns out a conventional approach is best for Verdi’s notoriously implausible ‘Il trovatore.’
Arts Education
Youths are engaging in critical arts thinking via the local nonprofit’s Press Corps Intensive.
Stage
A new jazz opera about a troubled genius highlights the lineup.
Arts News
From its glittering face to the innovative performance possibilities within, the Opera Center was built for allure.
Theater Review
Book-It Rep’s diverse casting adds new depth to Willa Cather’s tale of friendship and hardship on the Great Plains.
A character whose first draft got short shrift finally finds happiness in ‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.’
Theater Review
Seattle Rep’s production of ‘In the Heights,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-‘Hamilton’ musical, is an energetic romp.
Theater Review + Interview
Mike Daisey’s 18-part monologue at Seattle Rep serves as an engaging, fiery, and confrontational history class.
Theater Review
Seattle Shakespeare’s affectionately traditionalist staging of Shaw’s unsentimental wartime satire, ‘Arms and the Man.’
Theater Review
The enthusiastic Seattle Children’s Theatre production makes the story of a young will-be Muhammad Ali fun for kids.
Fall Arts
The new female-driven cabaret company strives for a noir cinematic sophistication.
Fall Arts
The local arts institutions continue to push creative bounds under changing leadership.
Performance
While thematically uncentered, Cirque du Soleil’s BMX-adorned Volta still entertains.
Opera Review
An ambitious, imaginative, double-cast production in which one sings, the other doesn’t.
Arts & Culture
Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ is a must-see production that feels engaged with the cultural conversation.
