Theatre
April 26, 2013 | by Leah Baltus

Big Man on Stage

A revitalized Mike Daisey returns to Seattle with two new shows. Last year, monologist Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs erupted in a truth-versus-fiction scandal. Now the onetime Seattleite brings American Utopias and F***ing F***ing F***ing Ayn Rand, both of which recently...

Events

March 16 - May 26

Grey Gardens

Venue: ACT Theatre
May 1 - May 25

33 Variations

Venue: ArtsWest
June 10, 2012 | by Amanda Manitach

NW New Works at On the Boards

The morning after NW New Works Festival — in which I profusely free associate and write down my morning-after thoughts about some of this year's performances (...
June 7, 2012 | by Gillian G. Gaar

American Idiot at the Paramount

Though Green Day’s American Idiot is a concept album, its “concept” is more thematic than narrative; there’s no clear storyline. In the broadest sense, the 2004...
June 6, 2012 | by Alison Sargent

An Artistic Engagement

On a Sunday evening last March, Grant Rehnberg picked up his boyfriend Bradford Schroeder at work and drove him to a warehouse in Georgetown. With help from his...
June 1, 2012 | by Amanda Manitach

TRIMPIN: The Gurs Zyklus

It's around 6 p.m. in Trimpin's studio and we're drinking ice-cold martinis around a small table surrounded by hundreds of books (Huelsenbeck, Kafka, Slonimsky),...
May 25, 2012 | by Rachel Shimp

Q&A with Marya Sea Kaminski

Marya Sea Kaminski's Riddled plays at the Richard Hugo House June 1–23. Last September, Bumbershoot visitors packed a small Seattle Center theatre for Marya Sea...

Sex, Drugs and Selling your Soul in ‘Bed Snake’ at WET

How far would you go to fulfill your dreams? This is the inciting question that kicks off Bed Snake, a new play written by Noah Benezra and Hannah Victoria...

'Damn Yankees' Winningly Throws no Curves

Sometimes a straight pitch works best. The loving embrace of the original 1950s style that governs the production of Damn Yankees now running at the 5th Avenue...