Elements of Style
Classical meets modern in Stephen Wadsworth's collaborations with the quick and the dead.
View ArticleRobert Schenkkan Tells LBJ’s History in Rotating Rep
A Texas playwright takes on an iconic Texas politician in 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society,' and finds a figure of Shakespearean---i.e., tragic---proportions.
View ArticleBook-It Repertory Theatre Dramatizes Local Novels For A Growing Audience
Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre, led by Jane Jones and Myra Platt, has gone from adapting classic Western literature to local contemporary literature, drawing more and more local authors into theatre.
View ArticleActor Louis Hobson Is Rethinking Musicals in Seattle
Misha Berson on Louis Hobson’s plan to make Seattle a musical-theatre incubator.
View ArticleCafe Nordo and Teatro ZinZanni, Seattle’s Moveable Theatrical Feasts
Audiences hungry for more than the usual fare are having their culinary and theatrical palates sated by the city's nouveau dinner theatre offerings.
View ArticleAre We Entering a Special Period for Cuban Musicals?
While 'On Your Feet!' is conquering Broadway, the promising, musically vibrant 'Cuba Libre' bows in Portland.
View ArticleSeattle Theatre’s New Jazz Age
Local artists and theatre companies are taking jazz onstage---and taking it beyond Duke Ellington, Satchmo, and Coltrane.
View ArticleFrank Langella and Ben Whishaw, Bigger Than Life Onstage
Known for their work on screen, these two stage pros are in their element in 'The Father' and 'The Crucible.'
View ArticleWhy Join LORT? Artists Rep Explores the Process
The theatre in Portland, Ore., joins the organization for national profile---and local leadership on wages.
View ArticleThe Timely Ring of ‘Wedding Band’
Alice Childress’s seldom-produced interracial love story, though set a century ago, gave off fresh sparks at the Intiman.
View ArticleGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner in ‘A Moveable Feast’?
The Book-It Repertory Theatre adaptation of the Hemingway classic takes audiences on a Parisian tour.
View ArticleIbsen, Our Contemporary
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.
View ArticleChildren of the Journey
So much American theatre, from O'Neill to Udofia, has been inspired by the stories of playwrights' immigrant parents.
View ArticleAn Impresario With the Vision Thing
ACT Theatre’s Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi ups the artistic ante.
View ArticleTheatremaker: Sara Porkalob
She brings activism and passion to her multihyphenate theatre career.
View Article‘True West’: Sam Shepard’s Super Smash Brothers
In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.
View ArticleOctavio Solis’s Journey to ‘Mother Road’
The Texas-born, Oregon-based playwright imagines a Steinbeck sequel with timely resonance.
View Article‘The Detention Lottery,’ Where You Do Have to Live Like a Refugee
A Seattle-based production gives participants a stark look at the jarring, often dehumanizing reality inside U.S. immigration courts.
View ArticleA Cultural Patriot, Curious About Theatre Everywhere—That Was Jim O’Quinn
Though he ran a magazine based in New York City, he tirelessly---and uniquely---spread the love around the entire national theatre scene.
View ArticleMary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Composer Mary Rodgers's unsparing new memoir, equal parts hilarious and harrowing, tells of an eventful life in which musical theatre wasn't the only source of drama.
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View ArticleJustin Huertas, Theatrical Superhero
The disarming myth-making musical 'Lizard Boy,' about to make its NYC debut, is just one of the trails being blazed by this Seattle-based auteur.
View ArticleBook-It’s Abrupt Ending, and Why Seattle Is Poorer for It
After 3 decades staging literature in innovative and increasingly ambitious ways, the company closed suddenly last month, leaving a bewildering loss.
View ArticleSeattle Rep Names Dámaso Rodríguez Its New Artistic Director
The former leader of Portland, Ore.'s Artists Repertory Theatre, he takes the reins of the theatre, and its already booked next season, from Braden Abraham.
View ArticleCan a Theatre Critic Be a Good Dad?
Priscilla Gilman’s memoir portrays her father, Richard Gilman, as a passionate, difficult figure who bequeathed her life lessons, many unwittingly.
View ArticleCheryl West: Tough Love
Her new 'Pullman Porter Blues' celebrates an iconic slice of African-American history.
View ArticleCasting Across Cultures
Ott finds a new vision of 'Kingdom Come.' Also: video promos for theatre and a new Equity contract for Oregon Shakes.
View ArticleJoan Holden: Disarmingly Funny, Fiercely Political
The longtime playwright for San Francisco Mime Troupe delivered keen, freewheeling, up-to-the-minute satire as progressive as it was populist.
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