ArtSEA: Paul Allen Foundation awards $9M to downtown arts orgs Plus, Seattle theaters are providing comic relief during a tense election season. by Brangien Davis / September 26, 2024
Culture ArtSEA: Seattle International Film Festival turns 50-ish Picks for this year’s cinema celebration, plus award-winning plays at Seattle Rep and ACT Theatre. by Brangien Davis / May 2, 2024
Culture ArtSEA: The intricacy of intimacy, as seen on Seattle stages Plus, vigorous visual arts shows and a big orange bug comes alive. by Brangien Davis / March 21, 2024
Culture ArtSEA: A Buddhist bug crawls through Seattle Asian Art Museum Plus, Black History Month shows, Lunar New Year events, fresh plays on stage and an intergalactic film festival. by Brangien Davis / February 1, 2024
Culture ArtSEA: Remembering Town Hall Seattle director Wier Harman Plus, Intiman Theatre’s ‘Black Nativity’ retakes the stage and garden light shows shine from Bellevue to Bainbridge. by Brangien Davis / December 14, 2023
Culture ArtSEA: Seattle is brimming with holiday shows See Nutcrackers, Scrooges, hear Charlie Brown’s woes. Here’s a big list of events for the season — laid out in rhyme (for festivity reasons). by Brangien Davis / November 30, 2023
Culture Native youth theater finds home at Seattle’s King Street Station For the first time in its 32 years, Red Eagle Soaring has its own performance space in a new arts hub at the historic train station. by Nimra Ahmad / November 20, 2023
Culture ArtSEA: A ghosthunter’s guide to the Seattle Art Museum Plus, skulls in Westlake Center, spooky theater shows and a sensational new short story collection. by Brangien Davis / October 26, 2023
Culture ArtSEA: Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month with NW art and poetry Plus, cultural histories and dark humor on stage in Seattle from Fremont to Queen Anne to Downtown. by Brangien Davis / September 28, 2023
Culture Fall Arts: A new Seattle play rustles up the history of Black cowboys Local playwright Andrew Lee Creech brings post-Emancipation Texas to life in a story of love, ambition and what it means to be free. by Brangien Davis / September 22, 2023
Culture ArtSEA: Diving headfirst into Seattle’s fall arts season Plus, a 1903 throwback at Seattle Symphony, acrobatics at Seattle Rep and cavorting cacti at Pacific Northwest Ballet. by Brangien Davis / September 21, 2023
Culture 5 ways to keep the curtain from falling on Seattle’s theater scene With regional stages closing across the country, local leaders weigh in on post-pandemic challenges and offer strategies for survival. by Misha Berson / August 15, 2023
Culture Black Arts Legacies: Reginald André Jackson stages Black stories With gravitas and grace, the celebrated Seattle actor/playwright is paying tribute to Black theater-makers of the past. by Jas Keimig / June 16, 2023
Black Arts Legacies Reginald André Jackson The Seattle playwright says theater is the perfect vessel for the complexities of race. June 16, 2023
Culture 7 theater events to ensure a play-full Seattle summer From a Vietnamese American teenager to Henry VIII’s ex-wives, local stages are presenting an array of voices this season. by Misha Berson / June 7, 2023
Culture Seattle singers survive ‘Sweeney Todd’ through razor-sharp vocals Sondheim is known for packing lyrics into tricky tempos. Local leads at The 5th Avenue Theatre say the key is finding a moment to breathe. by Misha Berson / April 19, 2023