Author: NWTheatre

This week is a relatively calm one, but with good options — from new dance works, to a playwrights-versus-poets throwdown, to a double-feature of modern plays. 

From haunted tales to talented teenagers, in theatre, dance, and variety, there’s a lot going on this week. Here’s what we recommend.

This week brings some fun seasonal openings, two anticipated dance picks, and several closings to catch before they’re gone.   

October slows down a bit from the September rush of shows, but offers some great picks nonetheless. Highlights this week include shows oriented around food, and a few intriguing openings.  

It’s surprising to realize this is the last roundup before October, and yet here we are. After the big rush of September theatre openings, this week brings a welcome relative calm, with a few openings and closings to note, and several short-runs and one-offs we’re excited about. 

Here comes another busy week in theatre and performance, with at least eight openings, some notable short runs, and the

A wildly busy theatre month continues with several more openings. Here’s what to look for this week in theatre openings, short-runs, and other performance arts. 

Labor Day weekend means a slow week for theatre. Here are some good picks anyway.

Highlights include a bustling First Thursday, two openings of intriguing new works, and a free arts & performance festival; plus, a 20-hour come-and-go showing of new dance, and the return of new play readings to Solo Bar. 

Highlights this week include three terrific shows that are closing (so cram them in if you can); plus three multi-artist festivals that run only this weekend; and an important fundraiser reading next week. 

Highlights this week included two terrific shows at Cafe Nordo’s Cullinarium and its underground Knife Room; plus, a great big fashion show, loads of one-offs, one show that lasts 24 hours, and another that’s created entirely within that same span. 

Highlights this week included two outstanding musicals (one classic, one new); plus, upcoming outdoor shows in abundance, celebrations of Black artistry, delicious dinner theatre & cabarets, and more.

Highlights this week included a cabaret, a drag show, and two family epics; plus, an upcoming show at Velocity, the (free!) Arts in Nature Festival, and tons of stuff for Seattle’s Pride weekend. 

Highlights this week included an early look at a new musical, and some impressive student works; plus, a new musical in-development shows at Village Theatre, some anticipated openings, and Team Dresch returns with a (sold-out) Seattle show.

Highlights this week included a culinary delight and a strange and fiery think piece in Pioneer Square; a rock show at the Village Theatre; plus, tons of upcoming openings to look forward to, along with a few big closings. 

Highlights this week included beautiful music from Four Black Women, a chorus of queer singers, and an immigration story told through dance; plus the continuation of a new play festival, and upcoming shows from Neve Mazique-Bianco and a Million Dollar Quartet.