This week, Seattle playwright Nelle Tankus premieres ‘Tenderness – an anti-capitalist cyberpunk experience’ at Annex Theatre (running through 2/17). NWT talked with the playwright to learn more about her latest work and the inspirations behind it.
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Lauren Weedman talks about her upcoming show at the Triple Door, her very funny storytelling, her love for Seattle, and, yes, her appearances on the TV show Abbott Elementary.
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Sara Porkalob has taken Seattle by storm. Now she heads for the East Coast to perform in the Broadway revival of ‘1776’ and work on the third in her Dragon Cycle. NWT talked with her as she prepared for the journey.
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NWT talks with the internationally acclaimed magician about decolonizing magic, real-life magic vs. illusion, and her upcoming show at The Rendezvous (March 8-10).
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This weekend, Sean Dorsey — acclaimed choreographer and dancer, and out and proud trans man — brings his new work, ‘Boys in Trouble’, to Velocity Dance Center. NWTheatre talked with him about masculinity in and through his artistic lens, this latest work, and the good and bad in today’s trans representation.
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‘Blood Water Paint’ imagines the great 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi in her studio, interacting with the apocryphal subjects who inspired her. NWT talked with playwright Joy McCullough about the work, ahead of the play’s opening this Friday with Macha Theatre Works.
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The annual Village Originals Festival of New Musicals takes place in Issaquah this weekend. Few theatre-makers know the Festival better than Michelle Elliott and Danny Haengil Larsen, who have shown new works there four times. NWT talked with the duo about their latest work, ‘Hart Island’, which showed at the 2017 Festival and returned to Village for a developmental production earlier this year.
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Sara Porkalob has taken Seattle by storm — as a playwright, director, actor, singer, storyteller, leader and curator, all through an activist lens. Here, she talks with NWT about artist-activism, telling her family stories before audiences on both coasts, and of course her new play, 7th and Jackson, which opens this Friday.
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Mary Ewald and John Kazanjian, spouses and long-term collaborators behind the New City Theater, have teamed up with ACTLab to produce two short works running through June 30. Ewald and Kazanjian talked with NWTheatre about their current show at ACT, and about the fascinating arc of New City Theater.
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Award-winning theatre-maker Valerie Curtis-Newton is the director of the currently running, critically acclaimed production of ‘Nina Simone: Four Women’ at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Curtis-Newton talked with NWTheatre about her vision in staging the piece, and artist-activism more generally.
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On stage, whether in over-the-top drag getups or stripped-down autobiographical pieces, Reboot Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasmine Joshua has been an open book about their non-binary identity and experience. NWT talked with Joshua about developing community and identity through art, making new work with The 5th Avenue Theatre, and the rebooted ‘Sweeney Todd’ opening next week.
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First-time playwright Heidi Park’s autobiographical show, ‘Black Sheep’, debuts this weekend at 18th & Union. NWT talked with Park and dramaturg Seayoung Yim (also a playwright), about the process of developing Park’s story for the stage.
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theater simple’s adaptation of ‘The Master & Margarita’ runs through this weekend at Theatre Off Jackson. NWT talked with director Rachel Katz Carey, who also directed theater simple’s original adaptation 22 years ago, about the return to the piece and how it holds up.
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Ahead of his back-by-popular-demand show ‘Who Cares!’ at 18th & Union this weekend, we go deep with Woody Shticks on art, queerness, style, religion, and working the pole at Pony.
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Ahead of her new play’s April 1 reading at the Represent! Festival, Julieta Vitullo talked with eSe Teatro Artistic Director Rose Cano about the genre shift into writing for the stage, the unique challenges (and freedoms) in bilingual playwriting, and the inspiration behind her latest work.
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This month, Macha Theatre Works opened its world-premiere production of ‘Sheathed’ — a new fantasy/adventure saga from acclaimed Seattle playwright Maggie Lee — which runs through March 24 at Theatre Off Jackson. NWT talked with Lee to learn more about the process, from ideation to realization, and her inspiration behind this latest work.
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