Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma and Artistic Director Braden Abraham, continues its 2023/24 Season with The Band’s Visit, featuring music and lyrics by David Yazbek, book by Itamar Moses, and based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin. See photos from the production.
Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma and Artistic Director Braden Abraham, has introduced FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure, Filament Theatre’s hit immersive play experience for families. FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure will be presented October 19-November 26, 2023 in the Gillian Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe.
Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma and Artistic Director Braden Abraham, kicks off its 2023/24 Season with Eurydice. Eurydice is written by Wilmette native and acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl and marks the directorial debut of Braden Abraham at Writers Theatre.
Discover the latest news from Seattle Repertory Theatre as they announce the appointment of Dámaso Rodríguez as their new Artistic Director. Learn more about the theater's future under Rodríguez's leadership and what this means for the Seattle arts scene.
Writers Theatre will concludes its 2022/23 Season with the Midwest Premiere A Distinct Society, a timely story—needed more now than ever—about finding each other across borders, both physical and emotional.
Welcome to 2023! Seattle Rep is dedicated to putting theater at the heart of public life. This year, look forward to five more plays as part of the 2022/23 season, starting with the best-selling-novel-turned-stage-adaptation, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter opening with previews on January 13, 2023.
Seattle Rep has released a new trailer for its anticipated West Coast Premiere of the stage adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez's New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.
Seattle Rep has announced the complete cast and creative team for its anticipated West Coast Premiere of the stage adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez’s New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is an enduring classic. We all know this. It’s never been out of publication since its first publishing in 1843. It has spawned numerous movie, TV, and stage adaptations from the serious to the Muppets. Now the Seattle Rep has come along with a World Premiere of Samantha Silva’s “Mr. Dickens and His Carol”, based on her book of the same name. Taking a supposed look at the creation of this classic tale, this historical fiction is heavy on the fiction and light on the history, cutting a wide swath with its poetic license about the author and turning him into a pompous buffoon in a story and a production in desperate need of an editor.
Seattle Rep has announced the complete cast and creative team for the upcoming world-premiere holiday production, Mr. Dickens and His Carol to be directed by Braden Abraham, who recently announced that this will be his last production as the theater's Artistic Director.
After 20 years with the company, Artistic Director Braden Abraham will depart Seattle Rep this winter to join Writers Theatre in Chicago as their new Artistic Director.
This month, Seattle Rep is bringing an assortment of opportunities to the public, including the final performances of its season opening production, Where We Belong, and subsequent special events including a Lushootseed Language Event on October 3 and Teen Night on October 9.
Seattle Rep has has selected its second Native Artist-in-Residence, D.A. Navoti, a multidisciplinary storyteller, writer, and composer. This Seattle Rep program aims to highlight Native voices and educate audiences through art, discussion, and community engagement.
Seattle Rep announced that Broadway-alum Cassie Beck (The Rose Tattoo; What the Constitution Means to Me national tour) will lead Seattle Rep's upcoming production of What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck and directed by Oliver Butler.
Seattle Rep has announced its complete 2022/23 season made up of plays filled with life-changing journeys and personal odysseys of transformation that will serve to remind us that we are often at our best when we can gather to share experiences together.
Seattle Rep today announced a second round of its large-scale playwright commission project, 20x30: Reimagining the Anthropocene, in which the organization has commissioned three playwrights in an effort to plants seeds for the future of the industry.
Seattle Rep is producing Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, in a new translation by Paul Walsh. Directed by Carey Perloff, featuring Academy Award-nominated actor David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck; A League of Their Own; Nomadland), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Scarface), and Thom Sesma (Broadway: The Lion King).