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Due to popular demand, Taproot Theatre Company has extended their hit musical Chaps! through August 18, giving people one more week to lasso their laughter and experience this mash-up of British humor and cowboy music.

How do we expand perspectives around learning, education, culture and environment so that people of all ages and backgrounds can realize their intrinsic passions to learn and grow? The Next Fifty invites the community to explore how we might evolve approaches and systems of learning in the 21st cent

Socially Awkward Mexican American teenager Coco has no trouble talking to his blog following "minions".

Seattle's New City Theater has announced its upcoming August and Fall 2012 shows.

No tricks, no flash, no exploding video walls or gaudy production numbers.

Is it possible that "Rent", Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking hit from 1996 has now become so dated that it no longer has the edge it once had? Or is it that the current production from the 5th Avenue Theatre is so desperately trying to be edgy that it shows its weakness? That is the question befor

The Sound of the Baskervilles-the Seattle-based scion society of The Baker Street Irregulars-will hold its "The Anatomy of the World of Sherlock Holmes" conference during the first-ever world-wide Sherlock Holmes Week on Sunday, August 5, 2012.

WIFF is proud to present an evocative new play written and directed by local playwright and actor Gail Fleming.

Due to high demand from a wider age range of Eastside teens, Studio East will change its summer musical offering from Legally Blonde the Musical to the Tony award-winning Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Christian Community Theatre is following up their inaugural 2011 summer season with an explosive production of the high-energy dance musical, Footloose, opening Friday, August 10 - and playing through Sunday, August 19.

Radial Theater Project presents 99 Layoffs, a new play by Seattle-based playwright Vincent Delaney.

One of the biggest pitfalls of casting "Romeo and Juliet" is that you need to find younger actors (the lovers are supposed to be 14 years old) who can handle these characters and this play without devolving them into petulant teens.

The 2012-2013 theatre season includes: Steven Dietz's BECKY'S NEW CAR; Leslie Bricusse's, SCROOGE, THS MUSICAL; Beth Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART; Terrence McNally's THE FULL MONTY; and Alan Ayckbourn's THE NORMAN CONQUESTS.

Summer is barely here, autumn is around the corner and Taproot Theatre's Acting Studio is getting ready to go back to school, offering classes for students of all ages, from toddlers to adults throughout the fall and into the holiday season.

International Fountain at Seattle Center 'takes on new dimensions as the sun sets on the first two weekends in August.

Over one jam packed weekend, August 10-12, six new musicals will be brought to life with help from more than 100 artists and one dozen directors and authors from across the country.

After 15 years of presenting 14 plays in 48 hours for four weekends every year, the producers of 14/48 present two new styles of the popular speed theatre festival.

Sandbox Radio Live! has been broadcasting for a year now and that's why they are calling their upcoming fifth! episode 'An Unexpected Twist'.

If a play or the message of a play is important or affecting, as is the case with David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face", currently playing at the Center House Theatre from React Theatre and Pork Filled Players, there is always the danger of the actors in the play to over intensify the work rather than l

KEXP and Seattle Center, who came together in response to public calls for more outdoor music, share a commitment to innovative and culturally diverse programming.

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre presents a full-scale theatrical celebration of the works of modern master and Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter.

Take a few particularly vile individuals, throw them into a house with some innocuous and naive others and have them all spurred on by a bored manipulative new bride and what do you have? No, this is not the latest reality series on FOX but it had about the same impact and appeal as one.

Seattle Center Festal: BrasilFest, 12 p.

Philip Glass's one night performance at the Kirkland Performance Center (KPC) is one of many exclusive NW engagements featured in the KPC Fall line-up.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.