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Seattle Welcomes Back French Guitar Master Pierre Bensusan
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2022
On Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30pm, The Royal Room welcomes back French acoustic guitar virtuoso Pierre Bensusan.
Wilco - Cruel Country Tour Comes to Washington Pavilion, September 12
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2022
Today, Wilco announce their new album, “Cruel Country”, out May 27th via dBpm Records and present their new single, “Falling Apart (Right Now).” “Cruel Country”, a substantial two-disc exploratory work, arrives the same weekend at the band's beloved Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Mass., where they will perform the album for the first time.
HADESTOWN is Coming to The Paramount This July
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2022
Premera Blue Cross Broadway at The Paramount has announced that single tickets for Hadestown will go on sale to the public on Monday, May 16 at 10am.
VIDEO: First Look at SELLING KABUL at Seattle Rep
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2022
Seattle Rep is now presenting Sylvia Khoury's (Seattle Rep 20x30 commissioned playwright) Selling Kabul. Directed by Seattle's own Valerie Curtis-Newton (2019's Nina Simone: Four Women), Selling Kabul is a 2021 recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and it's set to perform on the Leo K. stage through May 22, 2022.
World Premiere Adaptation of Amy Tan's THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER to be Presented by Book-It Repertory Theatre
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2022
Book-It Repertory Theatre will present the world-premiere of Amy Tan’s haunting familial epic, The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Adapted by playwright Desdemona Chiang (she/her) and directed by Rosa Joshi (she/her), audiences will be treated to a production filled with emotion, tension and gripping adventure.
Olympic Ballet Theatre Presents DON QUIXOTE
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2022
Olympic Ballet Theatre (OBT) presents a three-act production of Don Quixote, with choreography staged after the production by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky.
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH Comes to Tacoma Little Theatre
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2022
Tacoma Little Theatre presents as part of its 103rd Season, The Luck of the Irish, by Kirsten Greenidge, and directed by Lydia K. Valentine, Tacoma's Poet Laureate. 
BWW Review: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at McCaw Hall
by Erica Miner - May 08, 2022
If ever an opera could be described as “easy listening” and flawlessly engaging, Figaro would qualify hands down
Centerstage Theatre to Present YELLOW FEVER
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2022
Centerstage is pleased to present Yellow Fever by Rick Shiomi, a noir-genre detective thriller set in the Pacific Northwest, and told through the lens of the Japanese and Chinese immigrant communities in the 1970s. The shadows of the internment camps linger over a vibrant community as it fights to establish itself just a few decades after losing so much. In the midst of it all is detective Sam Shikaze, a nisei private eye...and he’s got a story to tell.
Seattle Rep Announces Second Round of Playwright Commissioning Project 20x30: Reimagining the Anthropocene
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2022
  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.
Spirit Of Africa Presents Virtual One-Day Festival Streamed Live From Senegal
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2022
​​​​​​​Seattle Center Festál continues with Spirit of Africa, a unique one-day virtual event streamed live from La Mer à Table in Dakar, Senegal, produced in partnership with Thione Diop and Inspired Child. The festival takes place on Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. and is available on Facebook and YouTube.  
Seattle International Dance Festival Delivers Contemporary Dance from Seoul to Seattle at Two Capitol Hill Venues in June
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2022
Seattle International Dance Festival will return for seven jam-filled evenings of in person dance performances. As in year’s past, the SIDF 2022 festival offers dance patrons an opportunity to witness Seattle-based, national and international contemporary dance artists come together to collaborate, inspire and present to new audiences.
The Laurie Berkner Band Returns to Cain Park, June 11
by BWW News Desk - May 05, 2022
Legendary children's musician Laurie Berkner and The Laurie Berkner Band will present one of their first in-person, live concerts in more than two years at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 at Cain Park, 14591 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, OH.
International Reggae Band Dub Inc. Announces Seattle Debut At The Crocodile, June 3
by BWW News Desk - May 05, 2022
The prominent international reggae band, Dub Inc. is excited to announce their 2022 Spring West Coast U.S.A. tour! It has been over 10 years since the French superstars have been in the United States and they are beyond excited to return once again. They will be in Seattle on June 3rd at The Crocodile for the first time in support of Hawaii's own Mike Love! Catch tickets here.
MISS MARGARIDA'S WAY Comes to West Of Lenin This Month
by BWW News Desk - May 05, 2022
Outrage Onstage brings their next outrageous show MISS MARGARIDA'S WAY by Roberto Athayde to Fremont's West of Lenin Theatre, May 13th through the 22nd featuring Susan Finque directed by John Vreeke.
FUSSY CLOUD PUPPET SLAM Returns To The Theatre Off Jackson
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2022
It's been two and a half long years since we've been in the theatre. And while we've enjoyed entertaining you via zoom in the meantime, right now we're looking forward to sharing puppet stories with you in person again. Please consider joining our parliament of talented puppeteers from the Pacific Northwest for some creative and quirky puppet variety cabaret. 
Sound Lab Reopens at The Museum of Pop Culture
by BWW News Desk - May 03, 2022
The Museum of Pop Culture is a leading-edge, nonprofit museum in Seattle, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary pop culture. Currently on view is the touring exhibition, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop along with a host of mainstay exhibitions covering science fiction, music, video games, and more.
BWW Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Center Theatre
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - May 01, 2022
Every once in a while the stars will align, and magic will happen. Magic is exactly what happened on stage last night as Seattle Shakespeare presented MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. From director to cast to staging, everything worked together in perfect unison to not only tell this age old story, but to elevate it. The good folks at Seattle Shakespeare have put together a very special production that reminds us of the magic of theater and how it can bring us together.
Photos: Go Inside Reboot Theatre Company's Production of CABARET
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2022
After three years off the scene, the award-winning Reboot Theatre Company, in association with Theatre Off Jackson, bursts back onto the Seattle stage, enticing audiences to witness the seduction and danger of Kander and Ebb's delectable masterpiece CABARET.
Photos: Inside Look at Tacoma Little Theatre's THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2022
Tacoma Little Theatre in partnership with University of Washington-Tacoma and Toy Boat Theatre, present The Happiest Song Plays Last, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and directed by Marilyn Bennett.  
BWW Review: TWO MILE HOLLOW from Intiman Theatre
by Jay Irwin - April 29, 2022
Dear Readers, if you too are sick of the dysfunctional white family play then you’re not alone. Leah Nanako Winkler, author of “Two Mile Hollow”, currently being offered from Intiman Theatre, has certainly had enough of them. So much so that she wrote her own version of one. And while I appreciate the dissection of the trope, her play as well as the Intiman production did so in such an incoherent, over the top, muddled way, that I failed to find it all that funny, just loud.
Red Rover Theatre Company Presents PATRIMONY in May
by BWW News Desk - April 29, 2022
Patrimony, a play whose secrets never seem to end, opens one week from now for only eight performances. This new work was written by award-winning Seattle playwright Duane Kelly, author of eleven full-length plays, including Escorting Tom, Enquiry Concerning Hereafter, and Visiting Cezanne. The latter two are being produced this August at the Edinburgh Fringe, the world's largest theatre festival.
BWW Review: SELLING KABUL at The Seattle Rep
by Jay Irwin - April 28, 2022
The lies we tell ourselves and each other, Dear Readers, and the information we choose to divulge and that which we choose to keep to ourselves, those choices are at the heart of “Selling Kabul”, the current show playing at the Seattle Rep.
Nordo's DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Announces Brunch Edition
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2022
 On May 8, Nordo will share a special Sunday brunch edition of their innovative experience Down The Rabbit Hole just in time for Mother’s Day celebrations.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra Seattle Opera Present UNITY: A Concert For Ukraine
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2022
Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Seattle Opera have collaborated to present a benefit concert for Ukrainian artists. The PNB Orchestra, conducted by PNB music director Emil de Cou and Alevtina Ioffe (currently making her Seattle Opera debut with The Marriage of Figaro), will be joined by Ukrainian mezzo- soprano Olga Syniakova and others, for a performance featuring Ukrainian folk songs, A Prayer for Ukraine (Silvestrov), music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Delibes, and more.

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