Thursday, May 21 Mona Eltahawy When the Egyptian-born journalist and activist was covering the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Cairo’s…
Thursday, May 14 Cabaret Here’s a Broadway trivia question to separate the brown-shirted men from the mascaraed chorus boys: Who…
Wednesday, April 29 Kathleen Hanna As Riot Grrrl, the feminist punk movement of the ’90s, has been rehistoricized and come…
Thursday, April 23 Spectrum Dance Theater Ever since the debut of Carl Orff’s Carmina burana in the 1930s, choreographers have…
Wednesday, April 15 Bill Plympton Appearing at tonight’s screening of Cheatin’, the veteran animator is famous for hand-drawing every frame…
Friday, April 10 Swan Lake People come back over and over again to Swan Lake, in part because the starring…
Thursday, April 2 Splurge Land In their new show, Kate Wallich and Lavinia Vago (of The YC) are testing the…
Wednesday, March 25 Deviant Septet Surely realizing it was unsustainable, two composers who contemporaneously took the orchestra to its hypertrophied…
Thursday, March 19 The King and the Mockingbird There’s a tendency for journalists to fixate on a film’s troubled production…
Thursday, March 12 Michelle Ellsworth Following along with Ellsworth’s work takes a lot of doing—her short bio describes her as…
Thursday, March 5 Cheryl Strayed If you write a bestseller that becomes the first pick for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,…
ThisWeek’s PickList Wednesday, March 4 Kyle Abraham Plenty of interesting dances aren’t about anything in particular, but they aren’t by Abraham….
Friday, Feb. 20 David Axelrod You know that the 2016 presidential campaign has begun when consultants from the last two…
Thursday, Feb. 12 Matt Zoller Seitz If you can’t get enough of Wes Anderson or The Grand Budapest Hotel, Seitz…
Thursday, Feb. 5 Alexandra Fuller Anyone familiar with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller’s 2001 account of childhood…
Wednesday, Jan. 28 Nazila Fathi As a child of 7, raised in a secular, privileged family, Nazila Fathi witnessed Iran’s…
Thursday, Jan. 22 The Three Sisters “Moscow! Moscow! Moscow!” Oh, the aching sadness of the provinces, so far from culture,…
Thursday, Jan. 15 Tig Notaro In showbiz, women take off their clothes for all kinds of reasons, most of them…
Wednesday, Jan. 7 David Shields & Caleb Powell Have you heard about that controversial James Franco movie? No, not The…
Dance by Sandra Kurtz Olivier Wevers has been developing into a skilled and thoughtful choreographer with his company Whim W’him….
Wednesday, Dec. 31 Mike Birbiglia This is not a New Year’s Eve show, but a welcome Seattle return by one…
Thursday, Dec. 25 Fiddler on the Roof Sing-Along Brunch There is no better Christmas Day combo, so far as Jews,…
Thursday, Dec. 18 House of Games Shot here in Seattle, the 1987 House of Games concludes SAM’s fall noir series,…
