An interesting letter is found in the program for Seattle Opera’s staging of The Marriage of Figaro that opened Saturday….
An interesting letter is found in the program for Seattle Opera’s staging of The Marriage of Figaro that opened Saturday. Written by…
You’d never know it from Liza Minnelli’s performance in the 1972 Bob Fosse film, but Sally Bowles—one of the great…
“Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next…
“Ambassadors of their own cultural music” is how composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack describes the diverse musicians she’s spotlighting on the next…
The choice of Laura Griffith and Brandon O’Neill for Maggie and Brick—two examples of the superb casting of ACT’s current…
“Do I have to use musicians?” was Trimpin’s first question when planning began for his new commission for the Seattle…
Right from the first scene, in which pianist Seymour Bernstein talks his way through his thought process for fingering a…
The spectacle is what’s been hyped about Seattle Opera’s production of Handel’s Semele, but the music is why you shouldn’t…
Even on an absolutely cloudless day, the light in Arizona is pale, washed-out, yellow-white—nothing like the electric lemon of an…
With its tricky mix of kitchen-sink realism, cornpone Americana, and supernatural fantasy—and not an overabundance of likable characters—what this 1945…
Here’s a question: Does anyone actually like Tosca? Not Puccini’s 1900 opera, I mean, but its title character. At Seattle…
The one disheartening thing about Robbie Rogers’ Coming Out to Play (Penguin, $17), the newest entry in its genre—Memoir League,…
Pride and Prejudice Center Theatre at the Armory (Seattle Center), 216-0833, book-it.org. $25–$60. Runs Wed.–Sun. Ends Dec. 28. It is…
Though you’d think a nickname so catchy could have taken root, as far as I know Carl Maria von Weber…
The Way He Looks Opens Fri., Nov. 7 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 95 minutes. Leo, from Sao Paulo, is…
“Indian summer” is a term often applied to Richard Strauss’ last works, in which he set aside the sensationalism of…
“Indian summer” is a term often applied to Richard Strauss’ last works, in which he set aside the sensationalism of…
The title of this musical—based on the affecting 1991 movie—refers to a hideous sort of male-bonding competition among a group…
These days, the sexual politics in Mozart’s Don Giovanni are nearly impossible to navigate. The zeitgeist can’t tolerate the glamorization…
Two song-and-dance artistes, touring Antarctica in the ’20s, get frozen in an avalanche for 90-some years and stage a post-thaw…
Festively asserting that too much is never enough, TZZ’s new show keeps its dinner-cabaret formula fresh with acts that mash…
Michael Nicolella, Complete Bach Cello Suites Out now, Gale Recordings, nicolella.com/cds.htm Of the six suites Johann Sebastian Bach composed for…
