The Seattle Times: Theater & arts

Aspiring dancers leap at chance to showcase work

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:01:03 PDT

On a warm July afternoon, 80 teens dressed in baggy shorts, tees and layered tank tops lounge in the front seats of the Moore Theatre. Moving onto the stage...

William Traver Gallery turning 30

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:01:05 PDT

There wasn't a lot happening in the Seattle gallery scene when the Traver Gallery opened in the Denny Regrade on Sept. 7, 1977, with a...

A sunny start to a summer chamber fest

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:13:49 PDT

A happy and sold-out crowd wafted across the sunny Lakeside School lawns on Tuesday evening, into the little St. Nicholas Hall — where...

A new chapter for "Ring": no Jane Eaglen in 2009

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:03:58 PDT

When Seattle Opera stages its Wagnerian "Ring" in 2009, it will be without the company's most famous Valkyrie: soprano Jane Eaglen. Seattle Opera general director...

ACT rendition of "Stuff Happens" takes us into war step by step

mberson@seattletimes.com — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:37:13 PDT

At first, every line he utters gets laughs. Then the chortles turn into scattered chuckling. Eventually, the audience stops viewing this...

Preppy "Romeo," trying "Tiger" in Ashland

mberson@seattletimes.com — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:01:33 PDT

With three outdoor Shakespeare openings and the premiere of a new chamber musical, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival quietly ends one artistic...

Julie Speidel | In search of awe, she sculpts

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:00:48 PDT

Sculptor Julie Speidel stands at a table in her Vashon Island studio, placing finger-sized chunks of broken stone one way, then upside down...

Highly successful violin collector finds that it's time to let go

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:04:35 PDT

David Fulton's mother once thought her gifted son would grow up to be a great violinist beloved by audiences the world over. Instead, Fulton quips, "I...

Preserving "voices" of world's finest violins

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:05:12 PDT

The owner of 15 irreplaceable violins, cellos and violas has launched a CD and DVD project to record the magnificence of the instruments, which are among the world's best.

In debt, Northwest Actors Studio closes

tvinh@seattletimes.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:02:09 PDT

After more than three decades of putting on shows, the Northwest Actors Studio made its final curtain call Thursday. The Capitol Hill nonprofit...

Mahler's Third makes for stirring season finale

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:31:58 PDT

The end of an orchestra's main subscription season is an occasion that calls for something special, and Mahler's massive Symphony No. 3 certainly fills that...

Finding splendor, sweetness in local Latino life

sfarr@seattletimes.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:01:56 PDT

Hugo Ludeña's got the reflexes of a photojournalist and the eye of a painter. His high-voltage photographs tell it all. Ludeña's been roaming Seattle-area...

Saks' Lakeside fest keeps moving forward

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:01:20 PDT

If it's not broken, don't fix it. That has been the informal philosophy for the Seattle Chamber Music Society, which launched its summer...

Putting on shows so shows can go on

mberson@seattletimes.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:01:26 PDT

Leading Broadway composer Charles Strouse (of "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Annie" fame) will waltz into the Seattle area this week for a benefit...

A seat in the war room in ACT's "Stuff Happens"

mberson@seattletimes.com — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:15 PDT

Shakespeare's observation that "All the world's a stage" underpins "Stuff Happens," the play currently transforming an ACT Theatre stage...

The real-life movers and shakers in "Stuff"

mberson@seattletimes.com — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:24:17 PDT

Who are some of the many political in-players, European and American, who populate David Hare's Iraq war drama, "Stuff Happens"?

Lifetime achievement arts award announced for Sandvig

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:40 PDT

Seattle artist Elizabeth Sandvig will join a distinguished group of winners of the Twining Humber Award for lifetime achievement in the...

Latest chapters in Barnes Foundation controversy

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:42 PDT

Philly suburbs are in a last-ditch effort to keep Barnes Foundation art ...

First curator of MoNA dies at 88

sfarr@seattletimes.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:08:35 PDT

Barbara Straker James, a notable painter and the first curator of the Museum of Northwest Art, died Thursday in La Conner, Skagit County...

Record price paid for work by a living artist

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:24 PDT

Damien Hirst has become the most expensive living artist to own with $19.1 million sale.

"Etta Phifer's Testimonial Shoe Kismet" tells the journey of one old soul

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:11:45 PDT

It's entirely possible that no one knows the human heart as well as it is known by the shoes an individual wears. We choose shoes to match...

Hothouses of imagination at SOIL

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:29:00 PDT

"Crud," an enthralling exhibition of mixed-media work by five local artists, seems like it grew organically out of its current venue, SOIL...

Podles´ comes, she sings, she conquers

mbargreen@seattletimes.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:20:37 PDT

Critics have called her "a force of nature," and audiences around the world cheer her concert and opera performances. Ewa Podles´, who returns...