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Here are some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

Book-It has adapted Kurt Vonnegut‘s classic Slaughterhouse-Five for the stage. The show is being called “triumphant.” We recently took an artist to the show. Check it out here.

Threesome is currently being staged at ACT Theatre. The playwright was recently interviewed on KUOW. The show, by the way, is good.
Meet Matt Giles, the associate production manager at the Seattle Rep.

The Seattle International Dance Festival is happening. Have you gone yet?

Did you hear someone found a PHOTOGRAPH of Van Gogh and Gauguin drinking together? It’s true.

Finally, some life advice from a prima ballerina.

Here are some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

Book-It’s ambitious production Slaughterhouse-Five discussed here.

Chelsea Cook, who designed the costumes for Book-It‘s recent adaptation of The Dog of the South, answered our Five Friday Questions.

Have you seen ACT’s production of Threesome yet? It’s “gripping and gutsy.”
Did you know that Seattle Repertory Theatre has a Writers Group for new and developing playwrights? You can hear their works-in-progress this week.

Did you know that the University of Washington’s School of Drama has been around for 75 years? Congratulations! Their 2015-16 season is highlighted here.

Crosscut has asked: Does Seattle understand how to nurture its own creativity?

Perhaps it does? The City of Seattle, the Seattle Public School District, the Seattle Foundation and a host of nonprofit community-based arts organizations teamed up to build Creative Advantage.

Finally, what we should stop ‘defending’: music education.

Here are some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

Congratulations to Fun Home and all the rest of this year’s Tony Award winners.

Congratulations to Carla Korbes, retiring after a remarkable career at Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Book-It Theatre is adapting Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. A preview, here.

And speaking of Book-It, an interview with set designer Catherine Cornell.

ACT Theatre is bringing Yussef El Guindi’s Threesome to the stage. 

Seattle Men’s Chorus is bringing the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen to the stage.

The most well-read city in America? Seattle.

Finally, should you invest your money in a Broadway show. Be hesitant.

Here are some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

Ludovic Morlot recently gave up his baton briefly in conducting the Seattle Symphony, to a Microsoft camera.

Pacific Northwest Ballet is set to perform Carmina Burana soon. Classical King FM recently chatted about it with Artistic Director Peter Boal.

Jeeves Intervenes is currently playing at Taproot Theatre. Learn more about the production from director Nathan Jeffrey, here.

Do you like silent movies? So does Seattle Theatre Group.

Meet SIFF programmer Brad Wilke.

The summer Marymoor Park Concert series recently announced their full lineup.

Who won the 2015 Drama Desk Awards? Find out here.

Finally, musical theatre…for the deaf.

Here’s some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

SIFF is sizzling with the appearance of Kevin Bacon.

Care to know what goes into programming the Seattle International Film Festival? An interview with Maryna Ajaja.

Meet MJ Sieber, who was recently in Seattle Rep’s Outside Mullingar and is in the SIFF short film The Gift.

Taproot Theatre’s new production, Jeeves Intervenes, is a hoot. 

5th Avenue Theatre’s Jasper in Deadland, is enjoyable. 

If you’re dying to get some of Mozart’s hair, you’re in luck. 

We checked in with Justin Huertas a few weeks after his stellar Lizard Boy closed at the Rep.

Finally, Bill Gates has some ideas about what to read this summer. 

Here’s some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

5th Avenue Theatre’s production of Jasper in Deadland is getting a lot of press. We sent an artist to see the show.

Meet Brandon Ivie, the director of Jasper in Deadland.

Meet Billie Wildrick, the leading lady in Village Theatre’s Cabaret.

Meet Carl Spence, the man behind the Seattle International Film Festival.

Meet Richard Bresnahan, technical director at On the Boards.

Meet Angela Hewitt, the Canadian pianist who just performed at UW World Series.

Meet Simone Porter, a local young violinist catapulting to stardom.

5th Avenue Theatre announced their nominees for the 5th Avenue Awards (the Fifthies?) honoring high school musical theatre. (Speaking of high school, check out our feature on the 5th’s innovative and inspiring Rising Star Project.)

Finally, Peter Pan…the opera.

Here are some news bits from Seattle’s performing arts community and beyond:

Seattle Theatre Group annnounced their 2015-16 season. It includes Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Pussy Riot, Stewart Copeland, and more. Here’s an interview with STG’s Program Director about the season.

In a recent announcement, Seattle Rep is going to be laying off a few members of its team, most affecting their education department.

Seattle Rep is currently showing the romantic comedy Outside Mullingar. You can read an interview with the playwright, here.

The Seattle Symphony has been selected for the New York-based Wallace Foundation‘s Building Audiences for Sustainability effort. It comes with $385,000.

One man saw Seattle Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos with his grandmother. Another man saw Seattle Children’s Theatre‘s Robin Hood with his poetic sixth grade daughter.

A Seattle theatre icon, Kurt Beattie, is about to retire as ACT‘s Artistic Director. KUOW bids him farewell, here.

Not sure what films to see at the Seattle International Film Festival? Help is on the way.  

Finally, here’s new music for a string quartet…using global warming data.

Here’s this week’s arts and performance news from Seattle and beyond:

The Seattle Foundation‘s GiveBIG event for local non-profits made over $16 million yesterday.

Seattle Rep is currently staging Outside Mullingar. The playwright, John Patrick Shanley, was recently interviewed, here. The reviewers like it! Our look at Shanley’s film work is here.

Seattle Shakespeare Company‘s Othello is “a study in human emotion.”

Did you witness the recent Seattle Symphony/Trimpin collaboration? It was “out of this world.”

The Phantom of the Opera has returned to the Paramount Theatre. Learn more about the latest iteration of it, here. Our own Travis Vogt went behind the scenes with what he calls “a well-oiled fantasy machine.”

Cabaret is coming soon to Village Theatre. It’s being directed by Tony Award-winner and Village alum Brian Yorkey.

On The Boards recently announced their 2015-16 season and Bumbershoot recently announced their lineup.

Finally, Virginia Woolf…the ballet.

Here’s this week’s arts and performance news from Seattle and beyond:

Congratulations to all the Tony Award nominees.

What are you most looking forward to seeing at the coming Seattle International Film Festival? Some highlights can be found here.

5th Avenue Theatre is set to stage a world premiere of Jasper in Deadland soon. Here’s a little preview and an interview with the writer.

Trimpin, a “musical genius,” will work with the Seattle Symphony soon. Get to know him here.

ACT is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Reviews say it starts their season off with a bang.

Seattle Opera’s staging of Ariadne auf Naxos is coming soon. Learn a bit more about Richard Strauss‘s comedic opera here.

Little Bee is being staged at Book-It Repertory Theatre. Here’s an interview with the author of the bestselling novel, Chris Cleave.

And did you hear about the opera star turned metal singer? Meet Jeran Michael Brown.

Finally, can you teach a 2-year-old Hamlet’s famous soliloquy? Find out here.

Here’s this week’s arts and performance news from Seattle and beyond: 

The Intiman Theatre just received a grant for $500,000 dollars. Congratulations!

A big congratulations to Seattle Repertory Theatre. They recently announced their new season. A world-premiere musical, Sherlock Holmes, and a Pulitzer Prize-winner are amongst the shows.

The 41st Seattle International Film Festival will kick off in May with a Paul Feig comedy.

ACT Theatre’s artistic director, Kurt Beattie, discusses ACT’s 50th anniversary and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof here.

Have you seen Pacific Northwest Ballet‘s Swan Lake yet? It’ll make you swoon.

The Wallace Foundation awarded grants to the Seattle Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera recently. The grants are substantial.

Local author Sherman Alexie‘s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is the most frequently banned and challenged book of 2014. He’s pretty happy about it.

Finally, have you heard about the tutu crisis happening right now in the ballet world? No joke.