Seattle Theatre Newsroom

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Village Theatre has announced the cast and creative team of Dial M for Murder, an adaptation of the Frederick Knott play brimming with more unexpected turns and diabolical plot twists than Hitchcock's timeless film version.

Tacoma Little Theatre will bring the Tony-Award winning play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, to its stage to start off the New Year. Learn how to purchase tickets.

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Watch the cast of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins perform 'A Spoonful of Sugar' at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

Watch the cast of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins perform 'Feed the Birds' at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

Watch the cast of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins perform 'Step In Time' at The 5th Avenue Theatre. The production is playing now through December 29, 2024. See the video!

 The Seattle Men’s Chorus is gearing up for its last and almost sold-out holiday show performance this weekend. For those who were not able to get tickets to attend, they can purchase a live streaming pass.

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KIMBERLY AKIMBO, will make its Seattle premiere at The Paramount Theatre in January 2025. Learn more about the upcoming production here and find out how to get tickets!

Watch a new preview video of Blithe Spirit at Seattle Rep! Laugh out loud with Noël Coward’s irreverent classic comedy. Featuring sets, props, and costumes #BuiltBySeattleRep’s talented shops, along with an incredible local cast.

Dear Readers, buckle up! Not because we’re about to go 88 mph but because I’m about to be a musical theater snob. The trend of turning popular (or even not so popular) movies into big splashy Broadway musicals is not a new one. And when it works such as with the likes of “Legally Blonde”, “Waitress”, or “Some Like It Hot”, it can be glorious. But for every one of those, you also get the likes of “Pretty Woman”, “Dirty Dancing”, or God forbid “Flashdance”. Shows that were better left on the silver screen. One such show is “Back to the Future: The Musical”, currently playing at the Paramount Theatre. And even if they could have gotten the car running (we’ll get to that in a minute) the show is still a travesty.

Seattle Men’s Chorus is once again opening its doors to new chorus members with auditions this January. All participants are required to register online before auditioning.

Watch a video of the cast of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins perform 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Mary Poppins flies across the stage in a brand-new production just for The 5th Avenue Theatre audiences.

With every new year, theatergoers feel the excitement of the holiday-themed work produced around Seattle. They anxiously await retellings of their favorite sentimental stories and new works each year. Every once in a while, a new, fresh take on the holiday season debuts, evoking feelings deep inside that we had kept locked away for the past 11 months.  

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Can Can has released photos of its holiday show, Wonderland. Now in its 11th dazzling rendition, this glittering spectacle transforms Can Can’s theater into a whimsical winter chalet—a holiday celebration like no other.

Tickets for LIFE OF PI, the Tony Award-winning theatrical experience at The Paramount, will go on sale next week. Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling stage adaptation of LIFE OF PI is based on Yann Martel’s best-selling novel. Learn more!

Hear the impact of female artists with The Great American Songbook with the Seattle Women’s Chorus. The one-day-only Seattle Women’s Chorus concert includes songs all written or made famous by women.

The Seattle Men’s Chorus is ringing in the holiday season with a milestone celebration — 45 years of inspiring performances and community connection.

Dear Readers, I do love a good farce. That rollicking romp with oodles of physical comedy and improbable situations. Combine that with a good comedy of manners and it’s gold. What that spells is Noël Coward’s classic “Blithe Spirit” and lucky for us, it’s playing at the Seattle rep. And while there were a few little hiccups, the show is a laugh riot!

Lakewood Playhouse’s 86th Season will continue with It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. This classic story is retold in the style of a 1940’s live radio play!

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Dear Readers, the magical stage musical of the beloved “Mary Poppins”, currently playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, may not have been referring to live theater as a whole with their song “Anything Can Happen”, but that sentiment certainly applied to why we love live theater. With its inherent feel of spontaneity and risk, the energy of a live show is like nothing else. But with that spark of immediacy, also comes potential issues. Hell, just at another Broadway show recently, I saw a descending panel get caught on something for a moment on the way down, only to free itself and come down with a loud thud. The human factor can certainly affect live theater as well with illnesses and that human factor reared its ugly head last night. Not to worry, the folks at the 5th Ave handled it with grace. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

The national tour of Parade, starring Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer, will play The 5th Avenue Theatre from April 16th through May 4, 2025. Watch a trailer for the tour in the video here!