Beyond the Theatre

Seattle Rep’s DRY POWDER: Beyond the Theater

March 10, 2017

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents DRY POWDER by Sarah Burgess from March 17 – April 15, 2017. Set in the top echelons of today’s morally-compromised financial sector, this dark comedy explores the uneasy relationship between being good and doing well. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, CDs and films to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s WOODY SEZ: Beyond the Theatre

December 31, 2016

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents WOODY SEZ by David M. Lutken from January 6 to 29, 2017. Librarians at The Seattle Public Library created this list of books, CDs and DVDs to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle Rep’s WOODY SEZ: Beyond the Theatre Playwright and musician David Lutken brings a folk legend to life… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s VIETGONE: Beyond the Theatre

December 9, 2016

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents VIETGONE by Qui Nguyen from December 2, 2016 to January 1, 2017. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, CDs and films to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle Rep’s VIETGONE: Beyond the Theatre. A raucous rock-and-roll road trip across America in 1975 taken by two Vietnamese teens forms… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s KING CHARLES III: Beyond the Theatre

November 4, 2016

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents KING CHARLES III by Mike Bartlett from November 11 to December 11, 2016. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books and DVDs to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle Rep’s KING CHARLES III: Beyond the Theatre Singular in his distinction of being a king-in-waiting, the Prince of… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ROZ AND RAY: Beyond the Theatre

October 7, 2016

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents ROZ + Ray by Karen Hartman from October 14 – November 13, 2016. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of resources to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle Rep’s ROZ AND RAY: Beyond the Theatre I was a small child when the AIDS crisis broke, but I still… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN: Beyond the Theatre

September 23, 2016

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry from September 30 to October 30, 2016. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books and DVDs to enhance your experience of the show: Seattle Rep’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN: Beyond the Theatre Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem” – Beyond the Theatre

April 15, 2016

~posted by Rebecca K. Not that he has ever strayed far from popular imagination, but mastermind detective Sherlock Holmes has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. The BBC’s whip-smart series “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch has earned high critical acclaim and a devoted audience around the globe. Closer to home, the Sherlock Seattle Convention draws enthusiastic… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “brownsville song (b-side for tray)” – Beyond the Theatre

March 18, 2016

~posted by Abby B. When high school senior Tramaine (“Tray”) Berry Thompson is killed by a random act of gun violence, his family and friends seek hope and resilience in their memories of his vibrant, all-too-brief existence. Stories like Tray’s are sadly all too common in America today. In fact, playwright Kimber Lee was inspired… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “Disgraced” — Beyond the Theatre

January 8, 2016

In Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced (previews tonight, January 8, and continuing through January 31), a New York lawyer named Amir struggles with identity issues after his Muslim heritage is questioned. Amir and his wife, Emily, an artist, host a small dinner party where conversational sparring on politics and culture seem to be the center… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “Come from Away”: Beyond the Theater

November 10, 2015

– Posted by David W. Most of us can remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001, but few outside the tragic loci of that day’s events can have as dramatic a memory of them than the residents of the small Newfoundland town of Gander. It was to Gander that 39… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “Buyer & Cellar”: Beyond the Theatre

November 4, 2015

– posted by David W. The Seattle Repertory Theater’s current production of Jonathan Tolins’ hilarious one-man show Buyer & Cellar has been getting great reviews. The show, which envisions the curious professional and personal life of a man hired to staff a quaint shopping mall that actually exists in the basement of Barbra Streisand’s palatial Malibu… Continue reading
Seattle Repertory Theatre’s “A View from the Bridge”: Beyond the Theatre

September 18, 2015

~posted by Misha The Seattle Repertory Theatre kicks off its fall season with Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge (Sept. 25 – Oct. 18, 2015) in the 100th birthday year of the beloved American playwright. A View from the Bridge is a play that explores many themes. It centers on an Italian American family in… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘Lizard Boy’

March 19, 2015

From the ashes of Mount St. Helens emerged a monster with mysterious powers—powers that changed one boy’s life forever. Superhero or freak? Not even he was sure until one fated night of adventure, music and love on the streets of Seattle. Triple-threat Seattle artist Justin Huertas brings Lizard Boy, his breakout hit of the 2013… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘The Comparables’ — incomparable!

March 3, 2015

We are excited about the opening of Laura Schellhardt’s new play The Comparables, at the Seattle Repertory Theatre on Friday, March 6! Schellhardt, who created the 2011 hit “The K of D, an Urban Legend,” about a girl with a lethal kiss, now presents a world premier neo-feminist satire that tips the good old boy… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘Dear Elizabeth’

January 30, 2015

Posted by Abby Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two giants of 20th century American poetry, first met in 1947 when both were young poets in the early phase of their careers. They began an intense friendship, sustained by frequent letter-writing, that stretched across three decades and ended with Lowell’s death in 1977. A volume of… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘The Piano Lesson’

January 9, 2015

Posted by Linda J. Playwright August Wilson (who died in Seattle in 2005) won his second Pulitzer for drama with The Piano Lesson, one of 10 plays in The Pittsburgh Cycle. Each play in the cycle focuses on a different decade of the African American experience during the 20th century. The Piano Lesson, set in the… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘The Great Society’

November 28, 2014

by Andrea G. Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way, about Lyndon Baines Johnson’s first term as president, won the Tony Award. The Seattle Repertory Theatre commissioned and now premieres Schenkkan’s The Great Society, which dramatizes LBJ’s second term of office. A master politician, LBJ focused on passing some of the most ambitious social programs in U.S.… Continue reading
Seattle Rep’s ‘The Vaudevillians’ and Seattle’s vaudevillian history

September 26, 2014

By Karen K. In Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of The Vaudevillians, Seattle natives Jerick Hoffer (Jinkx Monsoon, RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Richard Andriessen (Major Scales) star as “The Vaudevillians,” a fictional 1920s duo who were literally frozen in time while touring in Antarctica. Thawing out nearly a century later, they discover their original music has… Continue reading