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Seattle's Intiman Theatre will present the Ruined Farewell Cabaret on Monday, August 16 at 7pm. The concert will be hosted by Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker, who will star in the Intiman's upcomi...

Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined has extended its run at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, through August 15. As previously reported, the production will then travel to the Geffen Pla...

Free theater in the park offerings include two specifically for younger audiences. Theater Schmeater introduces An Inconvenient Squirrel by Joseph Scrimshaw, the tale of a young squirrel that refuses to conform to the village's naming traditions. Performances are at the Amphitheater at Volunteer Park, July 10-August 15. Open Circle Theatre presents Pirates at Princess Island (July 17-August 7) where everything is perfect and everyone is, well, a Princess. But when scurvy sea-dog Pirates storm the island intent on taking the gems and jewels for their own, what on earth might happen?

Ruined Plans

Full casting has been announced for the co-production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined, which will perform at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, July 2-August 8, followed by the Gef...

The Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation has donated $25 million to the Campaign for PACE (Performing Arts Center Eastside), to fund a new performing arts complex, which will be named the Tat...

Summer Follies

Gbenga Akinnagbe plays 11 characters in this well-meaning but mostly airless piece about people having crises of faith.

Children learn to cope with things going wrong when SecondStory Repertory presents Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, adapted by Judith Viorst, from her book (May 7-23). Tacoma Musical Playhouse introduces Anne of Green Gables (May 15-23) as a musical. Orphan Anne Shirley is sent to live on Prince Edward Island with a pair of siblings who were expecting to adopt a boy, but finds "kindred spirits" wherever she goes.

Broadway veteran Stanley Bahorek will play the title role in 5th Avenue Theatre's production of Candide, to be presented May 25-June 13. David Armstrong will direct. The show features music by Leona...