A stunning new staging of "Hamlet" opens Seattle Shakespeare Company's 20th anniversary season. Performed nearly in its entirety with a three-hour running time, this "Hamlet" still manages to enthrall even those who are not die-hard Shakespeare fans.
Albee's "Three Tall Women" takes place in a hushed, shrine-like woman's bedroom in a wealthy household. The presiding deity of this room is an unpleasant elderly woman known to us only as A; she is imperious and demanding even as her dementia-afflicted mind and deteriorating body pull her down to the inevitable. Albee wrote his one99one Pulitzer winning play as a sort of catharsis after the death of the distant adoptive mother who never came to terms with his homosexuality; like A's son in the play, he left home at an early age to escape a strife-filled home life.
The Queen Anne Farmers Market went to the dogs on Thursday, Aug. 26, as the open market hosted its second annual Dog Day.
Anton Corbijn's "The American" is the kind of thriller where you don't know who to trust. You don't know who's good and who's bad or what side is good and what side is bad. It increases the tension throughout. Unfortunately the tension goes to waste.
Capehart was first discovered as a heavily wooded area with ocean views. Around World War I, it became part of the vast military outpost of Fort Lawton.
Anyone who drives on a freeway in the Seattle area has looked up only to see a name or picture spray-painted across a traffic sign.
The Congers, who departed Elliott Bay Marina in May of 2008 for a life at sea, have planted roots, temporarily, in New Zealand.
At 7 p.m., this Saturday, Seattle Symphony officially kicks-off the 2010-2011 season with Opening Night Concert & Gala, featuring highlights from Music Director Gerard Schwarz's musical legacy in honor of his Farewell Season.
Current owners and new ones are making changes and starting new businesses, taking advantage of low interest rates and available space.
THEATREFifth Avenue Theatre presents "In the Heights" Sept. 28 through Oct. 17. "In the Heights" tells a universal story set in Manhattan's Washington Heights, a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. For tickets visit www.5thavenue.org.
The Lake Union Crew (LUC) is participating in Row for the Cure on Lake Union Sept. 19 in hopes of raising money that would be put toward research for a cure for breast cancer.
While Magnolia Farmers Market organizers say something, or someone, has got to give if the neighborhood is to see its market open in 2011, the same organizers are confident that the community will step up.
After months of practice and preparation, the CoeBotics team of Coe Elementary School hosted a practice tournament Nov. 20 in which 25 teams from the greater Seattle area demonstrated and tested their robot skills.Participating teams included Little Cedars Elementary, LegoInitiates from Catharine Blaine K-8 and 2TEN from Oakview Elementary School. The festival was held in the Coe Elementary gym.
On Sept. 16, the Lady Falcons will take on Montana State Billings and on Sept. 20, the men will host Western Washington. Both games will be at Interbay Stadium.
No specific news yet except that Fremont based Dovetail Inc. is busy completing the tenant improvements for a new sandwich shop that will fill the vacancy left by Peet's Coffee at the corner of West Boston Street and Queen Anne Avenue North.