Seattle & King County
Bringing it all back home: an operatic Odyssey
Pacific Operaworks' Ulysses is rich, original and an inspiring rejection of comfort-food programming.
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At ACT: an inspiring theater company from Tashkent
The play depicts young love quashed by implacable social forces. The theater company's story is one of bravely surviving amid censorship in Uzbekistan, while drawing on folkloric and boldly experimental performance styles. It adds up to a remarkable night of theater.
Seattle & King County
'Technicolor Armageddon' at the Seattle Symphony
A season-ending display of the Symphony's firepower, with Wagner and Mahler, produces some lovely moments and some curious spells of sputtering.
Seattle & King County
Messiah becomes a tradition revived
An especially memorable performance by Seattle Baroque and Tudor Choir at Town Hall.
Seattle & King County
WET detonates Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Two years in the making, blahblahblahBANG, an ambitious show by Washington Ensemble Theater, is a high-profile step for an edgy and accomplished Seattle theater company. It's full of brilliant bits in the course of a radical reworking of a classic play.