Must List: Bullets Over Broadway, Buzzer Opens at ACT
What to do this weekend and beyond in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff January 28, 2016
Must Marvel
Cris Bruch Solo Show at Frye Art Museum
(1/30 to 3/27, times vary) The longtime Seattle sculptor and public artist, whose highly finished, self-contained monoliths and subtle, irony-laced smaller works have for decades discreetly responded to their often unsympathetic surroundings, is the subject of a solo show that also includes his recent photographic works.
Must See
Bullets over Broadway at The Paramount
(2/2 to 2/27, times vary) Woody Allen’s musical adaptation of his popular mobsters and showgirls movie comes to Seattle, with period songs and dazzling choreography by the great Susan Stroman.
Must Watch
Velocity Dance Center Presents The Bridge Project
(1/29 to 1/31, times vary) This unique series of new works, produced by Velocity Dance Center, challenges four of Seattle’s most promising emerging choreographers to create four new works in its studios over the course of four short weeks. Last year, the high pressure of the residency yielded some remarkable results.
Must Shop
Prada opens at The Shops at the Bravern
(1/31, times vary) The Italian fashion house will open a 5,100-square-foot, two-floor store at the mega luxe Bellevue shopping center on Sunday, January 31.
Must Go
Buzzer Opens at ACT Theatre
(2/3 to 2/21, times vary) Tracey Scott Wilson’s darkly comedic play tells the story of Jackson, a successful African-American lawyer whose life grows complicated when he moves back to his old but rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn with his white girlfriend.
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Studio Sessions: Jade Solomon Curtis
With an interest in how bodies retain memory, emotion, and experience, the award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Jade Solomon Curtis presents an immersive work at Seattle’s historic Union station.
Discover choreographer Jade Solomon Curtis and her immersive dance installation, Keeper of Sadness, at Seattle’s historic Union Station this August.
Northwest Tune-Up Bike and Music Festival Brings Big Air and Loud Sets to Bellingham
The three-day festival celebrates its fifth year with bike competitions and a genre-spanning music lineup—plus one unforgettable band of mummies.
If I were to summarize the sensation of attending Northwest Tune-Up, Bellingham’s three-day bike and music festival, in one image, it would be watching Tomomi Nishikubo—a Japanese street trials biker—doing acrobatic acts of derring-do on his bike while Seattle rockers Thunderpussy shred in the distance. My second lasting impression of the festival would be rounding…
Ferry Tales: Eight Indie Bookstores Worth the Ride
Plan a summer day around these bookshops in Seattle, Bremerton, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, and Poulsbo.
Independent bookstores tend to be cornerstones of the communities in which they reside, and Seattle is no exception. In addition to helping customers discover their next read, these neighborhood hubs host weekly gatherings and events, like publication release parties, author talks, and book clubs. Many of them have cafés and reading tables that encourage lingering…
Rearview Mirror: Seattle Art Fair is Back, Nordstrom Throws a Block Party, and a Must-Try Ice Cream Sundae
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
SEATTLE ART FAIR RETURNS The buzziest event of the summer (well, aside from the World Cup), is returning next week. Now in its 10th edition, the Seattle Art Fair will once again take over the Lumen Field Event Center, packing it to the gills with art from 101 local, national, and international galleries. This year,…