Performing Arts

"Porgy and Bess" Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

“Porgy and Bess” Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

It opens August 11

Opera Man: Tenor Jermaine Smith returns to McCaw Hall to reprise his role as Sportin’ Life for Seattle Opera’s 2018 production of “Porgy and Bess”

Bring on the Bard: 30+ Seattle Arts Groups Will Be Celebrating Shakespeare

Bring on the Bard: 30+ Seattle Arts Groups Will Be Celebrating Shakespeare

Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare honors the world’s most famous dramatist with concerts, plays, musicals and more

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the Spring Arts Preview. Click here to subscribe. Before he leaves the 5th Avenue Theatre after the 2018 season, artistic director David Armstrong has a parting gift for Seattle: a citywide, season- and genre-spanning festival about the world’s most famous playwright. It’s called Seattle…

'The Little Prince' Set Designer Pulls Back the Curtain on His Craft

‘The Little Prince’ Set Designer Pulls Back the Curtain on His Craft

For the past 30 years, Carey Wong has been the mastermind behind many a Seattle theater production.

Carey wong is a multitasking master. Just take the wildly disparate scenarios competing for the freelance scenic designer’s brain time this past fall: this month’s production of the sweetly solemn The Little Prince at Seattle Children’s Theatre; a resplendently theatrical exhibit, Beyond the Gate, about Portland’s two Chinatowns, slated to be the permanent installation at…

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