Theatre Puget Sound and Cornish Vie for Seattle Center Playhouse Lease

Theatre Puget Sound and Cornish Vie for Seattle Center Playhouse Lease

The Theatre Puget Sound “arts incubator” proposal represents, perhaps, a bigger break with Playhouse management past–Cornish replacing Intiman as the singular primary tenant isn’t structurally that different, except for being a college, instead of a theatre)–but it may be a good break. As TPS makes clear, they are not a producing organization, so their management of the Playhouse can be devoted to its maximal usage. Continue reading Theatre Puget Sound and Cornish Vie for Seattle Center Playhouse Lease

Seattle Theatre is Big Winner in New Gypsy Rose Lee Awards

Seattle Theatre is Big Winner in New Gypsy Rose Lee Awards

Seattle Theater Writers, uniting 11 local theater writers and reviewers, goes a long way to generating a critical consensus (or something sufficient) for the year in review, and also for productions across the Equity (actors’ union) and non-Equity spectrum. Following are the 2011 winners of the first annual Gypsy Rose Lee Awards, 2011 also marking the centennial year of the entertainer’s birth in Seattle, just FYI. Continue reading Seattle Theatre is Big Winner in New Gypsy Rose Lee Awards