Intiman Theatre celebrated its first year in its new home on Capitol Hill with an outdoor Homecoming Performing Arts Festival on Harvard Avenue in front of Erickson Theatre on Sept. The program features Franklin’s iconic hits, including “Respect,” “A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools” and more 21-23, Seattle favorite Capathia Jenkins, three-time Grammy Award nominee Adam Shaw and the Witness Mass Choir combine to honor The Queen of Soul in Aretha Franklin, A Tribute. The show features electric vocals backed by the orchestra in a concert of holiday favorites. The run of six shows begins in December with Holiday Pops, featuring Broadway star N’Kenge and guest conductor Stuart Chafetz. Seattle Symphony has a number of productions planned, including its popular John & Ginny Meisenbach Foundation Pops Series. The season gets underway with a hybrid film and live theatrical experience, with in-person theater productions beginning in January.
The season features productions of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale the new play with music, Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Freestyle Love Supreme from Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale the retelling of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Teenage Dick a new translation of Ibsen’s classic play Ghosts Sylvia Khoury’s award-winning new play, Selling Kabul and the world premiere musical Bruce. Seattle Rep returns to live, in-person theater with a new season beginning in December. Here is a glance at some organizations returning to in-person performances and viewings as a new season kicks off. “We challenged some of those rituals, but being asked to switch that model overnight is almost impossible.”Īs the pandemic remains a major public health issue, many arts organizations are still playing defense and struggling with a mix of in-person and digital programming.
“You look at sitting around the campfire and delivering storytelling and messaging,” says Michael Greer, president and CEO of ArtsFund, a Seattle nonprofit that advocates for the region’s arts community. Digital programming kept many arts organizations afloat the past 18 months and, in many cases, engaged new audiences.īut the very crux of the performing arts dates back tens of thousands of years.
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