Infant in Seattle ER is 8th confirmed measles case in Puget Sound area outbreak
This is the fifth measles case in King County this month. The baby contracted the highly-contagious disease from someone in her household, not from exposure...
Brendan Kiley
Brendan Kiley is the Seattle Times arts and culture reporter.
‘The Arsonists’ review: 1950s play sounds like an indictment of politics in the age of Facebook
Seattle-based theater company The Horse in Motion mounts a lively production of "The Arsonists," a 1950s play that has lived several lives with several interpretations.
Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting
On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed SB 5001, making Washington the first state in the U.S. to legalize human composting as another way to handle...
Seattle theater community holds fundraiser for local actors whose daughter was diagnosed with cancer
The theater community has rallied around longtime local actors Amy Thone and Hans Altwies, whose daughter, Stella Altwies, was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer last...
Here's your guide to outdoor theater in the Seattle area this summer
Here are some of the outdoor theater productions happening this summer in Seattle and around the Puget Sound area.
Left-wing writers, revolutionaries — and Marxist alien hunters? — converge on Seattle for Red May festival
Red May, a free, three-year-old event that rolls around Seattle for four weeks, brings Marxist thinkers from around the country to talk about (mostly) serious...
A ‘magazine’ that’s performed onstage, with much audience interaction — Pop-Up Magazine comes to Seattle
The ephemeral event — in which writers, editors and photographers bring stories about politics, culture, technology, architecture, science, relationships and more — lives briefly in a...
A small Seattle theater takes a gamble, importing an experimental New York show
"Singlet," the gloriously dizzying two-person show imported from New York by Washington Ensemble Theatre, is the kind of experimental theater Seattle should be thirsty for.
Seattle directors wrestle with staging gun violence in the age of mass shootings
Some plays feature guns as an important part of their plots. But directors wrestle with how to stage gun violence, especially now, when flashing a...