New Seattle foundation gives $9 million to arts organizations — mostly for new work
This week, the Friday Foundation, a new Seattle entity, gave $9 million to nine Seattle arts organization — mostly for new work. The gifts are...
Brendan Kiley
Brendan Kiley is the Seattle Times arts and culture reporter.
Intiman’s next stage: A new home and a first-of-its-kind theater partnership with Seattle Central College
Intiman Theatre finally has a new home. The Seattle institution is settling on Capitol Hill at Seattle Central College, where it will become the only...
Competition emerges in the Seattle-area human-composting funeral business
For years Seattle-based Recompose has been the only funeral home proposing to offer natural organic reduction (NOR), more commonly known as "human composting, as an...
How Seattle wound up with a ‘street czar’ after CHOP and the George Floyd protests
Seattle's new street czar hopes to be liaison to city hall as city grapples with policing and social justice issues
Seattle Opera eliminates six jobs, continues furloughs, citing COVID revenue losses
Seattle Opera has cut six administrative positions from its workforce, and has dozens of employees still on furlough, citing losses of revenue from the pandemic.
6 months after COVID restrictions began, how are music venues, arts groups and musicians doing?
How are local arts groups and musicians holding up and what do they have planned this fall, despite the restrictions? Here, they tell us in...
Seattle theaters get inventive, finding ways to perform even during pandemic closures
Many theaters have turned to digital programming. Now, a few Seattle theaters have announced slightly more inventive, refined and ambitious season plans: audio dramas, online...