Intiman has undergone some tectonic shifts this year, leaving the 50-year-old establishment on ground more solid than ever before. Image: courtesy seattle opera / karli cadel Intiman Theatre The father’s position as a police officer himself adds nuance to the narrative, and writer and director Tazewell Thompson interviewed many Black police officers to inform his creation. Blue, set to run the weekend of February 26, tells the story of a Black family bound together and torn asunder by police brutality. Tickets for Seattle Opera’s production of Orpheus and Eurydice, a surreal journey into the depths of the underworld in pursuit of lost love, already sold out in September, signaling a voracious appetite for in-person arias after a season trapped in the shadowy underworld of streaming. Hotter than Egypt, set in the years immediately following the Egyptian revolution, examines the political and personal legacy of colonialism through the intertwined fates of a troubled American couple on vacation in Cairo and the young Egyptian couple they hire to spirit them around the city. January 28 marks the world premiere of a new play by Yussef El Guindi, author of Back of the Throat and People of the Book. Harnessing the iconic Disney score by Alan Menken, this local production promises sumptuous costuming and an epochal tale of unlikely romance and learning to see beyond the superficial. The 5th rolls out seasoned crowd pleaser and eternal family favorite Beauty and the Beast, January 12–February 6. The end of February brings Tony Award–winning Freestyle Love Supreme, a partially improvisational hip-hop musical that draws on audience participation. Faye Butler was co-commissioned by the Goodman Theater, and pays homage to civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, whose labors to uplift and enfranchise Black people in the Jim Crow–era South left an indelible mark on her community and the nation. A medium-blending adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale runs through December, while a monthlong run of Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer opens January 14. Image: Courtesy Seattle Repertory Theatre Seattle Repįounded in the 1960s, the largest nonprofit resident theater in the Pacific Northwest continues to pursue its vision of theater at the center of public life.
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