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I spoke with Roger Guenveur Smith about his Frederick Douglass solo show, playing in Seattle this weekend (and getting a film version directed by Spike Lee soon) seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

The 16th annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival begins Thursday, featuring dozens of films from emerging and established black filmmakers. st.news/2IQ4OpH

Seattle Rep's Public Works program seeks to draw people of all ages to participate in theater through free classes, workshops and collaborative stage shows. st.news/2ZOWTOq

A whirlwind of fall film festivals will hit the Seattle area and beyond, kicking off this Friday with Northwest Film Forum’s 22nd annual Local Sightings Film Festival. st.news/2NiO2Tm

Some great repertory programming coming up in Oct: Guy Maddin in-person at Northwest Film Forum, Miike's Black Society Trilogy at @gicinema, tons of interesting stuff at @TheBeaconSEA (Herz's 'Morgiana'!) and more.

“Mrs. Doubtfire” will be 5th Avenue Theatre's 10th new musical slated for a Broadway run. Here’s how the nine new musicals that have made the leap from the 5th Avenue have fared on theater’s biggest stage. st.news/2OeVezc

Dusty Somers reviews both JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME and THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON in his latest Stuart Galbraith IV round-up. worldcinemaparadise.com/2019/12/12/blu…

Before making its Broadway debut, "Mrs. Doubtfire" plays at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Here's what our reviewer thought of the new musical. st.news/2YXVx4X

The Williams Project's 'Marisol' is about a post-apocalyptic apocalypse, and it feels relevant to our current slate of crises — its characters repeatedly discover there isn’t safety to be found indoors or outdoors. st.news/3AK9dCi

Seattle's Pony World Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Blake Hackler’s play, in which three sisters growing up in small-town East Texas take divergent paths to cope with their shared trauma. st.news/3pLP0tG

"We've Battled Monsters Before" showcases Justin Huertas' brand of charming fantasy-tinged chamber musical, while also presenting the joys and heartaches of Huertas' Filipino heritage and a pretty thorny story about family. st.news/3yq55aB

There’s never been a Village Theatre without Robb Hunt. He was part of a group that founded the Issaquah-based institution in 1979 and, at the end of this season, he will step down, following the "monumental" challenge of the last two pandemic years. st.news/3o37lRo

Seattle Shakespeare Company's “Drum and Colours” program, which features a cast made up entirely of people of color, pairs “Hamlet” and “As You Like It.” seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

Sayet's show "Where We Belong," opening soon at Seattle Rep, includes an accountability rider with requirements such as a commitment to never employ redface again. st.news/3wX2BAY

Interviewed Heidi Schreck proud WGA member and some of her Printer's Devil Theater collaborators about her time in Seattle's fringe scene

In "An Endless Shift" at ArtsWest, Gloria Alcalá personifies five health care workers, using their words, verbatim, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic. st.news/3XPf8BP

Karen Rodriguez gives a fully realized performance as 15-year-old Júlia in Seattle Rep's purposeful staging of this adaptation of a young-adult novel. st.news/3j5mF0r

Before Weedman popped up on TV, she cemented a reputation in Seattle as a fearlessly self-lacerating monologist. She returns to those roots with "Lauren Weedman BLOWS." st.news/3lP5wct

The city's flagship playhouse named Dámaso Rodríguez, former artistic director at Portland's Artists Repertory Theatre, to the role. He succeeds Braden Abraham. seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

The multi-Tony Award winner brings her solo show “Don’t Monkey with Broadway" to town in a benefit for the Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus. st.news/3P0YfRO