Jack Straw

Sound Theatre has joined Theatre Puget Sound's Space4Arts Resident Theatre Cohort, finding a permanent home at Seattle Center Armory. Learn more about the partnership here!

Cleveland Public Theatre will present 'Buried Words, Seeds of Hope,' a theatrical benefit for Ukraine. Proceeds support organizations aiding Ukrainian survivors.

Diversionary Theatre announces the cast and creative team for its production of Dragon Mama by Sara Porkalob, directed by Andrew Russell.  Dragon Mama will run September 14 through October 8 on Diversionary Theatre’s mainstage at their home in University Heights.  

One of the most iconic concerts of the legendary Grateful Dead band will be shown around the world on November 1 and 5. The Park Theatre in Jaffrey will present this piece of rock history in its 333-seat Eppes Auditorium with 27-foot wide screen and 17-speaker surround sound.

Seattle Rep has has selected its second Native Artist-in-Residence, D.A. Navoti, a multidisciplinary storyteller, writer, and composer. This Seattle Rep program aims to highlight Native voices and educate audiences through art, discussion, and community engagement.

Queer|Art, New York City's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, has announced the winner of the 2021 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant, collaborative duo, Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. The New York City-based duo will receive a $7,000 cash grant, as well as studio visits with members of the judges panel in support of their creative and professional development.

Summer is going to be gaslit - again. Months after a May 14 close of GASLIGHT (Angel Street)'s run, Sound Theatre will launch a “Gaslight Project,” a community-wide event series to explore expressions of “gaslighting” in a contemporary world.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced that it is partnering with The Cedar Cultural Center and Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) to present Welcome to Indian Country at The Cedar Cultural Center (416 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis) on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 7:30 p.m. 

Seattle Rep today announced that it has selected its first Native Artist-in-Residence Arianne True, a local poet and folk artist. Through the Native Artist-in-Residence Program, Seattle Rep aims to highlight Native voices and educate audiences and its staff through art, discussion, and community engagement.

On August 27-September 5, 2021, Lelavision will animate West Seattle's Westcrest Park with BIPOC-centered performances, kinetic musical-sculpture, eco-art installations and workshops, wellness offerings, and science panels to cultivate our health as a community. 

The Broad Stage presents two United States poet laureates, both Pulitzer Prize winners, in Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith: Poetry at the Crossroads, on Thursday, May 20 at 6pm PT, presented in partnership with esteemed Los Angeles based publisher Red Hen Press.

Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium in partnership with Jack Straw Cultural Center, launches a new podcast titled Opening Doors to address accessibility issues in arts and civic life.

The Broad Stage and esteemed LA-based publisher Red Hen Press continues season two of the Red Hen Press Poetry Hour with an online episode on Thursday, September 24 at 6pm PT in which host Sandra Tsing Loh leads a program with five unique artists about the intersections between feminism, performance, identity and poetry in the time following the #MeToo Movement.

As we enter the New Year with Britain's impending departure from the European Union creeping closer, leading political comedian Matt Forde will further render the complexities of our tumultuous times with four additional London performances of his critically acclaimed and continually evolving stand-up show, Brexit Through The Gift Shop. Following two raucous performances at The Southbank Centre which kick started his 25 date nationwide tour in December 2018, Matt returns to this venue on the 7th and 12th March and will play Westminster's The Other Palace on the 28th January and the 19th March.  

Following a sold-out and critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, the UK's leading political comedian and star of Dave's award-nominated Unspun Matt Forde is taking his new show on a nationwide tour from 25th March – 8th June which includes a run at London's Soho Theatre from 3rd-7th April. In turbulent political times, find the funny side of the worldwide political shitstorm as Matt picks apart the rhetoric, reacts to our Conservative/DUP/Labour/SNP (delete as appropriate) government and celebrates the best and worst coming out of Westminster. Now with added Trump

Velocity presents Next Fest NW 2017: Disruption a weekend celebrating Northwest artists as inter/national innovators in contemporary dance and dance cinema. This year's Next Fest NW artists create new work in response to the theme of disruption. In Seattle's rapidly changing landscape, how will this generation of young artists respond to the question what does it really mean to be disruptive in these times ?

On last night's LATE SHOW, the band Dead & Company made a pitstop at the Ed Sullivan Theater amid their Dead & Company Fall Tour 2017 to perform 'Jack Straw' for the studio audience. Watch the appearance below!

Following 2016's sold out Christmas Special featuring Ed Balls & Alastair Campbell, Matt Forde's critically-acclaimed Political Party returns to London's Leicester Square Theatre for two live festive podcast recordings

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will open it's latest production: Anna Karenina Lives!, a new vaudeville-style musical comedy by Germaine Shames, this October 21st and 22nd at 353 W. 48th St. in Midtown Manhattan.

Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will hold preview performances of Anna Karenina Lives!, a new vaudeville-style musical comedy by Germaine Shames, this October 14th and 15th at 353 W. 48th St. in Midtown Manhattan.