Seattle Theatre’s New Jazz Age
Local artists and theatre companies are taking jazz onstage—and taking it beyond Duke Ellington, Satchmo, and Coltrane.
Local artists and theatre companies are taking jazz onstage—and taking it beyond Duke Ellington, Satchmo, and Coltrane.
Sound Theatre Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre and wigmaster Joyce Degenfelder among the big winners at the annual Seattle theatre honors.
What other playwright could bring together a city’s diverse theatre artists, from classical to avant-garde, lavish to bare-bones?
Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre, led by Jane Jones and Myra Platt, has gone from adapting classic Western literature to local contemporary literature, drawing more and more local authors into theatre.