If you want to sell out a symphony hall, you have your choice of ninth symphonies. Possibly if you've written eight symphonies, you're well into the swing of things, but for whatever reason, the ninth tends to rule. That said, we see that most of the tickets left for tonight are in the third tier, where the Symphony jacked the prices last season after figuring out that people preferred the sound up there. Lots of......

It's Shakespeare, so you can't complain. That's just "Shakespearean language." Here it is, Act III, Scene 1 from The Merchant of Venice:If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? Anyway, in Seattle we've got outdoor theatre options, and most of them are in Volunteer Park this weekend, July 14 & 15, for the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival. There are......