For all of the difficulties facing Intiman, you have also been presented a unique opportunity. While every other theatre in town, and really in the country, tries to figure out how to make difficult transitions, shifting the earned/contributed income balance and trying to break from the failing subscription model, you have a blank slate. more ›

Wallingford’s own nonprofit writing and tutoring center, 826 Seattle, invite you to “Write like I Do.” This year-long series of adult workshops happen (about) once a month. Each session features a talented writer sharing from past experience to help attendees enhance their writing skills. Proceeds from WLID workshops will help 826 Seattle continue to provide complimentary aid to young writers (ages 6-18) in the community. more ›

Performance art happening alert! Brendan Kiley sums Moore Inside Out for you: "4Culture (King County's arts-funding wing) and Seattle Theatre Group (a large nonprofit that owns the Moore) approached Free Sheep with $30,000 to turn the Moore out with performance, installation, street art, music, and more. It's one night only, it's this Saturday, and it's free." We should add that it's from 6-10 p.m. Here's the Moore Theatre's take on the goings-on, which end with a parade/procession led by the Balkan brass band, Orkestar Zirkonium, from the Moore Theatre to an afterparty at the Belltown Underground Event Center (2407 1st Ave, between Battery & Wall). more ›

Tonight, 's theatre critic Brendan Kiley is hosting a forum/shouting match at Seattle Rep at 7:30 (155 Mercer Street at Seattle Center; we confirmed it's for free; there'll be someone at the door to direct you) in response to the debate generated by his Oct. 7 article, "Ten Things Theaters Need to Do Right Now to Save Themselves." Read it here; some of his points are good, some predictable, some are already being done, and still others seem silly. The point is, Kiley touched a nerve: the theatre, particularly here in Seattle, is struggling with its identity, afraid for the future, and confused in its business-model. We work in books in our day job, and the same uncertainty about the future we hear from book publishers we hear from the theatre artists. So we've decided to throw in our own two-cents worth for your consideration before tonight's talk. We'll be there in the audience. Hopefully we'll hear something interesting. more ›

"due to the economic downturn of late" impacting their ticket sales (or so they claim), it seems rather apropos that Seattle Rep's hosting a discussion tonight with Kiley over what the theatre needs to do to save itself. Details are sketchy, but we've confirmed it's at Seattle Rep at 7:30. more ›

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That's NYC experimental group Radiohole not Radiohead. We don't bait and switch here at Seattlest. Their show Fluke is an "enigmatic riff" on Moby Dick, says the NY Times, adding: "It has always been easier to like a show by Radiohole than to understand it." more ›

What better way to raise money for cancer than a good old-fashioned moustache pageant? Seemingly classy-ass Monsieur Moustache is tonight at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, with the proceeds going to help pay the leukemia treatment bills of local waiter extraordinare Nick Farina. (Proceeds will also be shared with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.) Nick's not the only guy out there with over a million dollars in bills (since, you know, our system's fucked), so the organizers are hoping to make this an annual benefit to raise money for cancer patients and organizations. more ›

First of all, despite what you read in the Times and the P-I about Donald Byrd's Never-Mind (which came and went over the weekend), it's not all that, as Brendan Kiley says over on the Slog. We've become fans of Byrd's "neo-expressionist" style, but Never-Mind (at this point) is short on style and substance. It came off like "Frank Miller's Never-Mind": an ugly cartoon of drug abuse, of dysfunction, of iconic fame. more ›

In this week's Stranger, Franklin grad Brendan Kiley remembers getting hit on by Allen Ginsberg at a 1994 reading. more ›

--Even The Stranger's Brendan Kiley, who knows from killing animals, is surprised that the U.S. Army tortures live pigs as a training exercise. more ›