While Seattle's theater companies, big and small, have become accustomed to programming solo performances into their season schedules, there is still a need for a place to find new things. A place where audiences can see works that they've missed, or artists experimenting with ideas. Along comes the Solo Performance Festival... more ›

Last week, literary non-profit 826 Seattle announced the release of its latest publication, "What to Read in the Rain." The book, available October 1, contains 300 pages of Northwest-centered stories, poems, essays and recipes from well-known Northwest authors and 826 Seattle youth participants. Among those authors who participated are Tom Robbins, who contributed the book's introduction; Seattle restaurateur Tom Douglas, who shares a pancake recipe; David Guterson, speaking for the trees and actress Lauren Weedman, adding a hilarious take on a doomed relationship. more ›

Sometimes when you start going off about how *hysterically funny* someone is, people take it as a dare not to laugh. But Lauren Weedman cracks us up, and we don't care who knows it. more ›

The iron bars of smug do-goodery and significant social issues cannot contain the comic genius of Lauren Weedman. We tell you what, unless more than one North Korean missile is headed our way, you have no good excuse to miss seeing Bust at the Empty Space Theatre. We may have dropped a few pounds from laughter -- which we're stealing from the point in the show where she suggests to the orientation leader that volunteering in L.A. jails would shoot through the roof if, you know, it turned out to have weight-loss advantages. more ›

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