Along with park shows, cabarets and a general experimental bent, the Summer months are also one of the few times out of the year where theater companies happily embrace programming for the younger set. Two local fringe companies are currently offering outdoor productions specifically aimed at children; Theater Schmeater's Arrh! A Dinosaur Ate My Space Ship and Balagan Theater's King Arthur and the Knights of the Playground. more ›

First, the idea is totally insane and gave us anxiety just thinking about it. Fourteen plays, written, directed and performed in front of a live audience in 48 hours. If you're an actor, writer, performer, or have ever been on a stage, you'd certainly understand. Deep breaths. What is certainly a weekend of chaos for all parties involved in the production of the world's quickest theater festival however, composed itself into a relatively well oiled machine come the 8 p.m. curtain. more ›

To say that 14/48--the theater festival created entirely in the space of a weekend--is to the stage what blogging is to the written word would be more than a little insulting to 14/48, but the comparison does hold some water: in each ideas go, in the blink of an eye, from conception to the screen/stage where they fail or touch hearts without the benefit of a final (or second) draft. Local playwright Paul Mullin describes writing for the festival like this: more ›

The Ten Thousand Things is a play by Seattle playwright Paul Mullin, showing at WET through June 16. Tickets are $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Shows are Thursdays through Mondays. more ›