Season subscriptions and single tickets for our 2015–2016 season are now on sale through the ArtsUW ticket office. This year, in addition to our 5-show subscription, our season includes a play reading series, lectures, new play workshops, and co-productions with local theatre companies. We're kicking things off with Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Professor and Head of Performance, Valerie Curtis-Newton and featuring a cast of current students, faculty, and… Read more

Second-year MFA directing student Malika Oyetimein is the first featured director of Intiman's Director's Lab program. Joining her on the creative team for Bootycandy, which runs through October 3, is scenic designer Julia Welch (MFA '15). Friends of the School of Drama can purchase $20 tickets to the September 29 performance, and are invited to a special post-show… Read more

In partnership with Meany Hall and One Coast Collaboration, the School of Drama presents a series of five free, public readings of representative plays from seminal Seattle theatres of the past. As part of the School 75th Anniversary, we’ll be celebrating the Seattle theatre community of which we’re an integral part.  The reading series will pay tribute to inspiring companies no longer up and running: Alice B. Theatre, Bathhouse Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Northwest Asian… Read more

The School of Drama is on the threshold of launching a truly ambitious season. Many of you have already heard our appeals for support. And several of you have answered those appeals with a financial contribution to the season. To date, we have raised nearly $30,000! We're planning a season unlike any other, with new and thought-provoking work, a blend of student and professional artistry and learning. We're building bridges across this vital artistic city. And we need you to make it happen… Read more

Susan Finque as Nancy Drew in the Archives: In Search of the Actors' Contract With the support of the Witham Fund for Dissertation Research, I was able to spend a week this summer delving into the archives of one of the Americas' most beloved small libraries. The Rosenbach Museum and Library is tucked away on Delancey Street, in a tree-lined neighborhood just off center city Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square. Staged in the former home of Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, his… Read more

Seattle theatre group Azeotrope opened Don Nyguen's Sound at ACT Theatre to rave reviews. Desdemona Chiang (MFA 2009) directs, with Richard Nguyen Sloniker (PATP 2009) as Alexander Graham Bell, costume design by Christine Tschirgi (MFA 2007), and lighting design by Jessica Trundy (MFA 2003). The Horse in Motion continues to produce non-traditional theatre. Their latest production, … Read more

Arthur Miller ScenesFeaturing PATP and PhD studentsFriday, September 25 at 6:20 PMSeattle Repertory TheatreFree. Purchase 50%-off tickets to A View From the Bridge Seattle Theatres Lost & FoundedFeaturing play readings from Alice B. TheatreIn partnership with UW World Series & One Coast CollaborationMonday, September 28 at 7:30 PMMeany Studio Theatre… Read more