Arts and Entertainment

Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) announces today that Valerie Curtis-Newton will be the recipient of the 2019 Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award.

This film, four years in the making, was produced by Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in English, and directed by Ryan K. Adams, a filmmaker with Continuum College. 

Alumni Aaron Verzosa (BFA, 2009, Linguistics) and Amber Manuguid's (BFA, 2009, Digital Arts and Experimental Media) have opened a new Filipino restaurant, Archipelago.

In the arts, purchase tickets for the New Burke Opening Weekend, attend a rare duet setting performance by two School of Music faculty members, and more!

'Butterfly Lovers' is presented by American Asian Performing Arts Theater, a local nonprofit founded by dancer/choreographer Li Hengda, a UW MFA graduate.

"Washington’s oldest museum gets a new home and a bold new approach — an open design that puts both artifacts and researchers on display."

Off the Rez food truck — which has been serving acclaimed Native American cuisine around the city since 2011 — will open a permanent location at the new Burke.

Department of Dance Professor Dani Tirrell receives the 2019 Mayor's Arts Award from the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle.

Recent notable books by UW faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction, and more.

As the grand opening of the new Burke Museum gets closer, workers have been busy installing a large mural in the new natural-history museum.

Celebrate the accomplishments of the 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities undergraduate researchers, attend Bulrusher - directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, and more!

The Seattle Times interviews Moira Macdonald (MA, English, 1987 | BA, Drama / English, 1984), the Seattle Times arts critic, about what influenced her to become a critic. 

The famous Chinese love story, The Butterfly Lovers, is coming to McCaw Hall in September, with the Beijing Dance Academy, thanks to Li Hengda (MFA, Dance, 2006) of Hengda Dance Academy.

As a playwright, Holly Arsenault writes mostly comedies, but she takes her work as director of engagement for the UW School of Drama very seriously.

Christopher Phillips, a research specialist in the Department of Physics, explains why there will be ideal conditions for stargazing in August.