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When I started working in the production department at KCTS 9 last November, I’d only been in Seattle for a few months. More »

“All of life’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” — so Shakespeare’s melancholy fool, Jacques, meditates in the famous opening monologue of As You Like It. More »

392 films, including 10 world premieres and 36 North American premieres, will screen at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival or SIFF (May 21 through June 14).

On April 21st, a tweet beeped onto my cell phone from Broadway Across America in Seattle:

"Don't forget, Frost/Nixon tx-$19.77 for ALL tickets! (Cuz the int. was in 1977. See, we're clever like that :-)."

What is America’s best idea? The answer, according to legendary PBS filmmaker Ken Burns, might surprise you. For Burns, producer of such films as Baseball and Jazz (either of which could be a fitting answer to the question in question) our nation’s nonpareil notion is the national parks.

The island of Manhattan, 33.7 square miles in its entirety, is home to 41 Broadway theaters, 94 Off-Broadway theaters, and myriad 100-seats-or-less Off-Off-Broadway venues. More »

T.S. Eliot wrote in his seminal poem “The Waste-Land” that “April is the cruellest month”—not a season of flowers and spring rain, but rather of the reawakening of old fears that lay dormant through the winter. This statement couldn’t ring truer this April for the students, staff, and faculty of the University of Washington. More »

NPR host, Peabody-Award-winning journalist, noted war correspondent, lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, and, now, second time novelist, Scott Simon, visited KCTS 9 this week just hours before his appearance downtown at the Seattle Arts and Lectures series. More »

For the last six years, Washington’s Environmental Priorities Coalition, made up of over twenty leading environmental groups, has advocated for the passage of key environmental legislation. More »

In times of political transition and economic crisis, every old story — even the Disney ones populated by jovial, anthropomorphized animals and catchy sing-along tunes—transforms into a political allegory. More »