Marcie Sillman
Stories
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Arts & Life
Bravissima! Seattle Opera opens curtains on its shiny new home
After more than 20 years of plans and fundraising, Seattle Opera's new home is complete.
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Arts & Life
Rethinking cultural stereotypes in The Nutcracker
Arts and culture reporter Marcie Sillman spoke to three local dancers about their experiences watching and dancing in The Nutcracker.
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Arts & Life
Seattle Symphony musicians take their instruments to Monroe Correctional Complex
Most classical music lovers listen to live performances in a plush concert hall; armed guards and barbed wire barricades surround the inmates who make up the audience at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe.
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Arts & Life
Tacomans just voted to tax themselves for arts funding
Tacomans have done what King County residents could not: They've passed new tax to raise money for the arts.
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Arts & Life
Transforming Black pain into beauty: The story of an Alvin Ailey protégé in Seattle
When Donald Byrd arrived at Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater in 2002, he was an emigrant from New York’s high-octane contemporary art world, a scene that demanded all of his energy but provided little financial or emotional security.
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Arts & Life
Seattle Art Museum director Kimerly Rorshach announces her impending retirement
Kimerly Rorshach says she'll step down from SAM next fall, the day after the grand re-opening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
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Arts & Life
Seattle Art Institute lays off 10 faculty members
The Art Institute of Seattle has laid off most of its full-time faculty, but things could be worse. Eighteen of the Institute's sister schools will shutter in December
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Arts & Life
How does choreography survive? Check out these diagrams
Playwrights create written scripts; music composers write down scores. But how do you write down and save a dance?
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Government
Listening to Kavanaugh hearings like 'ripping off a Band-Aid over and over'
Christine Blasey Ford took the stand in a Senate hearing; local women say her testimony has dredged up some painful memories.
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Arts & Life
Can Seattle theaters beat the scalper bots?
Washington state outlawed automated ticket bots in 2015, but resales are still legal. And Seattle arts organizations worry that consumers are being duped by deceptive websites that mimic their own.