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Thornton Place, a transit-oriented development opened at Northgate Transit Center in 2009. In anticipation of light rail construction, the area around Northgate Mall was identified by the city as an "urban village" in 1993, [68] with heavy potential for transit-oriented development. In 2007, the city rezoned the Northgate area to support an ...
As a freelance artist, Carter has designed sets for Seattle Symphony and Portland Center Stage. He is an Associate Professor of Performance Production at Cornish, where he has taught since 1998. [4] In 2011, Carter organized three small Seattle theatre companies to form a partnership eventually known as Black Box Operations.
The president and general manager of Pacific Northwest Theatres, Inc., Harry C. Arthur, believed Seattle to be a place of growing importance in the motion picture industry in the mid-1920s, and consequently as the place to invest for the long term. [8] Arthur's company absorbed a competing chain of 40 theatres by 1926, and sought further expansion.
The Green Lake Aqua Theater was an outdoor theater located at Green Lake in Seattle, Washington. [1] The Aqua Theater was built in 1950 for the first Seafair Summer Festival in order to house an attraction called the Aqua Follies and their "swimusicals" - a combination of aqua ballet, stage dancing, and comedy. The first ever performance at the ...
ACT Contemporary Theatre (originally A Contemporary Theatre) is a regional, non-profit theatre organization in Seattle, in the US state of Washington. Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997) founded ACT in 1965 and served as its first Artistic director ; at the time ACT was founded he was also head of the Drama Department at the University of Washington ...
Intiman Theatre is a resident theater company in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1972 by Margaret "Megs" Booker, who named it after Strindberg's Intimate Theater in Stockholm. [1] Through its history, the professional theatre company has been based at various venues in Seattle; since 2021, it has been located as theatre-in-residence at Seattle ...
The Paramount Theatre is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue located at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington, United States. The theater originally opened on March 1, 1928, as the Seattle Theatre , [ 2 ] with 3,000 seats.
Book-It Repertory Theatre (often shortened to "Book-It") is a regional theatre located in Seattle, Washington. It is a 501-c(3) registered nonprofit corporation, and is devoted to "transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read". [ 1 ]