Belltown & Seattle Center
Nearly old enough to be called a Seattle institution, the Crocodile is a clamorous 560-capacity music venue that first opened in 1991, just in time to…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Nearly old enough to be called a Seattle institution, the Crocodile is a clamorous 560-capacity music venue that first opened in 1991, just in time to…
Seattle
Totally unique! Far from being a reincarnated Gilded Age movie house, the Grand Illusion sits in an old dentist's office. Run by volunteers and…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
One of the three big theater companies in the city, the ACT fills its $30 million home at Kreielsheimer Pl with performances by Seattle's best thespians…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Hidden in an unlikely spot behind a boring-looking office building is Seattle’s most sophisticated and prestigious jazz club. Dimitriou’s hosts the best…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Home of the Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, this magnificent structure in the Seattle Center was given a massive overhaul in 2003.
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
With a bill of almost $120 million in construction costs, it’s no wonder the Benaroya Concert Hall, the primary venue of the Seattle Symphony, oozes…
Seattle
This punk, hip-hop and alternative-music joint is, along with the Crocodile in Belltown, one of Seattle's most revered small music venues. Its storied…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
The late, mostly unlamented Kingdome, long Seattle’s biggest eyesore, was once the home field for the city’s professional baseball and football franchises…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
Far and away the best-supported soccer team in North America with average gates of over 40,000, the Sounders joined the MLS (Major League Soccer) in 2009…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
This club downstairs from the Wild Ginger restaurant is a Seattle mainstay with a liberal booking policy that includes country and rock as well as jazz,…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Seattle Opera is distinguished and diverse. Based at the McCaw Hall, it has hosted everything from Verdi's La Traviata to Pete Townshend's Tommy. It's…
Olympic Peninsula & Washington Coast
Of 1924 vintage, the beaux-arts-inspired Capitol Theater is the headquarters of the Olympia Film Society and puts on everything from Fellini movies to…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
The Seahawks play at CenturyLink Field and have the loudest supporters in the NFL. Honors remained elusive until the mid-2010s when they won the Super…
Belltown & Seattle Center
The foremost dance company in the Northwest and one of the most popular in the US puts on more than 100 shows a season from September through June at…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
A major regional ensemble, the Seattle Symphony orchestra plays at the Benaroya Concert Hall, which you'll find downtown at 2nd Ave and University St.
Belltown & Seattle Center
The new KEXP radio headquarters opened in the Seattle Center in December 2015 and provides a central gathering space for live music and parties, a see…
Central Washington
'The Gorge' is a stunning alfresco music venue perched on the banks of the Columbia River 40 miles east of Ellensburg. Regularly touted as one of the most…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Saved from demolition and listed as a historic monument in the mid-1970s, the Paramount Theater dates back to 1928 and was restored to its Jazz Age finery…
Queen Anne & Lake Union
Formerly the Off-Ramp, then Graceland, El Corazon has lots of history echoing around its walls – and lots of sweaty, beer-drenched bodies bouncing off…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
A theatrical group with culinary inclinations, Cafe Nordo marries two themes in one – food and theater – putting on inspired plays-cum-dinner shows where…
Seattle
Providing an ideal pulpit for young indie bands and smirking comedians sharpening their teeth on the university-gig circuit, the Neptune, a historic…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Attached to a stately old hotel, the Moore is the city's oldest surviving theater (from 1907) and a piece of Seattle history. Its 1800-seater auditorium…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
Home of Seattle's pro baseball team, the Mariners, the $517 million T-Mobile Park (originally Safeco Field) opened in July 1999. With its retractable roof…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
Built in 1926 with an opulent Asian motif, the 5th Avenue opened as a vaudeville house; it was later turned into a movie theater and then closed in 1979…
Belltown & Seattle Center
The Seattle Repertory Theatre (the Rep) won a Tony Award in 1990 for Outstanding Regional Theater. The largest non-profit resident theater outfit in the…
Seattle
With room for 70,000, the Husky is a scenic giant with splendid water and mountain views. Once Seattle's largest sports stadium, it has undergone four…
Ballard & Discovery Park
One of the two pillars of Ballard's thriving live-music scene along with the Tractor, the Sunset has been spruced up since its grungy heyday and sports a…
Around Seattle
Welcome to the zany world of the 'circus dinner show,' a sort of vaudeville meets Vegas meets Cirque du Soleil. Sit back in an improvised big top for a…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
The best comedy club in Seattle has shows most nights, with a second show common on Friday and Saturday. Talent is mainly local and there's a full bar,…
Seattle
Spend more than five minutes in Fremont and you'll quickly glean that it's got a healthy sense of humor. So it'll come as no bombshell to discover this…
The CD, Madrona & Madison Park
Welcome to a bona fide dine-in cinema. What might be par for the course in Portland, OR, is a rare sight in Seattle, which makes this small neighborhood…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
This cavernous 1137-capacity showroom – which hosts mostly national touring acts, ranging from indie rock to hip-hop – reinvents itself every few years…
Downtown, Pike Place & Waterfront
The Market Theater is Seattle's bona fide improv comedy theater with shows staged by Unexpected Productions. It was patrons queuing for this theater who…
Seattle
Chop Suey is a small, dark space with high ceilings and a ramshackle faux-Chinese motif. Reborn under new ownership in 2015, it now serves burger-biased…
Belltown & Seattle Center
It's easy to miss Big Picture when exploring Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. For those in the know, it's an 'underground' cinema experience with…
Pioneer Square, International District & SoDo
Seattle's battling baseball team might not have enjoyed the recent success of the Seahawks (NFL) and the Sounders (MLS), but they're vociferously…
Ballard & Discovery Park
One of Seattle's premier venues for folk and acoustic music, the Tractor books local songwriters and regional bands, plus quality touring acts. Music runs…
Olympic Peninsula
A Northwest diamond and an architectural emblem for the city, this theater lay woefully abandoned for 37 years before being brought back to life in the…
Belltown & Seattle Center
Tula’s is an intimate jazz club with live music seven nights a week, from big bands and Latin jazz to up-and-coming names on tour. It focuses mainly on…
Seattle
This small and comfortable live-music venue in Fremont outgrew its humble beginnings to become a well-established club that includes a covered patio with…