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5th Avenue Theater
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 closed in 1979. An influx of funding and a heritage award saved it in 1980, and now it's Seattle's premier theater for Broadway musical revivals. It's worth going just for a look at the architecture.
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Annex Theater
Seattle's main experimental/fringe theater group is the Annex; with offices inside the Capitol Hill Arts Center, it produces shows and a monthly cabaret at various locations, including the adorable, swanked-up Jewel Box Theater on 2nd Ave.
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Capitol Hill Arts Center
In a brick and timber warehouse from 1917, this arts organization maintains three performance spaces and produces theater as well as supporting various other events around the community.
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Intiman Theater Company
Intiman Theater is Seattle's mainstay for classic dramas and heavy-hitting, serious theater (by Henrik Ibsen and Langston Hughes, for example), although artistic director Bartlett Sher, who joined Intiman in 2000, has amped up the edginess of the company's schedule to include striking new work.
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Seattle Repertory Theater
The Seattle Repertory Theater (the Rep) won a Tony Award in 1990 for Outstanding Regional Theater. The largest nonprofit resident theater outfit in the Pacific Northwest, it's known for elaborate productions of big-name dramas and second-run Broadway hits.
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