Must see entertainment in Seattle

A bit of a dive – but not an unpleasant one – this is one of two local live-music stalwarts in Fremont. It hosts rock primarily for small-name bands on…

This highly esteemed theater group has two auditoriums in its Seattle Center campus. Friday and Saturday matinees and evening performances run September…

A beloved theater company based at the Cornish Playhouse in the Seattle Center. Artistic director Jennifer Zeyl curates magnificent stagings of…

The newer sister-club of downtown's Showbox, this SoDo version is actually bigger with a capacity for 1800 in an old warehouse. Touring rock bands play…

The digs of the famous Seattle International Film Festival since 2011 runs movies in a small auditorium year-round.

Sister cinema to the nearby SIFF Film Center, the SIFF Cinema Uptown is the more public-facing of the two. This three-screen cinema plays a combination of…

Possibly Seattle's most popular cinema, and famous for its giant curved three-panel screen, Cinerama is one of only three of its type left in the world…

Established in honor of famed Northwest poet Richard Hugo, and the nexus of Seattle’s literary community, the Hugo House hosts readings, classes and…

An excellent nonprofit community center run by and for teenagers and young adults, the Vera Project books exclusively all-ages shows in a smoke-free and…

Seattle’s main experimental-fringe theater group is the Annex whose 99-seat theater (with bar) inhabits the Pike–Pine corridor. The highlight for many is…

This is Seattle’s only real venue for pure live country music. Nightly entertainment includes country karaoke and good-time honky-tonk bands – or you can…

A small but long-standing artist-run theater in the CD with a good back catalog of plays under its belt including excellent stripped-down productions of…

The Bathhouse Theater on the western side of Green Lake was a 1928 bathing pavilion that was converted into a live-performance venue in 1970. It's…

The nickname of all of the University of Washington's 19 college sports teams. The NFL football team plays at the massive Husky Stadium.

Independent and international art-house films are shown at this 1940 cinema, the scene of many an undergraduate date night.

The Seattle International Film Festival uses a half-dozen theaters but also has its own dedicated theater, in McCaw Hall’s Nesholm Family Lecture Hall,…

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