Seattle Times
The New York Times’ Travel section today features Seattle’s as “a proud and meaningful theater town.” “One of the reasons I came to Seattle was because there’s a theater scene here unlike most other cities,” said Brian Colburn, managing director of the Intiman Theater, who moved here last year from the Pasadena Playhouse in Southern California. “You can walk from theater to theater here, meet friends or colleagues at a cafe.” That sort of communal, artsy spirit has long been identified with Seattle, of course, perhaps reaching its height during the grunge-rock era of the 1980s and early ’90s of Nirvana and the Campbell Scott-Bridget Fonda movie Singles. Young people moved here to be part of the music or arts scene; some of them would join theater companies or even start their own. Read more at the above link.