This fall, the Seattle Art Museum showcases the splendid exhibition Japan Envisions the West: 16th -19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum, which will be presented in two parts, Part I: Oct. 11 through Nov. 25, 2007 and Part II: Dec. 1, 2007 through Jan. 6, 2008.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s latest television special, Seattle Symphony from Benaroya Hall: Brahms, Kernis, and Kodály, will re-broadcast on KCTS Television on Sunday, September 2, at 1 p.m., and Tuesday, September 4, at 3 a.m. This exciting program received outstanding ratings and reviews after its April debut.

At the start of the 2007–2008 season beginning September 18, Soundbridge Seattle Symphony Orchestra Music Discovery Center will introduce the internationally acclaimed Kindermusik program as its new Early Childhood Music curriculum. Soundbridge also announces new hours and an exciting schedule of events for the fall season.

Seattle Art Museum announced that it is in the advanced stages of bringing to Seattle a stunning masterwork of the Italian Renaissance, three of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s celebrated panels from the doors of the Baptistery in Florence, known as the Gates of Paradise. The exhibit is tentatively scheduled for January 26 through April 6, 2008 at SAM Downtown.

This fall, the Seattle Art Museum will present a 30-year retrospective of the Eastern Washington-based painter Gaylen Hansen (b.1921). Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Painting will include approximately 35 works tracing his evolution as an artist and will be on view at SAM Downtown Oct. 11, 2007 through Jan 6, 2008.

The contemporary video art program at the Seattle Asian Art Museum continues with the presentation of Sio Ieng (Cindy) Ng’s installation Ink in Motion: the Art of Sio Ieng Ng, opening August 9, 2007.

This August the Seattle Asian Art Museum will present Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, a thought-provoking exhibition that examines the impact and notion of the book on Chinese artists.

Intiman Theatre announces the schedule of free public programs for its upcoming American Cycle production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which will run September 14-October 28 at the Intiman Playhouse.

LONE STAR LOVE, a new musical comedy starring Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, will open on Broadway on Monday, December 3 at the Belasco Theatre. Previews will begin Thursday, November 1.

Intiman Theatre continues its 35th season with the world premiere of Prayer for My Enemy, written by Craig Lucas and directed by Artistic Director Bartlett Sher.

Lawmakers may consider microwave popcorn ban in the City of Seattle (government) buildings due to fire and smoke risks.

WolfGang, Seattle Symphony Orchestra's Young Patrons Group with members ages 21 to 39, invites other young music lovers to join in toasting the success of the season at Havana Social Club, 1010 East Pike, on May 30 at 7:30 p.m.