This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (5/24)
This sunny holiday weekend has no shortage of theatre-gazing options. Musicals continue to dominate the slate of openings, alongside brand new queer operas, short works, and popular shows closing soon. Here’s what’s on this week.
Ticketing links for most shows can be found on the Performance Calendar page.
Openings & Short Runs
The 5th Avenue Theatre: Les Misérables (previews 5/24-25, opens 5/26, closing 6/17). In Downtown Seattle.
Village Theatre: Hello, Dolly! (previews 5/24-25, opens 5/26, closing 7/2, followed by Everett run). In Issaquah.
Key City Public Theatre: PlayCraft Originals (readings of works in development) – Phantom of the Forest, a Mountain Man Musical and A Mystery Carol (5/25 only); and Living IncogNegro and Phantom of the Forest (5/28 only). In Port Townsend.
Lowbrow Opera Collective: More Than Friends @ 18th & Union (opens 5/25, closing 6/4). In Seattle (Central District). See preview in the Seattle Times here.
University of Washington Drama: The Wolves (opens 5/25, closing 6/4). In Seattle (U-District).
ACT Young Core Company and Penguin Productions: Finding Trails – Intersections (short plays) @ Northwest Folklife (5/26, matinee only). At the Seattle Center.
Key City Public Theatre: Sips and Scripts – 10-minute plays (5/26-27 only). In Port Townsend.
Edmonds Driftwood Players: Unnecessary Farce (opens 5/26, closing 6/11). In Edmonds.
Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (opens 5/26, closing 6/11). In Marysville.
Valley Center Stage: Dead Man’s Cell Phone (staged reading) (5/27 only). In North Bend.
Sankofa Theater: #savesankofa (art, storytelling, and fundraiser) (5/28 only). In Seattle (International District). (See theatre’s fundraising details here.)
Kitsap Forest Theater: The Sound of Music (opens 5/28, closing 6/18). In Bremerton. (Update: after concerns the show may not open on schedule over an easement dispute, the theatre confirmed scheduled shows will happen. See theatre’s updates here.)
Closing Soon
Harlequin Productions: Hundred Days (closing 5/27). In Olympia.
ArtsWest: Zach (closing 5/28). In West Seattle.
Lakewood Playhouse: Love, Loss, and What I Wore (closing 5/28). In Lakewood.
Olympia Family Theater: Alice in Wonderland – A New Musical (closing 5/28). In Olympia.
Seattle Public Theater: Hometown Boy (closing 5/28). In Seattle (Green Lake).
SecondStory Repertory: Sunday in the Park With George (closing 5/28). In Redmond.
Village Theatre: How to Break (closing 5/28). In Everett.
Continuing Runs
Latitude Theatre: Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment @ Taproot Theatre (studio) (closing 6/4). In Seattle (Greenwood).
Centerstage Theatre: Tartuffe, or The Imposter (closing 6/11). In Federal Way (Dash Point).
Seattle Rep: Lydia and the Troll (closing 6/11). At the Seattle Center.
Tacoma Musical Playhouse: Escape to Margaritaville (closing 6/11). In Tacoma.
Taproot Theatre: Jeeves Takes a Bow (closing 6/17). In Seattle (Greenwood).
Can Can Culinary Cabaret: Noir (closing 6/25). In Seattle (Pike Place Market).
The Roundup is a weekly (ish) feature. For this month’s shows by day, with ticketing info and links, see the Performance Calendar.
Want to plan your show schedule further out? See NWT’s list of 2023 shows announced so far, which will be updated frequently as season lineups unfold.
Chase D. Anderson is Editor & Producer of NWTheatre.org.