The Hot List: 3 in Seattle This Weekend 🔥
Looking for great ways to beat the heat? Cool off with these three sizzlin’ shows this weekend.
On the Grass
Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival 🌳
@ Volunteer Park
July 13-14
Nature lovers will welcome the chance to see theatre in the sun or the shade, all in one place, all weekend.
The annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival takes over three grassy stages at Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, bringing a dozen different companies together to present shows across genres, all with free and open admission. (Donations are always welcome.) Bring a blanket and some snacks (and even your friendly and non-disruptive dogs) and enjoy a one-stop theatre sampler.
Featuring shows by CSZ Seattle (improv), Dacha Theatre, GreenStage, Last Leaf Productions, Penguin Productions, Red Eagle Soaring, The Seattle Sockeye (stage combat), Shakespeare Northwest, Thistle Theatre, Wooden O, and Young Shakespeare Workshop. Hosted by GreenStage.
Free, no tickets required. Schedule here.
An Island Journey
Yun Theatre 🌺
@ Theatre Off Jackson
Through July 27
From immigration stories to a multimedia dance piece at Base to directing on stages across the city, Christie Zhao is always stepping up to something different.
Now, her Yun Theatre turns to Yilong Liu’s June Is the First Fall, which finds a gay Chinese man heading home to Hawaii, trying to find his spirit as he confronts the demons that drove him away. Zhao co-directs with David Le.
Feel your heart warm alongside a blast of cold air at Theatre Off Jackson’s basement theatre.
Read Zhao’s interview with Northwest Asian Weekly here.
Show info and tickets here.
Cambodian Rock Band’s Band
Dengue Fever 🎸
@ The Crocodile
July 15
Dengue Fever is usually something to avoid, but in this case you might want to flock there.
Fans of Cambodian Rock Band, the hit musical by Lauren Yee, already know that Dengue Fever is the band that inspired the musical, digging into lost Cambodian rock tracks and reviving them for new audiences. Now, the band makes a rare trip to Seattle, playing at the Crocodile in Belltown in a Monday night show; Diminished Men and Darek Mazzone open.
Read NWTheatre’s review of Cambodian Rock Band (The 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT Contemporary Theatre) here.
Read about the band’s origin story and inspiration for the musical here.
Show info and tickets here.
Chase D. Anderson is Editor & Producer of NWTheatre.org.