This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (9/26)
There’s plenty to love this weekend, with lots of shows opening and short runs to catch while they last. Here’s what’s on this week (and an early look at next week, too).
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Openings
Seattle Children’s Theatre: Cat Kid Comic Club – The Musical (previews 9/26-9/28 matinee, opens 9/28 evening, closing 10/27). At the Seattle Center.
Seattle Rep: The Skin of Our Teeth (previews 9/26-10/1, opens 10/2, closing 10/20). At the Seattle Center.
Bellingham Theatre Guild: Cabaret (opens 9/27, closing 10/13). In Bellingham.
Enoch City Arts: Curse of the Red Mill (opens 9/27, closing 10/12). In Bremerton.
Noveltease Theatre: Hamlet – a literary burlesque @ Theatre Off Jackson (opens 9/27, closing 10/5). In Seattle (International District).
Olympia Family Theater: The House on Pooh Corner (opens 9/27, closing 10/13). In Olympia.
Port Angeles Community Players: Almost, Maine (opens 9/27, closing 10/13). In Port Angeles.
Pullman vs. Paxton: Lizzie @ Broadway Performance Hall (opens 9/27, closing 10/5). In Seattle (Capitol Hill).
Theater Arts Guild: Arsenic and Old Lace @ Lincoln Theatre (opens 9/27, closing 10/13). In Mount Vernon.
Short Runs
18th & Union: Crash Course (9/26). In Seattle (Central District).
Washington Ensemble Theatre: reSET All-Stars (new works by Fox Whitney, Mark Haim, Angel Aguayo + Cherdonna Shinatra) (9/26-27). In Seattle (Capitol Hill).
Taikoproject (touring) @ Edmonds Center for the Arts (9/27). In Edmonds.
18th & Union: Tutti Frutti – A Juicy Messy Clown Show (co-production with Latino Theatre Projects) (9/27-29). In Seattle (Central District).
Mohini Dance School: Woman With No Wings @ Cornish Playhouse (9/27-29). At the Seattle Center.
Grand Kyiv Ballet: Don Quixote (touring) @ Pantages Theater (9/28). In Tacoma.
Velocity Dance Center: Crip Open Stage @ Base (performance and artist lunch; part of Mouthwater Festival: A Disabled Dance Festival) (9/29 matinee only). In Seattle (Georgetown).
Sandbox Radio: Redux @ Town Hall Seattle (9/29). In Seattle (First Hill).
Closing Soon
Red Rover Theatre Company: Abacus @ West of Lenin (closing 9/28). In Seattle (Fremont).
Yun Theatre: Passage @ 12th Avenue Arts (closing 9/28). In Seattle (Capitol Hill).
ACT Contemporary Theatre: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (closing 9/29). In Downtown Seattle.
Broadway Across America: Funny Girl (touring) @ Paramount Theatre (closing 9/29). In Downtown Seattle. Read NWTheatre’s review here.
Jewel Box Theatre: The Plot, Like Gravy, Thickens (closing 9/29). In Poulsbo.
Olympia Little Theatre: Ghost of a Chance (closing 9/29). In Olympia.
Pacific Northwest Ballet: The Times Are Racing (closing 9/29). At the Seattle Center.
Continuing Runs
ArtsWest: Guards at the Taj (co-production with Pratidhwani) (closing 10/6). In West Seattle.
Edmonds Driftwood Players: Murder Inn (closing 10/6). In Edmonds.
The Feast: The Adding Machine – A Cyborg Morality Play @ Seattle University – Lee Center for the Arts (closing 10/6). In Seattle (First Hill).
Lakewood Playhouse: Godspell (closing 10/6). In Lakewood.
Tacoma Musical Playhouse: Sister Act – The Musical (closing 10/13). In Tacoma.
Taproot Theatre: My Lord, What a Night (closing 10/19). In Seattle (Greenwood).
Can Can Culinary Cabaret: The Hitchcock Hotel (closing 11/17). In Seattle (Pike Place Market).
On Deck
Next Week’s Short Runs
Velocity Dance Center: Saira Barbaric – Grow Green Man @ Olympic Sculpture Park Paccar Pavilion (performance party, touch tours & artist talk; part of Mouthwater Festival: A Disabled Dance Festival) (10/5-6). In Seattle (waterfront).
Airbound Underground: Broho Takes Flight (aerialist show) @ The Brotherhood Lounge (10/6). In Olympia.
Next Week’s Openings & Previews
Annex Theatre: Leave Only Footprints – An Immersive & Haunted Experience (opens 10/3, closing 10/31). In Seattle (Capitol Hill).
Key City Public Theatre: Wild Man of the Wynoochee (opens 10/3, closing 10/26). In Port Townsend.
Anacortes Community Theatre: Sweeney Todd (opens 10/4, closing 10/26). In Anacortes.
Bremerton Community Theatre: Caught in the Net (opens 10/4, closing 10/20). In Bremerton.
Centerstage Theatre: Harvey (opens 10/4, closing 10/27). In Federal Way (Dash Point).
The Phoenix Theatre: Tartuffe – Born Again (opens 10/4, closing 10/27). In Edmonds.
Valley Center Stage: Arsenic and Old Lace (opens 10/4, closing 10/20). In North Bend.
The Roundup is a weekly 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 2024 shows, updated frequently as season lineups are announced.
Chase D. Anderson is Editor & Producer of NWTheatre.org.