This Week in Arts: Weekly Roundup (10/17)
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.
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Openings
ACT Contemporary Theatre: Mrs. Loman Is Leaving (opens 10/17, closing 10/27). In Downtown Seattle.
The Shattered Glass Project: A Lonely Realization @ Theatre4 (opens 10/17, closing 10/27). At the Seattle Center.
As If Theatre Company: The 39 Steps (opens 10/17, closing 11/3). In Kenmore.
Can Can Culinary Cabaret: This Is Halloween @ The Triple Door (opens 10/17, closing 11/2). In Downtown Seattle.
Seattle Children’s Theatre: Havana Hop (previews 10/17-19, opens 10/19, closing 11/16). At the Seattle Center.
Harlequin Productions: What The Constitution Means To Me (opens 10/18, closing 11/3). In Olympia.
Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts: The Woman in Black (opens 10/18, closing 11/3). In Marysville.
Tacoma Little Theatre: The Mousetrap (opens 10/18, closing 11/3). In Tacoma.
Short Runs
18th & Union: Animal Saints & Animal Sinners – I Don’t Feel Good (10/17-18). In Seattle (Central District).
Grand Kyiv Ballet: Swan Lake (touring) @ Kirkland Performance Center (10/17-18). In Kirkland.
Pilobolus @ Meany Center for the Performing Arts (10/17-19). In Seattle (UW main campus).
Pork Filled Productions: Warrior Sisters of Wu (staged reading) @ U-Heights (10/18). In Seattle (U-District).
Renton Civic Theatre: Halloween movie nights (10/18, 10/25). In Renton.
18th & Union: Haunting Tales – Storytelling by Larry Hohm, Mary Anne Moorman, & David Wright (10/19). In Seattle (Central District).
Artemis Theatre Project: 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies (staged reading) @ 7400 Woodlawn (10/19). In Seattle (Green Lake).
The Guild Dance Company: The Works – Reconnected (works-in-progress showing) @ Yaw Theater (10/19). In Seattle (Georgetown).
Island Theatre at the Library: Ancient History (staged reading) (10/19-20). On Bainbridge Island.
UW Dance Graduate Research Symposium @ Jones Playhouse (10/22). In Seattle (U-District).
The 5th Avenue Theatre: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (screening with shadow cast) (10/25-26). In Downtown Seattle.
Closing Soon
Taproot Theatre: My Lord, What a Night (closing 10/19). In Seattle (Greenwood).
Bremerton Community Theatre: Caught in the Net (closing 10/20). In Bremerton.
Seattle Rep: The Skin of Our Teeth (closing 10/20). At the Seattle Center.
Vashon Repertory Theatre: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Book-It Rep style) @ Vashon Center for the Arts (closing 10/20). On Vashon Island.
Valley Center Stage: Arsenic and Old Lace (closing 10/20). In North Bend.
Continuing Runs
Anacortes Community Theatre: Sweeney Todd (closing 10/26). In Anacortes.
Key City Public Theatre: Wild Man of the Wynoochee (closing 10/26). In Port Townsend.
Seattle Opera: Jubilee (closing 10/26). At the Seattle Center.
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts: The Cake (closing 10/26). In Langley.
Bainbridge Performing Arts: Urinetown (closing 10/27). On Bainbridge Island.
Centerstage Theatre: Harvey (closing 10/27). In Federal Way (Dash Point).
Evergreen Playhouse: Arsenic and Old Lace (closing 10/27). In Centralia.
inD Theatre: Men on Boats (closing 10/27). On Bainbridge Island.
The Phoenix Theatre: Tartuffe – Born Again (closing 10/27). In Edmonds.
Port Gamble Theater: Harvey (closing 10/27). In Port Gamble.
Seattle Children’s Theatre: Cat Kid Comic Club – The Musical (closing 10/27). At the Seattle Center.
Annex Theatre: Leave Only Footprints – An Immersive & Haunted Experience (closing 10/31). In Seattle (Capitol Hill).
Jet City Improv: The Emerald City Slasher @ West of Lenin (closing 11/2). In Seattle (Fremont).
Seattle Public Theater: The Park (closing 11/3). In Seattle (Green Lake).
Tacoma Arts Live – Theater Northwest: Dracula @ Tacoma Armory (closing 11/3). In Tacoma.
Can Can Culinary Cabaret: The Hitchcock Hotel (closing 11/17). In Seattle (Pike Place Market).
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.