Shows (2020)
Editor’s Note: The below represents a point in time, and was not updated after Spring 2020. It is preserved only to show what was scheduled and what might have been.
What’s on in 2020?
See what your favorite theatre or dance company is up to, or find some new favorites.
Shows are listed by company and month of start date, so be sure to browse the previous month for longer-running or months-spanning shows. Companies with primary showings outside of Seattle will have primary location noted. (Listings are currently limited to those based in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston Counties.)
COVID-19 (coronavirus) note:
All current (in-person) productions are cancelled as of 3/16/2020.
Rescheduled shows are updated on the below list when received. For now, please assume all shows March shows have been cancelled unless they are noted as live-streaming events, and all others are in a state of flux.
An archive of pre-3/16 show cancellations and postponements can be found here. Virtual events will be added when received to the Calendar page.
(Updated 3/30, 1:45pm.)
Want to add your company’s show dates or submit a company profile? Email NWTheatre.org@gmail.com with show information or to request a profile questionnaire. Shows are added on a rolling basis — the sooner, the better. All listings are provided free of charge.
Photo: Lights up before Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s ‘Our Country’s Good’. Photo by Chase D. Anderson.
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January: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival (at ACT, 1/10-18)
June: Food Theater Thunderdome (at Cafe Nordo, 6/4-13)
August: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival (8/7-15)
December: Theater Anonymous: It’s a Wonderful Life
January: #adulting (from Lowbrow Opera Collective, 1/30-2/9)
February: 1984 (from Radial Theater Project, 2/21-3/14) (Show closed early, later performances may be added); New Day Rising (from Tom Spangenberg, 2/23-3/8)
February: Bliss (2/6-23, opens 2/14)
March: Sister Act (3/13-4/5) (All performances cancelled)
April: Jersey Boys (4/14-19)
May: Once Upon an Island (5/12-24)
June: Evita (6/12-7/3)
A
February: Solo Fest (2/6-16)
March: Raisins in a Glass of Milk (3/20-23) (All performances cancelled); Sweat (3/20-4/12) (All performances cancelled)
April: The Effect (4/17-5/10) (All performances cancelled)
June: Choir Boy (6/5-28)
September: The Laugh Track (9/11-10/4)
October: Witch (10/23-11/15)
Akropolis Performance Lab (Lake Forest Park)
February: Sunday Salon (2/16)
October: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (10/30-11/21) (All performances cancelled)
January: Pontypool reading (1/12)
March: Imogen Says Nothing reading (3/8) (Show postponed to 4/5)
April: Imogen Says Nothing reading (4/5)
January: You’d Better Sit Down for This (1/30-2/29)
April: One Horse Town (4/3-5/2) (Performances will be live-streamed)
May: Dawn of the She-Devil of the China Seas (5/29-6/20)
August: Breakup Bench (8/7-9/5)
October: The Vampires of the Neverwood (10/16-11/14)
Ongoing: Weird & Awesome with Emmett Montgomery (1st Sundays); Spin the Bottle (2nd Thursdays)
January: The Revolutionists (1/16-2/9)
March: Saint Joan (3/11-4/5) (All performances postponed)
April: Alex & Alix (4/29-5/24) (All performances postponed)
June: Saint Joan (opens 6/9); Miss You Like Hell (6/17-7/26) (All performances cancelled)
August: Alex & Alix (opens 8/20)
As If Theatre Company (Kenmore)
March: The Cake (3/19-4/5) (All performances postponed)
October: The Cake (10/29-11/15)
B
March: Ruthless the Musical (3/6-22)
May: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (5/1-10)
June: Ballyhoo Cabaret: Summer Nights (6/8)
July: Head Over Heels (7/17-26)
August: Summer workshop musical [TBA] (8/14-16)
February: A Future Western (with C-LS, 2/7-8); Sisters Show (with Ilona & Danica Bito, 2/16); 12 Minutes Max (2/23-24); Writhing Treasure Feast (with Vanessa Skantze, 2/28-3/1)
April: Burden of Joy (with Maureen Whiting, 4/10-12) (All performances postponed to fall, dates TBA)
May: 12 Minutes Max (5/17-18)
February: Turn of the Screw (2/12-3/8)
June: Story of Edgar Sawtelle (6/3-28) (All performances cancelled)
Burien Actors Theatre (Burien)
February: The Rocky Horror Show (2/21-3/22) (Show closed early)
April: A Good Farmer (4/24-5/17)
C
February: The Angel in the House (2/8-3/15) (Show closed early)
April: Curiouser and Curiouser (4/2-5/31) (Opening postponed)
June: The Ghost Forest (6/27-8/1)
January: Peacock (1/9-5/17) (Show closed early)
Ongoing: The Midnight Show (Friday & Saturday nights); The Brunch Show (Saturday & Sunday mornings) (All performances cancelled through 3/31)
Carco Theatre (Renton)
Centerstage Theatre (Federal Way)
January: Let There Be Love (1/31-2/23)
March: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (3/27-4/19) (All performances postponed TBA)
May: The Importance of Being Earnest (5/22-6/14)
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
January: Showing Out – Black Choreographers (1/17-18)
February: Sunday Dinner (on Sat.) – Black Bois (1/15)
March: Sunday Dinner – Barbara Earl Thomas (3/8) (Event postponed TBA); Masked/Unmasked (3/20-21) (All performances cancelled)
April: Kitchen Sessions (4/24) (Event cancelled)
May: Comedy Night (5/16)
The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest (Tacoma)
Year-round programming and rentals
Cornish College of the Arts Theatre & Dance
February: Tiny Dances – To Love or Not (2/14); Dance BFA Concerts (2/22-23)
March: Terpsichores Landing (3/22) (All performances postponed TBA)
April: The Lore Project (4/4-6); Dance Theater (4/17-18) (All performances postponed TBA)
D
February: The Moors (2/21-3/7)
Dukesbay Productions (Tacoma)
October: God Said This [dates TBA]
E
May: Sovereign Festival (dates TBA)
Edmonds Community College Black Box Theatre (Edmonds)
Edmonds Driftwood Players (Edmonds)
January: [MISS] (1/16-19)
February: Pride and Prejudice (2/14-3/1)
March: 11th Annual Festival of Shorts (3/13-15) (All performances cancelled)
April: The Producers (4/17-5/10) (All performances cancelled)
June: Unnecessary Farce (6/12-28)
F
Fantastic.Z Theatre (on hiatus)
June: Funhouse VI (6/18-20)
G
April: The True Adventures of 2 Black Crips (4/30-5/2) (No information available, but all performances appear to be cancelled)
May: And Then I Got Fired (5/28-30)
GreenStage (summer seasonal)
H
Harlequin Productions (Olympia)
January: Noises Off (1/15-2/8)
February: The Highest Tide (2/26-3/21) (Show closed early)
April: For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday (4/2-19) (All performances postponed TBA); A Bright Room Called Day (4/29-5/23)
June: Into the Woods (6/17-7/25)
August: Snow in Midsummer (9/19-10/12)
September: This Flat Earth (9/3-20); Fun Home (9/30-10/24)
November: A Christmas Carol (11/25-12/31)
I
[independent productions]
March: Briar/Rose: A New Musical Fairytale (3/20-21, at Cornish Raisbeck) (All performances cancelled or postponed); 2020 Visions: 11 Mind Expanding New Short Plays (3/20-29, at Theatre4) (All performances postponed TBA)
Intersections (annual comedy festival)
March: Intersections Festival (3/26-29) (All performances postponed TBA)
J
Year-round programming (improv)
K
No companies at this time.
L
Lakewood Playhouse (Lakewood)
January: Heathers – The Musical (1/17-2/9)
February: The Wolves (2/28-3/22) (Show closed early)
April: Murder on the Nile (4/9-5/3) (All performances postponed)
May: Murder on the Nile (5/1-24); Ragtime – The Musical (5/28-6/28) (All performances postponed)
June: Ragtime – The Musical (6/5-7/5)
Year-round programming & rentals
June: Cupcake Reading Series [date TBA]
Year-round touring
M
January: Distillery reading (1/6)
February: Distillery reading (2/3)
March: Distillery reading (3/2) (cancelled); The Fifth Wave (3/13-28) (All performances postponed TBA)
April: Distillery reading (4/5)
May: Distillery reading (5/3)
June: Distillery reading (6/1)
ManeStage Theatre (Puyallup)
February: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (2/14-3/1)
March: Anne of Green Gables (3/20-4/5) (All performances postponed)
May: The Sound of Music (5/1-17); Anne of Green Gables (5/29-6/14)
July: [musical TBA] (7/17-8/2)
City of Presidents [dates TBA]
April: Activism Brunch (4/11) (Event moved to live-streaming online)
May: Expand Upon – Gun Control (5/2-10)
N
New City Theater (on hiatus)
Northwest Playwrights Alliance (Olympia & others)
February: New play readings (2/5, 2/12)
O
January: Performance Lab – HATLO (1/15); Jaha Koo – Cuckoo (1/23-26)
February: Solo – A Festival of Dance (2/20-23)
March: Timothy White Eagle – The Violet Symphony (3/19-22) (All performances postponed TBA)
April: Markeith Wiley – W(UT) (4/9-12); Small Human Festival (4/23-26); Performance Lab – Dakota Camacho (4/29)
May: Tina Satter/Half Straddle – Is This a Room (5/7-10)
June: Pat Graney – ATTIC (6/4-7) (cancelled or postponed); Takahiro Yamamoto – Direct Path to Detour (6/4-7); Northwest New Works Festival [dates TBA]
P
January: Cinderella (1/31-2/9)
March: One Thousand Pieces (3/13-22) (All performances cancelled); Beauty and the Beast (3/15-22) (All performances cancelled)
April: Giselle (4/10-19) (All performances cancelled)
May: The Adventures of Lulu (5/7-17)
Year-round programming and rentals
January: Finding Ruth reading (1/27)
February: The Oysterman’s House (2/20-22)
March: Cornelia’s Visitors reading (3/25) (Performance postponed)
March: Juliet Among the Changelings reading (3/15) (Changed to live-streaming)
May: King Lear (5/14-17); Finding Trails new play festival (5/29-31)
Phoenix Theatre (Edmonds)
February: Wonder of the World (2/7-3/1)
April: She Kills Monsters (4/3-26) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
May: Glorious (5/29-6/21)
Pocket Theater (inactive)
April: What We Were (4/10-5/2) (All performances postponed TBA)
Unleashed 2020 reading series [dates TBA]
Q
No companies at this time.
R
April: Cabaret (4/10-25) (All performances postponed)
Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts (Marysville)
January: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (1/17-2/2)
February: The Importance of Being Earnest (2/28-3/15)
April: The Rememberer (4/10-26) (All performances cancelled)
May: Once Upon a Mattress (5/22-6/7)
February: Asylum in Georgia (2/13-29)
Year-round programming and rentals
Renton Civic Theatre (Renton)
February: Sylvia (2/7-22)
April: Fences (4/3-18) (4/24-5/9) (All performances postponed; expected opening 4/24)
June: Hair (6/5-20)
S
Seattle Central College Drama
February: Snow White (2/6-3/15) (Show closed early)
March: The Best Summer Ever (3/19-4/19) (All performances cancelled)
April: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – The Musical (4/9-5/24) (All performances cancelled)
Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society
July: The Pirates of Penzance (7/10-26)
April: In the Heights (4/30-5/10)
January: Eugene Onegin (1/11-25)
February: Wilde Tales (2/7-9, at Cornish); Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (2/22-3/7)
May: La bohème (5/2-19) (All performances cancelled)
June: Earth to Kenzie (6/6, 13)
August: Pagliacci & Cavalleria rusticana (8/8-22)
October: The Elixir of Love (10/17-31)
Seattle Pacific University Theatre
January: Urinetown – The Musical (1/30-2/8)
April: The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month (4/23-5/2)
May: Cymbeline (5/26-30)
January: Salon reading (1/23)
February: Salon reading (2/27)
March: Salon reading (3/26) (Performance postponed TBA)
April: Salon reading (4/23)
May: reading at U-Heights (5/15); Salon reading (5/28)
June: Salon reading (6/25)
January: Admissions (1/31-2/23)
March: Pipeline (3/20-4/12) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
May: Cost of Living (5/22-6/14) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
January: True West (1/17-2/16)
February: The Children (2/7-3/15) (Show closed early); August Wilson Monologue Competition (2/21); August Wilson’s Jitney (2/28-3/29) (Show closed early)
April: The Importance of Being Earnest (4/17-5/17) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
May: Lydia and the Troll (5/8-6/14) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
January: The Rivals (1/7-2/2)
March: Troilus and Cressida (3/17-4/12) (All performances cancelled)
April: Macbeth (4/21-5/17) (All performances cancelled)
Year-round programming and rentals
February: 45 Plays for 45 Presidents (2/19-3/1)
SecondStory Repertory Theatre (Redmond)
January: Saint Joan (1/31-2/16)
March: The Fantasticks (3/13-4/5) (No cancellation info available, but show cannot occur as scheduled)
May: Copenhagen (5/1-17)
June: Starmites Pro (6/5-21)
March: Incubator/Mentor reading (3/27) (Performance cancelled)
Shoreline Community College Theater (Shoreline)
February: The Threepenny Opera (2/28-3/8) (Show closed early)
March: The Library (3/12-15) (All performances cancelled)
May: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (5/8-17)
June: Shoreline Shorts (6/11-14)
May: La Cage aux Folles (5/9-17) (All performances postponed)
September: La Cage aux Folles (9/19-27)
January: Reparations (1/8-2/2); Quantum reading (1/13)
March: Changer and the Star People (3/26-4/13) (All performances postponed TBA)
August: The Madwoman of Chaillot (8/2-22)
April: Pool (4/2-5); After (4/9-11) (All performances postponed to the fall, dates TBA)
January: Our Country’s Good (1/23-2/22)
May: [TBA] (5/28-6/27)
T
Tacoma Arts Live (Tacoma)
February: Oleanna (2/6-23)
March: Tribes (3/26-4/11) (Opening delayed to 4/4 or later)
June: Cowboy vs. Samurai (6/6-21)
Year-round programming and rentals
Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma)
January: Shattering (1/24-2/9)
March: A Chorus Line (3/6-29) (Show closed early)
April: Terms of Endearment (4/24-5/10)
June: The Manchurian Candidate (6/5-21)
Tacoma Musical Playhouse (Tacoma)
January: Beehive (1/24-2/16)
March: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (3/13-4/5) (All performances cancelled)
May: All Shook Up (5/8-31)
July: Singin’ in the Rain (7/10-8/2)
Tacoma Opera (Tacoma)
February: Tosca (2/6-16)
April: Iolanthe (4/16-19)
Take a Stand Productions (Vashon)
March: Crimes of the Heart (3/26-29) (All performances postponed to later date TBA)
January: Steel Magnolias (1/22-2/29)
March: Babette’s Feast (3/18-4/25) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
May: See How They Run (5/13-6/20)
July: The Spitfire Grill (7/8-8/15)
September: The Old Man and the Old Moon (9/16-10/24)
January: A Night Like This (thru 2/16)
March: When a Tree Falls (3/26-4/11) (All performances postponed TBA)
March: Europe (3/12-4/4) (All performances cancelled)
Theater Schmeater (inactive)
April: Byhalia, Mississippi (4/24-5/9) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
September: Nonsense and Beauty (9/11-10/3)
Theatre33 (Bellevue) (Russian/English bilingual)
January: Animal Tales (1/25-2/8)
February: Матушка Метелица
February: The Creation of the World and Other Business (2/7-3/1)
Theatre Battery (Kent)
Year-round programming and rentals
Tint (annual dance festival)
March: Tint Dance Festival (3/13-15) (All performances postponed TBA)
Year-round programming and rentals
February: The Book Club Play (2/28-3/8)
April: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (4/28-5/3)
August: Ragtime (8/7-23)
December: It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play [dates TBA]
U
Year-round programming (improv)
University of Puget Sound Theatre Arts (Tacoma)
February: Telephone (2/28-3/7)
April: Senior Theatre Festival – Peter and the Starcatcher (4/10-11), Narvik (4/17-18), Eurydice (4/24-25)
University of Washington Drama
February: The Best of Everything (2/1-16); CabLab – Frozen – A Play (2/27-3/1); The Women of Lockerbie (2/29-3/15) (Most performances cancelled)
April: Connect – Tradition and Technology, Family and Faith (PATP 2020 Solo Shows) (4/2-3) (Performances will be shown online); 2020 PATP Showcase (4/11) (Performances will be shown online); Cabaret (4/25-5/17) (All performances cancelled)
May: Dead Man’s Cellphone (5/23-6/7) (All performances cancelled)
University of Washington Undergraduate Theatre Society (UTS)
January: Vietgone (1/30-2/9)
February: New Works Series – Check This Shhh Out (2/3-5)
Note: Seattle-based, but at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 2020 season
V
Valley Center Stage (North Bend)
February: Murder on the Orient Express (2/14-3/1)
March: Toil and Trouble reading (3/14) (Performance postponed TBA)
April: Brighton Beach Memoirs (4/3-18) (All performances cancelled)
June: The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee Music (6/5-27)
January: Wild Beauty (1/20)
February: Bridge Project (2/6-9)
April: Britt Karhoff – Still Wonder Full (4/3-4) (All performances cancelled or postponed)
May: Daniel Costa – Resonance (5/1-3); One-on-Ones (5/29-30)
Ongoing: Sh*t Gold (1st & 3rd Mondays)
Village Theatre (Issaquah & Everett)
January: Guys and Dolls (thru 2/2); She Loves Me (1/16-3/22) (Show closed early; may reopen TBA)
February: Beta series – XY (2/14-23)
March: Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Gunter (3/12-5/17) (All performances postponed TBA); KidStage Issaquah – All That Glitters: A Rock Legend (3/20-29) (All performances postponed TBA)
April: KidStage Everett – Aladdin Jr. (4/3-19) (All performances postponed to June, dates TBA); KidStage Issaquah – 13 (4/17-5/3) (All performances postponed TBA)
May: The Wedding Singer (5/7-7/19) (All performances cancelled)
June: Beta series – Homefront (6/12-21) (All performances postponed to next season, dates TBA)
August: Festival of New Musicals (8/7-9)
W
January: Dance Nation (1/17-2/3)
February: reSET – Drama Tops & Avid (2/13-15)
March: Gush / Raja Feather Kelly – Ugly (Black Queer Zoo) (3/5-16)
May: The Strange Case of Dr. Cher and Mr. Donna (5/1-18) (All performances postponed to May 2021)
Year-round programming and rentals
January: Xpress (1/17-25)
May: Xalt (5/29-6/6)
February: The Last Days of the Tsars (2/25-3/22) (Show closed early)
Woodinville Repertory Theatre (Woodinville)
March: Chapter Two (3/6-29) (Show closed early)
X
No companies at this time.
Y
February: Jerboa Dance – Moxie (2/14-22); Stephanie Golden – Lines and Bounces (2/28-29)
March: Tangled, Tethered, Sore and Smiling (3/27-28) (All performances postponed)
July: Tangled, Tethered, Sore and Smiling (7/10-11)
Z
No companies at this time.
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