2023 Shows
What’s on stage this year?
See what your favorite theatre or dance company is up to, or find some new favorites.
Listings are currently limited to those based in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston Counties; and slowly expanding west and north (Kitsap, Jefferson, Skagit, and Whatcom counties). The below show listings will be updated as new information is received. If you have a professional, community theatre, or fringe company in Western Washington with active shows, please tell us about it.
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The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle – Downtown)
Into the Woods (2/10-3/5)
Into the Woods – Rising Star Project (3/16-18)
Sweeney Todd (4/21-5/14)
Les Misérables (5/24-6/17) (opens 5/26)
1776 (touring) (8/2-6)
The Little Mermaid (9/8-10/8)
Cambodian Rock Band (co-production at ACT) (9/29-11/5)
White Christmas (11/25-12/27)
2024 shows announced: Something’s Afoot (3/1-24), Spring Awakening (6/7-30), Clue (7/9-21)
The 14/48 Projects (Seattle)
14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival @ Cornish – Raisbeck Performance Hall (7/28-29, 8/4-5)
Speakeasy @ Cornish Playhouse (9/9)
Theater Anonymous: It’s a Wonderful Life @ Cornish Playhouse (12/9)
18th & Union (Seattle – Central District)
Co-producing venue; year-round programming
Motörmouth Comedy Power-Hour (1/13)
Thoreau at Home (1/19-22)
Incubation Project – The BGS Collective (1/27-28)
Animal Saints and Animal Sinners: The Chicken or The Egg (3/9-10)
Meet Me at Dawn – Radial Theatre Project (3/24-4/8)
SpringShot Festival (4/21-5/7) (different performances each weekend)
Motörmouth Comedy Power-Hour (5/12)
Arson of Crows (5/18-20)
More Than Friends – Lowbrow Opera Collective (5/25-6/4)
Summer Magic: Tales of Revenge – Pacific Play Company (6/23-7/2)
Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You! (7/21-22)
Camp Darling – The Dirty Darlings (7/28-29)
Animal Saints and Animal Sinners: Going in Circles (8/17-18)
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ACT Contemporary Theatre (Seattle – Downtown)
History of Theatre (co-production with The Hansberry Project) (1/28-2/12) (opening 2/2)
Every Brilliant Thing (3/17-4/2)
Antigone, This Play I Read In High School (Young Core Company) (3/25-26)
Wolf Play (5/5-21)
Cambodian Rock Band (co-production with The 5th) (9/29-11/5)
New Works Northwest (10/27-29)
A Christmas Carol (11/24-12/24)
The Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/8-24)
2024 shows announced: A Case for the Existence of God (2/2-18), Stew (3/15-31), The Lehman Trilogy (4/26-5/12)
Acts on Stage (White Center)
Pipeline (3/31-4/9)
Teen Summer Musical: Dream @ Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (8/18-27)
Reveries and Other Stories @ Erickson Theatre (9/29-10/1)
Annex Theatre (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
The Phantom of the Opera, But This Time We’re Adding Act 2 (7/28-29)
Battle Crow Radio (10/13-21)
2024 shows announced (all dates TBA): Tenderness (February), The Participants! (March), Gunked! (spring)
ArtsWest (Seattle – West Seattle)
An Endless Shift (1/25-2/26) (2/16-19 performances canceled; extended through 2/26)
Spectrum Stories (collaboration with Theater of Possibility) (3/15-4/9) (opens 3/16) Canceled
Zach (5/3-28) (opens 5/4)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (6/28-7/23) (opens 6/29)
Matt & Ben (9/7-10/1)
Snowed In (11/30-12/23)
2024 shows announced: Born With Teeth (2/1-25), English (co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble) (4/4-28), Clyde’s (produced with the Hansberry Project) (6/6-30)
As If Theatre Company (Kenmore)
Suite Surrender (3/16-4/2)
The Kenmore Quickies (8/11-13)
Cry It Out (10/12-29)
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Bainbridge Performing Arts (Bainbridge Island)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (3/16-26)
Best of the Seattle Comedy Competition (3/31 only)
Pride and Prejudice (4/21-29)
The Humours of Bandon (visiting production from Ireland) (5/5 only)
The Tempest @ Bloedel Reserve (6/22-7/9)
The Prom (10/12-29)
Beauty and the Beast (11/30-12/17)
The Edge improv (comedy series): every 1st Saturday
Year-round, multi-genre programming; see site for full schedule
2024 shows announced: The Book of Will (March), Cabaret (April), Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Bloedel Reserve (summer)
Ballyhoo Theatre (Edmonds)
Bend7 – Sirens: A Benefit Concert @ The Phoenix Theatre (1/6-8)
Fun Home @ Edmonds College Black Box (3/3-19)
Little Shop of Horrors @ The Phoenix Theatre (5/5-14)
Summer Nights: A Cabaret @ The Phoenix Theatre (6/12)
Student Summer Intensive – Chicago: Teen Edition @ Edmonds College Black Box (7/21-30)
Shapeshifters: A Queer Comic Book Musical (8/11-13)
Ride the Cyclone @ Edmonds College Black Box (11/3-19)
Base (Seattle – Georgetown)
Base Residency Open House with NEVE and Rana San (2/25)
12 Minutes Max (3/19-20)
Base Residency Open House with Moonyeka (5/7)
The CCBdance Project Showing (6/1)
12 Minutes Max (6/25-26)
Base Residency Open House with Annabel Turrado (7/22)
Base Residency Open House with Amanda Morgan/The Seattle Project (8/20) (Note: date change from 8/19)
12 Minutes Max (9/10-11)
12 Minutes Max (12/3-4)
2024 shows announced: 12 Minutes Max (4/21-22), 12 Minutes Max (8/25-26)
Bellingham Theatre Guild (Bellingham)
When Jack Met Jill @ New Prospect Theatre (1/12-15)
The Royal Society of Antarctica (1/27-2/12)
Casa Valentina (3/24-4/9)
She Loves Me (6/9-25)
The Sweet Delilah Swim Club – staged reading (6/17)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (9/22-10/8)
The Game’s Afoot (11/24-12/10)
2024 shows announced: Twilight Bowl (1/26-2/11), Dinner With Friends (3/29-4/14), Pippin (6/14-30)
Bellingham TheatreWorks (Bellingham)
New Play Cafe (3/3-12)
Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre: Keely and Du (6/27-7/21)
Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre: Gidion’s Knot (6/28-7/22)
Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre: What the Constitution Means to Me (6/29-7/23)
Book-It Repertory Theatre (Seattle – Seattle Center)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2/8-3/5)
Solaris (6/14-7/9) (opens 6/17)
Book-It has announced it will close following Solaris, and it has canceled the previously announced 2023-24 season. That season announcement was: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (9/13-10/8); Fellow Passengers (11/30-12/24); Crumbs/Migas (2/14-3/10); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (6/12-7/7). Read the company’s closure announcement here.
Bremerton Community Theatre (Bremerton)
Three Sisters (2/3-26)
Mary Poppins (3/31-4/30)
Murder on the Orient Express (6/2-25)
Sleuth (9/1-24)
The Turn of the Screw (10/6-15)
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash (10/27-11/19)
A Christmas Carol (BCT Jr.) (12/8-10)
2024 shows announced: Crimes of the Heart (2/2-25), Titanic (4/5-5/5), The Smell of the Kill (5/17-26), Arsenic and Old Lace (6/7-30)
Broadway at The Paramount – Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle – Downtown)
Moulin Rouge! (thru 1/1)
Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (1/24-2/5)
Dear Evan Hansen (3/7-12)
Hairspray (4/4-9)
Six (7/12-23)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (9/12-17)
Hadestown (10/31-11/5)
MJ The Musical (12/7-17)
2024 tours announced: The Book of Mormon (1/9-14), Beetlejuice (4/2-7), Disney’s Aladdin (4/24-28), Girl From the North Country (6/25-30), Company (7/23-28)
The Brotherhood Lounge (Olympia)
Broho Takes Flight: aerialist show (1st Sundays) (no performances July-Sept.)
StoryOly: Olympia’s Premiere Story Slam (3rd Tuesdays)
Burien Actors Theatre (Burien)
On the Market @ Kennedy Catholic High School Theatre (2/10-3/5)
Tiny Beautiful Things @ Kennedy Catholic High School Theatre (4/21-5/14)
Good Morning, Bill @ various parks (7/21-8/20)
The Twelve Dates of Christmas @ Kennedy Catholic High School Theatre (11/24-12/17)
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Cafe Racer (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Year-round programming
Can Can Culinary Cabaret (note new location – enter on Pine) (Seattle – Pike Place Market)
Wonderland (thru 1/8)
House of Hearts (1/12-3/26)
Noir (3/30-6/25)
Crimson and Clover (6/29-9/17)
Hitchcock Hotel (9/21-11/12)
This Is Halloween @ The Triple Door (10/19-31)
Wonderland (11/16-1/7/2024)
Cascade Community Theatre (Monroe)
Boeing Boeing @ Wagner Performing Arts Center (3/2-4)
The Internet is Distract — Oh Look a Kitten! (youth) (6/9-10)
Centerstage Theatre (Federal Way)
The Hatmaker’s Wife (1/27-2/19)
El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom (3/24-4/16)
Tartuffe, or The Imposter (5/19-6/11)
Emma (10/13-29) (Opening postponed from 10/6)
Sleeping Beauty, A Holiday Panto (11/25-12/17)
2024 shows announced: Spider’s Web (1/26-2/17); First Date The Musical (3/29-4/21); 10 Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith (5/24-6/16)
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (Seattle – Central District)
Showing Out: 10th Anniversary @ Axis Pioneer Square (1/21)
Mutha: A Tribute to Who Mothered You (5/13)
The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest (Tacoma & Kitsap)
Mxed Around Broadway @ Dukesbay Theater (4/21-29)
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later @ Dukesbay Theater (9/8-23)
Clock-Out Lounge (Seattle – Beacon Hill)
Joketellers Union (comedy showcase) (2nd & 4th Wednesdays)
Raised by TV (trivia – ongoing series) (various dates)
Tush (drag – ongoing series) (various dates)
Year-round programming (mostly concerts)
Copious Love Productions (Seattle)
Tenderness (staged reading) @ 18th & Union (4/8)
Bethany Sees the Stars @ West of Lenin (8/24-9/9)
Coriolis Dance (Seattle)
Wielding Forms Dance Festival @ Yaw Theater (1/21)
Cornish College of the Arts Theatre & Dance (Seattle – Seattle Center & Denny)
Fun Home (11/2-5)
Fefu and Her Friends (11/8-13)
A View From the Bridge (11/16-19)
2024 shows announced: Chess (3/28-31), Terpsicore’s Landing (3/29-30), Desdemona’s Child (Blood Cry) (4/4-7)
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Dacha Theatre (Seattle)
An Incomplete List of All the Things I’m Going to Miss When the World is No Longer @ Theatre Off Jackson (1/27-2/13)
Dice Keeper: Twelfth Night @ Base (4/13-22) (opening postponed from 3/31)
Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea @ Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival – Volunteer Park (7/8); and parks in Seattle (lawn outside Hughes Penthouse Theatre, UW main campus) (7/21-8/6), Yakima (7/30), and Port Townsend (Chetzemoka Park) (8/11-13)
The Veil (10/13-11/5)
Dare to Dance 12: Intimate Stories @ TPS Theatre 4 (5/4-6)
Short Play Festival: One Floral Shop, Six Short Stories @ 12th Avenue Arts (3/2-5)
Limitless Expressions Festival @ 12th Avenue Arts (3/6-12)
Co-presented events throughout the year
Dramatists and Actors Meeting Now (Seattle)
Damn Fine Shorts @ TPS Theater 4 (4/14-23)
Best Kept Secrets @ TPS Theater 4 (10/6-15)
Drunken Owl Theatre (Seattle – Georgetown)
Series: third Sundays @ Jules Maes Saloon
Dukesbay Productions (Tacoma)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (3/10-26)
Andelana (10/27-11/19)
Dunya Productions (Seattle)
The Return @ Cherry Street Village (10/26-11/19)
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Edmonds Center for the Arts (Edmonds)
Year-round programming and rentals
Edmonds Driftwood Players (Edmonds)
The Spitfire Grill (3/17-4/9)
Unnecessary Farce (5/26-6/11)
Annual Festival of Shorts (6/29-7/2)
Murder on the Orient Express (9/15-10/8)
Willy Wonka (11/24-12/17)
Staged reading series: Leal’s Last Stand (1/8); Frozen Masterpieces (2/26); The Unrequited (4/23); Ghost Girl (6/18); Some Distant Day (7/9)
2024 shows announced: Ada and the Engine (3/1-17), The Savannah Sipping Society (5/3-19)
Egan’s Ballard Jam House (Seattle – Ballard)
Year-round programming (mostly concerts)
Mestizo @ Mini Mart City Park (12/8-9)
eSe Teatro (Seattle)
Two Big Black Bags @ West of Lenin (9/21-10/14)
Evergreen Playhouse (Centralia)
The Diary of Anne Frank (2/3-19)
Lend Me a Tenor (3/17-4/2)
Tuck Everlasting (5/5-21)
Murder on the Orient Express (10/13-29)
James and the Giant Peach (12/1-17)
2024 shows announced: Almost, Maine (1/19-2/4), Nunsense (3/1-17), Noises Off (4/12-28), The Addams Family – A New Musical (5/24-6/9)
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Federal Way Performing Arts & Event Center (Federal Way)
Year-round multi-genre programming and rentals; see site for full schedule. Select performances listed below.
Forbidden Broadway – The Next Generation (10/14)
Federal Way Symphony: Things That Go Bump in the Night (10/15)
Native American Comedy Jam (11/4)
Late Night Catechism (11/12)
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy (12/17)
2024 shows announced: Tacoma Opera: Streetcar Named Desire (2/9-11); The Greatest Piano Men (2/18); Auburn Symphony Orchestra: Lights, Camera, Action – Music from epic adventure films (2/24); iLuminate (3/24)
The Fruit Salad Show @ Seattle Public Library (10/14)
The Fruit Salad Show @ Seattle Public Library (11/5)
Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam (Seattle)
Volume 23 @ Theatre Off Jackson (5/19-20)
Volume 24 @ Theatre Off Jackson (11/10-11)
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General Gabler’s Theatre (Seattle)
Hedda Gabler @ West of Lenin (8/4-12)
GreenStage (summer seasonal)
Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival @ Volunteer Park (7/8-9)
Romeo and Juliet @ various parks (7/8-8/12)
Henry VI, Part I @ various parks (7/8-8/12)
Backyard Bard: Comedy of Errors @ various parks (7/8-8/12)
Backyard Bard: Cymbeline @ various parks (7/8-8/12)
Dancing Shoes (with Rainbow City Orchestra) @ Broadway Performance Hall (2/4)
Mixtape (with Auburn Symphony Orchestra) @ Federal Way Performing Arts Center (2/25)
Performance with Radiance Choir @ Trinity Parish Hall (5/6)
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Harlequin Productions (Olympia)
Baskerville (1/27-2/11)
Building Madness (3/17-4/2)
Hundred Days (5/5-27)
Falsettos (6/30-7/30) (extended from 7/22 close)
Season 33 Announcement Party (8/19)
The Revolutionists (9/8-23)
Every Brilliant Thing @ Minnaert Black Box (10/13-28)
A Christmas Carol (11/24-12/24)
2024 shows announced: Deathtrap (1/19-2/4); The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) @ Washington Center Black Box (3/15-31); Cabaret (6/28-7/28); Pride and Prejudice (8/30-9/22); Sweeney Todd (co-production with Olympia Symphony Orchestra and Masterworks Choral Ensemble) @ Washington Center (10/11-13); What The Constitution Means To Me (10/18-11/3); A Christmas Carol (11/29-12/24)
HEART Repertory Theatre (Kenmore & Woodinville)
Silent Sky @ Sammamish Valley Grange (2/10-19)
The Catastrophist @ Sammamish Valley Grange (9/29-10/8) (postponed from 9/8)
2024 shows announced: Constellations @ Sammamish Valley Grange (2/9-25), Agnes of God @ Sammamish Valley Grange (4/19-5/5), The Glass Menagerie @ Kenmore Community Club (9/6-22)
Doctor in the Dark: Blink @ TPS Theatre4 (10/20-11/4)
Historic Everett Theatre (Everett)
Year-round multi-genre programming and rentals; see site for full schedule. Select performances listed below.
Late Night Catechism (10/15)
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy (12/16)
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inD Theatre (Bainbridge Island)
Venus in Fur (3/17-4/2)
Cry It Out (10/27-11/12)
Indus Creations (Kirkland)
Soora Samharam (presented in Tamil language) @ Kirkland Performance Center (7/8-9)
Intiman Theatre (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Celebrating Lorraine Hansberry (1/10)
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (co-production with The Williams Project) (2/7-25)
The Niceties (4/18-29)
Cindy of Arc (11/1-4)
Black Nativity (produced with the Hansberry Project) (12/12-30)
2024 shows announced: The Lower Depths (co-production with The Seagull Project) (2/6-24), The Lion Tells His Tale (5/1-5)
Island Theatre (Bainbridge Island)
Meet the Playwrights (8/2)
Ten-Minute Play Festival: Taboo (8/17-19)
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Unhinge @ Yaw Theater (2/3-11)
Jet City Improv (Seattle – Fremont)
Year-round programming (improv)
Emerald City Slasher (10/5-28)
Jewelbox Theatre (Seattle – Belltown) — See The Rendezvous
Jewel Box Theatre (Poulsbo)
Royal Gambit (1/28-2/5)
Skin Deep (3/17-4/2)
Radio on the Air (4/29-5/7)
Honky Tonk Laundry (6/9-7/2)
The Savannah Sipping Society (9/8-24)
Doubt: A Parable (10/20-29)
Radio on the Air: Old-Time Classic Radio Plays (11/10-19)
Year-round programming (improv, concerts)
2024 shows announced: The Addams Family: A New Musical (2/2-3/3), Chapter Two (4/19-5/5), Witness for the Prosecution (5/31-6/16)
Jules Mae Saloon (Seattle – Georgetown)
Pun Intended Punslam (1st Wednesdays)
Drunken Owl Theatre – variety show with local playwrights (3rd Sundays, except 4/23 for April)
Year-round programming (comedy, drag, concerts)
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Karin Stevens Dance (Seattle)
KSD & Kin @ NOD Theater (10/20-21)
Key City Public Theatre (Port Townsend)
The People Downstairs (2/1-26)
Redd (4/5-30)
PlayCraft Originals (5/25-28)
Sips & Scripts: 10-Minute Plays With a Twist (5/26-27)
Airness (youth) (6/30-7/9)
Constellations (outdoor) (7/28-30)
Titus & Juliet (outdoor) (8/4-6)
Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea (outdoor) (co-production with Dacha Theatre) (8/11-13)
Sips & Scripts: 10-Minute Plays With a Twist (8/19-20)
The Canterville Ghost (10/12-29)
What the Dickens? (11/30-12/23)
Great Expectations (12/30-31)
Kitsap Children’s Musical Theatre (Poulsbo)
Shrek – the Musical (5/4-21)
Into the Woods (alumni) (7/7-16)
Bye Bye Birdie (10/12-29)
Kitsap Forest Theatre (Bremerton)
The Sound of Music (5/28-6/18)
Seussical, the Musical (7/29-8/20)
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Lakewood Playhouse (Lakewood)
Much Ado About Nothing (3/3-26)
BKLYN the Musical (5/5-28) (canceled)
Love, Loss, and What I Wore (5/4-28)
Summer reading series: Heroes (6/2-4), Border Songs (6/9-11), Waiting for the Paint to Dry (6/16-18), 4000 Miles (6/23-25)
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (9/22-10/8)
The Seafarer (12/1-17)
2024 shows announced: The Giver (2/9-25), Incorruptible (4/5-21), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (5/31-6/16)
Latitude Theatre (Seattle)
Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment @ Taproot (5/14-6/4) (opens 5/18)
Victorian Christmas Cards: A Festival of New Short Plays @ TPS Theatre4 (12/7-17)
The Lesser-Known Players (Kitsap)
Ride the Cyclone @ Rolling Bay Hall (Bainbridge Island) & WWCA (Port Orchard) (1/26-2/18)
Abigail’s Party @ The Grange Hall (Bainbridge Island) (12/6-17) (opens 12/8)
Lincoln Theatre (Mount Vernon)
Year-round, multi-genre programming; see site for full schedule
Year-round touring performances at local venues
Lowbrow Opera Collective (Seattle)
Indelible: Reflections on Queerness in the Performing Arts @ 18th & Union (2/9)
More Than Friends @ 18th & Union (5/25-6/4)
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Macha Theatre Works (Seattle – Fremont)
The Forgotten History of Mastaneh (co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble) @ Taproot Theatre (2/10-12)
The Distillery New Works Festival (4/14-16)
Macbeth: A Rock Musical (co-production with Seattle Public Theater) (10/11-11/5) (opens 10/13)
2024 shows announced: The Distillery Festival of New Works (co-production with Seattle Public Theater) (June)
Magenta Theater (Vancouver, WA)
The Play That Goes Wrong (2/10-26)
Floored! (4/14-30)
Amélie The Musical (8/11-27)
6 Dance Lessons in 6 Weeks (10/13-29)
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (12/1-17)
Year-round, multi-genre programming and rentals; see site for full schedule
ManeStage Theatre (Puyallup)
Tuck Everlasting: The Musical (3/3-19)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (4/21-5/7)
The Wizard of Oz (7/21-8/6)
Seussical The Musical (10/6-22)
A Christmas Story The Musical (12/1-17)
2024 shows announced: All Shook Up (3/1-17), Steel Magnolias (4/26-5/12), Cinderella (7/19-8/4)
Meany Center for the Performing Arts (Seattle – UW main campus)
Year-round programming; see site for full schedule. Select theatre and dance performances listed below.
Kodo (1/27-28)
Ragamala Dance Company (2/9-11)
Camille A. Brown & Dancers (3/16-18)
The Motherboard Suite (4/1)
Daniel Alexander Jones: Altar No. 3 – I Choose to Remember Us Whole (co-production with Henry Art Gallery) (4/29-7/9)
Step Afrika! (4/20-22)
Rubberband (5/11-13)
Daniel Alexander Jones: Altar No. 3 – I Choose to Remember Us Whole community processional (5/20)
Grupo Corpo (10/19-21)
Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North (10/27)
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca (11/16-18)
2024 shows announced: Compañía Nacional de Danza (1/25-27), Circa (2/15-17), Mark Morris Dance Group (3/14-16), Carnival of the Animals (4/6), Cie Hervé KOUBI (5/9-11)
Mirror Stage (Seattle)
The Squirrel Plays @ 12th Ave Arts (4/27-5/20)
Activism Brunch: Health Care @ Nalanda West (October, date TBA) (postponed from 9/9)
Expand Upon: Health Care @ 18th & Union (10/21-22)
Moisture Festival (Seattle)
Varieté & Libertease festival @ various venues (3/23-4/16)
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New Prospect Theatre (Bellingham)
Year-round, multi-genre programming; see site for full schedule
The 7 Day Dance Festival (9/2)
When Jack Met Jill (Bellingham Theatre Guild) (9/7)
Pass Over (Stage Left Theater) (9/9)
Sugar Does Broadway (10/5-8)
Northwest Playwrights Alliance (Olympia & others)
Center Salon @ Washington Center for the Performing Arts (5/19)
2024 shows announced: Center Salon @ Washington Center (2/24)
Noveltease Theatre (Seattle)
The Count of Monte Cristo @ Theatre Off Jackson (3/30-4/1)
A Metamodern Prometheus @ Theatre Off Jackson (10/5-7)
Rhythm & Rhyme cabaret series @ Oddfellows Hall: The Harlem Renaissance (2/17); The Romantics (5/19); Troubadours (8/18); Revolutionary Poetry (11/17)
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A Christmas Carol (free performances @ various locations) (12/1-21)
Olympic Ballet Theatre (Edmonds)
Debuts (2/18-19)
Sleeping Beauty (5/13-14)
Summer Performance (6/3)
The Nutcracker (12/8-20)
2024 shows announced: Debuts (2/17-18), Don Quixote (5/4-5), Summer Performance (6/1)
Olympia Family Theater (Olympia)
Something Happened in Our Town (2/10-26) (Canceled)
Tales Told in 10: A 24-Hour Play Festival (February)
The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus (3/10-3/26)
Alice in Wonderland: A New Musical (5/5-28)
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (10/6-29)
The Velveteen Rabbit (12/8-31)
2024 shows announced: Barney Carey Gets His Wings (2/23-3/17), Tales Told in 10: A 24-Hour Play Festival (March), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (5/11-6/2)
Olympia Little Theatre (Olympia)
The Man From Earth (1/27-2/12)
One Slight Hitch (3/10-26)
Into the Breeches! (4/21-5/7)
In the Gutter (6/2-18)
Death by Design (9/8-24)
Who’s in Bed With the Butler? (10/20-11/5)
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (12/1-17)
2024 shows announced: Love, Sex, and the IRS (1/26-2/11), 84 Charing Cross Road (3/8-24), Savannah Sipping Society (4/19-5/5), Rose’s Dilemma (5/31-6/16)
On the Boards (Seattle – Lower Queen Anne)
Faye Driscoll: Thank You For Coming – SPACE (1/19-22)
Kidd Pivot: Revisor @ The Paramount (co-presented with Seattle Theatre Group) (3/1)
Threesome: Cherdonna Shinatra, Jarbeaux, and Martha Graham Cracker @ Repair Revolution (3/2-5) (Canceled)
The UN-[TITLED] Project @ off-site location (3/23-26)
Christopher Morgan: Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence (4/13-16)
Ayaka Nakama: Freeway Dance (4/27-5/7) (Canceled)
Takahiro Yamamoto: NOTHINGBEING (5/18-21)
Will Rawls: [siccer] (9/28-30)
Nia-Amina Minor and David Rue: Black Collectivity Presents – To Gather (10/5-7, 19-21)
Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson: Make Banana Cry (11/9-11)
Anna Luisa Petrisko: All Time Stop Now (11/30-12/2)
2024 shows announced: Peggy Piacenza: The Forever Project (1/18-21); Jaha Koo: The History of Korean Western Theatre (2/1-3); A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (co-presented with Seattle Theatre Group) @ The Moore (2/21); Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff: Our Country (3/21-23); Cherdonna and The Bearded Ladies: Threesome @ Repair Revolution (4/18-27); Andrew Schneider: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) (5/16-19)
Opera on Tap – Valentines edition @ Royal Room (South Seattle) (2/15)
Opera on Tap @ Darrell’s Tavern (Shoreline) (4/20)
Opera on Tap @ Vita’s Wildly Delicious (Lopez Island) (7/28)
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Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
Giselle (2/3-12)
Boundless (3/17-26)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4/14-23)
Worlds to Come (6/2-11)
Season Encore (6/11)
Next Step (6/16)
School Performances (6/17)
PNB Dance Film Festival screening @ Seattle Center Mural Ampitheatre (8/5) (info here)
Petite Mort (triple-bill: Jiri Kylian, Alexander Ekman) (9/22-10/1)
Love & Loss (triple-bill: Donald Byrd, Alexei Ratmansky, Danielle Rowe) (11/3-12)
The Nutcracker (11/24-12/27)
2024 shows announced: Swan Lake (2/2-11), One Thousand Pieces – double-bill (3/15-24), Harold and the Purple Crayon – PNB School (3/23-30), The Seasons’ Canon – triple-bill (4/12-21), Coppélia (5/31-6/9)
Pacific Play Company (Seattle)
Candlelight Stories: An Evening in the Bardo (1/15-29)
Love Sucks Party: monologues and short sketches (2/10-12)
Summer Magic: Tales of Revenge @ 18th & Union (6/23-7/2)
Parley Productions (Seattle)
Stamina @ West of Lenin (2/26-28)
Garlic by Rose in Spring – a radio play (8/1)
How to raise a revolution (for the breaking family) (October release)
Live-streaming and recorded productions available online
Penguin Productions (Seattle & Mercer Island)
Macbeth! @ U-Heights (7/14-15)
Bonfire @ Luther Burbank Park (7/15)
Everybody @ Luther Burbank Park (7/21-22)
The Phoenix Theatre (Edmonds)
Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play (2/3-26)
I Hate Hamlet (4/7-30)
Glorious: The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World (6/2-25)
Calendar Girls (10/6-29)
A Nice Family Christmas (11/24-12/10) (Run shortened from 12/17)
2024 shows announced: The Lady Demands Satisfaction (2/2-25)
Pony World Theatre (Seattle)
Hotdish (11/3-12/2)
Pork Filled Productions (Seattle)
Bloodletting (10/17-11/4)
AAPI Celebration Night (10/24)
Port Angeles Community Players (Port Angeles)
The Dresser (2/24-3/12)
One Man, Two Guvnors (5/5-21)
To the Moon (10/6-15)
Christmas at Pemberley – Georgiana and Kitty (12/8-23)
Port Gamble Theater (Port Gamble)
The Glass Menagerie (4/14-30)
Romeo and Juliet (7/14-30)
Murder on the Nile (10/6-22)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (12/1-17)
Pratidhwani (Seattle)
Saiyan Bhaye Kotwal @ Bellevue Youth Theatre (2/25)
Refugees in the Garden City (co-production with ReAct Theatre) @ Taproot studio theatre (3/25-4/16)
Ballabhpur Ki Roopkatha (presented in Hindi) @ UW Ethnic Cultural Theatre (8/4-13)
Thrice – Three Solo Performances by Indian Women @ Taproot studio theatre (9/23-10/1)
Puget Sound Puppetry Festival @ Carco Theatre (9/29-30)
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Queen City Theatre (Seattle)
A Night of Broadway, Part 2 @ The Collective (1/13)
Miscast Cabaret @ The Collective (6/9)
The Resurrectionist @ 12th Avenue Arts (presented by Strawberry Theatre Workshop) (6/15-17)
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Radial Theater Project (Seattle – Central District)
Meet Me at Dawn (3/24-4/8) (postponed from 2022)
Hamlet (2/17-26) (online)
Dorothy, Alice, Wendy, Mary: Grown @ The Aspire Repertory Theatre (7/7-9) (postponed from 6/16)
Halloween Monologue Night (livestream) (10/14)
Twisted Tales (shorts festival) (livestream) (11/19)
ReAct Theatre (Seattle)
Refugees in the Garden City (co-production with Pratidhwani) @ Taproot studio theatre (3/25-4/16)
Reboot Theatre (Seattle)
110 in the Shade @ Seattle Public Theater (3/16-4/9)
Peter and the Starcatcher @ Theatre Off Jackson (9/8-23)
Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts (Marysville)
Deathtrap (1/20-2/5)
The Taming (replaces Greater Tuna) (3/3-19)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (4/14-30)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (5/26-6/11)
Something Rotten (9/8-24)
Ripeness is All (10/27-11/5) (postponed from 10/20)
A MidWinter Night’s Dream (12/1-17)
2024 shows announced: Shakespeare’s R&J (1/19-2/4), The Book of Will (3/1-17), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged][revised][again] (4/12-28), Twelfth Night (5/24-6/9)
The Rendezvous (Seattle – Belltown)
Year-round programming and rentals
Renton Civic Theatre (Renton)
A Day in Hollywood & A Night in Ukraine (2/17-3/4)
Thumbs (4/14-29)
Rent (6/9-24)
Pippin (9/29-10/14)
The Full Monty (12/8-23)
2024 shows announced: Plaza Suite (2/16-3/2), Rope (4/12-27), A Man of No Importance (6/7-22)
Rosebud Children’s Theatre Conservatory (Federal Way)
Princess Whatsername (7/21-23)
Teen Show (8/4-13)
Royal Room (Seattle – Rainier)
Year-round programming (mostly concerts)
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Saltfire Theatre (Port Townsend)
All in the Timing @ Vintage (5/11-21)
Shakespeare in the Orchard: Taming of the Shrew @ Fort Worden State Park – Port Townsend (8/3-6, 8/17-20) and Finnriver Cidery – Chimacum (8/10-13)
Seattle Children’s Theatre (Seattle – Seattle Center)
Carmela Full of Wishes (2/17-3/12)
Paige in Full (3/22-4/2)
Havana Hop (3/23-4/9)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (4/4-5/21)
A Seattle History Remix @ MOHAI (8/25-27)
Dog Man: The Musical (9/21-10/22)
Goodnight Moon (10/12-11/5)
A Very Electric Christmas (11/16-12/31)
2024 shows announced: Luchadora! (2/22-3/10), A Tale of Peter Rabbit (4/25-5/12)
Seattle International Dance Festival (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
SIDF 2023 (6/10-18)
Seattle Opera (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
Samson and Delilah in Concert (1/20-22)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2/25-3/11)
La Traviata (5/6-21)
Bound @ The Opera Center (6/9-18)
Creation Lab 2023 Performances @ The Opera Center (6/23-24)
Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World @ The Opera Center (6/25); Powell Barnett Park (Central District) (7/22, 8/13); Highland Park (7/23, 8/12)
Das Rheingold (8/12-20)
Alcina (10/14-28)
Holiday Concert @ The Opera Center (12/8-10)
2024 shows announced: X – The Life and Times of Malcolm X (2/24-3/9), The Barber of Seville (5/4-18)
Seattle Pacific University Theatre (Seattle – Queen Anne north)
The 39 Steps (2/2-11)
An Evening of One-Act Plays: Queer Stories (3/7-11)
Everybody (5/11-20)
Seattle Public Theater (Seattle – Green Lake)
This Bitter Earth (1/26-2/19) (opens 1/27)
110 in the Shade (co-production with Reboot Theatre Company) (3/16-4/9)
Mangrove Park (reading) (4/8)
Hometown Boy (5/4-28)
Season Announcement Party (6/13)
Titanish (The Habit Comedy) (8/10-9/17)
The Forgotten History of Mastaneh (co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble) (9/22-24)
Macbeth: A Rock Musical (co-production with Macha Theatre Works) (10/11-11/5) (opens 10/13)
The Pink Hulk (10/16-18)
Enough! – Plays to End Gun Violence (11/6)
A Very Die Hard Christmas (The Habit Comedy) (11/22-12/28)
2024 shows announced: Once More, Just for You (2/3-25); The Moors (3/22-4/14); Unrivaled (co-production with SIS Productions) (5/10-6/2); The Distillery Festival of New Works (co-production with Macha Theatre Works) (June)
Seattle Rep (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (1/13-2/5) (opens 1/18)
Metamorphoses (1/27-2/26) (opens 2/1)
Between Two Knees (3/3-26) (opens 3/8)
How I Learned What I Learned (4/21-5/14) (opens 4/26)
Lydia and the Troll (5/5-6/11) (extended from 6/4) (opens 5/10)
YouthFest (6/3-4)
Public Works – The Tempest (8/25-27)
The 7 Fingers: Passengers (9/22-10/15)
Islander (10/20-11/19)
Little Women (11/10-12/17)
2024 shows announced: Quixote Nuevo (1/19-2/11); Sanctuary City (3/1-31); Fat Ham (4/12-5/12); Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales: Together Again, Again! (5/31-6/23)
Seattle Shakespeare Company (Seattle – Seattle Center)
The World’s a Stage: Becoming Othello, A Black Girl’s Journey (1/3-29) (opens 1/6)
Drum & Colours: Henry IV (3/14-4/9) (opens 3/17)
Twelfth Night (4/26-5/21) (opens 4/28)
Wooden O: The Tempest @ various parks (7/6-8/6)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (11/1-19) (opens 11/3) (postponed from 10/25 start)
2024 shows announced: The Comedy of Errors (1/10-28), The Bed Trick (3/20-4/7), Romeo and Juliet (4/24-5/12)
Seattle Symphony (Downtown Seattle)
Year-round programming; see site for full schedule. Select performances listed below.
Non-Stop – A Night of Broadway Hits (7/29)
Game On (9/15-16)
Día de los Muertos (10/14)
The Music Critic starring John Malkovich (10/17)
Disney in Concert: The Sound of Magic (10/26-29)
An Evening with Audra McDonald (12/5)
2024 shows announced: Tribute to John Williams (1/19-21), Memoir (2/2), Holding / Movement (3/8), She’s Got Soul Featuring Capathia Jenkins (5/31-6/2), Pride Anthems (6/7)
Seattle Theatre Group (Broadway Across America Series) — See Broadway at the Paramount – Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle – Downtown & U-District)
Year-round programming in multiple venues; see site for full schedule. Select theatre and dance performances listed below.
Bluey’s Big Play @ The Paramount (2/11-12)
Kidd Pivot: Revisor @ The Paramount (co-presented with On the Boards) (3/1)
Manual Cinema: Frankenstein @ The Moore (3/7)
Latrice Royale @ The Neptune (4/7)
Sasha Velour with Kitten N Lou @ The Neptune (4/10)
Indigenous Enterprise: Indigenous Liberation (4/21)
Disney Musical in Schools Final Share @ The Paramount (4/25)
Blanchet High School: All Shook Up @ The Moore (4/28-30)
Billy Porter @ The Paramount (4/29)
Seattle Rock Orchestra Performs The Beatles: Abbey Road & Let It Be @ The Moore (5/13-14)
México en el Corazón @ The Paramount (6/3)
Margaret Cho @ The Neptune (6/4)
Elevate: a spoken-word showcase of Black and Brown voices @ The Moore (6/15)
Nubia: A Brave New World @ The Moore (6/19)
Dance This @ The Moore (7/14)
Jinkx Monsoon @ The Paramount (8/12)
THING: music and arts festival @ Fort Worden (Port Townsend) (8/25-27)
Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance @ The Paramount (10/4)
John Cameron Mitchell and Amber Martin: Cassette Roulette @ The Moore (10/14) (canceled)
Molly Shannon @ The Moore (10/21)
World Ballet Series: Cinderella @ The Paramount (10/27)
Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet @ The Paramount (11/19)
Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue @ The Moore (12/6-10)
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy @ The Neptune (12/14)
Select 2024 theatre and dance shows announced: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (co-presented with On the Boards) @ The Moore (2/21), Batsheva Dance Company: MOMO @ The Paramount (3/2), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater @ The Paramount (3/15-17), Manual Cinema: Frankenstein @ The Moore (4/3)
SecondStory Repertory Theatre (Redmond)
The Revolutionists (2/16-3/5)
Sunday in the Park with George (5/5-28)
She Kills Monsters (6/9-25)
Dancing at Lughnasa (8/11-27)
Meteor Shower (10/20-11/12)
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (12/1-23)
2024 shows announced: God of Carnage (1/12-28)
Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble (Seattle)
The Forgotten History of Mastaneh (co-production with Macha Theatre Works) @ Taproot Theatre (2/10-12)
The Forgotten History of Mastaneh (co-production with Seattle Public Theater) (9/22-24)
2024 shows announced: English (co-production with ArtsWest) (4/4-28)
Shakesbeerience (Seattle)
MacDrunk @ the Pine Box (Seattle – Capitol Hill) (5/23)
Shattered Glass Project (Seattle – Madison Valley @ MLK FAME Community Center)
Rockhound (staged reading) (3/24)
A Lonely Realization (staged reading) (3/31)
All New Cells @ Theatre Off Jackson (6/1-18)
Through the Window: A Friend-Raiser (8/24)
Plays in Progress: New Works From the Incubator/Mentor Cohort (staged readings) @ Seattle Public Theater (12/11)
Showtunes (Seattle)
A Little Night Music – The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber @ Cornish Playhouse (9/16-17)
2024 shows announced: Sunset Boulevard @ Cornish Playhouse (2/3-11)
Sound Theatre Company (Seattle)
Lightning: A 10-Minute New Play Festival @ Langston Hughes (1/23)
11th & Pine (staged reading) @ Erickson Theatre (3/17-19)
Roost (staged reading and reception) @ Langston Hughes (5/1)
Cost of Living @ 12th Avenue Arts (6/8-7/1)
Autocorrect Thinks I’m Dead (9/7-24) (Run shortened from 9/30 due to illness)
Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle – Lake Washington)
Music of Remembrance concert @ Benaroya Hall (3/19)
Targeted @ Cornish Playhouse (6/2-4)
Occurrence #12 (10/26-29)
Stage West Community Theatre (Ocean Shores)
12 Incompetent Jurors (1/20-29)
The Wild Women of Winedale (5/5-14)
One Christmas Eve at Evergreen Mall (12/2-10)
Strawberry Theatre Workshop (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Gloria: A Life (1/19-2/18) (opens 1/21)
Strawberry Jam: The Directors Festival (6/8-7/8)
Miss You Like Hell (10/12-11/11)
Beatleconcert (11/16-18)
Fellow Passengers (12/1-23)
Charlie Brown Christmas @ Cornish Playhouse (12/10)
String & Shadow Puppet Theater (Olympia)
Ship of Fools: A Giant Puppet Odyssey @ Calliope Farm (Olympia) (7/7-30); and parks in Bothell (7/19), Vashon Island (8/16), Port Angeles (8/17), Chimacum (8/18-19), and Deception Pass (8/20)
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Tacoma Arts Live (Tacoma)
Year-round programming and rentals in multiple venues; see site for full schedule. Select theatre and dance performances listed below.
The Simon & Garfunkel Story @ Pantages Theater (1/13)
The Peking Acrobats feat. The Shanghai Circus @ Pantages Theater (1/22)
Ailey II @ Pantages Theater (1/28)
The Gospel at Colonus @ Tacoma Armory (2/2-12) (Postponed to 2024)
Baldwin vs. Buckley Debate @ Washington State History Museum (2/23-26)
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo @ Pantages Theater (3/9)
Still: A Poetic Journey of Two Women @ Washington State History Museum (5/11-14)
Regional Theater Program: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – an immersive production @ Tacoma Armory (8/17-9/3)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Featuring the Original “Magenta,” Patricia Quinn @ Pantages Theater (9/30)
Regional Theater Program: The Thanksgiving Play @ Tacoma Armory (10/12-11/5) (opens 10/13)
Festival Latinx @ Tacoma Armory (10/14)
Select 2024 theatre and dance shows announced: Giraffes Can’t Dance @ Pantages Theater (1/12); The Gospel at Colonus @ Tacoma Armory (Regional Theater Program) (2/8-3/3), Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through “The Change” @ Pantages Theater (3/21)
Tacoma City Ballet (Tacoma)
Carmina Burana (co-production with Tacoma Opera) @ Pantages Theater (2/11-12)
Pinocchio The Ballet @ Pantages Theater (3/25-26)
Carmen (co-production with Tacoma Opera) @ Pantages Theater (10/6-8)
The Nutcracker @ Pantages Theater (12/9-23)
2024 shows announced: Cinderella @ Pantages Theater (3/30-31)
Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma)
Po Boy Tango (1/20-2/5)
The Kaleidoscope Festival – Washington State Community Theatre Association (2/10-11)
Rock of Ages (3/3-26)
Significant Other (4/21-5/7)
The Shawshank Redemption (6/2-18)
The Play That Goes Wrong (9/8-24)
Misery (10/20-11/5)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (12/8-31)
2024 shows announced: A Doll’s House, Part 2 (1/26-2/11), Rent (3/8-31), Almost, Maine (4/26-5/12), From the Mississippi Delta (6/7-23)
Tacoma Musical Playhouse (Tacoma)
Once on This Island (1/13-2/5)
Titanic: The Musical (4/14-5/7)
Escape to Margaritaville (5/19-6/11)
Young at Heart Players – Nunsense: The Mega-Musical (6/16-18)
The Music Man (7/7-30)
Cabaret (9/15-10/8)
Cats (11/24-12/17)
2024 shows announced (all dates TBA): Jersey Boys, Stepping Out, The Prom, show TBA
Tacoma Opera (Tacoma)
Carmina Burana (co-production with Tacoma City Ballet) @ Pantages Theater (2/11-12)
Tacoma Method @ Rialto Theater (3/31-4/2)
Carmen @ Pantages Theater (10/6-8)
2024 shows announced: Streetcar Named Desire @ Federal Way Performing Arts & Event Center (2/9-11), The Tales of Hoffman @ Pantages Theater (4/26-28)
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center (T.U.P.A.C.) (Tacoma)
Nettie @ Rialto Theater (5/20) and Puyallup Pavilion (5/21)
On My Block: Hilltop Dance Festival (7/15-8/27) (Performances canceled or postponed)
Taproot Theatre (Seattle – Greenwood)
A Woman of No Importance (1/25-3/4) (Extended from 2/25)
As It Is in Heaven (3/22-4/22)
Jeeves Takes a Bow (5/17-6/17)
The Hello Girls (7/12-8/19) (extended from 8/12)
Last Drive to Dodge (9/20-10/21)
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (11/22-12/30) (opens 11/24)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (11/30-12/23) (opens 12/1)
2024 shows announced: The Book of Will (1/24-2/24), How to Write a New Book for the Bible (3/20-4/20), Sherlock Holmes and the Precarious Position (5/15-6/15), Sister Act (7/10-8/10), A Raisin in the Sun (9/18-10/19)
Coming Home @ SODO Park (thru 3/12)
Residency @ Lotte Hotel (10/12-3/31/2024)
Thalia’s Umbrella (Seattle)
The Standby Lear @ 12th Avenue Arts (3/30-4/15)
Theater Arts Guild (Mount Vernon)
Prelude to a Kiss (2/17-3/5)
The Wizard of Oz (11/3-19)
Theatre33 (Russian/English bilingual) (Bellevue)
The Play That Goes Wrong @ Bellevue College theatre (4/15-16)
A Game (5/7-17)
Venus in Fur (6/2-4)
Caligula (11/4-19)
Year-round programming (theatre, dance, and youth theatre) presented in Russian
Theatre Battery (Kent)
Deep Purple Wiggle (8/24-9/10) (opening 8/26)
New Dance Show on a Stage of Water (9/29)
Theatre Off Jackson (Seattle – International District)
Co-producing venue; year-round programming
Triple Door (Seattle – Downtown)
Bohemia (1/19-29)
The Atomic Bombshells: J’Adore – A Burlesque Valentine (2/10-14)
Lauren Weedman: Blows (2/25-26)
Misfit Cabaret: Circus (3/23-25)
The 8th Annual Seattle Boylesque Festival (4/7-8)
Stephanie Anne Johnson: Album Release Show (with Mark Hoy & Shaina Rae) (4/28)
Verlaine & McCann: Through the Looking Glass – The Burlesque Alice In Wonderland (5/17-21)
The Fairy’s Bottom: A Midsummer Cabaret (7/6-16)
What the Funk?! – An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival (9/24-26)
The Improvised Shakespeare Company (9/30)
This Is Halloween (10/19-31)
Land of the Sweets – The Nutcracker Burlesque (12/1-28)
Year-round programming and rentals
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University of Puget Sound Theatre Arts (Tacoma)
Game of Love and Chance (2/24-3/4)
Senior Theatre Festival (4/7-22)
Our Town (10/27-11/4)
Director’s Lab (12/4-6)
2024 shows announced: Measure for Measure (2/23-3/2), Senior Theatre Festival (4/5-13)
University of Washington Dance (Seattle – U-District)
UW Dance Presents (1/20-22)
Dance Majors Concert (3/1-5)
MFA Dance Concert (5/17-21)
Daniel Alexander Jones: Altar No. 3 – I Choose to Remember Us Whole (performance with UW Dance students) (5/20)
Chamber Dance Company (10/12-15)
2024 shows announced: UW Dance Presents (1/17-20)
University of Washington Drama (Seattle – U-District)
The Oresteia @ Jones Playhouse (2/23-3/5)
Producing Artists Lab: In the Blood @ Hughes Penthouse (4/29-5/7)
The Wolves (5/20-6/4) @ Jones Playhouse (opens 5/25)
The Moors (10/28-11/12) @ Meany Studio (opens 11/2)
2024 shows announced: A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol. 1) (1/13-28), Vanity Fair (3/2-16), The Adding Machine (5/18-6/2), Producing Artists Lab (show and dates TBA) (spring)
University of Washington Meany Center — See Meany Center for the Performing Arts
University of Washington Undergraduate Theatre Society (UTS) (Seattle – U-District)
Twelve Ophelias (1/12-15)
Hookman (3/9-12)
Theatre Dangerously (4/21)
Break a Leg! (5/4-7)
Hold (5/5-7)
Savage in Limbo (5/11-14)
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Valley Center Stage (North Bend)
I and You (2/3-26) (2/16-19 performances canceled; extended through 2/26)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (4/14-30)
The Clean House (6/3-18)
The Three Little Pigs (kids summer show) (7/22-23)
Blithe Spirit (10/6-22)
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (12/1-17)
Staged reading series: Why Christmas Pageants Suck / Sons of a Common Mother (1/7, rescheduled from 12/23/22); The Vagina Monologues (2/25); Compleat Female Stage Beauty (3/11); The Underpants (4/8); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (5/27); Night of the Living Dead (10/28); A Christmas Carol (12/2-22)
2024 shows announced: God of Carnage (staged reading) (1/5-7), Shakespeare in Love: The Play (2/16-3/3), Darby O’Gill and the Good People (staged reading) (3/16), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (staged reading) (4/5-7), Three Men on a Horse (staged reading) (4/19-21), Man of La Mancha (5/31-6/23)
Velocity Dance Center (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Sean Dorsey Dance: The Lost Art of Dreaming (3/2-5)
Gabrielle Civil: Translated Bodies << Welcome Blur >> multi-day, multi-media project (3/9-11)
Young Choreographers Club Performance (3/18)
Claire Barrera: Grammar of the Imagination (3/17-19)
Black Collectivity: Made in Seattle – A Practice of Return (4/6-8)
Firelight @ Cafe Racer (6/21)
Firelight @ Cafe Racer (7/16)
Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Performance Cohorts Showcase @ Erickson Theatre (8/4-5)
Dance Innovators: Research in Performance Showcase (8/10)
Meg Foley: Blood Baby @ Volunteer Park (9/1-4)
Show of Hands (9/20)
Amy O’Neal: The Hybrid Lab – Conversations in Merging Dance Cultures (10/5-7)
Alyza DelPan-Monley: That’s a Handful! (10/11-14)
Next Fest NW (12/7-16)
Village Theatre (Issaquah & Everett)
Cinderella (1/6-29, Everett)
Sense and Sensibility (2/1-3/12, Issaquah; 3/17-4/9, Everett)
I’m Doing This (Kidstage Originals, Everett) (2/10-12)
Miss Step (Beta Series, Issaquah) (2/11-19)
While They Last (Kidstage Originals, Issaquah) (3/24-4/2)
How to Break (3/29-4/30, Issaquah; 5/5-28, Everett)
Descendants: The Musical (Kidstage, Everett) (4/7-23)
The Addams Family Young at Part (Kidstage, Issaquah) (4/14-30)
Hello, Dolly! (5/24-7/2, Issaquah; 7/12-30, Everett) (Everett opening postponed from 7/7)
Bright Star (Kidstage, Issaquah) (7/14-23)
Merrily We Roll Along (Kidstage, Everett) (7/21-30)
The Prom (Kidstage, Issaquah) (7/28-8/6)
Village Originals Festival of New Musicals (8/12-13)
Guys and Dolls (Kidstage, Everett) (8/18-27)
Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood (9/13-10/15, Issaquah; 10/21-11/12, Everett)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (11/15-12/17, Issaquah; 1/6-28/2024, Everett)
2024 shows announced: Becoming Dr. Ruth (Issaquah 1/17-2/18, Everett 2/24-3/17); The Fantasticks (Issaquah 3/13-4/14, Everett 4/27-5/19); Once on This Island (Issaquah 5/15-6/16, Everett 6/22-7/14)
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Washington Center for the Arts (Olympia)
Year-round programming and rentals; see site for full schedule. Select theatre and dance performances listed below.
Ailey II (1/31)
Legally Blonde: The Musical (2/2)
The Center Salon (co-production with Northwest Playwrights Alliance) (5/19)
Cirque Mechanics: Zephyr – A Whirlwind of Circus (11/9)
Sugar Skull – A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure (11/14)
Seattle International Comedy Competition (11/16)
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy @ Minnaert Center for the Arts (11/25)
God Is a Scottish Drag Queen 3 (12/1)
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (12/20)
Select 2024 theatre and dance shows announced: Comedy Underground (series), Storm Large (2/15), Stomp (2/20-21), The Center Salon (2/24), Éireann – A Taste of Ireland (3/24), Ladies of Laughter (5/3), The Aunties: Women of the Salish Sea, Episode 2 (5/16)
Washington Ensemble Theatre (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Arlington (1/13-30)
Six-Pack Series (1/24)
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (4/28-5/15)
reSet (5/18-19)
Dream House (9/8-25)
reSet (9/28-29)
2024 shows announced: Scrambling the Goose (4/26-5/13), Six-Pack Series (dates TBA)
Washington State Community Theatre Association
The Kaleidoscope Festival @ Tacoma Little Theatre (2/10-11)
Western Washington Center for the Arts (Port Orchard)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1/20-2/5)
The Glass Menagerie (3/3-19)
Monty Python’s Spamalot (4/28-5/21)
101 Dalmatians: Kids (7/8-9)
Into the Woods Jr. (7/21-25)
Freaky Friday (9/8-10/1)
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (10/13-29)
Holiday Special (11/24-12/17)
2024 shows announced: Love, Loss and What I Wore (1/19-2/4), The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (3/1-17), The Wedding Singer (4/26-5/19)
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (Langley)
The Woman in Black (2/16-25)
Whidbey Repertory Festival (March)
The Last Five Years (4/6-22) (opens 4/7)
The Shot (7/7-9)
Thoreau at Home (10/13-28)
Falstaff in Love (12/8-23)
Seattle International Comedy New Year’s Eve Show (12/31)
Year-round, multi-genre programming; see site for full schedule
New Creations by Mike Esperanza, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa & Olivier Wevers @ Cornish Playhouse (Seattle) (1/20-28) and Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island) (1/25)
New Creations by Emilie Leriche, Olivier Wevers & Rauf Yasit @ Cornish Playhouse (Seattle) (5/12-20), Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (5/17), and Vashon Center for the Arts (5/24)
Outdoor Pop-Up Performances @ various Seattle parks (see schedule here) (8/16-25)
New Creations by Hannah Garner, Dava Huesca & Ana Maria Lucaciu @ Erickson Theatre (Seattle) (9/8-16) and Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island) (9/19)
2024 shows announced: New Creations by Bret Easterling, Joseph Hernadez & Olivier Wevers @ Cornish Playhouse (1/19-27) and Vashon Center for the Arts (1/25); New Creations by Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Ihsan Rustem & Olivier Wevers @ Cornish Playhouse (5/10-18) and Vashon Center for the Arts (5/15)
The Williams Project (Seattle)
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (co-production with Intiman Theatre) @ Erickson Theatre (2/7-25)
Champagne + Sodomy: The Art and Crime of Oscar Wilde @ Base (7/28-8/5)
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Yaw Theater (Seattle – Georgetown)
Wielding Forms Dance Festival (Coriolis Dance) (1/21)
Unhinge (Jerboa Dance Company) (2/3-11)
Alice in Shadowland: A Circus Show (6/9-11)
Fuselage Dance Film Festival (10/14)
Young Americans’ Theatre Company (Seattle)
Trevor (7/14-16)
The Shadow Box (7/21-23)
Indecent (7/27-30)
Yun Theatre (Seattle)
Party School (stand-up comedy) @ UHeights (7/1)
In Between: A Collection of Short Plays @ Center Theatre (8/15-27) (opens 8/17)
In Between – staged reading of additional short plays (8/19)
Don’t See Your Company or Shows Listed?
If you have shows scheduled that aren’t listed above, please email info (including dates, description, and ticket link) to NWTheatre.org@gmail.com.
Coverage is limited to King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston counties, with some expansion into Kitsap, Jefferson, Skagit, and Whatcom counties. Please note, we do not actively cover all performance types at this time. (Currently, we cover very little in variety, children’s programming, comedy, and burlesque, for example.)