Holiday Season 2023 
What’s on stage this holiday season?
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.
Listings are for mid-November through December. For earlier shows, see the Fall 2023 list. Or see the full-year 2023 Shows list or 2024 Shows list.
Want to see a calendar of these shows instead? View all here, or Christmas shows here.
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The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle – Downtown)
White Christmas (11/25-12/27) 
The 14/48 Projects (Seattle)
Theater Anonymous: It’s a Wonderful Life @ Cornish Playhouse (12/9)
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ACT Contemporary Theatre (Seattle – Downtown)
A Christmas Carol (11/24-12/24)
The Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/8-24)
ArtsWest (Seattle – West Seattle)
Snowed In (11/30-12/23)
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Bainbridge Performing Arts (Bainbridge Island)
Beauty and the Beast (11/30-12/17)
Base (Seattle – Georgetown)
12 Minutes Max (12/3-4)
Bellingham Theatre Guild (Bellingham)
The Game’s Afoot (11/24-12/10)
Bremerton Community Theatre (Bremerton)
A Christmas Carol (BCT Jr.) (12/8-10)
Broadway at The Paramount – Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle – Downtown)
MJ The Musical (12/7-17)
Burien Actors Theatre (Burien)
The Twelve Dates of Christmas @ Kennedy Catholic High School Theatre (11/24-12/17)
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Can Can Culinary Cabaret (note new location – enter on Pine) (Seattle – Pike Place Market)
Wonderland (11/16-1/7/2024)
Centerstage Theatre (Federal Way)
Sleeping Beauty, A Holiday Panto (11/25-12/17)
Cornish College of the Arts Theatre & Dance (Seattle – Seattle Center & Denny)
A View From the Bridge (11/16-19)
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Edmonds Driftwood Players (Edmonds)
Willy Wonka (11/24-12/17)
Mestizo @ Mini Mart City Park (12/8-9)
Evergreen Playhouse (Centralia)
James and the Giant Peach (12/1-17)
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Federal Way Performing Arts & Event Center (Federal Way)
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy (12/17)
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Harlequin Productions (Olympia)
A Christmas Carol (11/24-12/24)
Historic Everett Theatre (Everett)
Year-round multi-genre programming and rentals; see site for full schedule. Select performances listed below.
O Christmas Tea – A British Comedy (12/16)
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Intiman Theatre (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Black Nativity (produced with the Hansberry Project) (12/12-30)
Key City Public Theatre (Port Townsend)
What the Dickens? (11/30-12/23)
Great Expectations (12/30-31)
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Lakewood Playhouse (Lakewood)
The Seafarer (12/1-17)
Latitude Theatre (Seattle)
Victorian Christmas Cards: A Festival of New Short Plays @ TPS Theatre4 (12/7-17)
The Lesser-Known Players (Kitsap)
Abigail’s Party @ The Grange Hall (Bainbridge Island) (12/6-17) (opens 12/8)
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Magenta Theater (Vancouver, WA)
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (12/1-17)
ManeStage Theatre (Puyallup)
A Christmas Story The Musical (12/1-17)
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A Christmas Carol (free performances @ various locations) (12/1-21)
Olympic Ballet Theatre (Edmonds)
The Nutcracker (12/8-20)
Olympia Family Theater (Olympia)
The Velveteen Rabbit (12/8-31)
Olympia Little Theatre (Olympia)
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (12/1-17)
On the Boards (Seattle – Lower Queen Anne)
Anna Luisa Petrisko: All Time Stop Now (11/30-12/2)
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Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
The Nutcracker (11/24-12/27)
The Phoenix Theatre (Edmonds)
A Nice Family Christmas (11/24-12/10) (Run shortened from 12/17)
Port Angeles Community Players (Port Angeles)
Christmas at Pemberley – Georgiana and Kitty (12/8-23)
Port Gamble Theater (Port Gamble)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (12/1-17)
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Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts (Marysville)
A MidWinter Night’s Dream (12/1-17)
Renton Civic Theatre (Renton)
The Full Monty (12/8-23)
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Seattle Children’s Theatre (Seattle – Seattle Center)
A Very Electric Christmas (11/16-12/31)
Seattle Opera (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
Holiday Concert @ The Opera Center (12/8-10)
Seattle Public Theater (Seattle – Green Lake)
A Very Die Hard Christmas (The Habit Comedy) (11/22-12/28)
Seattle Rep (Seattle – Seattle Center/Mercer St.)
Little Women (11/10-12/17)
Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle – Downtown & U-District)
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)
SecondStory Repertory Theatre (Redmond)
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (12/1-23)
Shattered Glass Project (Seattle)
Plays in Progress: New Works From the Incubator/Mentor Cohort (staged readings) @ Seattle Public Theater (12/11)
Stage West Community Theatre (Ocean Shores)
One Christmas Eve at Evergreen Mall (12/2-10)
Strawberry Theatre Workshop (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Fellow Passengers (12/1-23)
Charlie Brown Christmas @ Cornish Playhouse (12/10)
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Tacoma City Ballet (Tacoma)
The Nutcracker @ Pantages Theater (12/9-23)
Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (12/8-31)
Tacoma Musical Playhouse (Tacoma)
Cats (11/24-12/17)
Taproot Theatre (Seattle – Greenwood)
Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (11/22-12/30) (opens 11/24)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (11/30-12/23) (opens 12/1)
Residency @ Lotte Hotel (10/12-3/31/2024)
Theatre33 (Russian/English bilingual) (Bellevue)
Caligula (11/4-19)
Triple Door (Seattle – Downtown)
Land of the Sweets – The Nutcracker Burlesque (12/1-28)
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University of Puget Sound Theatre Arts (Tacoma)
Director’s Lab (12/4-6)
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Valley Center Stage (North Bend)
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (12/1-17)
A Christmas Carol (staged reading) (12/2-22)
Velocity Dance Center (Seattle – Capitol Hill)
Next Fest NW (12/7-16)
Village Theatre (Issaquah & Everett)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (11/15-12/17, Issaquah; 1/6-28/2024, Everett)
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Washington Center for the Arts (Olympia)
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)
Western Washington Center for the Arts (Port Orchard)
Holiday Special (11/24-12/17)
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (Langley)
Falstaff in Love (12/8-23)
Seattle International Comedy New Year’s Eve Show (12/31)
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.)