Village Originals – NWTheatre

Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals is among the coolest shows in town, showing off new work with fantastic casts. But attendance is limited — and both for Village Theatre and for audiences regularly starved of relevant theatre, that may be an opportunity missed beyond the weekend.

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Chase D. Anderson August 5, 2019March 19, 2023 Danny Haengil Larsen, Eastside, Hart Island, interview, Jerry Dixon, Michelle Elliott, Valerie Curtis-Newton, Village Originals, Village Theatre

5 Questions with Musical Theatre Writers Michelle Elliott & Danny Haengil Larsen

The annual Village Originals Festival of New Musicals takes place in Issaquah this weekend. Few theatre-makers know the Festival better than Michelle Elliott and Danny Haengil Larsen, who have shown new works there four times. NWT talked with the duo about their latest work, ‘Hart Island’, which showed at the 2017 Festival and returned to Village for a developmental production earlier this year.

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Chase D. Anderson June 22, 2019July 7, 2022 Cayman Ilika, Eastside, Everett, Issaquah, Up North, Village Originals, Village Theatre

‘Million Dollar Quartet’, Village’s Big Theatrical Rock Show, Heads to Everett Next Week

Village Theatre’s audience-favorite darling, based (very) loosely around a heralded 1956 jam session with some of American music’s biggest names, is a big fun rock show. It closes out Village’s Issaquah season this weekend, then moves to Everett next week through July 28.