(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Ongoing series)

A weekly comedy show produced by Brett Hamil and Emmett Montgomery featuring a lineup of invited local and visiting comics, plus special guests with surprising talents.

Pro-tip: order drinks at the bar & Seattle's best pizza (at Breezy Town Pizza) under the neon pizza slice next to the stage. Show starts around 9. 

Tickets $7 online or at the door. Info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2395760763976285/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

Opening night film: The Garden Left Behind 

Flavio Alves; USA; 2019; 88 mins

Northwest Premiere

Fresh from its premiere at SXSW (where the film won the audience award!) comes a timely film about Tina, a young transwoman, and her grandmother Eliana, as they navigate Tina’s transition and their struggle to build a life as undocumented immigrants in New York City. Tina (played with poise and depth by newcomer Carlie Guevara) luckily has a supportive group of transwomen friends but is faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges, including violent threats in the streets and a lack of commitment from her lover. Director Flavio Alves (TOM IN AMERICA, TWIST 2014) employed trans actors in this feature that will leave you on your feet and ready for action.

Tickets $22
https://threedollarbillcinema.org/translations

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by Brendan Healy

(Thru 5/4) 

Ahmed is the quintessential American worker, trying to do his job right while navigating the workplace politics of water cooler gossip and Super Bowl parties. Only this office is a secret military compound where Ahmed translates interrogations of terrorism suspects. Brilliantly shifting between comedy and suspense, Yussef El Guindi's award-winning Language Rooms takes Ahmed through a strange and unsettling journey. As his work and even his loyalties are called into question, Ahmed realizes that more than his job is at risk. 

Cast: Lowell Deo, Hisam Goueli, Abhijeet Rane, and George Sayah

Designers: Dana Amromin, Dan Garlington, Sann Hall, Michael Notestine, and Amber Parker; with Annie & Justin Duffiance 

Special show dates: 
4/18 (Thur) is $1 ticket night. A limited amount of regular priced tickets will be available online. All tickets sold at the door cost only $1. 
4/22 (Mon) is Pay-What-You-Can. Tickets available online.

Tickets $15
https://languagerooms.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/4)

by Anastacia-Reneé
Directed by Anastacia-Reneé & Aviona Rodriguez Brown

Where do black women go when their souls have been taken too soon? At the crossroads. Explore racism, sexism, homophobia, systemic silence, and spirit in this choreo-poem-performance piece. Dismantle the American cover of denial and secrecy regarding injustices committed against queer women of color who are mothers. 

Cast:
Ebo Barton as Invisible 1
Simone Dawson as Forgotten
Kamari Bright as No Hashtag
Jalayna Carter as Ansister
Naa Akua as Guide
Modessa Jacobs as Understudy for No Hashtag

Tickets $20 (sliding scale available, $10-$40) 
http://www.annextheatre.org/2019-season/queer-mama-crossroads/

Special dates: 

PWYC Mondays April 15 & 22
Matinee Sunday, April 14th 2:00 PM
Talkbacks following the performance April 5th and 6th & May 2nd*
No Performance on Friday, April 19 (see below for more info)

** The show is 60 minutes, with no intermission. Audience members are highly encouraged to take the opportunity to decompress following the performance in the Annex lounge. **

CONTENT WARNING: Violence, death, and flashing lights.

On Friday April 19, there will be no performance of Queer, Mama. Crossroads. In its place at 7:30 pm, Anastacia-Reneé will publicly offer her class “How to Be an Effective Ally” in which people who feel overwhelmed or guilty about not knowing how to help individuals who are systematically and subconsciously racially targeted or consistently treated unfairly can learn techniques about how to become an effective ally through writing exercises and examples.

(Thru 5/5)

by Erin Markey

The first theatrical work presented in GUSH, WET’s new series that brings a piece of contemporary theatrical work from outside Seattle to be performed on their stage, is Erin Markey’s Singlet. Markey draws on their longstanding friendship and working relationship with actor Emily Davis to create a performance that maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy. Combining Markey’s singular style with a host of influences—spanning Genet’s The Maids, celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, Notes on a Scandal, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet, and Precious Moments Collectible Dolls—this kaleidoscopic production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together. By turns tenacious and tender, Singlet reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers.

Tickets $25 
https://washingtonensemble.secure.force.com/ticket/

(Thru 5/6)

by Heidi Park
Directed & designed by Mario Gomez
Featuring Aimee Decker & Anna Saephan

Ever since you were a child, have you felt like you were the black sheep of the family? Heidi has. As the only person of color in her white adoptive family, we follow Heidi through her unlikely success at the Minnesota State Fair and her heartbreaking journey in Korea to recover her roots.

Dramaturg - Seayoung Yim
Director/Stage Manager/Designer
Executive Producer - Jamie Lee
Emotional Support Hedgehog - Rachtha Danh

Tickets $15-$25 (sliding scale)
https://18thandunion.org/black-sheep

(Thru 5/4)

by Sam Steiner
Directed by Andrew Shanks & Jordan-Michael Whidbey

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we're forced to say less. It's about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges' Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People's Theatre, London. 

Starring Sharif Ali and MaryKate Moran

Tickets $20 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4188615

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 5/5)

by Sarah Ruhl & Todd Almond 
Directed by AD Kassing 

Tilly is a woman so drenched in sensual melancholy that everyone she meets cant help but fall in love with her. But when she suddenly becomes happy, her friends and lovers can no longer stand being in her vicinity. Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical is a play where happiness takes the form of confetti and those consumed by depression turn into almonds.  

Tickets $15 
https://uts-melancholy.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/5)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

NOT FOOD FOR MONSTERS   
Written by Devin Rodger
An uptight front office manager at a high school loses her self-control for the first time, finding herself in the ensuing chaos. One-act dark comedy.   

HARDENED CRIMINALS
Written by Suzanne Bailie 
In this full-length drama, a father pursues an unorthodox solution to his daughter's drug addiction with unexpected results.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by Brendan Healy

(Thru 5/4) 

Ahmed is the quintessential American worker, trying to do his job right while navigating the workplace politics of water cooler gossip and Super Bowl parties. Only this office is a secret military compound where Ahmed translates interrogations of terrorism suspects. Brilliantly shifting between comedy and suspense, Yussef El Guindi's award-winning Language Rooms takes Ahmed through a strange and unsettling journey. As his work and even his loyalties are called into question, Ahmed realizes that more than his job is at risk. 

Cast: Lowell Deo, Hisam Goueli, Abhijeet Rane, and George Sayah

Designers: Dana Amromin, Dan Garlington, Sann Hall, Michael Notestine, and Amber Parker; with Annie & Justin Duffiance 

Special show dates: 
4/18 (Thur) is $1 ticket night. A limited amount of regular priced tickets will be available online. All tickets sold at the door cost only $1. 
4/22 (Mon) is Pay-What-You-Can. Tickets available online.

Tickets $15
https://languagerooms.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/4)

by Anastacia-Reneé
Directed by Anastacia-Reneé & Aviona Rodriguez Brown

Where do black women go when their souls have been taken too soon? At the crossroads. Explore racism, sexism, homophobia, systemic silence, and spirit in this choreo-poem-performance piece. Dismantle the American cover of denial and secrecy regarding injustices committed against queer women of color who are mothers. 

Cast:
Ebo Barton as Invisible 1
Simone Dawson as Forgotten
Kamari Bright as No Hashtag
Jalayna Carter as Ansister
Naa Akua as Guide
Modessa Jacobs as Understudy for No Hashtag

Tickets $20 (sliding scale available, $10-$40) 
http://www.annextheatre.org/2019-season/queer-mama-crossroads/

Special dates: 

PWYC Mondays April 15 & 22
Matinee Sunday, April 14th 2:00 PM
Talkbacks following the performance April 5th and 6th & May 2nd*
No Performance on Friday, April 19 (see below for more info)

** The show is 60 minutes, with no intermission. Audience members are highly encouraged to take the opportunity to decompress following the performance in the Annex lounge. **

CONTENT WARNING: Violence, death, and flashing lights.

On Friday April 19, there will be no performance of Queer, Mama. Crossroads. In its place at 7:30 pm, Anastacia-Reneé will publicly offer her class “How to Be an Effective Ally” in which people who feel overwhelmed or guilty about not knowing how to help individuals who are systematically and subconsciously racially targeted or consistently treated unfairly can learn techniques about how to become an effective ally through writing exercises and examples.

(Thru 5/5)

by Erin Markey

The first theatrical work presented in GUSH, WET’s new series that brings a piece of contemporary theatrical work from outside Seattle to be performed on their stage, is Erin Markey’s Singlet. Markey draws on their longstanding friendship and working relationship with actor Emily Davis to create a performance that maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy. Combining Markey’s singular style with a host of influences—spanning Genet’s The Maids, celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, Notes on a Scandal, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet, and Precious Moments Collectible Dolls—this kaleidoscopic production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together. By turns tenacious and tender, Singlet reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers.

Tickets $25 
https://washingtonensemble.secure.force.com/ticket/

(Thru 5/6)

by Heidi Park
Directed & designed by Mario Gomez
Featuring Aimee Decker & Anna Saephan

Ever since you were a child, have you felt like you were the black sheep of the family? Heidi has. As the only person of color in her white adoptive family, we follow Heidi through her unlikely success at the Minnesota State Fair and her heartbreaking journey in Korea to recover her roots.

Dramaturg - Seayoung Yim
Director/Stage Manager/Designer
Executive Producer - Jamie Lee
Emotional Support Hedgehog - Rachtha Danh

Tickets $15-$25 (sliding scale)
https://18thandunion.org/black-sheep

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/4)

Immigration Stories is a choreographic odyssey by Guild Dance Company artistic director Alex Ung that traces the journey of his immigrant Tai Dam family from war-torn Southeast Asia to Iowa, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Immigration Stories will be told through traditional Tai Dam dance accompanied by drum, string, and pipe. A blend of hip hop and contemporary styles set to contemporary music will add to the narrative as we witness the passage of time and the Tai Dam relocation. The musical centerpiece of Immigration Stories will be the song, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), a recounting of Tai Dam history written by the elders of the Des Moines Tai Dam community and performed by Jimmi Van Luong.

Music: Traditional Tai Dam, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), and a mix of contemporary and alternative music 

Choreography: Alex Ung

Running Time: approx. 65 minutes plus an opening number performed by PRICEarts

Tickets $25
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4067070

(Thru 5/4)

by Sam Steiner
Directed by Andrew Shanks & Jordan-Michael Whidbey

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we're forced to say less. It's about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges' Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People's Theatre, London. 

Starring Sharif Ali and MaryKate Moran

Tickets $20 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4188615

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(One night only) 

Directed & hosted by Kate Jaeger
Music Directed by Katherine Strohmaier

Featuring: Andrew Eric Davison, EmilyRose Frasca, Anasofia Gallegos, MJ Jurgensen, Cassi Q Kohl, Jon Lutyens, Randy Scholz, Chandler T Rail Thomas and more!

Tickets $15 presale, $20 door
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4211033

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/5) 

Directed by Eric Lane Barnes 

Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQ-friendly chorus serving the greater Puget Sound region. We are an inclusive singing community where all people's voices are heard through energizing performance and social action.

Where is home to you?

A house with four walls and a roof, or the back of a different bus every night? Surrounded by the family you were born into or friends you've made your family? In your head, or in your heart? This rich repertoire will address these questions and others you may have about the place you call home.

Where is home to those experiencing homelessness?

During 'Home is,' we highlight this growing population in 'Vera's Voices,' a suite of songs by musician Michael Owcharuk in honor of his homeless aunt. John Ruskin, a 19th century art critic, once defined home as that place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

Tickets $25 
https://seattle-home-is.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/4)

Science News meets Science Fiction, as five teams of randomly paired science writers and playwrights have two days to create an original 10 minute science play and a five minute science talk for Infinity Box Theatre Project’s Centrifuge.

Centrifuge is short, fun and challenging. It lasts one week, start to finish. A partner project of 14/48, and produced in association with Theatre Off Jackson.

Tickets $10-$20 (sliding scale) 
https://www.strangertickets.com/events/93636065/centrifuge


Science Writers:
Chris Tachibana
Jane Hu
Wayt Gibbs
Julia Goldstein
Alan Boyle

Playwrights:
Celeste Mari Williams
Harold Taw
Stacy Flood
Anthea Carns
Pam Hobart Carter

Directors:
Agastya Kohli
Kenna Kettrick
Peggy Gannon
Rachel Delmar
Sasha Bailey

Actors:
Mark Waldstein
Archana Srikanta
Corey Spruill
Gurvinder Pal Singh
Patrick Lennon
Minna Lee
Adria LaMorticella
Kathy Hsieh
Steven Grenley
Nishant Ghan
Queenelle Gazmen
Tom Fraser
Caitlin Frances
Rebecca Erickson
Angie Bolton
Aly Bedford

Designers:
Gerard Menendez
Wyly Astley
Cedric Wright
Gretchen Wenzl
Rob Falk
Jessica Jones
Ahren Buhman

Band:
Bob DeDea

Stage Manager:
KyeAnne Wilde

(Thru 5/5)

by Sarah Ruhl & Todd Almond 
Directed by AD Kassing 

Tilly is a woman so drenched in sensual melancholy that everyone she meets cant help but fall in love with her. But when she suddenly becomes happy, her friends and lovers can no longer stand being in her vicinity. Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical is a play where happiness takes the form of confetti and those consumed by depression turn into almonds.  

Tickets $15 
https://uts-melancholy.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(One night only) 

Directed & hosted by Kate Jaeger
Music Directed by Katherine Strohmaier

Featuring: Andrew Eric Davison, EmilyRose Frasca, Anasofia Gallegos, MJ Jurgensen, Cassi Q Kohl, Jon Lutyens, Randy Scholz, Chandler T Rail Thomas and more!

Tickets $15 presale, $20 door
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4211033

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(One day only) 

At the semi-annual INScape open house, 30+ artists and makers will have their studios open, Barry Johnson will be doing a pop-up show in the basement entry gallery, and in the first floor gallery SPoCS (Seattle People of Color Salon) present WS is BS*: Contemporary Non-Western Indigineity.

Free, no RSVP required. 

Info: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/823910571286893/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser 
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 5/4)

Immigration Stories is a choreographic odyssey by Guild Dance Company artistic director Alex Ung that traces the journey of his immigrant Tai Dam family from war-torn Southeast Asia to Iowa, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Immigration Stories will be told through traditional Tai Dam dance accompanied by drum, string, and pipe. A blend of hip hop and contemporary styles set to contemporary music will add to the narrative as we witness the passage of time and the Tai Dam relocation. The musical centerpiece of Immigration Stories will be the song, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), a recounting of Tai Dam history written by the elders of the Des Moines Tai Dam community and performed by Jimmi Van Luong.

Music: Traditional Tai Dam, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), and a mix of contemporary and alternative music 

Choreography: Alex Ung

Running Time: approx. 65 minutes plus an opening number performed by PRICEarts

Tickets $25
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4067070

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser 
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(One night only)

Join Macha Theatre Works’ annual fundraising gala for an evening of drinks, desserts, and delightful company. Be the first to hear our 2019-2020 Season Announcement, enter a raffle for exclusive experiences chosen by Macha’s Board of Directors, and raise your paddle to support local new work and strong female characters. Hosted by the incomparable Kate Jaeger.

The night wouldn’t be complete without you! Come celebrate the future – we can’t wait to see you there!

Tickets $25 
https://sforce.co/2uXve0G


ABOUT US: Macha Theatre Works is a fearless female non-profit arts organization showcasing exceptional artists, delivering innovative education programs, and staging new theatrical works that feature strong female characters. Founded in 2001 as Macha Monkey Productions, the company transitioned to Macha Theatre Works in 2017 under the leadership of Artistic Director Amy Poisson and Managing Director Kyna Shilling. We strive to bring complex, provocative, empowering, innovative, eclectic, diverse women’s stories to the stage.

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/5)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

NOT FOOD FOR MONSTERS   
Written by Devin Rodger
An uptight front office manager at a high school loses her self-control for the first time, finding herself in the ensuing chaos. One-act dark comedy.   

HARDENED CRIMINALS
Written by Suzanne Bailie 
In this full-length drama, a father pursues an unorthodox solution to his daughter's drug addiction with unexpected results.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by Brendan Healy

(Thru 5/4) 

Ahmed is the quintessential American worker, trying to do his job right while navigating the workplace politics of water cooler gossip and Super Bowl parties. Only this office is a secret military compound where Ahmed translates interrogations of terrorism suspects. Brilliantly shifting between comedy and suspense, Yussef El Guindi's award-winning Language Rooms takes Ahmed through a strange and unsettling journey. As his work and even his loyalties are called into question, Ahmed realizes that more than his job is at risk. 

Cast: Lowell Deo, Hisam Goueli, Abhijeet Rane, and George Sayah

Designers: Dana Amromin, Dan Garlington, Sann Hall, Michael Notestine, and Amber Parker; with Annie & Justin Duffiance 

Special show dates: 
4/18 (Thur) is $1 ticket night. A limited amount of regular priced tickets will be available online. All tickets sold at the door cost only $1. 
4/22 (Mon) is Pay-What-You-Can. Tickets available online.

Tickets $15
https://languagerooms.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/4)

by Anastacia-Reneé
Directed by Anastacia-Reneé & Aviona Rodriguez Brown

Where do black women go when their souls have been taken too soon? At the crossroads. Explore racism, sexism, homophobia, systemic silence, and spirit in this choreo-poem-performance piece. Dismantle the American cover of denial and secrecy regarding injustices committed against queer women of color who are mothers. 

Cast:
Ebo Barton as Invisible 1
Simone Dawson as Forgotten
Kamari Bright as No Hashtag
Jalayna Carter as Ansister
Naa Akua as Guide
Modessa Jacobs as Understudy for No Hashtag

Tickets $20 (sliding scale available, $10-$40) 
http://www.annextheatre.org/2019-season/queer-mama-crossroads/

Special dates: 

PWYC Mondays April 15 & 22
Matinee Sunday, April 14th 2:00 PM
Talkbacks following the performance April 5th and 6th & May 2nd*
No Performance on Friday, April 19 (see below for more info)

** The show is 60 minutes, with no intermission. Audience members are highly encouraged to take the opportunity to decompress following the performance in the Annex lounge. **

CONTENT WARNING: Violence, death, and flashing lights.

On Friday April 19, there will be no performance of Queer, Mama. Crossroads. In its place at 7:30 pm, Anastacia-Reneé will publicly offer her class “How to Be an Effective Ally” in which people who feel overwhelmed or guilty about not knowing how to help individuals who are systematically and subconsciously racially targeted or consistently treated unfairly can learn techniques about how to become an effective ally through writing exercises and examples.

(Thru 5/5)

by Erin Markey

The first theatrical work presented in GUSH, WET’s new series that brings a piece of contemporary theatrical work from outside Seattle to be performed on their stage, is Erin Markey’s Singlet. Markey draws on their longstanding friendship and working relationship with actor Emily Davis to create a performance that maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy. Combining Markey’s singular style with a host of influences—spanning Genet’s The Maids, celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, Notes on a Scandal, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet, and Precious Moments Collectible Dolls—this kaleidoscopic production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together. By turns tenacious and tender, Singlet reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers.

Tickets $25 
https://washingtonensemble.secure.force.com/ticket/

(Thru 5/6)

by Heidi Park
Directed & designed by Mario Gomez
Featuring Aimee Decker & Anna Saephan

Ever since you were a child, have you felt like you were the black sheep of the family? Heidi has. As the only person of color in her white adoptive family, we follow Heidi through her unlikely success at the Minnesota State Fair and her heartbreaking journey in Korea to recover her roots.

Dramaturg - Seayoung Yim
Director/Stage Manager/Designer
Executive Producer - Jamie Lee
Emotional Support Hedgehog - Rachtha Danh

Tickets $15-$25 (sliding scale)
https://18thandunion.org/black-sheep

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/4)

Immigration Stories is a choreographic odyssey by Guild Dance Company artistic director Alex Ung that traces the journey of his immigrant Tai Dam family from war-torn Southeast Asia to Iowa, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Immigration Stories will be told through traditional Tai Dam dance accompanied by drum, string, and pipe. A blend of hip hop and contemporary styles set to contemporary music will add to the narrative as we witness the passage of time and the Tai Dam relocation. The musical centerpiece of Immigration Stories will be the song, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), a recounting of Tai Dam history written by the elders of the Des Moines Tai Dam community and performed by Jimmi Van Luong.

Music: Traditional Tai Dam, Saay Fon (Flows of Rain), and a mix of contemporary and alternative music 

Choreography: Alex Ung

Running Time: approx. 65 minutes plus an opening number performed by PRICEarts

Tickets $25
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4067070

(Thru 5/4)

by Sam Steiner
Directed by Andrew Shanks & Jordan-Michael Whidbey

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we're forced to say less. It's about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges' Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People's Theatre, London. 

Starring Sharif Ali and MaryKate Moran

Tickets $20 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4188615

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/12) 

by James Valcq & Fred Alley
Directed by Jessica Spencer 

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.

Presented in concert format. 

Tickets $40 
http://showtunestheatre.org/

(Thru 5/5) 

Directed by Eric Lane Barnes 

Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQ-friendly chorus serving the greater Puget Sound region. We are an inclusive singing community where all people's voices are heard through energizing performance and social action.

Where is home to you?

A house with four walls and a roof, or the back of a different bus every night? Surrounded by the family you were born into or friends you've made your family? In your head, or in your heart? This rich repertoire will address these questions and others you may have about the place you call home.

Where is home to those experiencing homelessness?

During 'Home is,' we highlight this growing population in 'Vera's Voices,' a suite of songs by musician Michael Owcharuk in honor of his homeless aunt. John Ruskin, a 19th century art critic, once defined home as that place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

Tickets $25 
https://seattle-home-is.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/4)

Science News meets Science Fiction, as five teams of randomly paired science writers and playwrights have two days to create an original 10 minute science play and a five minute science talk for Infinity Box Theatre Project’s Centrifuge.

Centrifuge is short, fun and challenging. It lasts one week, start to finish. A partner project of 14/48, and produced in association with Theatre Off Jackson.

Tickets $10-$20 (sliding scale) 
https://www.strangertickets.com/events/93636065/centrifuge


Science Writers:
Chris Tachibana
Jane Hu
Wayt Gibbs
Julia Goldstein
Alan Boyle

Playwrights:
Celeste Mari Williams
Harold Taw
Stacy Flood
Anthea Carns
Pam Hobart Carter

Directors:
Agastya Kohli
Kenna Kettrick
Peggy Gannon
Rachel Delmar
Sasha Bailey

Actors:
Mark Waldstein
Archana Srikanta
Corey Spruill
Gurvinder Pal Singh
Patrick Lennon
Minna Lee
Adria LaMorticella
Kathy Hsieh
Steven Grenley
Nishant Ghan
Queenelle Gazmen
Tom Fraser
Caitlin Frances
Rebecca Erickson
Angie Bolton
Aly Bedford

Designers:
Gerard Menendez
Wyly Astley
Cedric Wright
Gretchen Wenzl
Rob Falk
Jessica Jones
Ahren Buhman

Band:
Bob DeDea

Stage Manager:
KyeAnne Wilde

(Thru 5/5)

by Sarah Ruhl & Todd Almond 
Directed by AD Kassing 

Tilly is a woman so drenched in sensual melancholy that everyone she meets cant help but fall in love with her. But when she suddenly becomes happy, her friends and lovers can no longer stand being in her vicinity. Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical is a play where happiness takes the form of confetti and those consumed by depression turn into almonds.  

Tickets $15 
https://uts-melancholy.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser 
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/5)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

NOT FOOD FOR MONSTERS   
Written by Devin Rodger 
An uptight front office manager at a high school loses her self-control for the first time, finding herself in the ensuing chaos. One-act dark comedy.   

HARDENED CRIMINALS
Written by Suzanne Bailie  
In this full-length drama, a father pursues an unorthodox solution to his daughter's drug addiction with unexpected results.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/12) 

by James Valcq & Fred Alley
Directed by Jessica Spencer 

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.

Presented in concert format. 

Tickets $40 
http://showtunestheatre.org/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/5) 

by Barry Kornhauser 
Directed by Rita Giomi

Balloonacy is the story of the unexpected friendship between a lonely man and a mischievous red balloon who floats in to the man’s apartment, shaking up his mundane routine. It is the old man’s birthday, and the balloon is his only guest. The rapscallion balloon teases, hides, and plays until the exasperated old man attempts to throw the balloon out of his apartment. Throughout the course of their silent and humorous interactions, the old man discovers he has been missing something very important in his life: friendship and play. 

Tickets $40
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/balloonacy-4/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/5) 

Directed by Eric Lane Barnes 

Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQ-friendly chorus serving the greater Puget Sound region. We are an inclusive singing community where all people's voices are heard through energizing performance and social action.

Where is home to you?

A house with four walls and a roof, or the back of a different bus every night? Surrounded by the family you were born into or friends you've made your family? In your head, or in your heart? This rich repertoire will address these questions and others you may have about the place you call home.

Where is home to those experiencing homelessness?

During 'Home is,' we highlight this growing population in 'Vera's Voices,' a suite of songs by musician Michael Owcharuk in honor of his homeless aunt. John Ruskin, a 19th century art critic, once defined home as that place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

Tickets $25 
https://bellevue-home-is.brownpapertickets.com/ 

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

Closing night film: Jack & Yaya 

Jen Bagley & Mary Hewey; USA, 2018, 83 mins.

West Coast Premiere

Jack and Yaya’s friendship rivals the closest of bonds. Neighbors since toddlerhood, they have a deep, supportive connection that ensures that they are never alone as they endure the many trials associated with being trans. These two created safe spaces for one another to grow and explore their identities before they could truly understand it for themselves. This documentary follows their path to discovery as well as that of their friends and family. A heartfelt documentary that reminds us of the power of lifelong friendship.

Tickets $15
https://threedollarbillcinema.org/translations

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Monthly series) 

Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery is a love letter to the strangeness and talent that walks amongst us. Each show features brilliant people doing things outside of their comfort zones or the things they are really good at. Prizes are won! Friends are made! Nightmares are shared and Joy is experienced!

Tickets $10-$15
http://www.annextheatre.org/monthly-shows/weird-and-awesome-with-emmett-montgomery/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/5)

by Erin Markey

The first theatrical work presented in GUSH, WET’s new series that brings a piece of contemporary theatrical work from outside Seattle to be performed on their stage, is Erin Markey’s Singlet. Markey draws on their longstanding friendship and working relationship with actor Emily Davis to create a performance that maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy. Combining Markey’s singular style with a host of influences—spanning Genet’s The Maids, celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, Notes on a Scandal, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet, and Precious Moments Collectible Dolls—this kaleidoscopic production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together. By turns tenacious and tender, Singlet reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers.

Tickets $25 
https://washingtonensemble.secure.force.com/ticket/

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/5)

by Sarah Ruhl & Todd Almond 
Directed by AD Kassing 

Tilly is a woman so drenched in sensual melancholy that everyone she meets cant help but fall in love with her. But when she suddenly becomes happy, her friends and lovers can no longer stand being in her vicinity. Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical is a play where happiness takes the form of confetti and those consumed by depression turn into almonds.  

Tickets $15 
https://uts-melancholy.brownpapertickets.com/

(One night only) 

Join the Seattle Public Theater community at the Mountaineering Club, the rooftop bar at the Graduate Seattle Hotel, for an electrifying evening of vibrant conversation, delicious eats, and unexpected surprises.

Be the first to know our exciting 2019/20 season, get your subscription, all while enjoying a specialty Seattle Public cocktail!

Free to attend. Cash bar. 

We can't wait to celebrate with you all!

No RSVP; info here: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/574620069689671/

(Monthly reading series; different show each month) 

The Dark of the Lighthouse
by Maggie Lee
Directed by Amy Poisson  

About the play:
Sisters Iris and Ivy have always looked out for each other as their only family. But when Ivy decides to start a family of her own, terrible secrets of their unknown ancestry emerge from the shadows of a long-forgotten lighthouse, threatening to tear them apart forever, in this dark tale of Lovecraftian horror.

About the series: 
Distillery, Macha Theatre Works' New Work Reading Series, is held 1st Mondays. The reading begins at 7 pm, followed by a discussion with the cast and playwright. This is a free event, no tickets needed.

Info here:
https://www.machatheatreworks.com/distillery-about/

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 5/6)

by Heidi Park
Directed & designed by Mario Gomez
Featuring Aimee Decker & Anna Saephan

Ever since you were a child, have you felt like you were the black sheep of the family? Heidi has. As the only person of color in her white adoptive family, we follow Heidi through her unlikely success at the Minnesota State Fair and her heartbreaking journey in Korea to recover her roots.

Dramaturg - Seayoung Yim
Director/Stage Manager/Designer
Executive Producer - Jamie Lee
Emotional Support Hedgehog - Rachtha Danh

Tickets $15-$25 (sliding scale)
https://18thandunion.org/black-sheep

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(One night only)

Be our guest for this sparkling evening starring a stunning lineup of performers and special guests from episodes past! Featuring writing by Scot Auguston, Elizabeth Heffron and Peffy Platt, tons of music, a silent auction of amazing goodies to bid on and MORE! All in the yummy Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theatre. Adult beverages available for purchase at the bar all night. 

Join producers and hosts Leslie Law and Richard Ziman, Music Director Angie Louise, the Sandbox Radio Orchestra and the Sandbox Radio Players. Come open your hearts, and your wallets, and help fund Sandbox Radio's upcoming shows.  All proceeds from the evening go to producing the 2019 season at the newly renovated downstairs space at Town Hall: The FORUM!!! 

Door, bar, & silent auction open at 6:30. 
 

Tickets $35 
https://srsellingout.brownpapertickets.com/

FEATURING APPEARANCES BY

Soprano Megan Parker
The Sirens of Swing
Jerry Dixon
The Drunken Tenor
Lisa Koch
The Love Markets
and
Poet Daemond Arrindell

(Ongoing series)

Open Mic Performance Night, held every 1st & 3rd Monday. For artists experimenting in any genre. For those unafraid to fail. Low stress. High focus.

Come show: A sketch, a task, a situation, a work in-the-works. You have five minutes or less to take a risk.

Sign-up:  Arrive at 9:30PM to sign up. You can also email gold@velocitydancecenter.org on the day of.

Food:  Bring something to share if you’d like.

Booze:  Available at the bar.

Free, no tickets required. Info here:
http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/shtgold/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

Enjoy an extended happy hour courtesy of our beloved event venue and food partners Clock-Out Lounge and Breezy Town Pizza:

*** $1-off Drafts
*** $5 Wells
*** $6 Rotating Spritz
*** $3 PNW Tall Cans
*** $6 High Life Pony & Well Shot
*** Small Plate & Pizza Specials

No cost for admission, no wild event programming - just people, drinks and pizza. We're bringing the generous spirit beyond the web and into the bar. We will have live donation stations available to GIVE BIG while you're there, but seeing your faces is gift enough for us!

No RSVP needed; info here: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/374769603123278/

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Ongoing series)

A weekly comedy show produced by Brett Hamil and Emmett Montgomery featuring a lineup of invited local and visiting comics, plus special guests with surprising talents.

Pro-tip: order drinks at the bar & Seattle's best pizza (at Breezy Town Pizza) under the neon pizza slice next to the stage. Show starts around 9. 

Tickets $7 online or at the door. Info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2395760763976285/

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/12)

by Neve Mazique-Bianco 
Directed by Sara Porkalob

Velocity is very excited to announce their upcoming co-production with Seattle’s own rising dance star Neve Mazique-Bianco’s Lover of Low Creatures, a world premiere that will run at Velocity’s Founders Theater May 9-12 2019. Lover of Low Creatures is simultaneously a unique new take on musical and dance theatre, a solo cabaret, and a spiritual ritual take on coming of age and sexual healing. Snow is a mixed race (Sudanese Nubian and Scottish American), physically disabled girl growing up in a forest on a river near a town. She and her white mother’s house is whimsical and magical, filled with friendly animals and butterflies, dancing in the morning, and sleeping spells in the evening. Snow and her mother are scientists, artists, and witches in tune with each other and the natural world. But underneath the flow of their routine, is an entity, or entities, very ancient, and very much alive, following Snow, that she is afraid to face, most of all because she has reason to believe her fate is intricately tied to it, in a way her mother’s is not.

Tickets $20 
http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/neve-mazique-bianco/

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Monthly series) 

Audiences of all shapes and sizes have been entertained monthly by Seattle’s longest-running variety show, SPIN THE BOTTLE. Beginning in 2019, Spin the Bottle transitions to every second Thursday of the month at 8 pm to coincide with Capitol Hill Art Walk.

Created by Bret Fetzer and premiering on September 12, 1997 and now curated by Catherine Blake Smith (since 2015), Spin the Bottle delights Seattle audiences who crave the newest and most exciting theater, music, dance, spoken word, film, and whatever else we can find! 

Tickets $10-$15
http://www.annextheatre.org/monthly-shows/spin-the-bottle/ 

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH 
Written by Matthew Weaver 
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE 
Written by Kevin K. Berry 
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/12)

by Neve Mazique-Bianco 
Directed by Sara Porkalob

Velocity is very excited to announce their upcoming co-production with Seattle’s own rising dance star Neve Mazique-Bianco’s Lover of Low Creatures, a world premiere that will run at Velocity’s Founders Theater May 9-12 2019. Lover of Low Creatures is simultaneously a unique new take on musical and dance theatre, a solo cabaret, and a spiritual ritual take on coming of age and sexual healing. Snow is a mixed race (Sudanese Nubian and Scottish American), physically disabled girl growing up in a forest on a river near a town. She and her white mother’s house is whimsical and magical, filled with friendly animals and butterflies, dancing in the morning, and sleeping spells in the evening. Snow and her mother are scientists, artists, and witches in tune with each other and the natural world. But underneath the flow of their routine, is an entity, or entities, very ancient, and very much alive, following Snow, that she is afraid to face, most of all because she has reason to believe her fate is intricately tied to it, in a way her mother’s is not.

Tickets $20 
http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/neve-mazique-bianco/

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(One night only)

A night celebrating the beautiful, the transgressive, and the unique of QTPOC communities. Featuring performances, DJs, and art from some of Seattle’s most talented queer artists, you'll have the chance to join in community conversations sparked by queer and transgender communities of color in conjunction with the new exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: Like A Hammer.

This is an evening of representation, dance, empowerment, art, and social justice that transforms through QTPOC voices ringing loud and clear. Jeffrey Gibson: Like A Hammer will be open and free during Legendary Children. 

Tickets FREE; reservation strongly recommended:
https://tickets.seattleartmuseum.org/public/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=21

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(One night only) 

A free performance and silent auction in support of the Converge Dance Festival (May 17-18) 

Help elevate Converge to be a space where dance connects all communities, gives a platform for new choreographic voices in Seattle, and values each and every talent’s time and creativity! Help us pay our dancers! 

Performances by The Guild Dance Company, Noelle Price / PRICEarts, surprise guest artists, as well as excepts of new dance works by Converge 2019 featured artists.  Performances, free food & drinks, silent auction, and dancing. 

NOTE: basement location (underneath Annex Theatre) is not wheelchair accessible. Bathroom is single-stall & gender-neutral. 

RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/converge-rising-tickets-59966182466

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/12) 

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences, this multi-disciplinary performance is rooted in the belief that dance is a vital resource for (re)imaging and (re)creating life-affirming relationships with water in and around us.

Choreographed by Seattle dance artist Karin Stevens, this 60-minute performance features 10 dancers moving 2-D planes into a dynamic 3-D installation by artist Roger Feldman, and an original sound score by Seattle composers Jessi Harvey and Kaley Lane Eaton.  

Tickets $25 (with sliding scale available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/12) 

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences, this multi-disciplinary performance is rooted in the belief that dance is a vital resource for (re)imaging and (re)creating life-affirming relationships with water in and around us.

Choreographed by Seattle dance artist Karin Stevens, this 60-minute performance features 10 dancers moving 2-D planes into a dynamic 3-D installation by artist Roger Feldman, and an original sound score by Seattle composers Jessi Harvey and Kaley Lane Eaton.  

Tickets $25 (with sliding scale available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/11)

Adapted & directed by Moumita Bhattacharya
From the book by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 

Raised illiterate, married and abandoned at 12, then kidnapped at 17, Prafulya embodies the struggles of a girl born to poverty in 1800s India until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Devi [/they-vee/] is the story of a woman who rises to power against the rule of the British, quickly becoming the de facto ruler of the land, or The Devi (Goddess) Chaudhurani (Holder of the Land).

Beloved by her people, the Devi uses her position to run a parallel government that believes in equality, justice, and freedom, proving that a woman can be the protagonist in her own story, despite mens’ best efforts to make her invisible.

Devi is adapted for the stage from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani. Published in 1884, this text called for a resurgent India to fight against the rule of the British Empire with strength from within the common people. At a time when most women in India remained behind purdah and did not show their faces to men, Chatterjee’s work about a woman creating an ideal state lead by and for the people was revolutionary.

Pratidhwani brings history to the stage in a new, drama-dance by Moumita Bhattacharya. This production is presented in English and will feature eight Indian dance forms and 45 performers.

Tickets up to $42 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/devi/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH 
Written by Matthew Weaver 
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE 
Written by Kevin K. Berry 
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/12)

by Neve Mazique-Bianco 
Directed by Sara Porkalob

Velocity is very excited to announce their upcoming co-production with Seattle’s own rising dance star Neve Mazique-Bianco’s Lover of Low Creatures, a world premiere that will run at Velocity’s Founders Theater May 9-12 2019. Lover of Low Creatures is simultaneously a unique new take on musical and dance theatre, a solo cabaret, and a spiritual ritual take on coming of age and sexual healing. Snow is a mixed race (Sudanese Nubian and Scottish American), physically disabled girl growing up in a forest on a river near a town. She and her white mother’s house is whimsical and magical, filled with friendly animals and butterflies, dancing in the morning, and sleeping spells in the evening. Snow and her mother are scientists, artists, and witches in tune with each other and the natural world. But underneath the flow of their routine, is an entity, or entities, very ancient, and very much alive, following Snow, that she is afraid to face, most of all because she has reason to believe her fate is intricately tied to it, in a way her mother’s is not.

Tickets $20 
http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/neve-mazique-bianco/

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/11)

by Bess Wohl 
Directed by Daniel Wilson 

Seven people meet in the seclusion of the woods to begin a silent retreat. They each leave changed—but not in the ways they expect. Using very few words, Small Mouth Sounds depicts the achingly human need to connect.   

The cast includes David Pichette (Teacher), Ina Chang (Judy), Bridget Connors (Joan), Terry Edward Moore (Jan), Douglas Ridings (Rodney), Adam St. John (Ned) and Sara Dabney Tisdale (Alicia).   

Tickets $39; industry $15; PWYC preview 4/18 
https://smallmouthsounds.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/12) 

by James Valcq & Fred Alley
Directed by Jessica Spencer 

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.

Presented in concert format. 

Tickets $40 
http://showtunestheatre.org/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/12) 

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences, this multi-disciplinary performance is rooted in the belief that dance is a vital resource for (re)imaging and (re)creating life-affirming relationships with water in and around us.

Choreographed by Seattle dance artist Karin Stevens, this 60-minute performance features 10 dancers moving 2-D planes into a dynamic 3-D installation by artist Roger Feldman, and an original sound score by Seattle composers Jessi Harvey and Kaley Lane Eaton.  

Tickets $25 (with sliding scale available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH  
Written by Matthew Weaver  
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE  
Written by Kevin K. Berry  
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/12)

by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Nikki Przasnyski

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent 'layovers.' He keeps 'one up, one down, and one pending' until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard's apartment, at the same time.

Tickets $29 
https://www.secondstoryrepertory.org/product-page/boeing-boeing

(Thru 5/12) 

by James Valcq & Fred Alley
Directed by Jessica Spencer 

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.

Presented in concert format. 

Tickets $40 
http://showtunestheatre.org/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/12) 

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences, this multi-disciplinary performance is rooted in the belief that dance is a vital resource for (re)imaging and (re)creating life-affirming relationships with water in and around us.

Choreographed by Seattle dance artist Karin Stevens, this 60-minute performance features 10 dancers moving 2-D planes into a dynamic 3-D installation by artist Roger Feldman, and an original sound score by Seattle composers Jessi Harvey and Kaley Lane Eaton.  

Tickets $25 (with sliding scale available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/12)

Café Nordo presents the World Premiere adaptation of Tom Robbin's classic novel, Jitterbug Perfume. Served with 4 courses of aromatic cuisine included in your ticket price, designed by Director and Executive Chef Erin Brindley.

Don your Mardi Gras beads and revel in humanity’s search for immortality as dueling perfumiers open Pan's bottle, causing past, present and future to collide at your table in a soaring ode to love eternal.

Tickets up to $99 
https://www.cafenordo.com/now-playing

(Thru 5/12) 

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences, this multi-disciplinary performance is rooted in the belief that dance is a vital resource for (re)imaging and (re)creating life-affirming relationships with water in and around us.

Choreographed by Seattle dance artist Karin Stevens, this 60-minute performance features 10 dancers moving 2-D planes into a dynamic 3-D installation by artist Roger Feldman, and an original sound score by Seattle composers Jessi Harvey and Kaley Lane Eaton.  

Tickets $25 (with sliding scale available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/12)

by Neve Mazique-Bianco 
Directed by Sara Porkalob

Velocity is very excited to announce their upcoming co-production with Seattle’s own rising dance star Neve Mazique-Bianco’s Lover of Low Creatures, a world premiere that will run at Velocity’s Founders Theater May 9-12 2019. Lover of Low Creatures is simultaneously a unique new take on musical and dance theatre, a solo cabaret, and a spiritual ritual take on coming of age and sexual healing. Snow is a mixed race (Sudanese Nubian and Scottish American), physically disabled girl growing up in a forest on a river near a town. She and her white mother’s house is whimsical and magical, filled with friendly animals and butterflies, dancing in the morning, and sleeping spells in the evening. Snow and her mother are scientists, artists, and witches in tune with each other and the natural world. But underneath the flow of their routine, is an entity, or entities, very ancient, and very much alive, following Snow, that she is afraid to face, most of all because she has reason to believe her fate is intricately tied to it, in a way her mother’s is not.

Tickets $20 
http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/neve-mazique-bianco/

(Thru 5/12) 

by William Shakespeare 
Directed by Nick O'Leary

Dacha's most challenging feat returns with our Shakespeare Dice series, in which a small company of actors memorizes the entire script of a classic play, and the audience rolls dice each night to determine who plays who. This year, 8 courageous actors take on Shakespeare's gender-bending romantic comedy in Shakespeare Dice: As You Like It. 

In this immersive karaoke bar experience, all bets are off once our heroes reach the Forest of Arden: the scenes will be re-shuffled into a random order each night, and the audience will be thrown into the heart of the action of our topsy-turvy remix.

TICKETS 

Dacha Theatre is committed to making our performances accessible to all patrons. For financial accommodation, we have a sliding scale ticketing system:
Tier 1: $25
Tier 2: $15
Tier 3: Pay What You Can
To reserve Pay What You Can tickets, please email dachatheatre@gmail.com with your desired number of tickets. We will send you instructions on how to pay for your tickets. There is no difference in audience experience between the different Tiers. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/FBe/4210183

CAST:
Ben Symons
Beth Pollack
Claire Idstrom
Emily Huntingford
Jaime Riggs
Kate Drummond
Mike Lion
Trey McGee
Understudy: Emily DenBleyker

(Thru 5/16)

Four women at a lingerie sale have nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious musical parody set to classic tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles. 

Tickets up to $60 
https://www.stgpresents.org/calendar/4722/menopause-the-musical

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/16)

Four women at a lingerie sale have nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious musical parody set to classic tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles. 

Tickets up to $60 
https://www.stgpresents.org/calendar/4722/menopause-the-musical

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 6/22)

Preview performance 

by Ins Choi
Co-Directed by David Hsieh & Scott Nolte

Enter Kim's Convenience store and meet the Kims, a loving, if imperfect, Korean family making their way in Toronto. As they face an uncertain future Appa (dad), Umma (mom), their unmarried daughter Janet and disappointing son Jung learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story reminds us that family isn't always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Tickets up to $34 
http://taproottheatre.org/shows/2019/kims-convenience/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Ongoing series)

A weekly comedy show produced by Brett Hamil and Emmett Montgomery featuring a lineup of invited local and visiting comics, plus special guests with surprising talents.

Pro-tip: order drinks at the bar & Seattle's best pizza (at Breezy Town Pizza) under the neon pizza slice next to the stage. Show starts around 9. 

Tickets $7 online or at the door. Info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2395760763976285/

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 5/16)

Four women at a lingerie sale have nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious musical parody set to classic tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles. 

Tickets up to $60 
https://www.stgpresents.org/calendar/4722/menopause-the-musical

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 6/22)

Preview performance 

by Ins Choi
Co-Directed by David Hsieh & Scott Nolte

Enter Kim's Convenience store and meet the Kims, a loving, if imperfect, Korean family making their way in Toronto. As they face an uncertain future Appa (dad), Umma (mom), their unmarried daughter Janet and disappointing son Jung learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story reminds us that family isn't always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Tickets up to $34 
http://taproottheatre.org/shows/2019/kims-convenience/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 6/9)

Preview performance 

by Tanya Barfield
Directed by Annie Lareau 

When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they come to set their sights on a child from Africa. But when the reality of this choice sinks in, it opens a well of uncertainty that speaks to their very identity as White Americans. Politically-charged and tack-sharp, The Call is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.  

Tickets $34 
https://www.seattlepublictheater.org/the-call

(Thru 5/19)

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer who works in multiple contexts, including in theatres and museums. Engaging with affect and empathy, her choreography considers the social inscriptions of the body while evoking its potentiality. Her work can be described as experientially rich and complex. Within her practice, Lewis continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. 

Sorrow Swag, the first part in Lewis's BLUE, RED, WHITE triptych, takes the color blue as a point of departure to work through grief and sadness. The performance uses texts and images derived from mid-century classical theater, Beckett and Anouilh, to interrogate race, authorship, gender, and grief. Sorrow Swag disrupts the canonical by means of an imaginative reformulation that prioritizes sensation. The work takes place in an immersive visual and auditory space and uses color as a synesthetic texture and emotional referent to produce a choreography that engages language, text, affect and embodiment.Sorrow Swag takes race and melancholy as points of departure for an experience that unfolds through the language of sadness.

On the Boards will present minor matter, Part II in Lewis's triptych, on the same weekend as Sorrow Swag, giving audiences an exclusive opportunity to view both works back-to-back. 

Tickets $26
https://www.ontheboards.org/performances/ligia-lewis-sorrow-swag

Pass for both shows $45 ($22.50 each)
https://ontheboards.secure.force.com/ticket/?acode=e7ca54a6d8abf887b2e09dd7f9de5b74#sections_a0F2I00000NTmfPUAT

(Thru 5/25, different lineups each weekend)

14/48: Nordo combines the pressure-cooker of The World’s Quickest Theater Festival with the immersive experience and culinary excellence of Café Nordo. On the Sunday night of each week, four playwrights are paired with four chefs, given a random ingredient and a common theme, a randomly selected director, and a randomly drawn cast. They will have four days to write, rehearse, prepare recipes, and serve audiences the fruits of their labors on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights: four plays interwoven with a four-course meal.

Tickets $65 
https://www.the1448projects.org/nordo 

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

by Ken Mochizuki

A story of a Japanese immigrant family growing up in Seattle's Nihonmachi (Japantown) during WWII.

Presented on the Day of Remembrance, the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, in which the United States ordered Japanese Americans segregated in concentration camps. Events run 3-8 pm; play performed from 5-6. 

Free, no tickets required. Info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/350230885840773/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/18) 

Converge Dance Festival 2019 presents original dance works by six new and up-and-coming choreographers. Featuring new works by:
Meredith Pellon
Peter Kohring
Ellensburg Dance Collective (Gabrielle McNeille & Michael Blue)
Caitlyn Lamdin
Beth Terwilleger
Leah Russell

Audiences have the opportunity to experience original and meaningful contemporary dance works in four shows over one weekend.

Tickets $18 (with reduced rates available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4213206

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH 
Written by Matthew Weaver 
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE 
Written by Kevin K. Berry 
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 6/1)

by Stephen Sondheim 
Directed by Julia Griffin
Music direction by Aimee Hong

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun! 

A modern reboot with a gender-bending cast.  

Tickets $25
https://rebootsweeneytodd.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 6/3)

by Max Frisch
Directed by Bobbin Ramsey 
Translated by Alistair Beaton

Stories of arsonists burning down houses fill the news, but it could never happen here, right? The audience is invited into the center of this fiery and absurdist political parable as The Arsonists puts everyone in the hot-seat. The site-specific production is performed at Gallery Erato in historic Pioneer Square where the Seattle Great Fire raged over a century ago. With tough questions about fate, responsibility, and hair rejuvenator, this play asks the burning question of what it could mean to “burn it all down.”

Tickets $28 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4096664

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 6/9)

by Tanya Barfield
Directed by Annie Lareau 

When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they come to set their sights on a child from Africa. But when the reality of this choice sinks in, it opens a well of uncertainty that speaks to their very identity as White Americans. Politically-charged and tack-sharp, The Call is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.  

Tickets $34 
https://www.seattlepublictheater.org/the-call

(Thru 6/23)

Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed
Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos
Co-Conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos
Directed by Courtney Sale 

Anonymous online columnist “Sugar” receives thousands of letters asking for advice, and with her own particular brand of brutal honesty and incisive empathy, helps those seeking guidance for life obstacles both large and small. It is later revealed that “Sugar” is author Cheryl Strayed (Wild). Based on the best-selling book by Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things is a luminous play that personifies the unfathomable questions that are at the heart of being human.

Tickets up to $66
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/TB/Synopsis

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 5/19)

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer who works in multiple contexts, including in theatres and museums. Engaging with affect and empathy, her choreography considers the social inscriptions of the body while evoking its potentiality. Her work can be described as experientially rich and complex. Within her practice, Lewis continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. 

minor matter is the second part in Lewis's newly completed triptych, BLUE, RED, WHITE. Materializing thoughts between love and rage, Lewis and two performers move with and against one another, their bodies become engaged in a complicated entanglement with the black box and themselves. Between light and shadow, reference and imagination, affect and embodiment, questions of re-presentation, presentation, abstraction and the limits of signification emerge. Inminor matter, sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Through a dynamic interplay of the theatre’s parts—sound, light, image, and architecture—minor mattergives life to a vibrant materiality.

On the Boards will present Sorrow Swag, Part I in Lewis's triptych, over the course of the same weekend as minor matter, giving audiences a unique opportunity to view both works back-to-back. 

Tickets $26 
https://www.ontheboards.org/performances/ligia-lewis-minor-matter

Pass for both shows $45 ($22.50 each)
https://ontheboards.secure.force.com/ticket/?acode=e7ca54a6d8abf887b2e09dd7f9de5b74#sections_a0F2I00000NTmfPUAT

(Thru 6/22)

by Ins Choi
Co-Directed by David Hsieh & Scott Nolte

Enter Kim's Convenience store and meet the Kims, a loving, if imperfect, Korean family making their way in Toronto. As they face an uncertain future Appa (dad), Umma (mom), their unmarried daughter Janet and disappointing son Jung learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story reminds us that family isn't always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Tickets up to $50 
http://taproottheatre.org/shows/2019/kims-convenience/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/25, different lineups each weekend)

14/48: Nordo combines the pressure-cooker of The World’s Quickest Theater Festival with the immersive experience and culinary excellence of Café Nordo. On the Sunday night of each week, four playwrights are paired with four chefs, given a random ingredient and a common theme, a randomly selected director, and a randomly drawn cast. They will have four days to write, rehearse, prepare recipes, and serve audiences the fruits of their labors on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights: four plays interwoven with a four-course meal.

Tickets $65 
https://www.the1448projects.org/nordo 

(Thru 5/19) 

When your arms ached, I watched the Mountain hold its fragile form is a durational performance that explores the connection between embodied strength and submission. Juxtaposing the imagery of the female body with that of the mountain, Swersky navigates objectification, resilience and the inevitability of aging. Provoking the allure and control of the male gaze, Swersky brings the omnipresent into view. Marking her first evening-length solo performance, Mountain is a journey through oppression and sorrow towards grace and collective empowerment. 

NOTE: performance is preceded by durational ritual, during which audience may come & go. Schedule for full weekend is: 

Fri - Sat, May 17-18
Durational Ritual | 7-9pm (come and go as you please)
Performance | 9pm (recommended arrival time at 8:30pm) 

Sun, May 19
Durational Ritual | 6-8pm (come and go as you please)
Performance | 8pm (recommended arrival time at 7:30pm) 

Tickets $15 ($18 at the door) 
https://sheisthemountain.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/18) 

Converge Dance Festival 2019 presents original dance works by six new and up-and-coming choreographers. Featuring new works by:
Meredith Pellon
Peter Kohring
Ellensburg Dance Collective (Gabrielle McNeille & Michael Blue)
Caitlyn Lamdin
Beth Terwilleger
Leah Russell

Audiences have the opportunity to experience original and meaningful contemporary dance works in four shows over one weekend.

Tickets $18 (with reduced rates available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4213206

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 6/22)

by Ins Choi
Co-Directed by David Hsieh & Scott Nolte

Enter Kim's Convenience store and meet the Kims, a loving, if imperfect, Korean family making their way in Toronto. As they face an uncertain future Appa (dad), Umma (mom), their unmarried daughter Janet and disappointing son Jung learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story reminds us that family isn't always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Tickets up to $50 
http://taproottheatre.org/shows/2019/kims-convenience/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/18) 

Converge Dance Festival 2019 presents original dance works by six new and up-and-coming choreographers. Featuring new works by:
Meredith Pellon
Peter Kohring
Ellensburg Dance Collective (Gabrielle McNeille & Michael Blue)
Caitlyn Lamdin
Beth Terwilleger
Leah Russell

Audiences have the opportunity to experience original and meaningful contemporary dance works in four shows over one weekend.

Tickets $18 (with reduced rates available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4213206

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/18) 

FagGod is a new work in progress that is ever evolving, created by Dani Tirrell, Naa Akua and Anastasia Renee. In a non-linear focus, this work explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic that began in 1981. FagGod is a guided thought that uses dance, storytelling and images from the late 70s and early 80s as a meditation on the lives that we lost to HIV/AIDS. 

Were the places of safety also places of death? Who and what was idolized? How did the Reagan administration fail the country during that time? Just some of the questions that the artists are asking  examining throughout the developmental process.

Presented by the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. 

Tickets $20
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/fbevent/4231042

(Thru 5/18) 

Converge Dance Festival 2019 presents original dance works by six new and up-and-coming choreographers. Featuring new works by:
Meredith Pellon
Peter Kohring
Ellensburg Dance Collective (Gabrielle McNeille & Michael Blue)
Caitlyn Lamdin
Beth Terwilleger
Leah Russell

Audiences have the opportunity to experience original and meaningful contemporary dance works in four shows over one weekend.

Tickets $18 (with reduced rates available) 
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4213206

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH 
Written by Matthew Weaver 
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE 
Written by Kevin K. Berry 
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/19)

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer who works in multiple contexts, including in theatres and museums. Engaging with affect and empathy, her choreography considers the social inscriptions of the body while evoking its potentiality. Her work can be described as experientially rich and complex. Within her practice, Lewis continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. 

Sorrow Swag, the first part in Lewis's BLUE, RED, WHITE triptych, takes the color blue as a point of departure to work through grief and sadness. The performance uses texts and images derived from mid-century classical theater, Beckett and Anouilh, to interrogate race, authorship, gender, and grief. Sorrow Swag disrupts the canonical by means of an imaginative reformulation that prioritizes sensation. The work takes place in an immersive visual and auditory space and uses color as a synesthetic texture and emotional referent to produce a choreography that engages language, text, affect and embodiment.Sorrow Swag takes race and melancholy as points of departure for an experience that unfolds through the language of sadness.

On the Boards will present minor matter, Part II in Lewis's triptych, on the same weekend as Sorrow Swag, giving audiences an exclusive opportunity to view both works back-to-back. 

Tickets $26
https://www.ontheboards.org/performances/ligia-lewis-sorrow-swag

Pass for both shows $45 ($22.50 each)
https://ontheboards.secure.force.com/ticket/?acode=e7ca54a6d8abf887b2e09dd7f9de5b74#sections_a0F2I00000NTmfPUAT

(Thru 6/2)

Preview performance 

Directed by Jane Nichols 

UW Drama will stage the witty Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur's translation of Molière's Les Femmes Savantes. Two sisters, one intellectual and one romantic, clash over a suitor. 

Tickets $10 
https://drama.washington.edu/events/2019-05-22/learned-ladies

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 6/1)

by Stephen Sondheim 
Directed by Julia Griffin
Music direction by Aimee Hong

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun! 

A modern reboot with a gender-bending cast.  

Tickets $25
https://rebootsweeneytodd.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 6/9)

by Tanya Barfield
Directed by Annie Lareau 

When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they come to set their sights on a child from Africa. But when the reality of this choice sinks in, it opens a well of uncertainty that speaks to their very identity as White Americans. Politically-charged and tack-sharp, The Call is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.  

Tickets $34 
https://www.seattlepublictheater.org/the-call

(Thru 6/23)

Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed
Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos
Co-Conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos
Directed by Courtney Sale 

Anonymous online columnist “Sugar” receives thousands of letters asking for advice, and with her own particular brand of brutal honesty and incisive empathy, helps those seeking guidance for life obstacles both large and small. It is later revealed that “Sugar” is author Cheryl Strayed (Wild). Based on the best-selling book by Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things is a luminous play that personifies the unfathomable questions that are at the heart of being human.

Tickets up to $66
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/TB/Synopsis

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/22)

by Ins Choi
Co-Directed by David Hsieh & Scott Nolte

Enter Kim's Convenience store and meet the Kims, a loving, if imperfect, Korean family making their way in Toronto. As they face an uncertain future Appa (dad), Umma (mom), their unmarried daughter Janet and disappointing son Jung learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story reminds us that family isn't always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Tickets up to $50 
http://taproottheatre.org/shows/2019/kims-convenience/

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 5/25, different lineups each weekend)

14/48: Nordo combines the pressure-cooker of The World’s Quickest Theater Festival with the immersive experience and culinary excellence of Café Nordo. On the Sunday night of each week, four playwrights are paired with four chefs, given a random ingredient and a common theme, a randomly selected director, and a randomly drawn cast. They will have four days to write, rehearse, prepare recipes, and serve audiences the fruits of their labors on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights: four plays interwoven with a four-course meal.

Tickets $65 
https://www.the1448projects.org/nordo 

(Thru 5/19) 

When your arms ached, I watched the Mountain hold its fragile form is a durational performance that explores the connection between embodied strength and submission. Juxtaposing the imagery of the female body with that of the mountain, Swersky navigates objectification, resilience and the inevitability of aging. Provoking the allure and control of the male gaze, Swersky brings the omnipresent into view. Marking her first evening-length solo performance, Mountain is a journey through oppression and sorrow towards grace and collective empowerment. 

NOTE: performance is preceded by durational ritual, during which audience may come & go. Schedule for full weekend is: 

Fri - Sat, May 17-18
Durational Ritual | 7-9pm (come and go as you please)
Performance | 9pm (recommended arrival time at 8:30pm) 

Sun, May 19
Durational Ritual | 6-8pm (come and go as you please)
Performance | 8pm (recommended arrival time at 7:30pm) 

Tickets $15 ($18 at the door) 
https://sheisthemountain.brownpapertickets.com/

(Thru 5/19)

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer who works in multiple contexts, including in theatres and museums. Engaging with affect and empathy, her choreography considers the social inscriptions of the body while evoking its potentiality. Her work can be described as experientially rich and complex. Within her practice, Lewis continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. 

minor matter is the second part in Lewis's newly completed triptych, BLUE, RED, WHITE. Materializing thoughts between love and rage, Lewis and two performers move with and against one another, their bodies become engaged in a complicated entanglement with the black box and themselves. Between light and shadow, reference and imagination, affect and embodiment, questions of re-presentation, presentation, abstraction and the limits of signification emerge. Inminor matter, sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Through a dynamic interplay of the theatre’s parts—sound, light, image, and architecture—minor mattergives life to a vibrant materiality.

On the Boards will present Sorrow Swag, Part I in Lewis's triptych, over the course of the same weekend as minor matter, giving audiences a unique opportunity to view both works back-to-back. 

Tickets $26 
https://www.ontheboards.org/performances/ligia-lewis-minor-matter

Pass for both shows $45 ($22.50 each)
https://ontheboards.secure.force.com/ticket/?acode=e7ca54a6d8abf887b2e09dd7f9de5b74#sections_a0F2I00000NTmfPUAT

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/ 

(Thru 5/26)

Music & lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & lyrics by Greg Kotis 
Directed by Bill Berry 

Set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies, the citizens must now use the public pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent but no one ever returns. With fee increases in the pipeline, the poor rise up to fight the tyrannical to make the public amenities free for all to use. Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself.

Tickets up to $107 
https://acttheatre.org/season/2019-2/urinetown/

(Thru 6/2)

by Christina Ham
Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton

When 'The High Priestess of Soul' Nina Simone heard about the tragic bombing death of four young girls in an Alabama church in 1963, the songstress turned to her music as a means of expressing the country's agony. 'Four Women' and Simone's other evocative activist anthems sang a truth that the world needed to hear. And it is a truth that remains sung to this day. Through storytelling, debate, and music, Nina Simone: Four Women immerses us in the complex harmony of protest.

Tickets 
https://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1819/NS/Synopsis

(Thru 5/19)

Experience the unexpected, fresh from the imaginations of Washington State playwrights. Thought-provoking, engaging, all-new plays. 

Festival includes two award-winning shows for the first two weeks and then two more award-winning shows for the last two weeks. Come twice and see them all!

First installment includes: 

THE GREAT FISH & JONAH  
Written by Matthew Weaver  
This one-act comedy is a humorous modern take on the classic story of Jonah and the Whale (er, 'Great Fish').   

GOLDENDALE  
Written by Kevin K. Berry  
The Martins are selling their house in a small farming town in Washington until they find out the couple buying are two men. Full-length drama.

Combined, the perfomances are just over 3 hours (with 2 intermissions). 

Tickets $12 
https://burienactorstheatre.org/shows/current-season

(Thru 5/19) 

by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jerry Dixon 
Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon

Winner of five Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards, this compelling sensory drama is based on the award-winning book of the same name. When 15-year-old Christopher is wrongfully accused of murdering his neighbor’s dog, he sets off to solve the mystery and prove his innocence. Equipped with an extraordinary brain, but hampered by a strong distrust of strangers and a personal struggle to interpret everyday life, this adventure will turn his life upside-down – while giving the audience an intimate look at the world through his eyes.

Tickets up to $69 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/everett/curious-incident-dog-night.php 

(Thru 6/23, followed by run in Everett) 

Book by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Scott Weinstein
Music Direction by Chuck Mead

The blockbuster hit story of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins returns to Village Theatre’s stage – 12 years after shaping its triumphant premiere. This powerhouse musical had audiences on their feet, first in Issaquah and Everett, and then on Broadway before going to London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and across the country on tour, garnering awards and critical acclaim along the way. Now, it returns home complete with the hit songs of the 1950s you know and love.

Tickets up to $84 
https://www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah/million-dollar-quartet.php

(Thru 6/9)

by Tanya Barfield
Directed by Annie Lareau 

When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they come to set their sights on a child from Africa. But when the reality of this choice sinks in, it opens a well of uncertainty that speaks to their very identity as White Americans. Politically-charged and tack-sharp, The Call is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.  

Tickets $34 
https://www.seattlepublictheater.org/the-call

(Thru 5/26)

Climate change -- its effects on our planet, the current white-hot debate of its very existence, the promise that there is still time to change its course, the nagging feeling in the populace that time has run out -- is arguably the most important, universal, global issue of our current moment. 

And yet, most of us find only deep confusion when attempting to engage with the issue. The most successful tactic by far is to simply disconnect. A thoughtful exploration of social conscience, personal ambition, and deep time, Time to Tell provides an opportunity to complicate our biases and bring our confusions into the light. Are our beliefs helping us, or hindering us from a greater and more fruitful understanding? 

Initially devised during a rehearsal/workshop process involving the collaboration of lauded American poet Elyse Fenton and a twelve-member ensemble, a workshop version of Time to Tell was publicly presented in September 2017 at the Lee Center for the Arts with support from Seattle University. 

Tickets $30 
https://acttheatre.org/actlab/time-to-tell/

(Thru 5/26) 

by Julia Cho 
Directed by Mathew Wright 

Alarmed by his grisly writings, a professor invites a troubled student to her office to shed light on – and build a bridge across – the dark clouds that surround him. As the clock ticks down and tensions rise, she learns that notions of “good” and “bad” are dangerous illusions. A stirring call for empathy and a bold experiment in form, this searing play tackles thorny issues of gun violence, immigration, and “the other” to reveal our essential, human need for connection. 

Content note: Office Hour features realistic, non-firing prop guns, loud recorded gun shots, and depictions of violence. 

Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets $42 
https://www.artswest.org/theatre-plays/office-hour/ 

(Thru 5/19) 

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Janet Allen

The Diary of Anne Frank is the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne Frank. First published over 70 years ago, Anne’s words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” 

Co-production with the Indiana Rep. 

Tickets $45
https://www.sct.org/onstage/productions/the-diary-of-anne-frank/