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Seattle Celebrates Calendar of Activities
By: Julie Musbach Feb. 07, 2018
The city-wide Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare festival is underway with performances of Peerless-a clever and incisive adaptation of Macbeth-with performances running through February 11. The festival will be ongoing from January through July with the bulk of festival events taking place in April and May of 2018 and features participation from more than 25 of Seattle's world-class arts and culture organizations.
Visit Seattle, the Emerald City's official destination marketing organization, partnered with festival leaders to build a centralized website, www.seattlecelebrates.org, for all Seattle Celebrates events where a complete listing of events can be found. Upcoming events include Romeo and Juliet by Can Can Culinary Cabaret (February 9 - April 29), Beatrice and Benedict-a collaboration between Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony and ACT - A Contemporary Theatre (February 24 - March 10) and Sounds and Sweet Airs by Seattle Pro Musica (March 11-18), among many others. A complete list of participating organizations and their events is included in this release.
This is the second iteration of the "Seattle Celebrates" festivals. The first was Seattle Celebrates Bernstein in 2010, a festival honoring the great works of Leonard Bernstein. The festival series is designed to recognize shared cultural touchstones that transcend the boundaries of artistic mediums and draw a local and national spotlight on the superb quality of Seattle's arts organizations.
Participating Companies
ArtsWest
Peerless
January 18 - February 11, 2018
Can Can Culinary Cabaret
Romeo and Juliet
February 9 - April 29, 2018
Centerstage Theatre
Return to the Forbidden Planet
March 16-30, 2018
Cornish College of the Arts
Much Ado About Nothing
April 20-29, 2018 (Alhadeff Studio at Cornish Playhouse, Seattle)
http://www.cornish.edu/calendar/event/2022/much_ado_about_nothing_show/
DACHA Theatre
Shakespeare Dice: Hamlet
March 23 - April 8, 2018 (Russian Community Center, Seattle)
Early Music Seattle
Seattle Baroque Orchestra: The Fairy Queen
March 17, 2018, Nordstrom Recital Hall
Greenstage Shakespeare in the Park and Backyard Bard
"Greenstage Shakespeare in the Park" and "Backyard Bard"
July 13 - August 18, 2018 (Seattle's Public Parks)
http://greenstage.org/shakespeare-in-the-park/
Pacific Northwest Ballet
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Excerpts performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet School)
June 16, 2018 (McCaw Hall)
Seattle Historical Arts for Kids
Daphne Replies: Shakespearean Song Reimagined
May 5, 2018 (Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center)
Seattle Opera
Beatrice & Benedict
Presented in collaboration with ACT and Seattle Symphony
February 24 - March 10, 2018
Seattle Pro Musica
Sounds and Sweet Airs
March 11, 2018 (Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood)
March 17, 2018 (First Baptist Church, Seattle)
March 18, 2018 (Faith Lutheran Church, Redmond)
Seattle Public Theatre
Shakespeare Intensive for Adults with upstart crow collective Co-Founder Kate Wiesnewski
March 19 (10 week class)
12th Night Production and Performance Class for 7th-12th graders
March 26 - May 20, 2018
Macbeth Production and Performance Class for 5th-8th graders
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington
April 21, 2018 (Nordstrom Recital Hall, Seattle)
April 22, 2018 (Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland)
April 23, 2018 (Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds)
May 1 - June 16, 2018
Macbeth
May 18 - June 17, 2018
Seattle Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare in Love
May 2 - June 3, 2018 (Cornish Playhouse, Seattle)
Seattle Symphony
Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet
May 17 & 20, 2018
Secondstory Repertory Theatre
The Taming of the Shrew
April 13-29, 2018
Shakesbeerience
Shakesbeerience Celebrates Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare
March 26, 2018 (Naked City Brewery & Taphouse)
Showtunes Theatre Company
The Boys from Syracuse
Produced in association with Village Theatre
March 23-25, 2018 (Nordstrom Recital Hall, Seattle)
Sound Theatre Company
ASL Presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
April 21 - May 12, 2018 (12th Avenue Arts, Seattle)
Stone Soup Theatre
Twelfth Night (Stone Soup Theatre Youth Conservatory)
April 5-7, 2018
Kiss Me Kate Spotlight Night
March 13, 2018
Kiss Me Kate
April 6-29, 2018
The Fern Shakespeare Company
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
March 9 - April 1, 2018 (The Slate Theatre, Seattle)
Theater Schmeater
Shakespeare's Lost Mixtape
March 26 - April 11, 2018
Twelfth Night Productions
Twelfth Night
April 13-22, 2018 (Youngstown Art Center, Seattle)
www.twelfthnightproductions.org
University of Washington School of Drama
12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)
February 16-25, 2018
"State of the Theatre: Shakespeare, Our Contemporary," a panel discussion of the Bard and his timeless works hosted by Misha Berson
March 12, 2018
"An Evening of Sonnets"
June 5-6, 2018
upstart crow collective
Richard the Second, a staged reading
March 23, 2018 (The Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle)
http://www.upstartcrowcollective.com/
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