Seattle Theatre Newsroom

 The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA will open its 2025 Annual Young Artist Concerto Competition with a National Call for Entries, announced by VSO's CEO Dr. Igor Shakhman.

 The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA will open its 2025 Annual Young Artist Concerto Competition with a National Call for Entries, announced by VSO's CEO Dr. Igor Shakhman.

Multidisciplinary artist Ahamefule J. Oluo brings a new work THE THINGS AROUND US to Intiman Theatre. Check out photos from the show. The Things Around Us is a dazzling new work from acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist, Ahamefule J. Oluo.

Liverpool Legends will bring The Complete Beatles Experience to the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, May 4, 2025. The show will take place at 7:30 pm. Check here for more information.

Liverpool Legends will bring The Complete Beatles Experience to the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, May 4, 2025. The show will take place at 7:30 pm. Check here for more information.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA) will bring Joseph Stein’s beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof to the stage, April 11 through April 27. Check here for more information.

Due to popular demand, Eddie Izzard's solo performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet has been extended by one week at Seattle Rep's Leo K. Theatre. Learn more about the show here!

Due to popular demand, Eddie Izzard's solo performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet has been extended by one week at Seattle Rep's Leo K. Theatre. Learn more about the show here!

Cornelia, an advanced operating system, is born in a factory in China in a ritual that carefully prepares her to be sent to serve her first owner. With this image the audience is taken into the world of Cornelia's Visitors, a play written by Argentine playwright Julieta Vitullo, directed by Montse Garza, and produced by Seattle's first and foremost Latine theatre company, eSe Teatro.

Cornelia, an advanced operating system, is born in a factory in China in a ritual that carefully prepares her to be sent to serve her first owner. With this image the audience is taken into the world of Cornelia's Visitors, a play written by Argentine playwright Julieta Vitullo, directed by Montse Garza, and produced by Seattle's first and foremost Latine theatre company, eSe Teatro.

Created by and starring Cherdonna Shinatra, the dancer, comedian and drag chanteuse brings her unique brand of avant-garde antics to this all-new show created exclusively for the Intiman Cabaret.

Cowboy Junkies will be performing a career-spanning show from The Trinity Session to their recent album, Such Ferocious Beauty! at Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA) in the Katherine L. White Hall (19600 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, WA 98070), taking place on Friday, June 27, 2025 at 7:30 pm.

Cowboy Junkies will be performing a career-spanning show from The Trinity Session to their recent album, Such Ferocious Beauty! at Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA) in the Katherine L. White Hall (19600 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, WA 98070), taking place on Friday, June 27, 2025 at 7:30 pm.

Tacoma Little Theatre will bring the disturbing thriller, Bug, to its stage. Bug will run Friday, April 25, through Sunday, May 11, 2025, for a total of 10 performances.

Tacoma Little Theatre will bring the disturbing thriller, Bug, to its stage. Bug will run Friday, April 25, through Sunday, May 11, 2025, for a total of 10 performances.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG), the nonprofit arts organization and independent event promoter that operates four historic arts spaces in Seattle (The Paramount, Moore, and Neptune Theatres and Kerry Hall), has announced that it has reached an agreement with the University of Washinton and The 5th Avenue Theatre Company.

Seattle is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for April 2025 include PARADE and more.

The 5th Avenue Theatre Company and Seattle Theatre Group are launching a new strategic alliance that will strengthen and preserve the musical company’s role in staging award-winning locally produced live theater. Learn more about the 25/26 season!

Dear Readers, in the past I’ve talked about plays that are essential for your theatrical education, plays that are just good for you. If those fluff plays out there are candy, then these essentials are your vegetables. Once such play is Lorraine Hansberry’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic from 1959, “A Raisin in the Sun”, considered by many to be one of the best plays written. But there’s nothing saying that these essential plays can’t be entertaining, as is evident in the current production at Taproot Theatre. They’ve expertly given us our veggies but cooked them to perfection and given some delicious seasoning or sauce to make it all go down well.

Seattle Shakespeare Company's free Wooden O production for the summer of 2025 will be William Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, As You Like It. Performances begin Thursday, July 10.

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and lecherous baron.

Scott Shoemaker's: PROBED! will play six shows at the Intiman Cabaret, April 10-13. From Seattle-based theater company Shoes and Pants Productions. Tables and tickets for Scott Shoemaker's :PROBED! are now on sale.

Get a first look at Waitress - a co-production between 5th Avenue Theatre and TUTS Houston. Waitress is slated to run at the Seattle theatre from March 11-30, 2025. The production then plays Houston April 6-27, 2025.

Dive into the depths of dreams and nightmares with The Shape of the Night, an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind immersive evening that blurs the boundaries between art, theater, and reality.

New subscriptions packages are availalbe for Broadway at The Paramount's 2025-26 season. Packages include seven season shows. See the shows here and learn how to purchase tickets.