Justin Huertas News

BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue shares her top picks for musicals at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Know Theatre's twenty-fifth MainStage season will whisk you from the Grand Canyon to small-town England, hunt for magic in the Seattle streets and the Texas plains, and unravel secrets hiding in your household items and in post-apocalyptic forests - all within the walls of thei 99-seat black box theatre in Over-the-Rhine.

Seattle Rep has announced its complete 2022/23 season made up of plays filled with life-changing journeys and personal odysseys of transformation that will serve to remind us that we are often at our best when we can gather to share experiences together.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announces its 2022–2023 Theater Season featuring the return of the Kennedy Center's acclaimed, self-produced Broadway Center Stage series. The series will include Stephanie J. Block starring in Sunset Boulevard.

LIZARD BOY, the new hit indie rock musical sensation from the US, will make its UK debut at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester and Gilded Balloon's Patter Hoose at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Intiman Theatre announces the cast and ticket sales for the Pacific Northwest premiere of Two Mile Hollow by Leah Nanako Winkler and directed by Jesse Jou. This will be the first Intiman production at Broadway Performance Hall (1625 Broadway, Seattle 98122) after the company relocated to Seattle Central College in Capitol Hill. The comedy will show April 26 - May 14, 2022 and tickets are now on sale.

Afterwords is the 24th new musical produced by The 5th Avenue Theatre and features music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and a book by Emily Kazmarek, with direction by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, choreography by Ebony Williams, and music supervision by Matt Perri.

Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals will return to the Goodspeed campus January 31 - February 27, 2022 after being virtual in 2021.

In Seattle we are blessed with an abundance of theatrical riches and none more welcome and prolific as composer and storyteller Justin Huertas. Ever since he burst on the scene in 2015 with the brilliant “Lizard Boy”, Huertas has continued to thrill audiences with his singular musical theater storytelling with shows such as “Howl’s Moving Castle”, “The Lamplighter” and “The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion”. Now he’s back at ArtsWest with his latest, “We’ve Battled Monsters Before” and, while it takes a bit of time to take off, it comes together nicely leaving the audience itching for more.

 In its world premiere, Justin Huertas' latest musical WE'VE BATTLED MONSTERS BEFORE will play at ArtsWest from November 26 through December 26, with ArtsWest Artistic Director Mathew Wright directing.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley opens its much-anticipated 51st season with a sensational production of Lizard Boy, first time playwright-actor-composer Justin Huertas' quirky mythological hero journey that is both a universal and deeply individual story of accepting oneself.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley returns to in-person performances, launching its 51st season with the new indie folk-rock musical Lizard Boy. A cast of three exceptionally talented actor/singer/musicians play myriad instruments from cello to guitar, piano, ukulele, and even kazoo in telling this fresh comic book-infused tale set in modern-day Seattle.

BroadwayWorld talks to Justin Huertas, the multi-talented playwright, composer and star of 'Lizard Boy' at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. His new indie folk-rock music will be performed live in person Oct. 6 to 31 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, kicking off TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 51st season.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley returns to in-person performances, launching its 51st season with the new indie folk-rock musical Lizard Boy.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will resume in-person performances when it launches its previously announced 51st season, featuring eight plays and musicals presented October 2021 through August 2022, kicking off with the new indie folk-rock musical Lizard Boy.

Video streaming will be offered for Lizard Boy, allowing patrons to watch either from home or in-theatre. Patrons who purchase a streaming ticket will be emailed a link to stream the program at home on their computer, SmartTV or other device. Further details about streaming tickets will be available in September.

The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced that The Lamplighter, a new musical with a book by Sara Porkalob, music and lyrics by Justin Huertas, and story by Kirsten “Kiki” deLohr Helland, Huertas, and Porkalob, concludes the trio of Musical Radio Plays it will produce in its 2020/21 digital season.

ArtsWest has announced their 2021-2022 season WHEN WE WAKE, with six productions – three world premieres and three Seattle premieres – featuring plays by innovative and original new voices in the American theater.

As we edge ever closer to a return to in-person events at Seattle Center, June offers a vast variety of online options. They include cultural festivals, classical music and dance, varied cinema and theater, virtual classes and workshops and more.

Dear Readers, it’s so good to be able to call you all that again. I’m so pleased to announce that live theatre has returned to the Seattle area. That doesn’t mean we’re completely back to normal, but it is a start, as The Williams Project has put together “The Campfire Festival”. And with its rotating slate of shows, they remind us of what we’ve been missing, and longing for.