Take A Uniquely Pacific Northwest Trip to The Emerald City

By: May. 25, 2017
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"The Wizard of Oz" of Oz at Kitsap Forest Theater opens Sunday, May 28. It runs 4 weekends, with Memorial Day weekend performances on Sunday, May 28 and Monday, May 29, then Saturdays and Sundays June 3-18. Show time is always 2:00 pm. Doors open at 1:00pm. General Seating.

Ticket prices are $18 for adults, $16 for Students and Military (with ID) and Seniors, $10 for children 6-12 (children < 6 are free). Tickets are good for any performance. Tickets are good for any performance. Theater Puget Sound members can show their card to get 1 free ticket with purchase of a ticket.

Kitsap Forest Theater (KFT) is one of the oldest theaters in Washington State and a uniquely Pacific Northwestern venue. Just 15 minutes from the Bremerton ferry dock, this natural outdoor amphitheater situated on a 670-acre forest preserve and surrounded by rhododendron and old-growth forest, including Western Cedar and Douglas Fir clocking in at hundreds of feet tall, transports you into a magical space. It's easy to see why a 1921 newspaper article described it as, "the only real forest theatre in the United States." As Harriet Walter wrote in 1956, "There are other outdoor theaters, to be sure, but none quite like ours, none that seem to have grown up out of the ground as a very part of the virgin forest."

Operated by the nonprofit Mountaineers organization, Kitsap Forest Theater has been producing spring musicals since 1921. The theater holds approximately 700 people and produces two shows/year, one in the spring and another in the summer. This year, the spring show is the classic "The Wizard of Oz".

The theater is ideal for families and children. House doors open at 1:00 pm, but audiences are welcome to come early and picnic under the firs before the show or hike the trail to "Big Tree", one of the largest accessible Douglas Firs in the U.S. Stroll down the forested trail to our unique and breathtaking theater and create a treasured family tradition - all ages will delight in this fun Northwest experience.



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