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The eclectic music and arts festival THING, produced by Seattle Theatre Group (STG), will happen in 2024 at STG's new outdoor venue at Remlinger Farms in Carnation, Washington from August 9 to 11.

West of Lenin & The Panel Jumper will present The Panel Jumper **LIVE** on Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 8:00pm PST, celebrating the magic of Nerd Culture in its myriad forms.

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 Spring 2024 include Aladdin​​​​​​​ and more.

Taking Leave  by Nagle Jackson and directed by Melanie Gladstone comes to The Dukesbay Theater this month.

Vanity Fair will be presented at the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse from March 7, 2024, to March 16, 2024, directed by Kate Drummond, a candidate in the MFA in Directing program at the UW School of Drama.

Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr and Managing Director Laura Lee have announced Village Theatre’s 2024-2025 Mainstage season featuring four musicals and one play, performed by some of the top talent in the region. Learn more about the lineup here!

Intiman Theatre’s annual Share the Love campaign will explore the role of art in revolution through special events with local luminaries including Valerie Curtis-Newton, Misha Berson, Vivian Phillips, Gabriel Teodros, and more.

How far back can you remember? When you were 10? 5? Do you remember the day you were born? Probably not. That is what makes the subject of D.W. Gregory’s Memoirs of a Forgotten Man so incredible, he can. Thalia’s Umbrella’s productions of the four-person play, masterfully directed by Terry Edward Moore and housed at 12th Avenue Arts, has officially opened, and this is one you truly don’t want to miss…or forget.

 Tacoma Arts Live will present Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’ ®, produced by GFour Productions, at Pantages Theater on Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Seattle Shakespeare Company will present an all new play written by Seattle favorite, Keiko Green and directed by Interim Artistic Director Makaela Milburn. Running March 20 – April 7, 2024 at the Center Theater.

Seattle Public Theater is currently hosting the world premiere of Maggie Lee’s play, Once More, Just For You, directed by Amy Poisson. With a three-person cast and a homemade time travel machine, this show could be of particular interest to Seattle’s sci-fi fans. 

Tacoma Little Theatre and The University of Washington-Tacoma Theatre Department will bring to life Jonathan Larson's Tony-Award winning musical RENT. Learn more about the production here!

Sound Theatre has joined Theatre Puget Sound's Space4Arts Resident Theatre Cohort, finding a permanent home at Seattle Center Armory. Learn more about the partnership here!

Love is in the air this February at Key City Public Theatre, a one-night concert featuring musical favorites that explore the many emotions of love. Don't miss out on this SOLD OUT event!

Seattle Shakespeare Company dives into their third indoor mainstage production with their first-ever commissioned work, The Bed Trick, written by Keiko Green.

 In April, the musical Justice will open in Langley with a three-week run (April 11-27) at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA)—the 2023 winner of the Gregory Award for Outstanding Theatre in the North Puget Sound Region. 

On February 29th, 2024, Juan Forno, the second ever Latin Canadian born comedian to headline a comedy club in the United States, will be bringing his Comedy Tour, “John Forno is Dead” to Tacoma, WA.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the lineup and music director for the 23rd Annual More Music @ The Moore, a program that brings together young local musicians for a live performance on March 22, 2024, at the Moore Theatre.

Learn about the intricacies of set design with Carey Wong as he spills the paint... we mean secrets on the 5th Avenue Theatre's production of Something's Afoot in an all-new video.

Dear Readers, if you know me at all you know my disdain for most things Andrew Lloyd Webber. With so much repetition and borrowing from other’s works, I just don’t see the appeal. But many love him and so it should come as no surprise that Showtunes Theatre would choose to dust off one of his grander works, “Sunset Boulevard” for their latest concert. And while the leads certainly got to show off their talents, I question the choice of this one and the presentation, beyond it being an ALW work.

This weekend, Intiman Theatre and The Seagull Project opened their outstanding, heart-wrenching, and purposefully uncomfortable production of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths. Housed at the Erickson Theater, the extremely cohesive 14-person cast takes the audience on a journey that is intertwined with effective social commentary and award-worthy performances.

The MAP Theatre gang is back, Dear Readers, and as usual they’re not ones to shy away from the bizarre with their latest offering, “Blood Countess” by Kelleen Conway Blanchard. This gothic, horror, sex, comedy doesn’t pull any punches. I just question if it needed all the punches it landed.

ReAct Theatre presents the Seattle premiere of ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER by Rajiv Joseph, a moving and timely comedy/drama directed by Julie Beckman. Don't miss this captivating production!

If you’re unfamiliar with the playwright Samuel D. Hunter, Dear Readers, you shouldn’t be. His latest, “A Case for the Existence of God”, currently playing at ACT, isn’t the first of his we’ve seen in the area. We were blessed with his “A Great Wilderness” back in 2014, plus his “The Whale” which first got a workshop at the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, not to mention it’s latest life as an Oscar winning film in 2022. His raw takes on modern lives are exhilarating and his current production at ACT is no different.

Seattle’s top young jazz musicians will be performing at the Starbucks 27th Annual Hot Java Cool Jazz event at The Paramount Theatre. The concert is on Friday, March 29, 2024, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now.