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Dear Readers, I love a good farce.

Pony World Theatre will present the world premiere of Brendan Healy’s Eulogy, or How to Plan Your Own Funeral (and Have Fun Doing It!) October 23–November 15, 2025, at 12th Avenue Arts in Seattle.

CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake.

Seattle Chamber Music Society has acquired The Concert Truck, a mobile concert hall that brings world-class performances to schools, parks, and community spaces.

Sometimes, Dear Readers, a play can come along that feels so topical, and so raw, that you may walk out of the theater feeling uneasy.

On September 2, the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA) announced the establishment of the Marcia and Klaus Zech Endowment with a $1 million gift from long-time arts supporters and former board members Marcia and Klaus Zech.

Tacoma Little Theatre will open its 107th season with Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, brought to life on the stage as a regional premiere.

Dear Readers, what did you want to be when you grew up? Firefighter? Doctor? Lawyer? Bathroom attendant? Dragon? All worthy goals.

The Hitchcock Hotel has officially opened its doors, welcoming audiences into a world of supernatural mischief, sultry spectacle, and spine-tingling delight.

Musical theater productions serve different purposes: some embrace or challenge the cultural milieu, keeping audiences keenly aware of the context with which the musical exists, and others invite a full escape, an invitation into a completely different world.

Dear Readers, lately it feels like our most basic and dearly held civil liberties are being stripped away.

Dear Readers, first off there were way too many empty seats at the Paramount last night for the new musical version of “Some Like It Hot”.

We sat down with playwright Larissa FastHorse and actor Burgandi Trejo Phoenix—who alternate starring in the role of Lara in Fancy Dancer—to chat about working on world premieres, telling your own story, and the importance of community and intergenerational experiences.

Unexpected Productions’ Rocky Horror Improv Show returns to Pike Place Market this October, with a late-night improvised rock musical parody inspired by the cult classic.

From the creators of Scott Shoemaker’s War on Christmas, the Ms.

As If Theatre Company and Circle of Fire Theatre have announced their upcoming co-production of John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar.

Pony World Theatre will present the world premiere of Eulogy, or How to Plan Your Own Funeral (and Have Fun Doing It!), running October 23–November 15, 2025 at 12th Avenue Arts in Seattle.

STG’s Silent Movie Mondays returns to The Paramount Theatre for the 2025–26 season with four centennial classics: Battleship Potemkin, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Faust, and The General.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

The 5th Avenue Theatre Company has announced the return of its groundbreaking Rising Star Project, a tuition-free youth education program that gives Washington State students the opportunity to lead a professional theatrical production.

Intiman Theatre ihas announced the cast for the beloved holiday tradition, Langston Hughes' Black Nativity.

What do we mean when we say someone is “like family”? In Washington Ensemble Theatre’s Hells Canyon, playwright Keiko Green takes that question and reveals the complicated debts, histories, and power dynamics hiding underneath.

Seattle Opera will open its 2025/26 season with Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comedy The Pirates of Penzance, marking the first time a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta has been produced at the company.

Dear Readers, whether you want to admit it or not, we all love a little bit of schadenfreude to some extent.

Village Theatre will soon present one of the most romantic musicals ever written: Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon, the first production of the theatre’s 2025-2026 season.