Theater Search
Boeing Boeing
Tues-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 and 7:30 pm. Through May 19.Theater
A 1960s musical farce (recently revived in London and New York) about Bernard, a swinging bachelor entangled with three stewardesses. $15-$80.
Gypsy
Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through May 19.Theater
Gypsy Rose Lee (born in Seattle) was reared by her stage mother to be a vaudeville performer. Instead, Gypsy became a star in the world of burlesque, emphasizing the "tease" in striptease. Her memoirs were adapted into the acclaimed comedic musical by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents. $35-$40.
Not All Clowns Are Bozos V: Not Our First Rodeo
Thurs-Sun at 7:30 pm. Through May 19.Theater
Ear to the Ground presents the fifth edition of its clowning-for-people-who-think-they-hate-clowning showcase. Featuring best-of performances from past years, including work by Valerie Moseley and Cecelia Frye, Mary Purdy and Keith Hitchcock, Linda Severt, and others. $10-$15.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Tues at 7:30 pm, Wed at 7:30 and 10 pm. Through May 22.Theater
Actor, writer, comedian, and This American Life regular Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) tell tales from "a lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues." The show has been popular during its New York and Chicago runs. $35.
Star Crossed, and other tales from a devious universe
Tues-Wed at 8 pm. Through May 22.Theater
Eight short plays—four of which follow an astronaut on her scientific journey away from and back to love—written by Scotto Moore (A Mouse Who Knows Me, Duel of the Linguist Mages), directed by five directors, and featuring an ensemble cast. $5-$10.
Lollyville: The Workshop
Fri May 24 at 8 pm.Theater
Lollyville is a communal village entirely inhabited by women, and one ghost. Playwrights Bret Fetzer and Juliet Waller Pruzan weave a modern fairytale about loneliness, love, and school reports about ladybugs. Talkback with the playwrights and director Kristina Sutherland to follow. Macha Monkey Productions at $10.
33 Variations
Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Through May 25.Theater
Nominated for five Tony Awards, Moises Kauffman's play is a drama set in New York City and Austria about a mother and a composer separated by 200 years. $10-$45.
Team of Heroes: No More Heroes
Thurs-Sat at 8 pm. Through May 25.Theater
Writer Alexander Harris and director Jaime Roberts return with (almost all of) the original cast members for the final installment in the superhero trilogy about "the underbelly of doing good," which Paul Constant has described as "a superhero movie made on a tiny theater budget." $5-$20.
The Temperamentals
Thurs-Sat at 7:30 pm, select Sun matinees. Through May 25.Theater
A play by Jon Marans about a love affair between two of the founding members of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the U.S. The title comes from the early-20th Century usage of the word "temperamental," which is slang for "homosexual." "An eminently likable docudrama about gay identity in the age of Eisenhower" (New York Times). $12-$20.
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1 and 3 pm. Through May 26.Theater
A puppet version of the classic fable about three goats who attempt to cross a bridge, guarded by a troll. Thistle Theater company uses Bunraku, full-body, and rod puppets, designed and built by Brian Kooser. Featuring two puppeteers and original music. $8-$10.
Grey Gardens
Tues-Wed at 7:30 pm, Thurs-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm, Sun at 2 and 7 pm. Through June 2.Theater
"Directed by Kurt Beattie, Grey Gardens is a musical based on the fascinating real-life story of Edith and Little Edie, a mother and daughter from the wealthy Bouvier-Beale clan, once great socialites (and cousins of Jackie O) who became fallen, cat-food-snarfing shut-ins. Act one (the problem!) takes place in July 1941, when the Bouvier-Beales are living high on the gilded hog in their still-glorious Hampton estate. This part of the legend is necessary for context, to introduce the family, and to properly frame their fall. It needs to be, you know... there. But it is not worth fully one-half of this darn-nigh-three-hour show. And it is definitely not the most interesting or important part of the Grey Gardens story." (Adrian Ryan) $55-$77.
In the Land of Rain and Salmon, Jewish Voices of the Northwest: 1880-1920
Sun June 2 at 2 pm.Theater
Washington State Jewish Historical Society and Book-It Repertory Theater present a theatrical adaptation of Family of Strangers, Building A Jewish Community In Washington State and other stories. Narratives in the book by Molly Cone, Howard Droker, and Jacqueline Williams with others follow the challenges and triumphs of Jewish families that arrived in Washington state between 1880 and 1920. $18-$36.
Fela!
Tues-Thurs at 7:30 pm, Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm, Sun at 1 and 6:30 pm. Through June 2.Theater
The (mostly) true story of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician and activist who helped create Afrobeat, a blend of jazz, funk, and Yoruba music. His unusual living situation (he lived in an urban commune with 27 wives) and outspoken political critiques made him a target for the Nigerian military, which attacked and killed some of his family and bandmates. (During an attack on the commune, Kuti's mother was flung out of a window and killed.) Directed by Bill T. Jones, the musical mostly focuses on Kuti's sonic inventiveness and the generation of Africans he inspired. $20-$85.
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Sat-Sun at 1 and 3 pm. Through June 2.Theater
A puppet version of the classic fable about three goats who attempt to cross a bridge, guarded by a troll. Thistle Theater company uses Bunraku, full-body, and rod puppets, designed and built by Brian Kooser. Featuring two puppeteers and original music. $8-$10.
Two Rooms
Thurs-Mon at 8 pm. Through June 3.Theater
A dramatic work by Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) about Lainie, who imagines negotiating conversations with the U.S. State Department and press about her husband, who is being held hostage in Lebanon. Produced by Confrontational Theater Project. $10.
The Language Archive
Thurs-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through June 9.Theater
Twin stories by Julia Cho about love and language, in which a linguist can't talk his way out of divorce and an indigenous tongue is threatened with extinction due to a lover's spat. Directed by Shana Bestock. $10-$29.
One Act Plays by Tennessee Williams
Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through June 9.Theater
University of Washington graduate students Tina Polzin and Leah Adcock-Starr directed five one act plays by Tennessee Williams, featuring an ensemble cast of graduate and undergraduate students. $10-$20.
Murder Abbey
Wed at 8 pm. Through June 12.Theater
Upright Citizens Brigade comedian Kate Hess parodies the BBC's Downton Abbey entirely on her own and with period costumes. The Daily Beast calls it one of the "six best Downton Abbey spoofs." $10.
Cloud Nine
Thurs-Sat at 7:30 pm. Through June 14.Theater
Rogue Theatrics presents Caryl Churchill's well-known 1979 queer-feminist-political play. In Act 1, a Victorian-era family plays out their drama in colonial Africa. In Act 2 we see the same family with genders reversed in 1970s London. $15-$20.
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305 Harrison St
Seattle (Downtown)
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Bach at Leipzig
Wed-Thurs at 7:30 pm, Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm. Through June 15.Theater
Set in 18th-century Germany, Itamar Moses (Outrage, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us) composes a fictional story—structured like a fugue—about J.S. Bach vying against German organists who play dirty as they all reach for the position as prime organist and musical director. $20-$40.
Quickies: Volume 14
Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 4 and 8 pm. Through June 15.Theater
The return of Live Girls! annual short play festival featuring women playwrights. $15-$20.
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409 Seventh Ave S
Seattle (International District)
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Sandbox One-Act Play Festival
Thurs-Sat at 8 pm. Through June 15.Theater
The Sandbox Artists Collective presents new one-act plays written by Scot Auguston, Elizabeth Heffron, Paul Mullin, and Emily Conbere. Directed by Julie Beckman, Carol Roscoe, Annie Lareau, and Andrew McGinn. $15.
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