The Seattle Repertory Theatre just announced their 2018/2019 season today. The full lineup, which is listed below, includes Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, an adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Nina Simone: Four Women, directed by Stranger Genius Award Winner Valerie Curtis-Newton. As of now, only season subscriptions are on sale, but we recommend marking your calendars now—and stay tuned for news about single ticket sales.
OCT 5–NOV 10
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns shows what happens when two women, Laila and Mariam, join in unbreakable friendship in wartime Kabul.
OCT 17–NOV 25
A People's History
Mike Daisey's series of monologues contrasts a standard US history book with Howard Zinn's famous re-examination of our country's existence from the point of view of the disenfranchised and oppressed.
NOV 23–DEC 30
In the Heights
After the storm of Hamilton has passed, Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical is set to shake up Seattle again. In the Heights, with a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is an ode to a diverse community in Washington Heights, New York.
FEB 22–MARCH 24, 2019
The Woman in Black
A young lawyer named Arthur Kipps discovers a ghastly supernatural mystery around the missing children of Crythin Gifford in the stage version of Susan Hill's gothic novel.
JAN 18–FEB 10, 2019
Last of the Boys
A Vietnam vet living in isolation in the California Central Valley finds his lonely existence interrupted by his army pal, the pal's girlfriend, and the pal's girlfriend's mother. This is a play by Seattle's own Steven Dietz (Fiction).
MARCH 15–APRIL 28, 2019
A Doll's House, Part 2
Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath's sequel to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House imagines the iconic feminist heroine Nora Helmer returning to the husband and children she left 15 years earlier.
APRIL 26–JUNE 2
Nina Simone: Four Women
Journey back to 1963 as Nina Simone, horrified by the killings of four black girls in the bombing of an Alabaman church, writes the agony of the civil rights struggle into her music. Valerie Curtis-Newton, a 2014 Stranger Genius Award laureate, will direct this play by Christina Ham.
MAY 17–JUNE 23
Lydia and the Troll
In Justin Huertas's very homegrown, brand-new fantasy musical, a follow-up to Howl's Moving Castle, a woman moves to Fremont and learns that trolls live among us in human form—or do they?
