70 theaters in Seattle, Washington. 60 shows playing or coming up, 3 open auditions, 49 camps and classes, 3 crew calls.
Jones Talmadge
Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble
A world-premiere Seattle production fusing aerial arts, acrobatics, dance and immersive physical theatre in a horror story about a 1940s pilot and a hive-mind creature. Written and directed by Jones Talmadge, choreographed by Anne-Marie Talmadge.
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Julieta Vitullo (written and co-created), Iveliz Martel (performed and co-created)
A bilingual solo show about love, illness and loss, told with a tape recorder, an overhead projector and a rotary phone. Written by Julieta Vitullo and performed by Iveliz Martel.
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Coco Justino
A dark satire of reality TV and violent media in which a woman with a side job she keeps quiet about takes on a ring of business moguls called the Rats. Directed by Em Majewski.
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An improvised role-playing game show in which a rotating cast performs an original B-movie horror story, scored live by improv musicians, co-produced with Washington Ensemble Theatre.
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Jet City Improv's improvised dark murder-comedy set in the Pacific Northwest: each cast member secretly learns whether they are the Survivor, Victim or Murderer, and the audience votes on who the killer is.
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Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood
Irreverent atomic-age comedy set in 1956: the widows of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein hold their annual Quiche Breakfast. Directed by Kate Jaeger; presented by Pony World Theatre.
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Traditional Japanese ghost and supernatural stories (Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan, Hyaku Monogatari Kaidan and Kido Okamoto's Kaidan series) told as a fusion of Japanese storytelling and American physical theatre. The October run restages the show with new stories and performers after a sold-out August run.
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The ensemble's second show, an improvised mix of comedy, music, dance, rap and poetry at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.
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Two teams of improvisers compete in games and scenes built from audience suggestions, with judges scoring each round.
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An improvised gothic comedy inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and audience suggestions.
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An immersive Halloween installation and monster ball conceived and directed by Lilia Deering, with installation and performance artists. Audience is invited to come costumed.
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The Dinner Detective
The Dinner Detective (Seattle)
An interactive murder-mystery dinner where a cast hidden among the guests turns everyone into a suspect, with a multi-course dinner included.
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John Chapman and Ray Cooney
A British farce about an apartment that is too convenient for romantic meetings while several people have very different plans for it, performed in Russian.
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An improvised role-playing game show in which performers compete to survive an original B-movie horror story pulled from a shaky block tower, scored live by improv musicians.
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A fully improvised horror comedy inspired by zombie films, with the audience helping decide who survives.
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Harvey Yang, Renzi Li and Eddy Xin
A staged reading of three original short scripts that explore memory, belonging, leaving and staying through the idea of 'home'. Directed by Harvey Yang.
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Molly Olis Krost
A new play that draws on Filipino mythology as a woman finds her twin sister living with a demon that hungers for newborns. Directed by Alyza DelPan-Monley.
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Nick Lang and Matt Lang (book), Jeff Blim (music and lyrics)
Teen cast and crew stage the Hatchetfield comedy about a town where people suddenly start singing and dancing, directed by Tess Berger.
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William Shakespeare
GreenStage's monthly informal reading series reads the second half of Hamlet (Act 3, scene 3 through Act 5); anyone may read along or listen, and scripts are provided.
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Vincent Delaney
Staged reading of a new play by a Pacific Northwest writer in Copious Love's Plays on Tap series, held in a Georgetown bar.
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Lisa A. Price; Max Koh; Vero Lecocq; Carolynne Wilcox
Four new plays written and directed by local women, nonbinary and transgender theatre makers, performed in rotating repertory.
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A guest researcher shares real cutting-edge science and the Bandit improv team warps it into comedy.
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A guest author, librarian or bookseller reads and answers questions, then the Bandit cast improvises a comedy set inspired by books.
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A Regency-era, Bridgerton-inspired improvised comedy of romance, rivalry and reputation.
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A completely improvised musical about the rise, drama and songs of an imaginary iconic trio.
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Guests read from their real teenage diaries and Bandit's all woman-identifying improv team turns the entries into unscripted comedy.
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Tattoo artists talk about their lives and work onstage while Bandit's improvisers create comedy from the interviews.
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The company's monthly third-Sunday variety show at the Jules Maes Saloon: a cast reads short plays by local writers, with poetry and live music. The lineup for this date has not been posted.
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Original play developed by the neurodivergent youth ensemble of Theater of Possibility
Ensemble-created one-act in which a young woman with writer's block crosses a portal into a fantasy kingdom, followed after each performance by audience-interactive explorations based on Theater of the Oppressed.
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Written and directed by Bob Gribas; original music by Angela Rinaldi-Gribas
The company's original musical adaptation of the fairy tale, performed by a multi-generational cast of young people and adults.
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William Shakespeare (adapted and directed by Cassandra Moselle)
An immersive, site-specific adaptation set at a Verona masquerade in 1913, in which audience members choose a household and follow characters through the Stimson-Green Mansion.
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Dickens's holiday tale retold as an improvised show built from audience suggestions, billed as a family tradition.
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Coco Justino
Staged reading of a new play by a Pacific Northwest writer in Copious Love's Plays on Tap series, held in a Georgetown bar.
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A new interdisciplinary performance devised with the Annex community, moving between the 1962 World's Fair, the uranium boom and 40 years of art at Annex.
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Showcase of solo shows by the Fall 2026 Solo Performances Cohort, built over a 10-week workshop series using Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum.
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Naghmeh Samini
World premiere written and directed by Seda's artistic director Naghmeh Samini, produced by Seda at 12th Avenue Arts. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 12, 2026.
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Broadway Bound Children's Theatre
Student musical for ages 5 to 12 performed by several casts, from the Peanuts comic strip.
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Christopher Kidder-Mostrom and Sasha Warren
Dickens's holiday tale retold as a Klingon warrior-honor story, performed in the original Klingon with English supertitles.
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Freddy Molitch and Scott Shoemaker
The all-star holiday variety show returns with comedy, songs, dance numbers and videos, co-produced with Theatre Off Jackson.
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Charles Dickens, adapted by Greg Carter
A four-actor, every-page narrative theatre adaptation of A Christmas Carol using found objects, clothes and furniture, directed by Greg Carter.
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Barbara Robinson
Seattle Repertory Theatre Education
Young Rep production intensive with a cast of performers ages 8 to 20 about the Herdman kids who take over the town Christmas pageant.
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Youth Conservatory (grades 3 to 9) performs the official MTI junior version of the holiday musical.
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Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
Youth Company musical cast from students in grades 3 to 8 after auditions, performed in the Eve Alvord Theatre.
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The company's monthly third-Sunday variety show at the Jules Maes Saloon: a cast reads short plays by local writers, with poetry and live music. The lineup for this date has not been posted.
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A grown-up holiday comedy mixing A Christmas Carol, Muppet-inspired characters, Christmas music and burlesque; a returning favorite whose 2025 shows sold out.
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A fully improvised Eurovision-style musical competition in which contestants chase pop super-stardom, with songs and stories built from audience suggestions.
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Opal Peachey and Mark Siano
The cabaret revue returns to the Triple Door for its 12th year. Directed by Katy Tabb.
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Broadway Bound Children's Theatre
Student musical for ages 12 to 18 about gamblers, a missionary and a showgirl in New York.
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Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell (original); Jr. edition
Youth cast (ages 10-14, grades 5-9) performs the junior edition of the musical about two brothers who try to invent musical theatre in Renaissance England.
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William Shakespeare
Cleveland High School students perform Shakespeare's comedy with Young Shakespeare Workshop teaching artists; free, funded by 4Culture.
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M.K. Wessel
Stuck in an elevator or a spaceship, three people and an alien question whether they have met before in a stylized dark science-fiction comedy. Directed by Kayla Walker.
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Else Buckley and Vale McComb
Staged reading of a new play by a Pacific Northwest writer in Copious Love's Plays on Tap series, held in a Georgetown bar.
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Youth cast (ages 8-10, grades 3-5) performs the junior edition of the fairy-tale musical about an ogre and his friends.
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Abby Mann, adapted by Greg Carter
Abby Mann's courtroom drama about personal responsibility in times of political atrocity.
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Youth Conservatory (grades 3 to 9) stages Bilbo Baggins's journey.
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Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), George Furth (book)
Sondheim's musical about Bobby, a bachelor on his 35th birthday, and his married friends. Directed by Jasmine Joshua.
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Kate Jaeger
Annex's Season 40 mainstage production written by Kate Jaeger.
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Brian Dang
A genre-bending comedy about a former police officer in a mascot costume caught in a family drama, a noir and a romance. Directed by Sasha Bailey.
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Hannah Wang
Annex's Season 40 mainstage production written by Hannah Wang.
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Phil Kenny and Reston Williams (book, music and lyrics)
The 5th Avenue Theatre Education
Washington teens ages 14-19 produce and perform the student version of the 5th Avenue's mainstage musical, working with professional mentors in cast, orchestra, design, crew, stage management and arts administration.
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Note: Tuition-based: a student takes part by enrolling ($675 plus a $25 yearly registration fee) and the audition sets roles. The home page said one spot was left on 2026-10-10. The audition location is inferred to be the studio (the page lists only the company address).
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Note: The page does not name the show; title, roles and cast size are not stated. A sign-up link is on the page. No pay is stated.
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Written and directed by Bob Gribas; original music by Angela Rinaldi-Gribas
Note: Two audition times are shown on March 7, 2027 (1:00 pm and 4:00 pm). Performance dates, rehearsal schedule and the audition format are not posted yet; the company's page lists no pay.
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Seattle Public Theater Education
Seattle Repertory Theatre Education
Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
Seattle Parks and Recreation Youth Performing Arts
Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
The 5th Avenue Theatre Education
The 5th Avenue Theatre Education
Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
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Seattle Children's Theatre Drama School
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for A Klingon Christmas Carol
youth theater
A White Center theater nonprofit that co-produces Seattle Parks and Recreation's Teen Summer Musical for ages 9 to 18. It also offers artist development for ages 15 and up and is preparing a theater company season.
Nothing announced right now
semi-professional theater company
Seattle's oldest fringe theater, founded in 1986, a democratic collective that produces new work by local playwrights. General auditions are online and ongoing.
Now playing: Rat Cage through Oct 24 · 4 more shows coming up · 2 crew calls
A Seattle company that makes original musicals for families and communities, including a musical created by and with the blind and low-vision community. It has also done South End school tours.
Nothing announced right now
A Seattle company staging contemporary plays, mostly by women writers, with sliding-scale tickets.
Nothing announced right now
Founded in 2018 as Griot Girlz and renamed Ase Theatre in December 2022, this Seattle company centers stories from the African diaspora and Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum. It offers performances, workshops and a youth program, Gxrlz Act, and performs in rented spaces such as the Erickson Theatre.
Asé Theatre Presents: Solo Fest opens Dec 3
A nonprofit black box theater in Northgate, founded in 2021, presenting its annual A Nutcracker Dream and A Christmas Carol, cabarets and a Creator's Series.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
The British-American Youth Festival Theatre, founded in 1990, runs school-year drama programs including the Chief Sealth International High School drama company and a West Seattle Intergenerational Theatre Project.
Nothing announced right now
A workshop run by Peter Temes, with the Seattle One-Act Play Project, that develops and performs new works, with a special concern for low-income high-school students. Recent shows have played ReAct Studio.
Nothing announced right now
An open theater troupe that stages a free summer show in parks, including a run at the Magnuson Park amphitheater, and holds monthly Acting Gym and Script Reading Club meetups.
Nothing announced right now
A nonprofit improv comedy theater for game-based long-form improv in Seattle and Tacoma, with classes, kids' classes and monthly shows at Seattle Open Arts Place. Performers of all skill levels are invited to join its monthly performing teams.
Mad Science opens Nov 6 · 4 more shows coming up
semi-professional theater company
A Seattle company founded by Brian Brooks and Cat Brooks, which has performed at 12th Avenue Arts and Seattle Open Arts Place and was a 2026 Theatre Puget Sound Member's Choice finalist.
Nothing announced right now
A Bengali-language amateur drama club that stages the Panodrama one-day festival of short plays each year with its own local performers and brings in visiting directors for workshops. It performs at rented stages around the region.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
A nonprofit children's musical theater in the University District. School-year productions for ages 5 to 12 and 12 to 18 give a role to every child who auditions, and it also offers summer camps and classes.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown opens Dec 4 · 1 more show coming up
A Seattle company that develops original plays and musicals, with a Plays on Tap reading series at Jules Maes Saloon in Georgetown.
Foreclosure (staged reading) opens Nov 4 · 2 more shows coming up
semi-professional theater company
A Seattle devised, ensemble theater company that has performed mostly at 12th Avenue Arts.
Trouble Feature (Dangerous Cargo) opens Oct 22 · 1 more show coming up
A short-play company staging work by local playwrights at Theatre Puget Sound's Theatre4 in the Seattle Center Armory, with open auditions.
Nothing announced right now
A Georgetown company of original short plays by local writers, with a monthly variety reading on third Sundays at the Jules Maes Saloon and full productions three times a year. Actors and playwrights are invited to contact the director to read or act.
Monthly variety reading (November) opens Nov 15 · 1 more show coming up
A nonprofit founded around Middle Eastern, North African and Arab playwrights and social-justice work, in its own space at Cherry Street Village in the Central District. It also hosts film screenings and concerts.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
A West Seattle Junction studio offering acting, musical theater and improv classes, camps and audition coaching for grades K-8 and up.
Nothing announced right now
An acting school and theater lab since 1991 at the Sandbox Artists Collective, with quarterly adult classes in acting, playwriting, improv and stage combat, and Engaged Theatre residencies.
1 camp or class
A nonprofit supporting Pacific Northwest musical theater writers through staged concerts and new musicals, including a world premiere musical co-produced with Copious Love Productions.
Nothing announced right now
semi-professional theater company
Seattle's free Shakespeare in the Park company, touring parks across Seattle, Burien, Lynnwood, Fall City and Vashon, including Lower Woodland Park and Volunteer Park. It also holds a monthly informal play-reading series at Hattie's Hat in Ballard.
Hamlet, second half (informal play reading) opens Nov 1
A nonprofit that pairs scientists, science writers and theater artists to make short plays and events about science and technology. It is a UHeights Theatre Alliance member.
Nothing announced right now
semi-professional theater company
An improv theater with its Drama Room at University Heights Center that also casts long-form improvised productions, such as improvised musicals, at West of Lenin in Fremont. Its main ensemble draws from its own classes.
Now playing: The Emerald City Slasher through Oct 31 · 8 camps and classes
semi-professional theater company
Home of A Klingon Christmas Carol, plus Cold Reads Cold Brews play readings, Monday Night Fights stage combat meet-ups and translation workshops. It produces at the TPS Center Theatre in the Seattle Center Armory and rehearses at University Heights Center.
A Klingon Christmas Carol opens Dec 4 · 1 crew call
semi-professional theater company
A Seattle company making theater since 2013, describing its work as silly, strange and heartfelt. Its shows have played Crown Hill Center, TPS Theatre4 and the Seattle Outdoor Theatre Festival.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
West Seattle children's musical theater camps for ages 7 to 13 at Fauntleroy Church UCC, run by founder Sam Turner since 2024 as the successor to Laura Drake's Stage Struck program. Each two-week camp ends in a staged musical with a live band.
Nothing announced right now
A queer artists' collective and nonprofit founded in 2020 at Cornish, making original theater and musicals by James T. Washburn. Its mission is access for artists facing institutional barriers, and it performs at several venues including Theatre Off Jackson.
Nothing announced right now
Mark Siano and Opal Peachey's cabaret theater producer, staging shows at the Triple Door and at Reverie Ballroom on Capitol Hill.
Bohemia opens Jan 21
A physical theater ensemble founded in Los Angeles with a Seattle office, which has presented its Seattle premiere at 12th Avenue Arts.
Queen of the Sky: A Demon Ballet opens Oct 21
Literary burlesque adaptations of classic plays and novels, performed as a resident company of Theatre Off Jackson. Its format is adult-oriented.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
A Wedgwood youth musical theater studio led by founder and director Eia Waltzer, with tuition-based classes and full Jr. musicals for ages 8 to 14, where every enrolled student auditions for roles. Productions play rented stages around Seattle.
Something Rotten Jr opens Jan 22 · 1 more show coming up · 1 open audition · 1 camp or class
A collaborative production company developing new plays by local writers, and a Theatre Puget Sound resident company that produces mostly at West of Lenin in Fremont.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
A teen-led theater with adult mentors, led by executive director Shana Bestock, in which teens direct, design and act in full productions and new-play festivals, with free programming. It has no home stage and plays venues such as University Heights Center and the Center Theatre at Seattle Center.
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals opens Oct 30
An ensemble working in Seattle since 2009 and a recurring producer at 12th Avenue Arts. It was a 2026 Theatre Puget Sound Member's Choice finalist.
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche opens Oct 22
semi-professional theater company
Describing itself as the oldest Asian American theater group in the Pacific Northwest, Pork Filled Productions is a resident company of Theatre Off Jackson in the Chinatown-International District, where it plays most of its shows. It is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
Nanay opens Oct 28
A queer theater company with stage and online productions, and a resident company of Theatre Puget Sound's Theatre4 in the Seattle Center Armory.
Nothing announced right now
A Pioneer Square company at ReAct Studios, staging full productions and a staged reading series.
Nothing announced right now
semi-professional theater company
A Seattle company that casts by open audition, with shows at 12th Avenue Arts, Theatre Off Jackson and the Center House Theatre at Seattle Center.
Company opens Mar 26
youth theater
A Native youth theater for ages 10 to 19, with fall and winter workshops, a spring original-play program and a summer program, all free to youth. Its theater and performance space is at King Street Station.
Nothing announced right now
Founded in 2000 by Asian American women, SIS Productions (SIS is short for Sister) is a Seattle company working to raise the visibility of Asian American artists.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
The Adrienne Dillard-Coons Drama School and Youth Company of Seattle Children's Theatre at Seattle Center, with camps and classes for ages 3.5 to 18 and a cast-by-audition Youth Company.
A Year with Frog and Toad KIDS opens Dec 11 · 10 camps and classes
semi-professional theater company
A Fremont improv theater, formerly CSz Seattle, home of ComedySportz and the Seattle School of Improv. It casts a fully improvised musical series by open audition for improvisers 21 and older.
Vision Euro Song Contest! (Season 4) opens Jan 16 · 8 camps and classes
City community-center arts classes, including Teen Improv at Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center, and the annual Teen Summer Musical for ages 9 to 18, co-produced with Acts On Stage.
1 camp or class
youth theater
The youth programs of Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse on Green Lake: the Youth Summer Production, Youth Voices, a Youth Playwriting Cohort, a Student Advisory and Teen Show Nights.
1 camp or class
youth theater
Young Rep, the youth education program of Seattle Rep, with classes for ages 13 to 20 and all-youth production intensives.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever opens Dec 10 · 1 camp or class
Seattle's first Iranian theater company, founded in 2019, producing plays in English and Persian under artistic director Naghmeh Samini and others.
The New Vocabulary of Theatre opens Dec 3
Freddy Molitch and Scott Shoemaker's company, a resident company of Theatre Off Jackson that co-produces variety theater shows there, including the Ms. Pak-Man series.
Scott Shoemaker's War on Christmas opens Dec 4
youth theater
A nonprofit acting school for ages 5 to 18, run by Michael LoSasso and housed at Trinity Parish Church on First Hill. It offers private acting lessons and creative mentoring, week-long summer intensives that end in a free performance, and after-school programs and assemblies for schools.
1 camp or class
youth theater
A youth-only theater company at Wallingford Presbyterian Church, with Youth Conservatory and Performance Programs for grades K to 9, break and summer camps and public shows. Summer camps also meet at the Meridian and Othello playgrounds.
Elf The Musical Jr. opens Dec 10 · 1 more show coming up · 5 camps and classes
semi-professional theater company
Founded in 2003 by Greg Carter, Strawberry Theatre Workshop is a Capitol Hill company that plays at 12th Avenue Arts, with sliding-scale tickets. It casts by invitation rather than open audition.
Fellow Passengers opens Dec 7 · 1 more show coming up
Taproot Theatre's Acting Studio, with youth classes and camps for Pre-K to grade 12, adult improv classes and early-stage memory loss improv classes, at Taproot and Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church.
5 camps and classes
youth theater
The youth programs of The 5th Avenue Theatre: the tuition-free Rising Star Project for ages 14 to 19 and Friday musical theater workshops for the same ages.
Rising Star Project: Alice in Neverland opens Jul 8 · 2 camps and classes
semi-professional theater company
An interactive murder-mystery dinner show at the Crowne Plaza Downtown Seattle, part of a national franchise. Its site offers a Seattle audition sign-up form for local actors.
The Dinner Detective: Interactive Murder Mystery Dinner opens Oct 24
A nonprofit, online-first improv theater whose Seattle Black Improv ensemble calls itself Seattle's first all-Black permanent improv ensemble. It also runs monthly Improv and Flow workshops and the free Unite BIPOC improv jam.
Seattle Black Improv: Tuko opens Oct 23 · 1 camp or class
Founded in 1986 with Issaquah and Snoqualmie Valley roots, this community theater now works in Seattle. It describes itself as an ensemble of novice and experienced performing artists making community productions, and rehearses at Freehold Theatre or TPS.
Nothing announced right now
A Seattle company centering women, nonbinary and transgender theater makers, presenting a New Works Festival and productions at venues such as Theatre Off Jackson and the MLK FAME Center.
2026 New Works Festival: four new plays (Anatomy of Flight, stop your crying baby, The Souls of Larks and Sparrows, Loom) opens Nov 5
A new-works nonprofit (The Underground Artist Guild) whose stated aim is theater to reduce shame and nurture community. It plays in the basement theater at Base Camp Studios in Belltown.
Nothing announced right now
A Russian-language community theater founded in Seattle in 2005 and now a nonprofit, playing comedies and one-act programs in Russian at the Ethnic Community Theater.
Now playing: How to Sign a Good Contract (Как подписать хороший контракт) through Oct 24
youth theater
An inclusive drama program founded in 2010 by Lauren Goldman Marshall for youth and young adults with autism and other ability differences and their peer allies. It offers weekly classes at University Heights Center, a summer camp at Northgate Community Center and public performances of ensemble-created plays.
The Land of Untold Stories opens Nov 20
Seattle's original improv company, founded in 1983, at the Market Theater in Pike Place Market. It produces Seattle Theatresports and fully improvised plays, and has a 64-person ensemble and an improv school.
Now playing: Poe Unexpected: Edgar Allan Poe Improvised through Oct 31 · 4 more shows coming up · 4 camps and classes
Founded in 1995 by Bob Gribas and Angela Rinaldi-Gribas, Variety Plus Theater is a Seattle family musical theater company writing original musical adaptations of children's tales. It casts youth and adults, often whole families, by open group audition and performs at Kerry Hall at STG.
The Little Mermaid (an original musical adaptation) opens Nov 21 · 2 open auditions
semi-professional theater company
Founded in 2004, Washington Ensemble Theatre is an ensemble-run Capitol Hill company and a resident company at 12th Avenue Arts.
Xquisite Corpse opens Oct 23 · 1 more show coming up
semi-professional theater company
An ensemble company led by Cassandra Moselle that stages actor-created work, immersive theater and cabaret and burlesque holiday shows. It is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
Romeo & Juliet: An Immersive Shakespeare Adaptation opens Nov 25 · 1 more show coming up
A bicultural, experimental Chinese-American theater company and UHeights Theatre Alliance member, producing new works, Playback Theatre and acting classes.
Home (staged reading of three original scripts) opens Oct 25
youth theater
A youth-run nonprofit founded in 2008 in which people ages 14 to 21 act, direct, design and run the company, free to join. It produces a summer season each year.
Nothing announced right now
youth theater
Youth Shakespeare training and performance since 1990, with summer programs for teens and for-credit class and after-school productions at Cleveland High School.
A Midsummer Night's Dream opens Jan 25
A Seattle company founded by director Mimi Katano that produces Japanese and Japanese-American stories and artist exchanges between Japan and the U.S. Its work includes a fusion of Japanese ghost-story telling and American physical theater.
KAIDAN opens Oct 22
semi-professional theater company
A Latino theater company founded in 2010, producing in English, Spanish and bilingual, and a UHeights Theatre Alliance member. It plays at University Heights Center and has also played West of Lenin and the Center Theatre.
Now playing: Don't Call It a Journey through Dec 5
Founded in 1990 by Llysa Holland and Andrew Litzky and fiscally sponsored by Shunpike, theater simple is best known for free, site-specific park adventures and for touring ensemble plays.
Nothing announced right now
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