A Night at the Opera

Music

Bainbridge Performing Arts

Opening Night: 5/31/08
Closes: 6/1/08
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra collaboration with Bainbridge Chorale

Back to Back Theatre

Drama,Outdoor Theatre

On the Boards

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/29/08
Closes: 6/1/08
Headphones, bleachers and SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park provide the setting for this play about human worth.

Blood Squad Lives!

Improv

Eclectic Theater Company & Blood Squad Presents

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 3/1/08
Closes: 12/27/08
Blood Squad presents improvised horror films as suggested by titles from the audience.

Busytown

Childrens Theatre

Seattle Children`s Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seatt
Opening Night: 4/25/08
Closes: 6/15/08
SCTs world premiere musical based on the beloved stories of Richard Scarry.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Musical Theatre,Outdoor Theatre

Kitsap Forest Theater (Mountaineers Players)

Bremerton
Opening Night: 5/25/08
Closes: 6/15/08
We invite audience members of all ages to Be Our Guest for this heartwarming tale of true love and transformation, filled with unforgettable songs and thrilling pageantry. Experience the enchantment of this show in the most magical of places.

Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA

Musical Theatre

Village Theatre

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Issaquah
Opening Night: 5/14/08
Closes: 7/6/08
An enslaved Nubian princess. A privileged daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh. The soldier they both love. And a love triangle that could alter history forever.

GUM WALL RALLY

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Seattle
Opening Night: 1/20/08
Closes: 1/25/09
Spontaneous theater that mixes the shorter games associated with Theatresports with an edgier, story based long form comedy!

I AM MY OWN WIFE

Drama

ArtsWest

Opening Night: 5/14/08
Closes: 5/31/08
SEATTLE PREMIERE! WINNER, PULITZER PRIZE. WINNER, TONY AWARD, BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR. Nick DeSantis stars as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, whose harrowing tales of survival from the Nazis and the East German Communists are nothing short of breathtaking.

Jet City Improv

Improv,Comedy

Wing-It Productions

University District,Seattle
Opening Night: 1/4/08
Closes: 12/27/08
Seattle's Best Comedy.

Little Red Studio - The White Show

Party,Performance Art

Little Red Studio

Cascade (South Lake Union),Seattle
Opening Night: 5/31/08
Closes: 8/16/08
Delve into bygone eras with themes of lost innocence and summer romance.

Market Ghost Tour / Gum Wall Rally

Outdoor Theatre,Improv

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/23/08
Closes: 12/31/08
Enjoy spooky history in the Pike Place Market followed by Gum Wall Rally Comedy Show!

Monkey See, Monkey Buy - Annual Auction

Fundraiser

Macha Monkey Productions

Downtown,Seattle
One Night Only: 5/31/08
Monkey See, Monkey Buy, an auction and cabaret to benefit Macha Monkey's 20082009 season of fearless, funny, female theatre. Come get a sneak peak of what we are up to in our brand new home in the heart of Belltown.

My Fair Lady

Musical Theatre

Centerstage Theatre

Federal Way
Opening Night: 5/9/08
Closes: 6/1/08
MY FAIR LADY: one of the truly great musicals

Naked Ladies

Comedy

Annex Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/16/08
Closes: 5/31/08
Spin The Bottle performanceart duo Gude & Laurance find a briefcase labeled NAKED LADIES, but have no idea what's inside

Namaste Man (Lost and Found in Kathmandu)

Drama

INTIMAN Theatre

Seattle Center (Queen Anne),Seattle
Opening Night: 5/30/08
Closes: 6/22/08
Intiman Artistic Director Bartlett Sher directs a world premiere written and performed by Andrew Weems.

Noah Way Out

Drama
FREE or PWYC EVENT!!

Umbrella Theatre

Queen Anne
Opening Night: 5/31/08
Closes: 6/1/08
An original screwball retelling of the Noahs Ark story in the setting of 1438 England as performed by the screwball craftsmen of the Shipbuilders Guild. The forecast is for bad weather and good fun in this lively PG13 outdoor oneact play

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Drama

Lakewood Playhouse

Lakewood Towne Center (Lakewood),Lakewood
Opening Night: 5/23/08
Closes: 6/22/08
McMurphy is a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in a mental institution rather than prison. He soon runs into trouble with the fierce Nurse Ratched.

Other Places by Harold Pinter

Drama

The Community Theatre

West Seattle,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/8/08
Closes: 5/31/08
Harold Pinter's Other Places employs three short plays to explore the struggle of defining ourselves, our lives, and our relationships, especially through the penumbra of truth.

Over the River and Through the Woods

Comedy

Taproot Theatre Company

Greenwood,Seattle
1st Event: 5/14/08
Opening Night: 5/16/08
Closes: 6/14/08
A story about a young Italian American man leaving New Jersey to pursue a career in Seattle, and his two sets of grandparents who conspire to get him to stay.

Quiet Monkey Fight

Improv,Comedy

Eclectic Theater Company & Quiet Monkey Fight

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/30/08
Closes: 5/31/08
We've got TWO exciting new improv shows for this weekend in May.

S2

Comedy

Annex Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/9/08
Closes: 6/7/08
A metatheatrical romp through postmodern consumer culture

Spokesong

Drama

Seattle Public Theater

Greenlake,Seattle
1st Event: 5/15/08
Opening Night: 5/16/08
Closes: 6/8/08
For those who loved last season's triumph Travesties comes a play full of songs, magic tricks, and bicycles. Spokesong will delight you and capture your imagination.

STONE SOUP THEATRE Presents “Outside The Box

Drama,Festival

Stone Soup Theatre

Opening Night: 5/22/08
Closes: 6/1/08
OUTSIDE THE BOX 2008 Stone Soup Theatre's Second Annual Playwrights Festival

Studio East presents THE WIZARD OF OZ

Musical Theatre,Childrens Theatre

StoryBook Theater / Studio East

Eastside Cities (of Seattle),Kirkland
Opening Night: 5/30/08
Closes: 6/22/08
this movie musical version of The Wizard of Oz tells the story of Dorothy and her quest to find the Wizard who can help her return home.

Take Me With You

Drama,Comedy

Balagan Theatre & Starving Artists

Opening Night: 5/22/08
Closes: 6/1/08
The latest show from the worldrenowned Starving Artists Theatre Company!

The 10,000 Things

Drama

Washington Ensemble Theatre

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/23/08
Closes: 6/16/08
A mysterious messenger. A frustrated writer. A clock in the desert that will keep time for 10,000 years. A play that changes itself over time.

The Misanthrope

Drama,Comedy

University of Washington School of Drama

University District,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/25/08
Closes: 6/8/08
The Misanthrope

The Music Man

Musical Theatre

Northwest Savoyards Musical Theater Society

Everett
Opening Night: 5/30/08
Closes: 6/15/08
THE MUSIC MAN .....one of the alltime favorites

THEATRESPORTS - the Original Improv Show

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 8/3/07
Closes: 12/31/09
HAPPY 25TH ANNIVESARY SEATTLE THEATRESPORTS!! Get ready to watch two teams of improvisers duke it out in a fastpaced, comedy battle royale.

Unexpected Theatre

Improv,Comedy

Unexpected Productions

Downtown,Seattle
Opening Night: 2/22/08
Closes: 1/31/09
Explores movie, theatre, and literary genres unscripted as well as a multitude of improvisational formats from satire to spoof, from silly to serious! Improv doesn't get any better than this!

WELL

Drama,Comedy

Repertory Actors Theatre (ReAct)

Capitol Hill,Seattle
Opening Night: 5/2/08
Closes: 6/1/08
Lisa Kron's hilarious acclaimed new play about illness & her relationship with her mother

Your Job Sucks

Improv

Wing-It Productions

Opening Night: 3/22/08
Closes: 5/31/08
Think of it as job therapy. Our team of improvisational actors will act out YOUR job on our stage, and get to the root of why it sucks or at least help you find ways to laugh at it.