Tacoma Little Theatre
Washington’s oldest national award-winning community theatre will present The Outsider from August 28 to September 13. Filled with sharp wit and political mischief, this timely comedy skewers politics while celebrating democracy. Politics have never been this awkward … or this funny.
Arsenic and Old Lace follows from October 16 to November 1 when audiences will meet the sweetest little old ladies with a deadly hobby. This classic comedy is murderously funny.
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Washington Center for the Performing Arts
On Sunday, September 27, audiences will be treated to a silent movie double feature: Liberty (1929) and Safety Last! (1923). Silent Movie: High Rise Hijinks includes gripping ledges, dodging disasters, and getting laughs at every terrifying turn — that’s the magic of Laurel & Hardy’s Liberty and Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! Join The Center for a double feature of silent cinema’s greatest high-rise comedies, scored live by
organist Dennis James.
Award-winning author Amy Tan brings her signature warmth and wisdom to the stage during An Evening with Amy Tan on Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30pm. She invites you into a world of backyard birds, quiet wonder, and the stories nature whispers — if we only stop to listen.
Skerryvore fuses bagpipes, fiddles, and driving rock energy into something wholly their own. Rooted in Scottish tradition and built for the world’s biggest stages — this is contemporary folk music at its most joyful and electrifying. The show will be onstage on Friday, October 9 at 8pm.
The internet’s favorite satirist Randy Rainbow will present National Freakin’ Treasure on Thursday, October 15 at 7:30pm. This comedian, singer, and New York Times bestselling author delivers the musical comedy medicine a divided nation needs.
FDR’s Very Happy Hour will be performed four times, over three days Thursday, November 5, Friday, November 6 (both at 7:30pm) and then a matinee at 2pm and another 7:30pm performance on Saturday, November 7. Roosevelt mixed a mean martini—and believed good drinks and good conversation could change the world. This immersive new play revives FDR’s legendary White House cocktail hour to explore history, community, and how we find our way back to each other.
Emmy and Grammy-nominated comedian Tig Notaro brings her acclaimed stand-up to the Washington Center stage with Out of Nowhere on Friday November 13 at 7:30pm. Rolling Stone’s pick for one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time,” Notaro’s wit is razor-sharp, deeply human, and entirely her own.
The battle for comedy supremacy continues! On Thursday, November 19, the Seattle International Comedy Competition will hold its finals in Olympia. These semifinalists have survived multiple elimination rounds and now compete for coveted spots in the finals. Witness rising comedy stars deliver their best material. Who will advance? Recommended for ages 18+. washingtoncenter.org
Harlequin
Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town will be presented from October 2 to November 1 at The State Theater. Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this masterpiece has stood as a timeless pillar of the American stage. Poetic, poignant, and profoundly human, this groundbreaking play invites us to slow down, look closer, and cherish the fleeting beauty of life.
Performed in repertory with Our Town is the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok. Unfolding beneath the glow of porch lights and the promise of close-knit streets, two teenagers cling to each other for safety, for love, for hope. Childhood friends B and G — undocumented and unseen — watch that promise fray when one earns a path to citizenship and the other is left untethered and exposed.
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BY LYNN CASTLE