New Prospect Theatre

New Play Café reading series – donations at door
2023-03-10 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 75 submissions, are featured in the launch of the New Play Café reading series, presented by Bellingham TheatreWorks. The New Play Café continues Bellingham TheatreWorks mission to produce stories of significance to the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on local actors, directors, and playwrights.
The inaugural New Play Café series is March 3,4,5 and 10,11,12 at 7:30 pm at the New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect Street, Bellingham. Donations are accepted for admission.
The plays will have one or two rehearsals, and are presented without staging, props or sets. The actors are at music stands, reading from the script.
“This is an exciting new step for Bellingham TheatreWorks, (BTW), one that’s been made possible thanks to our expanded community-member board,” said Mark Kuntz, BTW artistic director. “My producing partner Steve Lyons and I have both written and directed plays for BTW in the past. Now we have the organizational capacity to expand our programs to showcase and celebrate the work of emerging local artists and foster their growth.”
The playwrights come from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including two from Bellingham, two from Seattle, one from Camano Island, and one from Portland.
Themes in the plays include the complexities of family dynamics, and monsters; an exploration of sex, power and unrequited love; belonging, connection, and the barriers we experience with each; and, two plays inspired by real events: one of a famous Seattle Madam and a second play about a lighthouse keeper.
Friday, March 10th
Thais Passion by Michael Wallace
Why do we fall in love with what we cannot have? A young Christian monk falls in love with a servant of Venus. A timely exploration of sex, power and unrequited love.
Michael is a long time resident of Bellingham and Washington State. His plays have been produced in several local venues including the Idiom There, Sylvia Center for the Arts, Bellingham Theatre Guild, BAAY, and Western Washington University. He received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival jury selection (2000) and the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights award (2009). He has two collections of one acts entitled “Different: 7 Ensemble One Act Plays for Young Audiences” and “Survival of the Unfittest,” which include plays that have had worldwide exposure.

New Play Café reading series – donations at door
2023-03-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 75 submissions, are featured in the launch of the New Play Café reading series, presented by Bellingham TheatreWorks. The New Play Café continues Bellingham TheatreWorks mission to produce stories of significance to the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on local actors, directors, and playwrights.
The inaugural New Play Café series is March 3,4,5 and 10,11,12 at 7:30 pm at the New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect Street, Bellingham. Donations are accepted for admission.
The plays will have one or two rehearsals, and are presented without staging, props or sets. The actors are at music stands, reading from the script.
“This is an exciting new step for Bellingham TheatreWorks, (BTW), one that’s been made possible thanks to our expanded community-member board,” said Mark Kuntz, BTW artistic director. “My producing partner Steve Lyons and I have both written and directed plays for BTW in the past. Now we have the organizational capacity to expand our programs to showcase and celebrate the work of emerging local artists and foster their growth.”
The playwrights come from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including two from Bellingham, two from Seattle, one from Camano Island, and one from Portland.
Themes in the plays include the complexities of family dynamics, and monsters; an exploration of sex, power and unrequited love; belonging, connection, and the barriers we experience with each; and, two plays inspired by real events: one of a famous Seattle Madam and a second play about a lighthouse keeper.
Sunday, March 5th
Madame by Kate Danley
Madame Lou Grant was a “Founding Mother” of Seattle. Although this tenacious and big-hearted woman was largely responsible for rebuilding Seattle after it burned to the ground, she has been erased from history books because of her trade.
Kate is a USA TODAY bestselling author. She was honored with the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year (The Woodcutter, 47North), McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year (Queen Mab), and her series Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker is optioned for television. Her book, The Woodcutter, is being left on the moon in a lunar time capsule in February 2023. Her plays have been produced internationally. Building Madness, won the Panowski Playwriting Award; Power won the Renegade Theatre Festival; and Kings of the World was voted an audience favorite in the 10x10x10 Festival. She graduated from Towson University and is a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts. She performed her original stand-up at such clubs as The Comedy Store and The Icehouse, and wrote sketch for a weekly show at the Acme. www.katedanley.com

New Play Café reading series – donations at door
2023-03-04 19:30 - 21:00
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 75 submissions, are featured in the launch of the New Play Café reading series, presented by Bellingham TheatreWorks. The New Play Café continues Bellingham TheatreWorks mission to produce stories of significance to the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on local actors, directors, and playwrights.
The inaugural New Play Café series is March 3,4,5 and 10,11,12 at 7:30 pm at the New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect Street, Bellingham. Donations are accepted for admission.
The plays will have one or two rehearsals, and are presented without staging, props or sets. The actors are at music stands, reading from the script.
“This is an exciting new step for Bellingham TheatreWorks, (BTW), one that’s been made possible thanks to our expanded community-member board,” said Mark Kuntz, BTW artistic director. “My producing partner Steve Lyons and I have both written and directed plays for BTW in the past. Now we have the organizational capacity to expand our programs to showcase and celebrate the work of emerging local artists and foster their growth.”
The playwrights come from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including two from Bellingham, two from Seattle, one from Camano Island, and one from Portland.
Themes in the plays include the complexities of family dynamics, and monsters; an exploration of sex, power and unrequited love; belonging, connection, and the barriers we experience with each; and, two plays inspired by real events: one of a famous Seattle Madam and a second play about a lighthouse keeper.
Saturday, March 4th
Crazy Quilts by Karen Fix Curry
A young woman goes to interview a quilting group and finds herself being interviewed for inclusion in their exclusive secret club. Will she join their pay-it-forward group and help solve her problem?
Karen Fix Curry’s work has been produced across the United States and internationally and has been published by Smith & Kraus and Next Stage Press. Her voice as a writer is women-centric: what it is to be a woman in today’s society, how mental illness destroys a person and their relationships, how being older doesn’t mean your life isn’t rich and complicated, how friends can often do far more to help than the legal system will. She wants other people who see and hear her stories to feel something, and to leave discussing how it changed their view. Ms. Curry is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Honor Roll, an advocacy and action group of women playwrights over 40, New Play Exchange, Plays on Purpose, a national playwriting group, Orange County Playwrights Alliance, CA, Page to Stage Playwriting Group, Anacortes and ASCAP. She lives on Camano Island.

New Play Café reading series - donations at door
2023-03-03 19:30 - 21:00
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 75 submissions, are featured in the launch of the New Play Café reading series, presented by Bellingham TheatreWorks. The New Play Café continues Bellingham TheatreWorks mission to produce stories of significance to the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on local actors, directors, and playwrights.

The inaugural New Play Café series is March 3,4,5 and 10,11,12 at 7:30 pm at the New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect Street, Bellingham. Donations are accepted for admission.
The plays will have one or two rehearsals, and are presented without staging, props or sets. The actors are at music stands, reading from the script.
“This is an exciting new step for Bellingham TheatreWorks, (BTW), one that’s been made possible thanks to our expanded community-member board,” said Mark Kuntz, BTW artistic director. “My producing partner Steve Lyons and I have both written and directed plays for BTW in the past. Now we have the organizational capacity to expand our programs to showcase and celebrate the work of emerging local artists and foster their growth.”
The playwrights come from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including two from Bellingham, two from Seattle, one from Camano Island, and one from Portland.
Themes in the plays include the complexities of family dynamics, and monsters; an exploration of sex, power and unrequited love; belonging, connection, and the barriers we experience with each; and, two plays inspired by real events: one of a famous Seattle Madam and a second play about a lighthouse keeper.
Friday, March 3rd
Making Burgers His Way by Sean Walbeck
Just a simple story of a pregnant woman whose teeth don’t move, choosing a life with her werewolf husband over her abusive (but supportive) father, and the simple dinner where they hash out the monsters in their lives.
Sean is an award-winning playwright from Bellingham WA. Other plays include Last Respects, Sons of a Common Mother, Exit, Chased By a Bear, The Days of Future Passed, Why Christmas Pageants Suck, BI-VOCALS (with Alycia Francis), A Fistful of Walbeck, The Forest for the Trees, At the Escher Zoo, Nighthawks-Maybe, Portrait Study, You Didn’t Hear This From Me, Sin-n-Tonic, Aglets and Grommets, and A Buttload of Walbeck. A graduate of the University of Montana and Western Washington University, Sean is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Sean’s work has appeared at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Little Theatre, BOAT Festivals, The Seattle Fringe Festival, AACTFest’s National One-Act Play Festival, Western’s Children’s Tour, and the Great Platte River Playwright Festival.

Bellingham Story Hour - February Theme "I'm Fine Now"
2023-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join us for a night of true stories told live!
The act of sharing our most authentic selves with other people in a safe and encouraging environment creates connection and allows us to see ourselves in others.
Stories can be entertaining, heartwarming, educational, cringe inducing, shame releasing, vulnerable, weird, and all of the things in-between but they are always true, always your own experience, and always rewarding to tell and hear.
Put your name in the hat for the chance to tell your own 5 to 10 minute story live on stage, or just enjoy listening to the true tales and authentic adventures of your friends and neighbors.
Read our story guidelines and community agreement below.
Basic Guidelines for Storytellers:

Story Hour will have themes chosen ahead of time and will select performers who submit their name into a random drawing process.
Performers for Story Hour will be chosen randomly from participants who self-submitted for the evening
All stories will be between five to ten minutes with a time moderator to help folx stay in their time limit
Please offer content warnings for any seriously triggering subjects presented in your story
Censoring will not be employed, but if a story being presented is clearly breaking Community Agreements or causing clear harm to the audience, the performer will be asked to leave the stage and future performances may depend on a prescreening from the host.
All ages will be in attendance, so plan accordingly.

Details and tickets: https://www.bellinghamstoryhour.com/

Mbrascatu
2023-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hailing from Portland, Mbrascatu plays a style of music that is a cross-pollination of numerous influences, including spaghetti Westerns, immigrant dance music of Eastern Europe, psych rock and folk, to create a unique blend of sounds. Along with bands like Calexico , Devotchka and Gogol Bordello, they infuse modern indie music with a global flavor.
Ticket link: Mbrascatu in Bellingham (brownpapertickets.com)

Lowest Pair
2023-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee are two kindred spirits who first met on the banks of the Mississippi while touring the Midwest festival circuit. Born and raised in Arkansas, Winter found herself drawn to the evergreens and damp air of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the boundless music scene of Olympia, Washington. She released three solo records on Olympia-based indie label, K Records, and performed in ramblin folk bands and anarchic punk bands before serendipitously meeting Palmer T. Lee in 2013. Lee had built his first banjo when he was 19 from pieces he inherited and began cutting his teeth fronting Minneapolis string bands before convincing Winter that they should form a banjo duo. Now, as The Lowest Pair, they have recorded and released five albums together, relentlessly toured North America, and ventured to the UK twice, playing over 500 live shows over the past five years.
After each releasing solo albums via Conor Obersts Team Love Records in 2018, Winter and Lee began working on The Lowest Pairs forthcoming 10- song set, The Perfect Plan. As a songwriting team, the duo tends to see artistic sparks all around them in poems, people, ideas, experiences and throughout the process of writing these new songs, they felt the need to push their creative limits. They turned to producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes who took them to ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, and set them in a soundscape backed by a slate of session players that lifts the album from simple folk into spirited Americana and beyond. Clawhammer banjo and acoustic guitar still hold the heart of The Lowest Pair, but the fleshed-out sound of The Perfect Plan leans gently into Winter’s punk past, as well as the sonic playground of her mind, to set the band down a new path on their musical journey.
Ticket link: The Lowest Pair in Bellingham (brownpapertickets.com)

Sugar: A Valentine Cabaret
2023-02-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-02-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Fun-Filled, Sexy, Silly & Sassy Evening of Live Powerhouse Vocals, Dancing, and Stories of Love and Loss
SUGAR redefines the definition of Cabaret in the most fun-filled, sexy, silly & sassy evening of live powerhouse vocals, dancing, and stories of love and loss. Brie Turoff Mueller leads a stage full of top-notch dancers, actors, singers – and the infamous Sugar Band – in the most tantalizing show in Bellingham. Audiences are invited to relax with a drink while they experience an unforgettable evening in this unique and vivacious cabaret atmosphere.
Brie Turoff Mueller has been creating Cabaret performances in New York City for the last ten years, and is thrilled to assemble a group of talented singers, dancers, and musicians for the West Coast version of SUGAR. Joining her is the bluesy and rocking Sugar band along with a fantastic ensemble of local and regional performers to round out this dynamic ensemble.
Depending on location: Sugar is 21+ only | There is NO nudity in Sugar. See you at the show!
Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sugar-a-valentines-cabaret-february-2023-1595879

Sugar: A Valentine Cabaret
2023-02-09 19:00 - 21:00

Unsubdued Review
2023-02-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-02 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-01-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-01-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-01-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Formed in April 2022, the Unsubdued Theatre Collective is a group of actors, playwrights, directors, and other theatrical artists with the objective of dismantling hierarchical structures in traditional theaters. Members are committed to fostering a safe environment for artists whose voices are not bolstered by mainstream theatre to create and perform new works. By putting the community at the center of the process, the collective is reevaluating the way a play is made in order to form a bolder vision for a revolutionary stage.
Unsubdued Review (bpt.me)

Actor Training with Chris Coombs
2023-02-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Chris Coombs offers direction that helps pull more our of a scene. His love of actors, supported by 25years of study and performance, helps guide them to deeper and richer work they can be proud of.
Training Sessions limited to 6 actors. $200 for 4/3hour sessions. Saturdays 10am – 1pm. Orientation Session January 28th 10am to 11am. Training Sessions begin on February 4th.
25% of your tuition payment goes back into the theatre. Chris Coombs is offering a 20% discount on tuition to New Prospect Theatre members.
Contact 7yearfilm@gmail.com to enroll and pay tuition.

Unsubdued Review
2023-02-03 19:30 - 21:30

Jeffrey Martin
2023-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Jeffrey Martin writes music that probes the depths of the human experience and doesn’t shy away from its darkest corners. His songs can feel like short stories from literary giants like Steinbeck, Burroughs, or Cormac McCarthy and possess a raw intensity that comes from seeing his subjects up close. All the struggle, hurt, strife, and heartbreak that comes from living in this world are laid bare and unvarnished, yet somehow, Martin manages to mine and make space for what beauty remains.
Presently, Jeffrey Martin is writing for his fourth full-length album at a deliberative pace and making plans to enter the studio to record this winter. He’s recently signed with Tommy Alexander of the Wassermann Agency and has returned to the road for an extended 52-date tour of the US and Canada. An extensive summer tour originally planned for 2020 is now scheduled for 2022 and will include stops in the U.K., Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Ireland.
Ticket link: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5668057

Heathers - the musical
2023-01-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-01-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Beginning in 2018, Little Lemon Productions (LLP), started by Adaryn Healy and Brody Buck, worked to create a safe, creative space for students by students. Our first project showed our student community that we have the ability and power to create meaningful, fun, and beautiful art together. LLP allows students from all schooling and performing backgrounds to learn and grow together. By creating this space, we can ensure all students have an opportunity to shine in many different ways, such as; Directing, Stage Management, Light and Sound work, Set Design, Music Direction, Pit Orchestra Direction and Membership, and many, many more. Adaryn and Brody began this company with the hope that students from all the surrounding areas could have access to theater that is inclusive and empowering. As time has gone on, LLP has continued to expand its team and its student outreach; it regularly has student participants from 3 different school districts and seven different high schools.
Heathers – the musical (bpt.me)

Heathers - the musical - Understudy Performance
2023-01-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

When Jack Met Jill
2023-01-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-01-14 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-13 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
BELLINGHAM THEATRE GUILD presents Adam Szymkowicz’s wildly imaginative post-modern life story of fable-famous Jack and Jill (post-bucket and out of chronology!) as their first production on the Lucas Hicks stage.
12/20/2022- Bellingham WA – The Bellingham Theatre Guild presents When Jack Met Jill by Adam Szymkowicz, their official entry to the Kaleidoscope State Theatre Festival, for its premiere local performances at the New Prospect Theatre on January 12-15, 2023. Directed by Suzanne Mackay and a cast of fabulous local actors, WHEN JACK MET JILL follows the mostly-post-bucket lives of the famous couple throughout time and the ages as they struggle with the definitions of their relationship to each other. This goofy adult travail, like most of Szymkowicz’s work, mixes light and dark with a contemporary wariness of either. Evening performances are at 8pm, and the matinee on the 15th starts at 1pm, tickets are $15.
The Kaleidoscope Festival, which takes place February 9-12, 2023 in Tacoma, is the Washington State leg of the AACTFest’23 National One-Act Play Competition. When Jack Met Jill will be the Bellingham Theatre Guild’s sixth play entered into the adjudicated community theater competition over the years, with previous shows earning awards at the State, Regional and National levels. Plays are limited to one hour with a ten-minute set-up/take-down time, and the talented actors (David Bolden, Kris Erickson, Audrey Henderson, Karl Ritter-Smith) and designers (Chris Coombs, Keefe Healy) get one performance to prove they deserve to move forward to Regional, and, hopefully, National stages. This time, Bellingham Theatre Guild is presenting their entry for local consumption at the New Prospect Theatre cuz what’s the point of local theatre without sharing locally with locals? Exactly! Come on down to the New Prospect Theatre, cheer us on and support two theaters with one show!
“WHEN JACK MET JILL is produced by special arrangement with THE GERSH AGENCY, 41 Madison Avenue, 29th Floor, New York NY 10010
The Bellingham Theatre Guild is a volunteer theater that has been serving the Whatcom County community since 1927. More information about BTG can be found at www.bellinghamtheatreguild.com.
Tickets: https://bpt.me/5679561

Peter Ali - Cancelled due to illness - Traesti and Alexandra have stepped up to perform
2023-01-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Ethos West Stage
Unfortunately, Peter Ali has to cancel this event due to sickness. Traesti and Alexandra have stepped up to perform.
Bellingham locals Traesti and Alexandra (fka The Living Arrows) perform as the acoustic duo Traesti Darling. Their music, influenced by folk, jazz, and pop, defies genre and captivates audiences of all ages.
Traesti Darling brings lyrical journeys to life with enchanting harmonies and toe-tapping rhythms that tend to cause listeners to dance, sing, laugh, and cry. The weaving of their voices has been compared to Simon and Garfunkel, but their poetry has a soul-enlivening quality entirely its own.
Their original songs are carried by catchy melodies, emotional depth, and a unique flair that will keep your ears piqued, your heart open, and your soul eager for more.

'Twas the night before, the night before, the night before Holiday Variety Show
2022-12-22 20:00 - 22:00
Due to low temperature, weather and road conditions we are cancelling tonight’s show out of safety concerns for audience and cast members.
