Search for the Christmas Penguin
2025-12-13 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Get ready for a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud holiday adventure your family will talk about all season! Join Molly as she dives into a magical book and journeys through a world of Christmas wonder, meeting favorite characters like Scrooge, the Little Drummer Boy, and Rudolph—each bringing music, mischief, and festive cheer. With catchy songs, big laughs, and plenty of interactive fun, this delightful musical is the perfect way to kick off the holidays with the kids.
Will Molly discover the legendary Christmas Penguin? Bring your family and find out—tickets are only $10. Be sure to grab yours today!
Advance tickets: Search For The Christmas Penguin via ThunderTix

The Living Arrows and Bad Posture Club
2025-12-17 19:00 - 21:00
Local folk group The Living Arrows captivates audiences of all ages with enchanting harmonies and toe tapping rhythms; their shows have been known to inspire listeners to dance, sing, laugh, and cry. Cello and saxophone dance alongside acoustic guitar to create a warm and golden soundscape.
Influenced by a range of artists – from Simon and Garfunkel to Bon Iver – a TLA show is powered by catchy melodies, emotional depth, and a unique flare that opens the heart and stirs the spirit.
Bad Posture Club is a queer folk duo made up of Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Originally from Northwestern Washington, they’ve toured nationally, as well as spent formative years in the Midwest music scene. Together they craft intricate and experimental harmonies with their two voices, banjo, guitar, and a 100 year old pump organ. Bad Posture Club invites the listener to hear the power in quiet, intimate music, and offers warmth and reflection through song. They are currently based in Anacortes, WA.
Tickets $15 presale and $20 at the door: Yuletide Folk Show via ThunderTix

Robert Sarazin Blake's A Very Subdued Christmas
2025-12-23 07:00 - 21:00
Tickets $20.75 Adult / $10.75 Kids
A Very Subdued Christmas 2025 • New Prospect Theatre • VenuePilot

An Evening with Erik Koskinen
2026-01-07 20:00 - 22:00
People know him in Minnesota, where most bar bands seem to cover at least one of his songs, but otherwise he’s still one of the best kept secrets in the country. He sings about an America that doesn’t get much play anymore, the one where the people at the bottom can’t quite get ahead, and where working people aren’t cartoon props in a culture war, but shrewd human beings living hard lives, and hard loves. His songs have the diamond-hard clarity and simplicity of Tom Petty, and like Petty, Koskinen can sing a literal statement without metaphor or ornament, and make it move like poetry. The spiritual hunger in rock ‘n’ roll that came from blues and gospel is still a hunger in these songs, and if you listen hard, you can hear that lean coyote voice – wary, feral, full of fierce delight – lighting up the wee hours from somewhere out on the prairie.
Tickets $25 Advanced An Evening with Erik Koskinen via ThunderTix

An Evening with Forrest Van Tuyl & Shadow Basket
2026-01-10 19:30 - 21:30
Forrest VanTuyl is a songwriter, touring musician, and working cowboy from rural Washington State. His unique approach to songwriting is one equally indebted to the transcendental spareness of Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball as to his own experiences working with cattle and horses in the prairie and canyon country of Oregon and Washington. VanTuyl has worked as a backing musician and collaborator with critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Margo Cilker, become a regular fixture at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, shared stages with Sera Cahoone, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, and Corb Lund, and been featured by The New York Times, National Geographic, NPR, and KEXP. VanTuyl’s newest album Old Trails, released in September 2025 on Fossil Records, is peopled with characters just as concerned with the minutiae of feed trucks and fenceposts as with the enormity of their loves and longings. By overstuffing his songs with closely observed details of a modern-day cowboy’s work and life, VanTuyl is consistently able to find the beating heart at the center of his deromanticized American West.
Shadow Basket is an indie folk/rock band from San Juan Island, WA. They have toured through the PNW, West Coast, and Mountain West. Their upcoming album is scheduled to be released in August 2025. Their live performance brings an artfully crafted sound, melded harmonies, and droney jams into the room. Described by The Bay Bridged, “Within their music is connection and care, which makes it all the more compelling.”
Tickets $25 Advanced / $30 Day of Show: An Evening with Forrest Van Tuyl & Shadow Basket via ThunderTix

The Swamp Is On Fire
2026-01-11 19:00 - 20:30
TOD KIMBRO’S AWARD-WINNING ONE-MAN MUSICAL,
THE SWAMP IS ON FIRE, BRINGS LAUGHS, PATHOS & PERSPECTIVE TO THE STAGE
Created and Performed by TOD KIMBRO Directed by Jeff Forte
Despite his best efforts to escape the Sunshine State, Matthew Mark Matheson is stuck in rural Polk County once again. His painfully funny memories of growing up gay in an ultra-conservative Christian school intermingle with his current predicament, a risky affair with a deeply closeted good ol’ boy. This swampy stew of comedy, drama, twisted Floridian fables, and truly disquieting wildlife facts is set to a vibrant indie pop score and performed by one of the Fringe circuits’s most versatile and celebrated artists. It’s a soulful and bitingly funny study of the connections and consequences that reverberate across decades.
“The Swamp Is on Fire is an airboat of originality, and Kimbro tackles it with the intensity of an earthshaking epic.”
-Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly
“This charming musical, so pungent you can smell the swamp water, tells a coming-of age story with verve. Kimbro has a brilliant eye for capturing detail, and brings people and places to life so vividly that you can picture a full production number in your mind’s eye. Kimbra’s catchy and clever songs mix comedy and poignancy in a perfect recipe.”
-Matt Palm, Orlando Sentinel
The Swamp Is on Fire premiered at the 2025 Orlando Fringe Festival, where it won the Critics Choice award for Outstanding Solo Show (Musical). It marks Kimbra’s 29th creative contribution to the Fringe Festival scene. His script for Josephine, an acclaimed one-woman musical about the life of Josephine Baker, has been performed at venues and festivals all over the world.
WINNER – OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW (Musical) – Orlando Fringe 2025 BEST OF FEST – Orlando Sentinel
Tickets $15 General $20 VIP Front Row: The Swamp Is On Fire via ThunderTix

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised)
2026-01-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-18 17:00 - 19:00
Based on The Comic Strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life’s great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes and celebrate the joy of friendship.
Tickets $15 You,re A Good Man Charlie Brown via ThunderTix

The Rage of Achilles
2026-01-22 19:00 - 2026-01-25 21:00
Achilles, in his rage and pride, breaks the script, and refuses outright to give back Hector’s body to his grieving father Priam. This forces Homer to step in and make Achilles relive the story of his life leading up to this point in the hope that this journey will help reawaken Achilles’ empathy and cool the fires that rage within his heart. The Rage of Achilles is a play following the life, love, and mistakes of Achilles, one of, if not the most famous hero in the West. Despite this popularity, Achilles’ story outside of the Iliad is not well known, and is rarely told. This play follows Achilles’ life from meeting Patroclus all the way to his final conversation with Priam. All through the eyes of Achilles himself as he relives it alongside his guide Homer. This is a queer written piece and focuses heavily on the legendary love between Achilles and Patroclus. Alongside that sugary sweet goodness though, is the harsh reality of Achilles’ actions of enslavement, brutality, and sexual assault.
Ticket $15: The Rage of Achilles via ThunderTix

Hiroya Tsukamoto: A Journey Through Strings & Stories
2026-01-25 14:00 - 17:00
Experience the spellbinding artistry of Hiroya Tsukamoto / a master of fingerstyle guitar and evocative storytelling that transcends cultural boundaries.
Praised by Acoustic Guitar Magazine for his “delicate, fluid, and beautifully details” style, Hiroya’s music weaves intricate melodies with poetic narratives, creating an unforgettable, soul-stirring performance.
Hiroya Tsukamoto is a Japanese-born fingerstyle guitarist who moved to the United States in 2000 to attend the Berklee College of Music. Needless to say, he’s not only a dizzyingly agile fingerpicker, but a soulful and transcendent performer, with compositions that combine instrumental guitar work with lyrical performance and spoken stories from his life.
Tsukamoto has been recognized for his talents on stages such as at Blue Note in New York City, NHK Television, International Storytelling Center and United Nations, and by scoring second place at the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship both in 2018 and 2022.
“Hiroya Tsukamoto takes us to an impressionistic journey ” -Boston Herald
“…chops, passion and warmth. Zealously recommended!” -Jazz Review.com
Tickets $35 Advanced / $30 Day of Show Hiroya Tsukamoto: A Journey Through Strings & Stories via Thunder

Caitlin Canty Album Release Tour
2026-01-29 19:30 - 21:30
Caitlin Canty’s songs harness the grit and spark at the heart of American music, tempered with a voice both haunting and distinct. Her new record, Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove (October 2025) marks a return to her roots, a grittier and more electric Americana sound. Recorded live in the studio while nearly 8 months pregnant with her second child, the songs can be seen in the light of major shifts in Cantys life, from pre-parenthood city life in Nashville to present day raising a young family on a mountain in southern Vermont. She is currently touring Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove with her four-piece band.
Since the release of her critically-acclaimed Reckless Skyline in 2015, Canty has put thousands of miles on her songs, touring throughout the U.S. and Europe. A constant collaborator, as a cowriter with Jamey Johnson and Peter Bradley Adams, she also appears on albums by Joy Williams, Jeffrey Foucault and Darlingside. She has performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, FreshGrass, Tonder and Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots festivals and won the Telluride Troubadour songwriting competition at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2015. Her song, Get Up, was nominated for Song of the Year in the Folk Alliance International Music Awards and was featured on NPR Musics, Songs We Love. Her songs have appeared in film and TV, including Rainmaker, House of Cards, Money Heist, and Rebuilding, and have garnered over 40 million streams on Spotify alone.
“Dreamy and daring” ROLLING STONE
“A beautiful voice both strong and deliberate. Her stage presence is radiant and her songs pack a big lyrical punch” NO DEPRESSION
“Caitlin Canty mixes a gritty side with aching ballads” WORLD CAFE
“Profound musical and lyrical authenticity sets Canty apart [and] draws so many of the acoustic worlds greatest artists into her corner” THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION
Tickets $30 Advanced / $35 Day of Caitlin Canty: Album Release Tour via ThunderTix

An Evening with the Stephanie Anne Johnson Duo
2026-02-06 19:30 - 21:30
Pacific Northwest Americana songwriter and performer Stephanie Anne Johnson’s (they/them) voice is like a prayer. It’s the kind of sound that makes you feel renewed, refreshed, and in love with the higher spirits of the planet. It’s a sound you can bask in, that can wash over you and regenerate the best of you all at once. And they have wowed judges on the immensely popular NBC TV series, The Voice, showcasing their gifts.​
New studio album ‘Sing,baby!’ was released on October 17th, 2025.
Stephanie Anne Johnson has opened for acts that include political figure Bernie Sanders, and artists such as The Indigo Girls, Macy Gray, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Steve Earle, Cedric Burnside, and Mason Jennings among many others.
Tickets $25 Advanced / $30 Day of Show: An Evening with the Stephanie Anne Johnson Duo via ThunderTix

Cupid's Island
2026-02-07 19:30 - 21:00
Cupid’s Island is a fast-paced improvised comedy show spoofing the drama, desire, and absolute chaos of reality dating TV.
A group of singles are dropped into a sun-soaked villa where love is a competition, coupling up is survival, and every glance could mean betrayal. Guided by audience suggestions, the cast creates outrageous romances, shocking couples, cringeworthy challenges, and dramatic break-ups—all completely made up on the spot.
Will true love win, or will everyone get rejected? Expect big emotions, bigger egos, and zero shame in this hilarious parody.
Make it a full day of Improv with Playful Connections – A joyful improv experience for couples and friends who want to laugh, connect, and grow closer.
We are an all ages venue. Shows with “mature content” or “recommended for” will be advertised accordingly.
Tickets: Cupid’s Island | The Upfront Theatre

Punch Line
2026-02-07 21:30 - 23:00
Get ready for spontaneous comedy at its best! Punch Line is a short-form show with a variety of improvised word games which will keep you on your toes. Audience members provide the wackiest words, and our quick-thinking performers use them to create scenes full of unexpected laughs and outrageous moments. Enjoy witty banter and surprising punch lines! It’s a hilarious, unpredictable ride and no two shows are ever the same. Get ready to laugh till your sides hurt — the fun starts when YOU fill in the blanks!
Tickets: Punch Line | The Upfront Theatre

An Evening with Sparrow Smith & the Resonant Rogues
2026-02-12 20:00 - 22:00
Sparrow Smith, a multi-instrumentalist based in Marshall, NC, is well loved for her evocative songwriting, tasteful banjo playing, epic accordion chops, and striking outfits. A longtime member and leader of multiple bands (most notably Resonant Rogues) with Keith Josiah Smith, her husband and collaborator, Sparrow is stepping out under her own name with a new album of Appalachian originals. Her journey into old time started in her late teens with freight trains and Tommy Jarrell tapes, and her musical taste is also inspired by a lifelong love of dance. When not on tour, Sparrow can be found in the North Carolina mountains where she teaches Womens Basic Carpentry and is building her own house from scratch.
Matt Heckler is opening.
Matt Heckler is the fiddle player you wish still existed. Hailing from the Catskill Mtns, a physiographic subrange to the Appalachian chain, Heckler has been embraced by mountain music and culture from early on. Self-taught on fiddle, banjo and guitar, he can weave together a night of songs from all over the world. Swaying from an acapella Irish ballad to a rowdy Romani fiddle tune, Heckler has taken on a style of writing that sounds timeless, rustic and entirely his own.
Tickets $22 Advanced / $27 Day of: An Evening with Sparrow Smith via ThunderTix

Cupid's Island
2026-02-13 19:30 - 21:00
Cupid’s Island is a fast-paced improvised comedy show spoofing the drama, desire, and absolute chaos of reality dating TV.
A group of singles are dropped into a sun-soaked villa where love is a competition, coupling up is survival, and every glance could mean betrayal. Guided by audience suggestions, the cast creates outrageous romances, shocking couples, cringeworthy challenges, and dramatic break-ups—all completely made up on the spot.
Will true love win, or will everyone get rejected? Expect big emotions, bigger egos, and zero shame in this hilarious parody.
Tickets: Cupid’s Island | The Upfront Theatre

Cupid's Island After Dark
2026-02-13 21:30 - 23:00
In this After Dark edition of Cupid’s Island, the stakes—and the laughs—are turned way up. This fast-paced improvised comedy show spoofs the drama, desire, and chaos of reality dating TV… for a mature audience.

A group of singles are dropped into a sun-soaked villa where love is a competition, coupling up is survival, and every flirtatious glance could spark betrayal. Guided by audience suggestions, the cast creates outrageous romances, shocking pairings, cringeworthy challenges, and dramatic break-ups—all completely made up on the spot.

Will true love win, or will everyone get rejected? Expect big emotions, bigger egos, and zero shame in this hilarious, adult-tinged parody of reality romance.
Tickets: Cupid’s Island After Dark | The Upfront Theatre

Cupid's Island Valentine's Day
2026-02-14 19:30 - 21:00
Cupid’s Island is a fast-paced improvised comedy show spoofing the drama, desire, and absolute chaos of reality dating TV.
A group of singles are dropped into a sun-soaked villa where love is a competition, coupling up is survival, and every glance could mean betrayal. Guided by audience suggestions, the cast creates outrageous romances, shocking couples, cringeworthy challenges, and dramatic break-ups—all completely made up on the spot.
Will true love win, or will everyone get rejected? Expect big emotions, bigger egos, and zero shame in this hilarious parody.
Tickets: Cupid’s Island Valentine’s Day | The Upfront Theatre

Saturday Night High Valentine
2026-02-14 21:30 - 23:00
oin us as we celebrate in the City of Subdued Excitement with an improvised, special Valentine’s Day, stoner-comedy! We’ll kick off the night with some of our favorite improv games with a highlarious twist. Expect wild characters, lots of giggles, no filter, and unpredictable twists, all fueled by… well, you know. Whether you’re here for the laughs, the vibes, or the sheer absurdity, this show will be highly entertaining.
18+ Event. See our Upcoming Shows for all ages options.
In WA state it is illegal for anyone under age 21 to buy, possess, or use cannabis. It is illegal to use cannabis in public, this includes, smoking, vaping, or eating edibles as you’re walking around outside. The Upfront Theatre does not allow outside food or beverages and smoking indoors is not permitted. Thank you!
Tickets: Saturday Night High Valentine | The Upfront Theatre

To Whom It May Concern
2026-02-15 19:30 - 21:00
Tickets: “To Whom it May Concern” via ThunderTix

The Paperboys
2026-02-18 20:00 - 22:00
When you think of Canadian music, who are the first contemporary artists that come to mind?
Is it a globe-touring sextet that, in a single set, can be counted on to stomp through Celtic reels, traditional Mexican folk, fiddle tunes, New Orleans brass band music, classic pop songcraft, bluegrass, and even a philosophical waltz or two, before bringing it all home with a Latino/West African singalong?
I didn’t think so.
Is it a fearless, freewheeling band sometimes referred to as the “Los Lobos of Canada,” veterans of an estimated 4,300 shows since the band’s 1992 formation?
What if I told you that this band doesn’t just exist—they flourish, and have been converting full concert halls of indifferent strangers into devoted fans for the last 30 years?
The name of this musical collective is The Paperboys. They are a Canadian treasure.
The heart of The Paperboys is a trio of gifted songwriters and musicians: Founder Tom Landa, a fedora-hatted vocalist/guitarist/bandleader who immigrated from Mexico to Canada in his teens; Kalissa Landa, a lifelong fiddler/vocalist with a preternatural command of melody; and Spirit of the West’s flautist/guitarist/vocalist Geoffrey Kelly, already a
Canadian musical icon when he hopped on the P’boys bus in 1997.
Though by no means a jam band, The Paperboys reinvent their show every time they step onstage. Once the band agrees on the opening song, there is no set list. The song finishes, the crowd reacts, Landa reads the room, and the journey begins. Every night. The world has changed seismically since 1992, but The Paperboys fan base has stuck with the band, and
grown. “It goes beyond perseverance,” Landa says about the band’s legacy, “and into some kind of connectivity and resonance we have with people. We’ve created a community.”
Though best known for their live show, The Paperboys also have another ace up their sleeve:
A deep and impressive discography. The band has released 10 recordings—including the
Juno Award-winning Molinos—receiving accolades from MOJO Magazine and fRoots
Magazine along the way. They’ve been two-time recipients of the West Coast Music Award, composed scores for two films, and been nominated for a Leo Award for best original song in the Hong Kong/Canada film release, Lunch With Charles.
Although perennially adored and praised by alternative media and national radio networks
NPR and CBC, commercial success has eluded the band. Undaunted, The Paperboys have kept in perpetual motion, building a cult following through the impact of its incendiary live show and proud DIY spirit.

Even the pandemic couldn’t silence The Paperboys. Tom and Kalissa maintained a warm connection with their homebound fans by posting their now-legendary Slipper Sessions online, playing gorgeous, stripped-down versions of their repertoire, with their kids and cats sometimes wandering through the margins of the videos.
“There are many ways to define success,” Landa says. “ I get to make music with people I
love, tour and see the world, and connect with people through song. I can hang my hat on that.”
Tickets: The Paperboys via ThunderTix

APHRODITE: Cabaret Atelier's Winter Showcase
2026-02-20 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-02-20 21:00 - 23:00, 2026-02-21 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-02-21 21:00 - 23:00
Step into the realm of APHRODITE: Cabaret Atelier’s winter showcase devoted to love in all forms. This timeless evening weaves through dance, acrobatics, and burlesque to move through romance, longing, envy, and wrath.
This celebration of movement, bodies, and our cabaret community is the capstone to our sessions for the season. This production features a stunning showcase of our emerging performers from our NOVA performance track programs, featured guest performers, and instructors from the Cabaret Atelier dance studio in downtown Bellingham, WA.
*4 SHOWS*
Friday Feb 20th, 6:30PM
Friday Feb 20th, 9PM
Saturday Feb 21st, 6:30PM
Saturday Feb 21st, 9PM
Tickets: Buy tickets – APHRODITE • Feb 20th & 21st • 6:30 & 9PM – New Prospect Theatre

The Plight of a Woman: What We Inherit, What We Endure, What We Rewrite: A Zimbabwean Story with a Universal Echo
2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:00
The Plight of A Woman is a powerful international tour by multidisciplinary artist and cultural storyteller Helen Masvikeni. Through a dynamic blend of narrative, movement, music, and visual storytelling, this experience examines the forces that shape identity, expectation, voice, and liberation—rooted in Zimbabwean culture yet resonating with all people.
While centered on the lived realities traditionally carried by women, the work opens an expansive conversation about the cultural roles, pressures, and inherited stories that shape us all. It is a call to reflect on the systems we participate in, the histories we inherit, and the collective responsibility we hold in, imagining something more just, compassionate, and free.
Designed for universities, global studies programs, cultural centers, and arts organizations, The Plight of A Woman is part performance, part lecture, part communal gathering. It invites audiences not only to witness a narrative—but to locate themselves within it. Participants leave inspired to engage, to question, and to carry the conversation forward into their communities, classrooms, and personal lives.
Helen Masvikeni is a Zimbabwean-born artist, cultural strategist, and storyteller whose work explores identity, resilience, and the human condition through global and culturally grounded lens. An internationally performing musician and distinguished photographer, she uses the arts as a bridge for dialogue—creating encounters that deepen understanding across culture, gender, and generation. Helen serves as Director of Cultural Engagement for an organization that brings world-class music into unexpected spaces and works as a Literary Agent dedicated to advancing underrepresented voices. With a foundation in business, marketing, and entrepreneurship—including her African-inspired jewelry line—she weaves heritage, artistry, and inquiry into a singular voice that invites audiences to listen, question, and participate in shaping a more connected world.
Tickets $20 The Plight of a Woman: What We Inherit,What We Endure,What We Rewrite: A Zimbabwean Story

Vox & Friends: Uncorked! A Musical Cabaret
2026-02-27 19:00 - 21:00
Our high-energy cabaret show is baaaaack again at The New Prospect Theatre in downtown Bellingham, WA! This year’s Uncorked will continue our 7th Season’s theme of HOPE. Our own Eva Sauvé will join us on piano along with Stephanie Straight on percussion, and Bruce Maurier on bass. We’ve invited several special Friends to perform with Vox Pacifica this year.
Your admission price includes:
the cabaret • a refreshing beverage of your choice • our delectable appetizer buffet • a wonderful time!
See you there!
$35, general admission • $25, youth 21 yrs and under Tickets: Events – VOX PACIFICA
