New Prospect Theatre

Bloom
2024-06-01 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
4 SHOWS • Friday, May 31st 6:30PM & 9:00PM
Saturday, June 1st 6:30PM & 9:00PM
Get ready to immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of color and energy as we invite you to our latest showcase, “BLOOM”. With a fusion of flowery motifs, disco beats, and psychedelic visuals, we’ll whisk you away on a journey where dance and creativity intertwine.
This celebration of movement, bodies, and our cabaret community is the capstone to our sessions for the season and features dancers from our NOVA performance programs as well as guest artists and teachers from Cabaret Atelier.
Tickets: Buy tickets – BLOOM – May 31st – June 1st – Cabaret Atelier Dance Spring Showcase – New Prospect Theatre (tickettailor.com)

Bloom - Cabaret Atelier Spring Showcase
2024-05-31 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-05-31 18:30 - 20:30

Bellingham Story Hour - May theme - TBA
2024-05-28 18:30 - 20:00
Join Bellingham Story Hour 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 story guidelines and community agreements online!
* open at 6:30:For Drinks and Polls and Surveys and Photo Ops and New Friends and A General Festive Situation.
Sign Up To Share a Story starting at 6:30 pm.
Show starts at 7:00
Basic Guidelines for Storytellers:
Read the complete guidelines online before signing up!
No scripts, no notes, no props, no performance pieces, no poems, no stand up, no rants, no unprocessed therapy,

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.
Attending a workshop is not necessary to participate but it can make a huge difference in both your content and delivery!

Tickets: https://www.bellinghamstoryhour.com/

More Lasting Than Bronze
2024-05-26 14:00 - 16:30
More Lasting Than Bronze – A Reading
By Lillian Oh-Furlong
Directed by Lila Soelberg
An award winning play by local playwright, Lilian Furlong, More Lasting Than Bronze is a sapphic retelling of the myth of Artemis and Orion. Inspired by the playwright’s love of mythology and storytelling, it explores love, sacrifice, and what it means to be human. It was first showcased at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Play competition in 2023, where it was selected as a semi-finalist and was awarded the Regional Paula Vogel Award. More Lasting Than Bronze was also selected as part of WWU’s student-led new works series during their 2022-23 season.
This is a workshop performance, so following the show there will be an audience talk-back with the director and cast. Come ready to share your opinions and support local artists.
Content warnings: adult language, references and depictions of homophobia and violence
This show runs without an intermission.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228229
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
2024-05-25 19:30 - 20:30
A Reading
Directed by Kathryn Murray
Performance May 25
A LIVE radio show reading of two Sherlock Holmes cases, complete with foley sound effects! In The Purloined Ruby, Sherlock and Watson try to solve a mystery that surrounds a play based on Sherlock Holmes’ adventures and a stolen ruby from a distant land. Next, Holmes will tackle The Mystery of the Missing Manhole Covers, which he’ll need the audience’s participation in solving! Ballots will be distributed to vote on your favorite solution. Use your best detective sleuthing ability! Appropriate for all ages.
Cautions: Two gunshots will occur in The Purloined Ruby.
This show’s run time is 1 hour – no intermission.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228228
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

The Miss Firecracker Contest
2024-05-24 19:30 - 21:30
The Miss Firecracker Contest – A Reading
By Beth Henley
Directed by Rylan MacDonald
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale”) is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain’s eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.
A long-run Off-Broadway success, this explosively funny play again demonstrates the author’s unique gift for finding rich lodes of humor—and simple wisdom—in the zany activities of small-town life.
“THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)”
“…the evening’s torrential downpour of humor—alternately Southern-Gothic absurdist, melancholy and broad—almost never subsides.” —The New York Times.
“…there is a story, with suspense and conflict—but where it shines is in the imagination of the playwright, in the characters she has created, in the strangeness and depth of their emotions, in the lines written for them to speak, and in her own astonishing, humorous vision.” —The New Yorker.
“It’s a comic volcano of a play, populated by offbeat, but vital, larger-than-life characters…” —The Hollywood Reporter.
“These are obviously the kinds of roles actors can happily chomp on…” —Time Magazine.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228227
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else? Featuring music by Louis Ledford & Norah McLaughlin
2024-05-19 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of a literary life by the writer otherwise known as Lemony Snicket.
Part memoir, part inspiration for aspiring writers, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Daniel Handler’s sometimes challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century. Declaring his love of strange literature, Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil in particular, Handler reflects on the life experiences—some of them deeply personal and revealed for the first time—and the cultural influences that shaped his writing, both under his own name and as Lemony Snicket, the lonely, beleaguered, somehow both cynical and romantic narrator of the beloved thirteen-volume saga of three unlucky orphans that became one of the best-selling series of all time. Inspiring, revelatory, and entertaining, And Then? And Then? What Else? is destined to become a classic of its genre, every bit as influential as Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings or Stephen King’s On Writing have been on previous generations.
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2021.
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
Louis Ledford and Norah McLaughlin specialize in harmony singing not unlike the Everly’s, Simon and Garfunkle, or Gram with Emmylou.
The songs are by Ledford, some of his friends as well as choice covers that you or your grandparents have never heard played quite like this before.
Louis Ledford has written, recorded and performed music for decades. The verdant fields of Virginia, the fragrant wards of New Orleans and most recently, the drizzly climes of Bellingham, WA have all been home.
Norah McLaughlin has been performing since she was a Whatcom County Kid in many wonderful bands including Kitty Kitty, Alamo Social Club and Yogoman Burning Band.
Tickets: 1 Seat/1 copy of And Then? $37 / 2 Seats/1 copy of And Then? $47
Registration required! Please go here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/868778890047

Robin Christopher Show
2024-05-18 19:30 - 21:00
The Robin Christopher Show is a live theatre talk show that not only showcases improvisers and a variety of other talents from comedians to ventriloquists, but the audience itself. Each show, Robin and Christopher pick two audience members from the audience to interview followed by an improvised sketch based on the interview.
Come laugh and learn about the people in your neighborhood. In your neighborhood. In your neighborhood. They’re the people that you meet each day.
Pre-sale tickets end the day before – ticket will be available at the door – first come first serve so get your tickets early!
Tickets available up to the day before the show
Robin Christopher Show Ticket Link https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/219512

Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit drag comedy show rocking the West Coast is coming back to Bellingham’s New Prospect Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling, high-larity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.
Dungeon Master comedian Paul Curry and improvisational musician Carson Cutter shall lead our Queens through a brand new storytelling adventure, with danger, snark, and audience participation around every precarious corner. Experience the adventure, or fail your quest- at Dungeons and Drag Queens!

Tickets: Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem | Humanitix

Dungeons and Drag Queens - A May of Mayhem
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit drag comedy show rocking the West Coast is coming back to Bellingham’s New Prospect Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling, high-larity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.
Dungeon Master comedian Paul Curry and improvisational musician Carson Cutter shall lead our Queens through a brand new storytelling adventure, with danger, snark, and audience participation around every precarious corner. Experience the adventure or fail your quest- at Dungeons and Drag Queens!
– Blends geekdom and queer culture to share silliness and the boundary-pushing joy of self-expression. – Seattle Times
– “A hit!” Seattle Gay News
– “Fantasy and Hilarity on a magical journey!” South Seattle Emerald
Purchase tickets early – the last show sold out!
Tickets Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem | Humanitix

The Half Life of Marie Curie
2024-05-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-09 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-03 19:30 - 21:30
ANBAHAR’S BLACK MARKET THEATRE presents this popular drama directed by Shawn Fuller and starring two powerhouse local actresses.
4/2/2024- Bellingham WA – ANBAHAR’S BLACK MARKET THEATRE presents The Half-Life of Marie Curie, the hit drama from Audible written by the prolific American playwright Lauren Gunderson about the protective friendship of two leading female scientists over decades. Directed by the award-winning Shawn Fuller, the play performs evenings over two weekends, May 2-May 12, at the New Prospect Theatre, with Sunday matinees.
The Half-Life of Marie Curie follows the travails of Marie Curie, hounded by the press over an affair gone wrong, and the literal and emotional sanctuary offered by her friend, English engineer and suffragette Hertha Ayrton. Their feisty and dynamic relationship, forged in the fires of science, sexism, and an unjust world, sharpens the resolve and the minds of both women, who go on to even greater achievements. Written with great heart and crackling humor by Lauren Gunderson, ANBAHAR’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie will be performed by talented local actresses Christina Aimerito and Jayne Entwistle contains science talk, adult languages, and adult situations.
ANBAHAR’s BLACK MARKET THEATRE is the Bellingham-based theater company owned by local artists Shawn Fuller and Sean Walbeck, which has produced plays locally and regionally with co-operative performers and designers for over two decades, and this is their debut production at New Prospect Theatre.
THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

Tickets for The Half-Life of Marie Curie are $15, and will be available at the New Prospect Theatre web-site or at the door.
Advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228163/performances

The Half-Life of Marie Curie
2024-05-02 19:30 - 21:30

Kris Delmhorst
2024-04-28 19:00 - 21:00
Kris Delmhorst is an American songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, and producer. A New York City native with a background in classical cello and piano, she cut her teeth in the open mics and coffeehouses of the Cambridge, MA music scene in the late 1990’s, and within a few years was playing clubs, theaters, and festivals throughout the USA and Europe. Delmhorst has released eight full-length solo albums, most on the enduring indie label Signature Sounds, as well as a panoply of EPs and side projects including an album of reworkings of well-known poems, and a collection of all-acoustic covers of songs by new-wave heroes The Cars.
A true musician’s musician, Delmhorst has become known for constant collaboration and a free-range, genre-agnostic curiosity. Her songs have been included in TV series and feature films, and she’s appeared as a vocalist or instrumentalist on dozens of albums and produced projects for Session Americana, Jeremy Moses Curtis, and others. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, the songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and their daughter.
$18 advanced, $20 day of show tickets available at the door. Doors open at 6pm
Advanced tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/227382

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival’s Script Studio
2024-04-28 10:00 - 13:00
Sunday, April 28 10 a.m.
CASCADIA’s Script Studio provides screenwriters with a chance to hear their scripts read aloud
by actors, to discuss their work with a panel of film professionals, and to network with women
directors and other film professionals. Four short screenplays, written by women, are selected
by judges from the film world. Scripts are projected on a large screen for the audience, while
actors read the script. Then the panel of film professionals weighs in, discussing the script’s
strengths and weaknesses, and making suggestions for improvement.
Writers And Scripts:

“Fire and Oak” by Susannah Stengel

“How to Eat an Elephant” by Donna Mae Foronda

“Wherever You Are” by Amelia Renee Cuttle

“Winners and Losers” by Cece A. Wheeler
Moderator: Josh Krenz, Bellingham Film Script Studio Coordinator
Panelists:
Barbara Brown, Director, Past President, Women In Film Seattle
Mary Lou Belli, Two-Time Emmy-Winning Director And Author
Julie Trimingham, Award Winning Director And Writer
This event is free and open to the public.

What's Left of a Tiger
2024-04-27 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-04-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-04-25 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-04-25 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-04-21 21:00 - 23:00
Award winning play written by Joey Macchi
Inspired by the Calvin and Hobbs comic strip.
Directed by Alicia Flood
Produced by Flooded Productions
April 20th 1pm
April 21 1pm
April 25th 6pm and 9pm
April 27th 6pm and 9pm
$10 Advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/227166/performances

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival Panel Discussion: Telling the Underrepresented Stories
2024-04-27 11:00 - 13:00
Saturday, April 27, 11 a.m.
Moderator: Claudia Puig, CASCADIA Program Director
Panelists: CASCADIA Directors Maria Valdez, “Vida”; Vivian Cheung, “For Roy”; Lorena
Lourenco, “Stitched”
These filmmakers bring the stories of underrepresented communities and cultures to the screen
to reflect the diversity of the human spirit, to present impactful stories that may be otherwise
overlooked and to engage audiences to understand the hurdles that underrepresented people of
color and those in diasporic communities constantly face. They will share their personal stories,
challenges and achievements in pursuing their commitment to tell these stories.
This event is free and open to the public.

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival Panel Discussion: “The Key Role of Music and Sound in Film”
2024-04-27 10:00 - 11:00
Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.
The music and sound design of a film can make or break a movie. The best film scores can
heighten the impact of a film without the viewer even noticing. But how do directors decide what
music to use, how do composers create a great score and how does what they create impact
the film’s characters? Learn from two of the best how directors and composers work together,
the process they use, and the relationship they develop to build a score that makes a movie
memorable.
Moderator: Claudia Puig, CASCADIA Program Director
Panelists include: Catherine Hardwicke, CASCADIA Honored Guest and director of films
including “Thirteen,” “Twilight,” “Lords of Dogtown,” “Miss You Already.”
Justin Melland award-winning film composer for the STARZ Original Series “Wrong Man”, the
Netflix series: “Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” and “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy
Rich”.
This event is free and open to the public.

O Pole Studios Spring Showcase
2024-04-26 20:30 - 22:00
Instructors and students from O-Pole Studios will delight you with a variety of body positive dances from pole dance, heels, chair routines, burlesque and more.
Recommended for Ages 18+

Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/226775

Marvin and Friends
2024-04-21 14:00 - 18:00
Dear Ol’ Pals, “The Right To Sing The Blues”, (Which He Truly Loves!:), Has Presented It’s Ugly Side Into The Lives Of My Dear Friends! Sadly, Willie & Aline Lane Got 2nd Degree Burns And Had Their Home, Business, Precious Native Artwork, Hats & Feathers, Car, And Other Worldy Possessions Vanish In A Fire! (He Saved The Dog, But Not His Shoes!) I Have Therefore Decided To Make My April 21st Celebration Of My 40 Years Of Recovery @ “The New Prospect Theatre” From 2-6pm In Their Honor! In The Native Tradition, We Will Go Around The Room With A Pendleton Blanket So That You Can Toss Any Cash You Wish To Contrbute For Their Recovery Into It! (To Show That “We Always Want A Helping Hand To Be There”!:) Thanks Again For Joinin’ Us To Celebrate “My Sober Musical Life”! I’m Gonna’ Be “Playin With My Friends”! Luvluvluv, Marvin J & Lynn C. (P.S.- “Never Trust A Man Who Doesn’t Drink”!:) Ha! (“1-2, Ya’ll Know What Ta’ Do”!:)Lalala

Donations at the door.
