New Prospect Theatre

Obscura
2025-10-17 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-17 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-10-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-18 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Step into the shadows with us this October for OBSCURA, our annual fall showcase. This spooky evening brings together dancers, acrobats, and burlesque artists for a night of performance inspired by mystery, magic, and the unknown. Join us as our cast takes the stage with original acts that celebrate the darker side of the season.
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, as well as instructors from the Cabaret Atelier dance studio in downtown Bellingham, WA.
Our shows sell out, get your ticket soon! Seriously, tickets will disappear and we don’t want you to miss this.
*All guests must be 18+
**Doors open 30 minutes prior to the show. Please arrive on time — tickets not checked in by showtime may be subject to resale.
***Tickets are non-refundable but may be transferred to a different showtime or attendee. To process a ticket transfer, click the Manage Tickets button.

Buy tickets – OBSCURA • Oct 17th & 18th • 6:30 & 9PM – New Prospect Theatre

Luke Bulla: Grammy Winning Fiddler
2025-10-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Luke Bulla has been singing and playing music most of his life, touring with and singing in his family band from age four, Luke took up the fiddle at seven. Over the course of the next few years, he won the National Fiddle Contest (in Weiser, Idaho) six times in his respective age categories. His seventh win came in the Grand Champion division at age sixteen, making him the youngest to have earned the title at the time.
In the spring of 1999, Luke moved to Nashville to establish himself as a full time musician. He spent his early years in Tennessee playing fiddle in Ricky Skaggs band, Kentucky Thunder, which earned him his first Grammy Award. Luke was a member of the John Cowan Band. Luke has also performed and/or recorded with Brandi Carlile, Jim Lauderdale, Darrell Scott, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Kevin Costner & Modern West, Russ Barenberg Trio, Shawn Colvin, Tony Rice, Chris Thile, Peter Rowan, Patty Griffin, Glen Phillips, Rodney Crowell, and Earl Scruggs, to name a few. In 2009, Luke released a solo EP featuring Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Aoife ODonovan and more. Since 2009, Luke has been touring with Lyle Lovett.
Luke released an LP, Who Loves You Better, produced by Bryan Sutton in May 2016. After many years as a sideman, Luke is currently touring the country playing solo performances.
$22 Adv, $25 DOS lukebulla.brownpapertickets.com

Comedy Show - A Road 2 Home Fundraiser
2025-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
An Evening of Laughter for a Cause
Road2Home invites you to join us for a comedy show featuring the talented and brilliant comedians Sam Miller, Monica Nevi, and John Gardner.
This isn’t just for laughs—it’s for our community! Every ticket purchased helps Road2Home support individuals experiencing homelessness by providing safe shelter, personalized care, and critical resources that empower people to take steps toward permanent, stable housing.
Come enjoy a night of laughter and connection, knowing that your presence will directly impact the lives of our vulnerable neighbors.
Laugh loud. Give back. Make a difference.
Tickets available at: https://road2home2025comedyshow.eventbrite.com/
Can’t make it to the event but want to support Road2Home’s work? Please consider making a gift by going to www.road2home.org/donate
Thank you to our sponsors Ram Construction and Barron, Quinn, Blackwood

Hellingham
2025-10-24 19:30 - 2025-10-25 23:00, 2025-10-31 19:30 - 2025-11-01 23:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Welcome to Hellingham, where everyone is as silly as they are suspect! Our cast of improvisers will take inspiration from the audience to create their character, drawing from the Bowl of Fate to find out if they will witness, kill, or be killed. Only the improviser knows their character’s fate, until it is revealed on stage! Join us for our fan favorite improvised murder mystery.
Shows 7:30 – 9pm and 9:30 – 11pm Oct 24, 25, 31 and Nov 1st.
Tickets: Hellingham | The Upfront Theatre

To Whom It May Concern
2025-10-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Letters read by
Lantz Simpson
Carly Haapala
Holly Witte
George Dyson
Clay Young
Ryan Fries
Jayne Entwistle

with musical guest Carly Haapala

Tickets $15: To Whom It May Concern via ThunderTix

An Evening with Jefrey Foucault
2025-10-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums– “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection”(Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.
In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake (Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway to cancer in 2021) and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.

Tickets $30 Advance / $35 Day of: An Evening with Jefrey Foucault

O Pole Studios Fall Showcase
2025-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join O-Pole Studios for their Fall Showcase. Pole Dance performances in a variety of styles: from athletic & powerful to slow & sensual, plus everything in between. 18+.
This show usually sells out – get your tickets early!
Advance Tickets $20 / Day of Tickets ( if available ) $25 O Pole Studios Fall Showcase via ThunderTix

Phoebe in Winter
2025-11-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
“Phoebe in Winter” is Jen Silverman’s post-war fable. Three brothers return home from a distant war preparing to settle into their old lives, but a knock at the door brings other plans. A woman named Phoebe accuses them of killing her own three brothers and demands reparations–that they must become her new family instead.”
Warning: This show contains violence, blood, objects breaking, loud noises, and sound effects of explosions, distant gunshots, and war.
Nov 6 – 9, 13 -16 7:30pm Thursday – Saturday, 2pm Sunday
Tickets $15 Phoebe in Winter via ThunderTix

Phoebe in Winter
2025-11-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-15 19:30 - 21:30

The Bellingham Improv Festival
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-22 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Bellingham Improv Festival is an annual celebration of improvisational theater held in Bellingham, Washington. Hosted by The Upfront Theatre, a cornerstone of the local comedy scene, the festival brings together talented improv troupes from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Spanning several nights, it showcases a wide variety of performances, with each show offering a unique mix of teams, styles, and formats.
In addition to performances, the festival offers workshops led by visiting improv professionals, tailored to a range of experience levels. Whether you’re hoping to deepen your craft, explore new techniques, or try improv for the first time, there’s something for everyone. This multi-day event takes place at The Upfront Theatre and the neighboring New Prospect Theatre in downtown Bellingham. Festival passes are available, bundling multiple shows and offering discounts on workshops.
Lively, welcoming, and community-driven, the Bellingham Improv Festival is a must-attend event for performers and comedy lovers alike
For more details: Improv Festival 2025 – Bellingham, WA | The Upfront Theatre

To Whom It May Concern
2025-11-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Letters read by:
Kristin Noreen
Alex Mason
Shirley King
Hazel VanBuskirk
Jayne Entwistle

Musical Guests
Pomegranate Penguins
Tickets $15 General / $10 Student To Whom It May Concern via ThunderTix

An Evening with John Reischman & the Jaybirds
2025-12-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Like the powerful mandolinist and composer at its helm, John Reischman and the Jaybirds fashion a stylish take on bluegrass that seamlessly blends original songs and instrumentals with Appalachian old-time music for a truly unique band sound. Now in their 20th year, with seven acclaimed albums and two Juno nominations, the Jaybirds are simultaneously innovative and unadorned, sophisticated and stripped-down, happily old-fashioned and 21st-century contemporary.
Tickets $25 Advanced: An Evening with John Reischman & the Jaybirds via ThunderTix

Watch Out For Flying Chairs
2025-12-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The wacky Burford family is back! Briscoe decides to start a new religion so he can better spread his message of how to help stupid people. See how a tattoo insurrection, Mom’s Homemade Pie House, YouTube prophecies, cryptocurrency, existential despair, flying chairs and other shenanigans complicate his plans.
Tickets $15 Watch Out for Flying Chairs via ThunderTix

Watfch Out For Flying Chairs
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Watch Out For Flying Chairs
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30

A John Prine Christmas with Jenner Fox Band (2 Night Residency)
2025-12-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Ever wonder what John Prine has to do with Christmas? Ever wished the beloved songwriter had more to do with sleigh bells, eggnog, and Old Saint Nick. Well, in 1994 Prine released his 11th LP titled, A John Prine Christmas. The critics didnt acclaim it much, but with titles such as Silent Night All Day Long ” and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, its still Prine at his lovely wry best, bringing Christmas home.
We are proud to present A John Prine Christmas a night of your favorite songs featuring folk troubadour and Prine scholar, Jenner Fox, with his all-star band. The evening will weave together Prines classic hits, his holiday themed songs, stories, and lots of singing along. Come prepared to laugh and cry and ho ho ho your way through celebrating a true American original.
Jenner Fox Band:
The Jenner Fox Band invites us to sit still, to breathe, and to notice what we’ve been missing. Intimate, present, and unadorned. – Atwood Magazine
The carefully crafted songs see-saw between epic and subtle, finding poetry in the mundane. – Cascadia Daily News
A stunning album that should make many a sleeper ‘Best of list. – Glide Magazine
The Bellingham, WA based band features musicians from Polecat, Gregory Alan Isakov, Noah Gunderson, and Petty or Not. Deeply grounded in the roots of storytelling, trees, rivers, and chuckles, their unique perspective brings moments of beauty that often get ignored or discarded. All of the band members have the talent to occupy the spotlight, but the grace in which they collaborate and prop each other up is magic. This is a band on the rise and a show not to be missed!
Tickets $22 Advance / $25 Day of
Dec 7th: A John Prine Christmas with Jenner Fox Band (2 Night Residency)

A John Prine Christmas with Jenner Fox Band (2 Night Residency)
2025-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Ever wonder what John Prine has to do with Christmas? Ever wished the beloved songwriter had more to do with sleigh bells, eggnog, and Old Saint Nick. Well, in 1994 Prine released his 11th LP titled, A John Prine Christmas. The critics didn’t acclaim it much, but with titles such as Silent Night All Day Long ” and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, its still Prine at his lovely wry best, bringing Christmas home.
We are proud to present A John Prine Christmas a night of your favorite songs featuring folk troubadour and Prine scholar, Jenner Fox, with his all-star band. The evening will weave together Prines classic hits, his holiday themed songs, stories, and lots of singing along. Come prepared to laugh and cry and ho ho ho your way through celebrating a true American original.
Jenner Fox Band:
The Jenner Fox Band invites us to sit still, to breathe, and to notice what we’ve been missing. Intimate, present, and unadorned. – Atwood Magazine
The carefully crafted songs see-saw between epic and subtle, finding poetry in the mundane. – Cascadia Daily News
A stunning album that should make many a sleeper ‘Best of list. – Glide Magazine
The Bellingham, WA based band features musicians from Polecat, Gregory Alan Isakov, Noah Gunderson, and Petty or Not. Deeply grounded in the roots of storytelling, trees, rivers, and chuckles, their unique perspective brings moments of beauty that often get ignored or discarded. All of the band members have the talent to occupy the spotlight, but the grace in which they collaborate and prop each other up is magic. This is a band on the rise and a show not to be missed!
Tickets $22 Advance / $25 Day of
Dec 8th: A John Prine Christmas with Jenner Fox Band (2 Night Residency)

The Reef - Cancelled due to family emergency
2025-12-11 19:30 - 2025-12-14 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, the director of The Reef will no longer be able to continue work on the project at this time, and the performances scheduled for December 11th through the 14th have been canceled. Rhododendron Theater Productions thanks you for all your support and hopes you consider supporting New Prospect Theater in other ways. We thank them for their gracious patronage of local independent art in the Bellingham community.
Current ticket holders will be contacted for refund details.

Search for the Christmas Penguin
2025-12-13 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-12-13 15:00 - 16:30 | 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
