New Prospect Theatre

Mean Girls - The Musical / High School Edition
2024-01-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-20 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George.
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/221461/performances

Mean Girls – The Musical / High School Edition
2024-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Open Mic
2024-01-17 17:30 - 20:00, 2024-01-03 17:30 - 20:00 | Ethos West Stage
5;30 sign ups Performances 6 – 8pm
All ages. Family friendly. $5 donations at door.

Improv Jam
2024-01-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Ethos West Stage
The sweet sweet jam that can actually help you “unstick” your creative flow! Kind of an un jamming jam? Isn’t it so weird that Jam Bands are basically ever-flowing nonstop musical noodling but actual jams are either solidified fruit goo or places where logs or traffic come to a stand still?
Why’s that a thing?
Circling back though- 1st and 3rd Tuesday improv Jams are more like the flowing noodley kind of jams- where everyone can play and learn from each other. “Improv like no one is watching” 6-7:30. Show up and Jam!

$5 at the door.

Robin Christopher Show
2024-01-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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

Jan 12 https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/orders/new?performance_id=2953702

Cat Positive Kazmyn Ivy Ficarra Sam Chue
2024-01-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Pre sale $10 Day of Tickets at the door #12
Presale Link
https://tummyrockrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/tuesday-january-9th-cat-positive-duo-kazmyn-ivy-ficarra-sam-chue

New Years Eve Fundraiser for BRD and NPT
2023-12-31 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
New Years Eve Fundraiser for BRD and NPT
BRD and New Prospect Theatre are teaming up to bring you our second annual NYE fundraiser! Complete with drinks, karaoke, and lots of dancing – ring in the new year with us with supporting the arts.
8pm-12am
$20 advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/222038
$25 at the door
Youth $10 welcome until 10pm

Robert Sarazin Blake 'A Very Subdued Christmas'
2023-12-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Robert Sarazin Blake with Special Guests Louis Ledford & Norah McLaughlin
For Advanced Tickets:
Friday VenuePilot | A Very Subdued Christmas-Friday Dec 22nd
Saturday VenuePilot | A Very Subdued Christmas – Sat Dec 23rd

Robert Sarazin Blake 'A Very Subdued Christmas'
2023-12-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Rober Sarazin Blake with Special Guests Louis Ledford & Norah McLaughlin
For Advanced Tickets:
Friday VenuePilot | A Very Subdued Christmas-Friday Dec 22nd
Saturday VenuePilot | A Very Subdued Christmas – Sat Dec 23rd

To Whom It May Concern
2023-12-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
To Whom It May Concern Is Back With More Letters! Thursday December 21st @ 7:30pm. This live monthly show features real letters folks have written or received, old family letters, letters from the Whatcom Museum Archives, improvised letters based on audience suggestions and those letters we only wish we could write. A musician accompanies the letters for an evening of Bellingham history and stories.
Tickets: To Whom It May Concrn via ThunderTix

Improv Jam
2023-12-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
We learn from each other – open scenes in the filter of apples to apples. Warm up games and connection.

$5/ person to pay for space.

COME ONE COME ALL
ALL EXPERIENCE WELCOME.

Gallowglass (with special guests The Dream Goats)
2023-12-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join us as we celebrate the release of our debut album, Dear Ruin, with a concert at The New Prospect Theater featuring our friends The Dream Goats.
Sunday, December 17th | Doors: 5pm, Concert: 6-8pm | Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day-of-show
Advance tickets: https://www.gallow.glass/shows/2023/12/17/debut-album-release-show

Bellingham Story Hour - Here to Sleigh
2023-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
True Stories Told Live about the Holidays!
A Bellingham Story Hour Special Event- featuring your favorite story tellers sharing true stories about the holiday season.
Plus! Live Music, A micro story medley of made up carols, special guests, and more.
The party starts at 7pm with a Sparkle Night Soiree; come for the sequins stay for the cookies!
Ticket link for December:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellinghamstoryhour/1045750

John Prine Christmas
2023-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 special guests. 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:
Made up of members from Pacific Northwest groups Polecat, Petty or Not and
Skillethead, the Jenner Fox Band tells stories of people and places with compassion and
respect. Theyve twice headlined Sisters Folk Festival and recently opened for bluegrass
and folk group Trampled by Turtles at Hayden Homes Amphitheater.
Tickets go on sale Sept. 15th
Advance Tickets $20 / Day of Tickets (if available) $25 John Prine Christmas (brownpapertickets.com)

Solstice Puppet Slam
2023-12-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Ticket link: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/222330

Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play
2023-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play is an international award-winning one-woman biographical musical that combines cabaret, theatre and dance to tell the story of the iconic Josephine Baker, the first African-American international superstar and one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th Century.
After debuting at the 2016 San Diego Fringe Festival and winning the distinctions of “Outstanding Solo Performance” and “Best Show”, Josephine toured throughout North America in 2017, picking up awards and 5 star reviews at every stop. From there, the show was selected by The Soho Playhouse in New York City to be part of the 2017 Fringe Encore series in October, 2017. Josephine was then awarded the honor of the encore series “Outstanding Production” award, and in early 2018 was offered a limited 8-week off-Broadway run at Soho Playhouse, where it sold out performances and received high critical acclaim. For the off-Broadway run, Tymisha Harris was nominated for a 2018 Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Tymisha Harris, Performer/Costume Designer/Choreographer. Tymisha Harris (aka “Tush”) has been performing professionally for over 25 years. Her early credits include assistant choreographer and backup dancing for the 90’s pop group N*SYNC, backup dancer for LFO, multiple roles at Universal Studios Orlando, and a featured role in the hit movie series Bring It On. More recent endeavors include the national tour of Rock of Ages, a European tour with the innovative and world-renowned Pilobulus Dance Theater Company, and founding member and Assistant Director/Choreographer of the successful Orlando based troupe, VarieTease.
Producer/Director/co-Creator Michael Marinaccio notes: “In a period of profound division in the world, we are excited to present the story of a woman who broke boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality in a time before America had begun coming to terms with the concept of diversity. You would be hard pressed to find a more remarkable human being than Josephine Baker, and it’s about time that this extraordinary woman has her story told.”
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/218731

Wizard People, Dear Bellingham
2023-12-09 19:00 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Willikers! The holiday season is upon and that can mean but one thing: the return of “Wizard People, Dear Bellingham”!
Come watch as Professor Brett Niley performs his surreal one-man reinterpretation of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” as a live band provides the score, a foley artist performs live sound effects, and a heavily mutated version of the film is projected behind them all.
It takes the fourth-wall-breaking of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the schlock antics of Rocky Horror to delirious new heights.
For years a sold out event in Portland, this show is hellbent on clawing its way into the wintertime heart of Bellingham.

$15 presale / $20 day of tickets available at the door.
Advanced tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/218658

The Lowest Pair (Full Band)
2023-12-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Perfect Plan is masterfully crafted. -American Songwriter
During the spring and summer of 2020, The Lowest Pair (Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) found themselves camping and sharing songs around the fire with two dear friends and incredible musicians Adam Roszkiewicz and Leif Karlstrom of the instrumental duo Small Town Therapy. Founding members of the progressive string band Front Country, multi-instrumentalists Adam and Leif bring a new dynamic palette of colors to Kendl and Palmers own instrumental prowess and expressive lyricism.
After sharing a handful of new songs and tunes, (and making immediate fans in the campground) there was no doubt that a record was in the future, and In August of 2020 they spent a week out in Enterprise, Oregon recording at the OK Theater.
The new record Horse Camp leans towards each member’s string band roots and showcases brand new Lowest Pair songs Kendl and Palmer wrote during the strange times of the pandemic. The album also includes an instrumental by each musician involved. Its an awesome display of how a simple collaboration of friends can result in music that is as organic as it is undeniable.
Advance tickets $22, Day of Show Tickets are $25
Advance Tickets: The Lowest Pair (Full Band) in Bellingham: Dec 8th @ 7 pm (brownpapertickets.com)

1 Year Anniversary Birthday Bash!
2023-12-03 17:30 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
We have so much to celebrate and so much gratitude!
Join us for an open house celebration of our first year. Performances by Andy Bunn and Friends, The Hot Tomatoes, puppets, horns, letters and more!
Members receive free tickets, if you aren’t a member yet you can sign up at the event!
This year’s performers tickets are $10
Members and performers – check your inbox for the coupon code, if you haven’t received one, please email us and we will get you the code!
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/221298

Puppet Slam
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Welcome to the second edition of the Bellingham Puppet Slam; an evening of experimental short puppet shows presented by a wide array of local and regional artists.
Puppetry is an ancient art form living on the fringes of modern society. Puppets and masks can help us tell stories that don’t fit in elsewhere. The Bellingham Puppet Slam is a cabaret-style evening of puppetry performance geared toward adult audiences (kids are welcome too!).
Witness the fruits of a grassroots arts movement showcasing works in progress alongside polished pieces, emerging artists and established artists. Come be inspired!

Featuring pieces from:
River’s Teeth (Kiah Raymond)
West of Roan
Sarah Schermer
Amy Connolly
And More!

Advanced tickets $15 General $10 Student: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/220550

Bellingham Story Hour
2023-11-28 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 agreements online!
Ticket link for November:
https://buytickets.at/bellinghamstoryhour/1041509

Road2Home Fundraiser
2023-11-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Road2Home presents an evening to learn, share, and reflect on the issue of housing instability and homelessness in our community. Alongside the screening of the film, The Case of Conrad Cooper (directed by Valerie Dalena) attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the current state of homelessness in Whatcom County, share their thoughts and ideas towards solutions to alleviate the crisis, and learn about successes from Road2Homes approach at Gardenview Tiny House Village.

Movie Synopsis:
Conrad Cooper lives in the past…stuck in today, afraid of tomorrow. Like most days, Conrad is on his way somewhere and he has to be on time. If anyone happens to notice, he’s just another man, wearing a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase, blending in. But Conrad’s fear of the future follows him like an ever present ghost. Finally, in his darkest hour, something catches his eye – something so simple, so innocent that he’d completely forgotten, had barely even noticed – at the time. At least for now, he believes there’s hope for tomorrow.

Advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/219572

SOLD OUT! Caitlin Canty Record Release - Joachim Cooder is opening
2023-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Caitlin Canty is an American singer/songwriter whose music carves a line through folk, blues, and country ballads. Her voice was called casually devastating by the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Music describes her songs as having a haunting urgency.
Cantys fourth studio record, Quiet Flame, arrives June 23, 2023. (https://youtu.be/I_Qj8GrQidU) Produced by Chris Eldridge, Quiet Flame features Sarah Jarosz (mandolin, banjo, vocals), Brittany Haas (fiddle), and Paul Kowert (bass) as the core backing band. Andrew Marlin sings backing vocals, Noam Pikelny and Eldridge guest on a few songs as well. The band recorded live over four days at The Tractor Shed in Nashville with Sean Sullivan engineering and mixing.
Raised in small-town Vermont, the daughter of a school teacher and a house painter, Canty earned her degree in biology in the Berkshires and subsequently moved to New York City. She spent her days in the city working as an environmental sustainability consultant and her nights making music at Lower East Side music halls and bars. In 2009, she quit her job and set out to make music full time. In 2015, she packed up her house plants and her 1939 Recording King guitar and drove to Nashville, TN, which she now calls home.
Tickets: Caitlin Canty Record Release (brownpapertickets.com)

Bellingham Improv Festival
2023-11-10 19:30 - 2023-11-11 23:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Get ready for a weekend of improv!
We are excited to announce the 1st annual Bellingham Improv Festival hosted by the Upfront Theatre happening Friday November 10th and Saturday November 11th right here in Bellingham, WA!
Our 2 day festival will feature improv teams from across the PNW and beyond, with 4 shows over two evenings, and a full day of various workshops taught by visiting improv teachers. Come discover new styles and experience improv in a whole new way!
Festival shows will include improv sets from A Tribe Called Yes (Seattle), BABE (Portland), Butt Kapinski (Bellingham), The Fictionals (Vancouver BC), The Improv Centre (Vancouver BC), Improv Playworks (Bellingham), Jet City (Seattle), Michael Glatzmaier (Spokane), Morris and Morris: Attorneys at Law (Seattle), Mouth Wide Shut (Seattle), Murder Fairy and Arson Leprechaun (Bellingham), No Strings Attached (Seattle), Quick Wits (Salt Lake City), The Robin Christopher Show (Bellingham), and The Upfront Theatre (Bellingham).

If you love improv, this festival is for you!

For tickets and more information: https://www.theupfront.com/bif

To Whom It May Concern
2023-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
To Whom It May Concern Is Back With More Letters! Thursday November 9th @ 7:30pm. This live monthly show features real letters folks have written or received, old family letters, letters from the Whatcom Museum Archives, improvised letters based on audience suggestions and those letters we only wish we could write. A musician accompanies the letters for an evening of Bellingham history and stories. This month’s letter readers include:
* Les Campbell, Harvey Schwartz, Gib Strange, John Kingsford-Smith, Evelyn Symes, Jayne Entwistle, Jose Beltran, Cecilee Romano with Bellow Wing providing the musical accompaniment.

Tickets To Whom It May Concern via ThunderTix
