New Play Cafe
2024-03-31 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 25 submissions, are featured in the second annual 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.
Good Heavens! by Daniel Repp
Comedy – Bickering 16th-century astronomers
Donations at the door.

Improv Jam
2024-04-02 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-04-16 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” 6-8pm. Show up and Jam!

$5 at the door.

Open Mic
2024-04-03 17:30 - 20:00, 2024-04-17 17:30 - 20:00 | Ethos West Stage
5;30 sign ups Performances 6 – 8pm
All ages. Family friendly. $5 donations at door.

New Play Cafe
2024-04-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 25 submissions, are featured in the second annual 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.
Perseus is Dead by Alex Quiring
Comedy – Those crazy Greek gods
Donations at the door.

New Play Cafe
2024-04-06 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-04-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Six new plays by Pacific Northwest playwrights, selected from 25 submissions, are featured in the second annual 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.
Together by Thomas Pierce
Drama – An asteroid will end the world in six months, maybe
Donations at the door.

A Very Queer Ballet (not a love story)
2024-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
“A Very Queer Ballet (not a love story)” is a groundbreaking contemporary story ballet that brings long overdue LGBTQ+ representation to the dance world. Frustrated with the heteronormativity and monotony in classical ballets, dance student Atlas Hovdesven began writing this tense and heartwarming story in 2022. With the help of an amazing team, including Stage Manager Sunny Holton, AVQB is making its stage debut this April. The story centers a young trans boy, River, exploring his identity with the support of fellow queer youth. Throughout the show, River struggles with dysphoria, depression, and the hardships of navigating relationships with his family and friends. The show is written, choreographed, directed, and performed by the youth dancers of Bellingham.
April 12th tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/223403
April 13th tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/223405

A Very Queer Ballet (not a love story)
2024-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
“A Very Queer Ballet (not a love story)” is a groundbreaking contemporary story ballet that brings long overdue LGBTQ+ representation to the dance world. Frustrated with the heteronormativity and monotony in classical ballets, dance student Atlas Hovdesven began writing this tense and heartwarming story in 2022. With the help of an amazing team, including Stage Manager Sunny Holton, AVQB is making its stage debut this April. The story centers a young trans boy, River, exploring his identity with the support of fellow queer youth. Throughout the show, River struggles with dysphoria, depression, and the hardships of navigating relationships with his family and friends. The show is written, choreographed, directed, and performed by the youth dancers of Whatcom County.
April 12th tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/223403
April 13th tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/223405

To Whom It May Concern
2024-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
To Whom It May Concern is a live monthly show featuring real letters folks have written or received, old family letters, letters from the Whatcom Museum Archives, improvised letters based on audience suggestions and those letter we only wish we could write. A musician accompanies the letters for an evening of Bellingham history and stories.
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228164

Robin Christopher Show
2024-04-19 19:30 - 21:30 | 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
Robin Christopher Show Ticket Link https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/219512

What’s Left of a Tiger
2024-04-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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

Bellingham Story Hour - April theme - "It's High Time"
2024-04-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
STORY HOUR GOES PRIME TIME WITH HIGH TIME ON 4-20
True Stories told about those times we’re pretty sure we remember?
In honor of 4:20- Bellingham Story Hour brings you cute and cautionary TRUE tales about high times.
True stories about the highest of highs will be interspersed with anonymous confessions from the audience set to improvised songs, anonymous audience poll results and more!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!
Doors 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/

Marvin and Friends
2024-04-21 14:00 - 18:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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.

What's Left of a Tiger
2024-04-21 21:00 - 23:00, 2024-04-25 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-04-25 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-04-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-04-27 21:00 - 22:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

O Pole Studios Spring Showcase
2024-04-26 20:30 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival Panel Discussion: “The Key Role of Music and Sound in Film”
2024-04-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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.

CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival Panel Discussion: Telling the Underrepresented Stories
2024-04-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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’s Script Studio
2024-04-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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.

Kris Delmhorst
2024-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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

The Half-Life of Marie Curie
2024-05-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
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
2024-05-03 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
