New Prospect Theatre

The Robin Christopher Show
2023-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
A somewhat improvised daytime/nighttime talk show where the audience is the special guests.
For tickets see the website link below.

Open Mic
2023-05-17 17:30 - 20:00, 2023-05-03 17:30 - 20:00, 2023-04-19 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Ethos West Stage
5;30 sign ups Performances 6 – 8pm
All ages. Family friendly. Donations at door.

Peter Ali - Special Mother's Day Performance
2023-05-14 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
You’re invited this Mothers day to a great combination of beverages, light snacks and
the relaxing sounds of the Native American courting flute or as they are
also known as love flutes. Performing for you will be well known local
artist Peter Ali who plays for you songs from the Heart to Honor Mothers Day.
Listen to the sounds of eagle, running river, nature and spirit in the flute’s song.
Tickets $10 General $8 Members $5 for Moms
Tickets can be purchased in advance (recommended) and at the door day of event.
Doors open at 1pm
Buy tickets for Peter Ali – Special Mother’s Day Performance

Script Studio
2023-05-07 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The 2023 Script Studio Workshop is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 7, and will take place at the Lucas Hicks Auditorium at the New Prospect Theatre (207 Prospect St., Bellingham). The event is part of a series of workshops during CASCADIA’s regularly scheduled festival May 4-7. It will be open to the public free of charge.
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. The four selectees are required to attend the Script Studio, if possible in person, and if not, electronically.
Each script is 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 weak-nesses, and making suggestions for improvement.
This year’s Script Studio scripts and writers are:
Writers and Scripts

“Junk” by Bridget Bell McMahon
“She Hath Come” by Cat Dale
“Janine” by Sylvia Gail Kinard
“Bottlecap” by Julie Sharbutt

Welcome & Introduction: Dan Larner, CASCADIA Board Member
Moderator: Josh Krenz, Bellingham Film Script Studio
Coordinator
Guest panelists: Barbara Brown, Director, Past
President, Women in Film Seattle, Shirley Jo Finney,
Award-winning Director, Ann Smith, actress, editor.
Script Studio Judges: Daniel Larner, Michael Petryni.
Acting Ensemble Directors: Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy and Evan Mueller
The Script Studio is free of charge and Open to the general public.

A Spring Reading Series
2023-05-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-05-05 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Menagerie, a new Bellingham based theatre company, was created to highlight LGBTQ+, plus size, and disabled creatives and their work. May 4th and 5th @ 7pm, a Spring Reading Series will be held at the New Prospect Theatre. It will include 3 plays written by 3 playwrights. Come on out and celebrate these beautiful plays! To purchase tickets and seek more info on this company and event, refer to https://lnk.bio/themenagerie or @themenagerietheatrecompany
Tickets can be purchased here or with cash at the door: https://lnk.bio/themenagerie

Panel Discussions
2023-05-06 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Visiting directors and special guests participate in two moderated panel discussions on film-related subjects. Topics and participants to be announced soon. These educational panels are free of charge and open to the public.

Bellingham Story Hour Workshop
2023-05-02 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Ethos West Stage

Men of Parts, a new play by Rosalind Reynolds
2023-04-30 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-04-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-04-23 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-04-21 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Those Brazen Wenches Theatre Company presents Men of Parts, a new play by Rosalind Reynolds, directed by Dawn Hunter. Performances April 21, 22, 28, and 29 at 7:30 pm, and April 23 and 30 at 2 pm, at the New Prospect Theatre in Bellingham, WA. Tickets $15 general, $10 students, from Brown Paper Tickets, or at the door. London, 1525. A ragtag company of actors struggles to mount a production of The Deeds of Robin Hood, while evading angry sheriffs, greedy publishers, vengeful husbands, landlords, lawyers, bears, and their own checkered pasts. All while asking themselves – as one does – what would Robin Hood do?
Rosalind Reynolds is a former playwright-in-residence of the iDiOM Theater. Her previous works include Godlike, Julian the Humble, The Wingmaker, and Branwen Spikes the Drink. Dawn Hunter is a long-time actor and director with the iDiOM Theater. Together they founded Those Brazen Wenches Theatre Company in 2022, with the mission of smashing the patriarchy in entertaining ways. Men of Parts is the long-awaited follow-up to their debut production, Thrice to Wind the Charm.
https://bpt.me/5869780

Bellingham Story Hour - This month's theme: Oh no thank you
2023-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Bellingham Story Shares take place on the 4th Tuesday of every month.
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 agreement below.
*please note that online ticket sales stop at 4:30 pm on the date of the show.
Tickets can still be purchased at the door starting at 6:30pm.
Story hour guidelines : Story Guidelines | Bellingham Story Hour
Tickets: Home | Bellingham Story Hour

O-Pole Studios: The Debut
2023-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Students and instructors from Bellingham’s O-Pole Studios take to the stage in this one night performance. Featuring a variety styles of dance, from pole dance to chair routines, this show will be sure to dazzle!

Performances may contain adult language and moments.

Tickets: https://bpt.me/5996252

ALL MY LITTLE WORDS: A Performance Lecture on Art and Failure
2023-04-08 19:30 - 20:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
I’m afraid of being an artist who doesn’t make art.
In 2004 Ashley Hollingshead met Nate Harpel while they were both undergrads at Western Washington University. They became best friends and life long artistic collaborators…or that was the plan anyways.
In ALL MY LITTLE WORDS Ashley uses Nate’s unfinished graduate playwriting thesis as a jumping off point to explore the concepts of artistic failure, practice, and success. All the while examining their changing relationship with Nate and with their own artistic practice in this interactive performance/lecture/essay.
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Ashley Hollingshead (they/them) is a director, performer, and collaborator currently living on the unceded lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde/Portland, Or. They hold a MFA in European Devised Performance Practice from Columbia College Chicago. Their practice mashes up personal narrative, queer culture, and sweet dance moves made by a non-dancer body. In 2006 they graduated from WWU with BA in theatre and they are so excited to be bringing this piece to Bellingham!
Tickets available here: ALL MY LITTLE WORDS: A Performance Lecture on Art and Failure (bpt.me) and at the door.

Mark and Mark
2023-04-02 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Mark and Mark perform “Old Radio Tunes” that range from Jazz Vocal standards, show tunes, Bossa Nova, Big Band etc. Songs that were performed by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim and even Willie Nelson. Mark Ashworth sings and plays guitar, Mark Kelly plays sax, flute and clarinet.

Mark Kelly performs with numerous bands in the area and teaches the same instruments he plays. Mark Ashworth does sound and video around town. He heard this music growing up listening to old radios and watching music shows on black and white TV with his grandparents.
Tickets available at the door.

$10 or $8 with receipt from Bellingham Cider Co. / kids under 12 free / $5 for members

Puppet Movement
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Workshop leader: Suzanne Mackay

Stop Motion Intensive Workshop
2023-03-25 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-03-21 16:00 - 2023-03-24 18:00, 2023-03-20 16:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-19 11:00 - 14:00 UTC | Green Room
Workshop leaders: Amanda Timmins and Bill Cantrell
Workshop daily from March 18 till March 25
March 18,19, 25 at 11am – March 20 – 24 at 4pm
There are two parts to this workshop: building a puppet and animating the puppet using Dragonframe software and Panasonic GH5 camera. Most materials provided.
Depending on what focus the participants desire, one could opt to work more on the puppet making or the animation practice.
This is an intense 8 day introduction to an incredibly complex artform.
Looking for 10 interested people (5 teams of 2 would be perfect) 16yrs + $100 each
One Scholarship has been sponsored – please check with workshop leader for details

Puppet Variety Show - Postponed
2023-03-24 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
We are sorry to announce that we will have to postpone the Puppet Variety Show due to health and family emergencies some of our performers are dealing with. We send thoughts of healing and strength to the universe for them. We send our apologies to the audience for any inconvenience this has caused and we look forward to seeing you at the next Puppet Slam and Puppet Variety Show.

Large Puppet Workshop Part Two
2023-03-22 16:30 - 18:30 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
This is a two part workshop. Keefe Healy, our Technical Director and Suzanne Mackay, our Artistic Director will share their techniques for building large paper mâché puppets in the Bread and Puppet style. Materials will be available, but we always need more newspaper so please bring as much as you can.

Puppet Talk - Donations at the Door - Free for Members
2023-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Our workshop leaders and local puppeteers will host this forum style talk highlighting several puppetry genres, puppetry history, tips and techniques.

Large Puppet Workshop Part One
2023-03-20 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver) | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Puppets from Simple Materials - for Adults
2023-03-19 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Workshop leaders: Christina Aimerito and Isabella Jones
Learn to make simple puppets from household items. Materials provided, but if you would like to bring additional materials – newspapers and plastic shopping bags it would be most welcome.
Puppets from newspapers and bags is the most cost efficient way to explore the beautiful world of puppetry! Inspired by the Bunraku puppets of Japan and the Abayomi dolls of Brazil, crafting these simple puppets will be a great skill to add to your puppet resume.
