New Prospect Theatre

VEIL OF SECRETS: A Ritual Theatre Burlesque Experience
2026-05-01 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-01 21:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-02 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-02 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
What lies beyond the veil? Veil of Secrets blends ritual theatre with burlesque and dance in a story that explores what happens when we dare to cross into the unknown. Expect bold performances and a journey of transformation. Featuring emerging performers from our NOVA performance track alongside Cabaret Atelier instructors in downtown Bellingham, WA.

4 SHOWS
– Friday May 1st, 6:30PM
– Friday May 1st, 9PM
– Saturday May 2nd, 6:30PM
– Saturday May 2nd, 9PM
**Doors open 30 minutes prior to each show

TICKETS & SEATING
– Tiered pricing: Tickets are released in limited tiers, with prices increasing at each level.
– Open seating: Seating is unassigned. Arrive early to secure spots together for your group.
– Late Policy: Doors close at showtime. Any tickets not checked in by then may be subject to resale.
– Exchange Policy: Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another available showtime or attendee by clicking the “Manage Tickets” button.

OTHER DETAILS
– Age Limit: All guests must be 18+
– Concessions: Food, non-alcoholic drinks, and alcoholic beverages (for guests 21+ with ID) will be available for purchase.
Tickets: Buy tickets – VEIL OF SECRETS: A Ritual Theatre Burlesque Experience – New Prospect Theatre

An Evening with the Stillhouse Junkies
2026-05-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Bluegrass heroes Stillhouse Junkies are on the forefront of breaking through the genre with their free-flowing musical interplay that weaves roots, classical, texas-swing and blues into a high-energy, intricately composed yet expansively improvised tapestry of sound.
The trio, Fred Kosak (guitar, mandolin), Alissa Wolf (fiddle), Jeanette Adams (bass) are based in the wilderness town of Durango, Colorado. Formed in 2017, the band is already 3 albums deep with singles constantly streaming out including a collaboration with Tim O’Brien. Their prolific songwriting, 3-part harmonies and outrageous instrumentals brought them the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award “Momentum Band of the Year” in 2021.
Stillhouse Junkies are quickly becoming a household name as they tour incessantly across the United States. They have played beloved festivals such as Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass, Merle Fest, and ROMP gaining new fans every day. Their busy schedule has seen them supporting Willie Carlisle, The Lil Smokies and Asleep at the Wheel.
Tickets: An Evening with the Stillhouse Junkies via ThunderTix

Even More Uncle Bonsai - CD Release Party
2026-05-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Last May, when Uncle Bonsai returned to Bellingham for the first time in almost 10 years, the group recorded the show for inclusion in a brand new release. Now, one year later, the group is thrilled to return to the New Prospect Theatre, on Sunday, May 17th, for the Bellingham release concert! Now in its 45th year, Uncle Bonsai presents “UNCLE BONSAI LIVE: selections from 7 Sins, 7 Wonders, 7 Dwarfs – a song cycle,” the group’s 11th recording, featuring 20 brand new songs, some which were recorded at the New Prospect Theatre! This year, you’ll hear some of those songs, some of the “Sevens” songs that weren’t performed, new songs, new old songs . . . it’ll be an adventure. PLUS it’s Andrew’s birthday so, of course, there’ll be chocolate cake!
And just what IS Uncle Bonsai? Imagine what might happen if Tim Burton and Edward Gorey hijacked the Andrews Sisters en route to a Stephen Sondheim festival with The Beatles and Tom Lehrer in the sidecar; you’d get Seattle super-harmonizers Uncle Bonsai. With just three voices and an acoustic guitar, Bonsai presents an often dizzying vocal array of intricate harmony. Their songs, dark and hilarious at times, just as often delight with moments of great insight and beauty. The trio aligns itself with the under-achiever, the dejected, the outsider, the black sheep. Densely-packed lyrics fly by in a whir at times, and take a skewed stance on topics such as first-world problems, the creation of the universe, the afterlife, and, of course, holidays with the family. Uncle Bonsai’s acoustic folk-pop songs are almost one-act plays or short stories, resisting strict pop, folk, or singer-songwriter categories. Their songs focus on the passing of time, the passing of genes, and the passing of pets – the truth of everything seemingly buried somewhere under the family tree.
“A folk-pop trio from Seattle, Uncle Bonsai performs funny original songs whose exquisite musical detail and subtle needling wit attain a level of craft not often seen in pop” – NY Times
Tickets $22 Even More Uncle Bonsai – CD Release Party via ThunderTix

An Evening with MaSango
2026-05-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
MaSango — world renowned, award winning multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, bandleader, and producer Zivanai teams up with triple threat vocalist, storyteller, and cultural strategist Helen to form this dynamic duo. They share sounds from Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, and the broader African Diaspora. MaSango pairs the unbeatable grooves of traditional music with contemporary songwriting. Story and song take the stage hand in hand as Zivanai and Helen weave culture, tradition, innovation, and humanity into a show that leaves you dancing and singing along.
Tickets $22 Advanced / $25 Day of: An Evening with MaSango via ThunderTix

The Problem Party
2026-05-30 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-05-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
You find yourself in a tavern, noticing a strange collection of adventurers waiting for you at the bar with a tale to tell… meet The Problem Party, a band of explorers ready to set off on yet another wacky episodic journey!
Our heroes prepare for a hilarious adventure featuring an immersive story, zany characters, and unbelievable twists and turns. As always, their fates lie in the dice, which randomly determine the direction their story takes!
The Problem Party is an improvised, episodic show and you'll get all the context you need up top. Follow along for future shows to be privy to easter eggs and callbacks, plus a completely new and sidesplitting story every time!
Our adventurers are puppeted by the talented and devious Game Master Owen Lyon-Smith. A rotating cast of NPC performers bring fresh goofiness to the all-new side characters you’ll meet every time.
Roll with The Problem Party as they solve problems the only way they know how…by causing more!
Tickets $15: The Problem Party via ThunderTix

Sage & Aera: Spare Organically Inspired Indie Folk
2026-06-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Sage & Aera is an indie folk duo combining the songs and instrumental prowess of Sage Cook (Elephant Revival) with the uniquely captivating voice and upright bass of Aera Fox. As a founding member of and cornerstone and principal songwriter, banjo player and guitarist in the Colorado transcendental folk group, Elephant Revival, Sage Cook penned some fan favorites like “Go On,” “Cosmic Pulse,” and “Down to the Sea.” Embarking on a subsistence farming adventure in 2013, Sage and Aera moved to Kansas in hopes that deepening their connection to the land would also lead to greater self-realization. During this period of self-reflection and isolation, they co-founded indie atmospheric folk-pop band WE DREAM DAWN with local drummer Weston Hill. In 2023, rejuvenated and inspired by their work with the land, Sage & Aera chose to strip away all the superfluous layers and lay their hearts bare as a purely acoustic duo. Emerging from their self-imposed isolation is purposeful, pure creativity, organically rooted and cosmically inspired folk music for the modern era.
And now, finally, the album Sage & Aera started working on over 8 years ago (as WE DREAM DAWN) is out EVERYWHERE! “Love Undoubtedly Underlies Everything” was released to North American Non-Commercial and College Radio stations. For the week of October 14th, 2025, it was the #15 most added album on the NACC charts. All songs were penned by Sage Cook and are performed acoustically as Sage & Aera in live performance. The album is currently receiving widespread airplay on JPR, HPPR, KSYM, WPRK & more.
Tickets: Sage & Aera: Spare Organically Inspired Indie Folk via ThunderTix

Tony Furtado Duo feat. Luke Price
2026-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the ﬂair of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story). All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: “True talent doesn’t need categories.”
“Tony Furtado, banjo player, is back…in a big way,” writes banjo master Tony Trischka in his liner notes to Decembering, the brand-new album from Tony Furtado. “He’s planted his flag in the midst of the fertile ground that is modern banjo. Texturally fresh, confidently audacious, rich and giving, this recording is a masterpiece.” Decembering is a welcome return to the banjo and a much-needed ray of sunshine and light in these troubled times.
Tony has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and countless others. He especially values the opportunities he has had to tour with such legendary musicians as Gregg Allman and with such esteemed slide guitarists as David Lindley, Derek Trucks and Sonny Landreth.
Luke Price
Five-time Grand National Fiddle Champion Luke Price is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, and studio musician based in Portland, OR. He has his roots in American fiddling and swing traditions, but his interests and influences are diverse ranging through Soul, Jazz, Pop, and Americana. Luke is a Berklee School of Music alum and regularly plays and sings in a vintage soul/pop tinged band, “Love, Dean” alongside his wife Rachael Price. Luke brings a unique voice to any music he plays, whether he’s on the fiddle, guitar, or singing.
Tickets $25 Advanced sale: Tony Furtado Duo feat. Luke Price via ThunderTix

The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee
2026-06-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee play music the way it sounded before bluegrass, old-time, and country went their separate ways. Rooted in the Blue Ridge music traditions of Southwest Virginia, the band draws from the fertile gray area of the 1940s and early 1950s — a transitional period where traditional and modern styles mingled freely, musicians who had grown up on old-time music at local fiddlers conventions were eager to try new things, and bands attempted to imitate new sounds they heard on radio and records. The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee’s sound is earthy, direct, and unadorned: five masterful musicians and singers delivering stirring harmonies and hard-driving instrumental work with no modern gloss and no apology, alongside a handful of original compositions that sit seamlessly in the tradition — an approach described by Bluegrass Unlimited as sounding like “a lost volume from Rounder’s Early Days of Bluegrass series.” Their recordings Live at WPAQ and Live at WPAQ II were captured in single takes around a single vintage RCA ribbon mic, standing in a circle, exactly as much of this music would have been recorded nearly eight decades ago.
Tickets: The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee via ThunderTix

Summer Camp - Bits of the Bard
2026-07-27 09:00 - 2026-08-06 13:00
July 27th – August 6th Mondays-Fridays 9am-1pm
Experience the timeless magic of William Shakespear’s wonderous tales in this immersive exploration of his delightful and sometimes dastardly characters.
Meet the Instructors:
Jane Entwistle: Improv and Acting
Keefe Healy: Puppetry and Playwriting
Jordan Kaulana: Music and Story Telling
Suzanne Mackay: Directing and Choreography
Other Guest Teachers:
Adaryn Healy Performance
Hazel VanBuskirk Costumes
Tuition $400: Bits of the Bard Camp via ThunderTix
