New Prospect Theatre

Kevin McDonald Superstar
2024-03-02 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join us Saturday, March 2nd for a special live rock-opera-radio-play (complete with scripts in hand) of Kevin McDonald Superstar!
Love, betrayal, and fame collide in this explosive rock opera based on totally true events. Written by Kevin McDonald, about Kevin McDonald, for Kevin McDonald. Starring Kevin McDonald as “Kevin McDonald.” Featuring members of the Upfront Theatre.

Tickets: Kevin McDonald Superstar | The Upfront Theatre

Dungeons and Drag Queens - Bellingham Premier!
2024-03-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hear ye, hear ye! Seattle’s hit slash n’ bash queer comedy adventure is coming to Bellingham! Prepare to immerse yourself in a world where high-fantasy meets high-fashion, where audacity rolls higher than a natural twenty, where laughter echoes through castle halls and forbidden forests! Theydies, gentlethem, and all fabulous beings in between, witness three drag queens adventuring through legendary tabletop game, Dungeons and Dragons! At the historic Prospect Theater Doors 7:00pm, show @ 8:00
Tickets Dungeons and Drag Queens – Bellingham Premier! Tickets, Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite

Joachim Cooder with West of Roan
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Joachim Cooder
Joachim grew up surrounded by music alongside his father, legendary guitarist Ry Cooder who took him on the road at an early age on the drums, playing both live and in the studio. These touring and recording projects allowed him to share stages and recordings with Johnny Cash, Ali Farka Touré, V. M. Bhatt, Steve Earle, John Lee Hooker, Dr. John, Nick Lowe, and most notably the award winning project The Buena Vista Social Club.
Joachim discovered the joys of playing an electric mbira through a small amp, and the sound that emanated was inspired by the world music that always captivated him, Im always hearing some sort of defunct cosmic ice cream truck in my head thats the sound Im after with my mbiras and tank drums and other tuned percussion.”
West of Roan
A NW duo from Bellingham and Waldron Island, West of Roan is a multi-media performance team of song & puppetry. “We sing (and do the same with fiddle) in close two part harmonies, exploring how singing uplifts and unites this collaboration and friendship, as well as discovering what sounds & chordal structures bring us closer to the complex emotions in the stories we tell. We play heavily with voice crossing, dissonance an modal harmonies.”
Advance tickets $22 Day of Show $25 Ticket link: Joachim Cooder with West of Roan (brownpapertickets.com)

Improv Workshop
2024-02-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Improv is much more than making people laugh-it is a way to enhance creativity, communication, and collaboration.
Join us and become more comfortable thinking on your feet through play!
Develop life skills while enjoying fun and laughter in a positive atmosphere.
Sheila Goldsmith, a veteran of San Francisco Bay Area’s TheatreSports, co-founded the Upfront Theater and is the founder and director of Improv Playworks, a school for theatre improv in Bellingham, WA. Sheila teaches virtual and in-person improv classes, and conducts outreach programs and trainings for businesses, non-profits, and a variety of other groups.
Sheila has facilitated workshops, trainings and classes for all ages for over 30 years and is an active member of the Applied Improvisation Network. She specializes in helping individuals and groups build skills in communication, leadership, listening, risk-taking, and adaptability. She has worked and studied with a broad spectrum of noted teachers including R.D. Laing, psychologist, and Keith Johnstone, author of Impro. Her philosophy and practice are shaped by intensive training in group facilitation, psychology, and community development. As a teacher, she seeks to create an atmosphere of trust, respect, safety and play, in order to connect individuals more deeply with their creative possibilities.
Call Sheila @ 360-756-0756 to pre-register

Bellingham Story Hour - February theme is Spicy
2024-02-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join Bellingham Story Hour 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 story guidelines and community agreements online!
*currently it’s a golden vase
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/

Hypnova - Cabaret Atelier
2024-02-24 21:00 - 22:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
HYPNOVA will enchant your mind and melt your hearts through a flurry of high kicks and spellbinding striptease. Transport yourself to the Cabaret Atelier fantasy realm where dance, burlesque, and creative costuming are woven into a production that gives you permission to get lost in the fantasy.
This celebration of movement, bodies, and our cabaret community is the capstone to our sessions for the season and features dancers from our NOVA performance programs as well as guest artists and teachers from Cabaret Atelier.

Tickets: https://www.cabaretatelier.com/events/hypnova

Hypnova - Cabaret Atelier Showcase
2024-02-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-02-23 21:00 - 22:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Hypernova - Cabaret Atelier Showcase
2024-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Morgan McHugh Album Release Show
2024-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Bellingham’s own Morgan McHugh debuts his inaugural album “Live at Mojo” with an intimate solo show at the New Prospect Theatre. This talented songwriter gives testimony to family, hardship, and the search for truth in the world.
Advanced tickets: Morgan McHugh Album Release Show (brownpapertickets.com.)

Open Mic
2024-02-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Ethos West Stage
5;30 sign ups Performances 6 – 8pm
All ages. Family friendly. $5 donations at door.

Robin Christopher Show
2024-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 | 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

To Whom It May Concern
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
To Whom It May Concern Is Back With More Letters! 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.
Andy Bunn is providing musical accompaniment.
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/224251

SOLD OUT! Risqué Renegades present: "Love & Lust" Nouveau Burlesque Cabaret
2024-02-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join these powerful women for a night of sexy dancing, explosions of glitter and so much fun! Perfect for date night, girls night out, or just looking to be entertained. A revolution that is as much about savage satire as sparkly sex appeal. This is Cabaret done the local Bellingham way. Stimulate. Defy. Empower.
VIP tickets: Includes the best seats in the house! Which means you get the best view of the dancers, receive props to interact with some dances and you may just be chosen to join the dancers on stage!
Tickets: General Seating $15 VIP Front Row Seating $25
Advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/223026

Eli West
2024-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Its always illuminating to ask an artist how they understand music, but Eli Wests perspective is nothing short of ground-breaking. A trained designer, he sees music architecturally, visualizing his compositions spatially. Its a highly unusual way to think about music, tied to his verdant natural world of the Pacific Northwest. On his new album, Tapered Point of Stone, West lays out original songs and tunes like houses built by hand, weaving their melodies into the setting of acoustic roots music that first inspired him. Recorded in 2020, just before everything shut down, the album brings together Wests favored quartet of musicians: Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse) on mandolin and guitar, Christian Sedelmeyer (Jerry Douglas) on fiddle, himself on mandolin, guitar, and banjo, and Clint Mullican (Watchhouse) on bass. This is the third album this quartet has built, including solo albums for Marlin and Sedelmeyer, and at this point they operate on a near-magical wavelength.
The New Prospect Theatre offers the perfect intimate space for such a thoughtful song weaver as Eli.
Advance tickets: $18 Day of Show $20 Ticket link: Eli West (brownpapertickets.com)

Spirits & Cider Stroll
2024-02-08 17:30 - 20:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Addams Family
2024-02-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-27 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

The Addams Family is a comical musical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. This production features student performers ages 13-17. Directed by Kaleb Van Rijswijck, with musical direction by Dylan Cisneros and choreography by Marina Clever.

Friday, January 26 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, January 27 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
Sunday, January 28 at 2:00 PM

Friday, February 2 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, February 3 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
Sunday, February 4 at 2:00 PM
Advance ticket sales: BAAY Presents: The Addams Family Tickets | Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth (simpletix.com)
Note: Online ticket sales will close 2 hours before each showtime.
If tickets sell out online, there are still 15-20 seats available at the door. Please arrive 45 minutes prior to showtime to purchase from the box office. If you purchase tickets online but arrive late to a sold-out performance, your seats may be re-sold to individuals on the waitlist.

For disability accommodations, please email info@baay.org.
To view BAAY’s policies and protocols, visit baay.org/policies.

Bellingham Story Hour - January theme "Good for You"
2024-01-23 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!
General Admission Tickets $8.65
Tickets + cocktail or mocktail! $14 This month signature cocktail “The Clean Slate” is a lemon and rosemary wine (+$5) or a seltzer spritzer (+$3)
Tickets: Events | Bellingham Story Hour

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