New Prospect Theatre

Lindsay Street
2024-07-07 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Bellingham Cider Comany
The New Prospect Theatre and the Bellingham Cider company have collaborated to bring you a summer of great music in one of the most beautiful spots in Bellingham. Shows start at 6:00 Each Sunday Evening. Tickets for the Music are 15$ and are split evenly between the bands and the New Prospect Theatre. Support local Artists and a local Venue while enjoying the best food and beverages in Bellingham!
Lindsay Street
A fun and whimsical evening of “Pan Celtic, quirk and beauty” with Lindsay Street. Bringing the music of Ireland, England, Quebec and Scandinavia to the shores of Bellingham for the last 20 years!
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/231299
This year we are offering a Seasons Pass! All 10 Shows for $120 Dollars! With your Pass you will also receive a $50 gift card to the Bellingham Cider Company!
Season Pass: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/packages/5776/summary

Hookman
2024-06-30 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hookman, written by Lauren Yee
Directed by Allissa Flood

Content Disclosure: Sexual Assult, Depictions of Violence/Blood/Death, Strong Language, Physical Combat.
Not Suitable for audiences under 18 years old.
Synopsis: Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls’ throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up – and it’s not pretty.

Tickets $10 https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/230443/performances

Mbrascatu solo
2024-06-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Bellingham Cider Comany
The New Prospect Theatre and the Bellingham Cider company have collaborated to bring you a summer of great music in one of the most beautiful spots in Bellingham. Shows start at 6:00 Each Sunday Evening. Tickets for the Music are 15$ and are split evenly between the bands and the New Prospect Theatre. Support local Artists and a local Venue while enjoying the best food and beverages in Bellingham!
Mbrascatu solo
Enjoy an intimate solo evening on the Patio with Andrea Algieri lead singer and songwriter of Mbrascatu! A fun fantastic fusion of indie rock and work music!
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/231298
This year we are offering a Seasons Pass! All 10 Shows for $120 Dollars! With your Pass you will also receive a $50 gift card to the Bellingham Cider Company!
Season Pass: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/packages/5776/summary

Hookman
2024-06-30 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-06-29 14:00 - 16:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hookman, written by Lauren Yee
Directed by Allissa Flood

Content Disclosure: Sexual Assult, Depictions of Violence/Blood/Death, Strong Language, Physical Combat.
Not Suitable for audiences under 18 years old.
Synopsis: Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls’ throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up – and it’s not pretty.

Tickets $10 https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/230443/performances

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Hot Tomato's
2024-06-23 18:00 - 20:30 | Bellingham Cider Comany
The New Prospect Theatre and the Bellingham Cider company have collaborated to bring you a summer of great music in one of the most beautiful spots in Bellingham. Shows start at 6:00 Each Sunday Evening. Tickets for the Music are 15$ and are split evenly between the bands and the New Prospect Theatre. Support local Artists and a local Venue while enjoying the best food and beverages in Bellingham!
June 23rd
The Hot Tomato’s
Back by popular demand we are kicking off the Sunset Sessions with The Hot Tomato’s. All of your favorite Hot Club hits from the 20’s and 30’s!
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/231297
This year we are offering a Seasons Pass! All 10 Shows for $120 Dollars! With your Pass you will also receive a $50 gift card to the Bellingham Cider Company!
Season Pass: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/packages/5776/summary

The Robin Christopher Show
2024-06-21 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

To Whom It May Concern
2024-06-20 19:30 - 21:00 | 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 letters we only wish we could write. A musician accompanies the letters for an evening of Bellingham history and stories.
Advance tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/230747

SpongeBob Musical
2024-06-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-15 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero rises up. The power of optimism really can save the world! This exciting new musical features BAAY performers ages 13-17, and is guaranteed fun for audiences of all ages.
Cast 1 Performances: June 7-8
Cast 2 Performances: June 14-15
Friday, June 7 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, June 8 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
Friday, June 14 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, June 15 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM

Tickets: BAAY Presents: The SpongeBob Musical Tickets | Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth (simpletix.com)

Online ticket sales will close 2 hours before each showtime.
If tickets sell out online, there are still 20 seats available at the door. Please arrive 1 hour 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.

Bloom
2024-06-01 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-06-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
4 SHOWS • Friday, May 31st 6:30PM & 9:00PM
Saturday, June 1st 6:30PM & 9:00PM
Get ready to immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of color and energy as we invite you to our latest showcase, “BLOOM”. With a fusion of flowery motifs, disco beats, and psychedelic visuals, we’ll whisk you away on a journey where dance and creativity intertwine.
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: Buy tickets – BLOOM – May 31st – June 1st – Cabaret Atelier Dance Spring Showcase – New Prospect Theatre (tickettailor.com)

Bloom - Cabaret Atelier Spring Showcase
2024-05-31 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-05-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Bellingham Story Hour - May theme - TBA
2024-05-28 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!
* 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/

More Lasting Than Bronze
2024-05-26 14:00 - 16:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
More Lasting Than Bronze – A Reading
By Lillian Oh-Furlong
Directed by Lila Soelberg
An award winning play by local playwright, Lilian Furlong, More Lasting Than Bronze is a sapphic retelling of the myth of Artemis and Orion. Inspired by the playwright’s love of mythology and storytelling, it explores love, sacrifice, and what it means to be human. It was first showcased at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Play competition in 2023, where it was selected as a semi-finalist and was awarded the Regional Paula Vogel Award. More Lasting Than Bronze was also selected as part of WWU’s student-led new works series during their 2022-23 season.
This is a workshop performance, so following the show there will be an audience talk-back with the director and cast. Come ready to share your opinions and support local artists.
Content warnings: adult language, references and depictions of homophobia and violence
This show runs without an intermission.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228229
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
2024-05-25 19:30 - 20:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
A Reading
Directed by Kathryn Murray
Performance May 25
A LIVE radio show reading of two Sherlock Holmes cases, complete with foley sound effects! In The Purloined Ruby, Sherlock and Watson try to solve a mystery that surrounds a play based on Sherlock Holmes’ adventures and a stolen ruby from a distant land. Next, Holmes will tackle The Mystery of the Missing Manhole Covers, which he’ll need the audience’s participation in solving! Ballots will be distributed to vote on your favorite solution. Use your best detective sleuthing ability! Appropriate for all ages.
Cautions: Two gunshots will occur in The Purloined Ruby.
This show’s run time is 1 hour – no intermission.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228228
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

The Miss Firecracker Contest
2024-05-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
The Miss Firecracker Contest – A Reading
By Beth Henley
Directed by Rylan MacDonald
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale”) is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain’s eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.
A long-run Off-Broadway success, this explosively funny play again demonstrates the author’s unique gift for finding rich lodes of humor—and simple wisdom—in the zany activities of small-town life.
“THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)”
“…the evening’s torrential downpour of humor—alternately Southern-Gothic absurdist, melancholy and broad—almost never subsides.” —The New York Times.
“…there is a story, with suspense and conflict—but where it shines is in the imagination of the playwright, in the characters she has created, in the strangeness and depth of their emotions, in the lines written for them to speak, and in her own astonishing, humorous vision.” —The New Yorker.
“It’s a comic volcano of a play, populated by offbeat, but vital, larger-than-life characters…” —The Hollywood Reporter.
“These are obviously the kinds of roles actors can happily chomp on…” —Time Magazine.
$10 Individual Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228227
OR
$25 BTGSateliteReadings pass is a 3 readings pass good for:
May 24th Little Miss Firecracker Contest
May 25th Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
May 26th More Lasting Than Bronze
Pass Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/season_passes/6761/summary

Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else? Featuring music by Louis Ledford & Norah McLaughlin
2024-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Join us for a bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of a literary life by the writer otherwise known as Lemony Snicket.
Part memoir, part inspiration for aspiring writers, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Daniel Handler’s sometimes challenging and often amusing path toward one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers of the twenty-first century. Declaring his love of strange literature, Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil in particular, Handler reflects on the life experiences—some of them deeply personal and revealed for the first time—and the cultural influences that shaped his writing, both under his own name and as Lemony Snicket, the lonely, beleaguered, somehow both cynical and romantic narrator of the beloved thirteen-volume saga of three unlucky orphans that became one of the best-selling series of all time. Inspiring, revelatory, and entertaining, And Then? And Then? What Else? is destined to become a classic of its genre, every bit as influential as Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings or Stephen King’s On Writing have been on previous generations.
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2021.
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
Louis Ledford and Norah McLaughlin specialize in harmony singing not unlike the Everly’s, Simon and Garfunkle, or Gram with Emmylou.
The songs are by Ledford, some of his friends as well as choice covers that you or your grandparents have never heard played quite like this before.
Louis Ledford has written, recorded and performed music for decades. The verdant fields of Virginia, the fragrant wards of New Orleans and most recently, the drizzly climes of Bellingham, WA have all been home.
Norah McLaughlin has been performing since she was a Whatcom County Kid in many wonderful bands including Kitty Kitty, Alamo Social Club and Yogoman Burning Band.
Tickets: 1 Seat/1 copy of And Then? $37 / 2 Seats/1 copy of And Then? $47
Registration required! Please go here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/868778890047

Robin Christopher Show
2024-05-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium

Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit drag comedy show rocking the West Coast is coming back to Bellingham’s New Prospect Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling, high-larity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.
Dungeon Master comedian Paul Curry and improvisational musician Carson Cutter shall lead our Queens through a brand new storytelling adventure, with danger, snark, and audience participation around every precarious corner. Experience the adventure, or fail your quest- at Dungeons and Drag Queens!

Tickets: Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem | Humanitix

Dungeons and Drag Queens - A May of Mayhem
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Lucas Hicks Auditorium
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit drag comedy show rocking the West Coast is coming back to Bellingham’s New Prospect Theater! Witness the high-fantasy, high-heeled, high-rolling, high-larity as three drag queens play the legendary tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons LIVE.
Dungeon Master comedian Paul Curry and improvisational musician Carson Cutter shall lead our Queens through a brand new storytelling adventure, with danger, snark, and audience participation around every precarious corner. Experience the adventure or fail your quest- at Dungeons and Drag Queens!
– Blends geekdom and queer culture to share silliness and the boundary-pushing joy of self-expression. – Seattle Times
– “A hit!” Seattle Gay News
– “Fantasy and Hilarity on a magical journey!” South Seattle Emerald
Purchase tickets early – the last show sold out!
Tickets Dungeons and Drag Queens: A May of Mayhem | Humanitix

The Half Life of Marie Curie
2024-05-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-10 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
