Seattle Upcoming Events
Christine Sun Kim: Ghost(ed) Notes
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California; based in Berlin, Germany) is a groundbreaking artist exploring sound's social and political dimensions. In her first Seattle exhibition at the Henry, Kim presents Ghost(ed) Notes, a mural animating the museum’s east…
Rodney McMillian: Neighbors
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
Rodney McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, South Carolina; based in Los Angeles, California) works with the social and political histories of the United States and how they shape our daily lives. Using existing texts and domestic materials—such as house paint on…
Charlene Liu: Scallion
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
Charlene Liu (b. 1975, Taiwan; based in Eugene, OR) creates paintings, prints, and mixed media installations that blend family histories, cultural references, and decorative patterns. Liu incorporates wide-ranging traditions into her imagery, drawing from nature, food, still life painting, and…
Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Henry Art Gallery
ojo|-|ólǫ́ (pronounced oh-ho hol-ohn) is an exhibition of recent and newly commissioned work by Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Na’nízhoozhí [Gallup, New Mexico]) that includes sculpture, textile, collage, and video, activated by moments of performance. Across this work, Riege…
TADAIMA: I’m Home
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Museum of History & Industry
After more than 80 years, a treasured collection returns “home” to Seattle’s Japanese American community. In 1942 dozens of traditional Boys’ and Girls’ Day dolls were entrusted to Bailey Gatzert Elementary School by Japanese American families facing forced incarceration. Most…
Femina Lucida: The Art of Nancy Mee
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Museum of Northwest Art
Femina Lucida: The Art of Nancy Mee is the first major museum survey of Mee’s life work. The exhibition documents the variety of material approaches used by the artist over five decades of her career to interrogate both the personal…
Lost & Found: Searching For Home
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | All Day | Wing Luke Museum
This exhibition explores the complex relationship between place and belonging through the lens of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) identity. In this exhibit, artists unpack attempts to reconnect with their cultural homelands, through both physical and emotional…
The Aves
Next Up: Saturday, April 18 | 7:30pm | Falls Theatre @ ACT Contemporary Theatre
An older couple enjoys a summer day on a park bench, talking about birds and the likelihood of rain. A simple conversation…or maybe more. An ordinary afternoon transforms into a shifting world of surreal possibilities in a stunning and surprisingly funny…
Lizzy & the Triggermen
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | 7:00pm | Kirkland Performance Center
LA-based big band, Lizzy & the Triggermen, transport you back to the glamour of the Prohibition Era, but with a sound and swagger that is thrillingly new. As NPR raves, they are “one part Eartha Kitt, one part Ella Fitzgerald…
Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Scenes and Portraits
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | 7:30pm | Meany Hall (Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater)
The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band (Erin Bodnar, director) presents "Scenes and Portraits," featuring music by Gustav Holst, Martin Ellerby, and others.
Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | 7:30pm | Town Hall
Recognized for the pyrotechnic character of his vocal art, Philippe Jaroussky has also recently joined the field of orchestral conducting. With his own ensemble founded in 2002, he takes on this double role of soloist and conductor and offers a…
Anna Considers Mars
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | 7:30pm | OlyTheater
In Ruben Grijalva’s Anna Considers Mars – a play part science fiction, part family drama, and part hilarious comedy with a dark streak – Anna faces the possibility of a life-long dream to go to Mars while bumping up against…
Walden
Next Up: Thursday, April 30 | 7:30pm | ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
An intimate family drama that asks big questions about how we take care of the world we share. In the near future, Stella and her fiancé, Bryan, are waiting at their remote cabin for Stella’s estranged twin sister, Cassie. Raised by…
The Jungle Book
Next Up: Friday, May 1 | 4:30pm | Magnuson Park Theater
Banished by the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan, a human boy named Mowgli and his panther friend, Bagheera, are on the run in the deepest parts of the jungle. On their journey, the two meet a sinister snake named Kaa, a…
Truth To Fiction: American Dream - 4K Restoration
Next Up: Friday, May 1 | 6:30pm | Northwest Film Forum
Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions…
Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration Free
Next Up: Saturday, May 2 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration will take place May 2, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to the public.Seattle…
Jesus Christ Superstar
Next Up: Saturday, May 2 | 7:30pm | 5th Avenue Theatre
The rise and fall of a superstar.Passion. Betrayal. Redemption. And the ultimate rock opera. Jesus Christ Superstar is a global phenomenon that has wowed audiences for decades. A collaboration between theatrical powerhouses Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ…
Walden
Next Up: Sunday, May 3 | 3:00pm | ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
Twelfth Night Ensemble: Elemental
Next Up: Sunday, May 3 | 2:00pm | Town Hall
Influenced by the sounds of today, and with a vision for the future, the New York–based Twelfth Night Ensemble was formed “with the firm belief that art is best explored as a meeting place of the past, present, and future.”…
Mozart Requiem
Next Up: Sunday, May 3 | 2:30pm | Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center
Auburn Symphony joins forces with Seattle Pro Musica for a concert of profound beauty and emotional depth. Mozart’s Requiem, left unfinished at the time of his death, is a work of timeless intensity and soaring choral grandeur. Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana…
Not Another Isekai
Next Up: Thursday, May 7 | 7:30pm | West of Lenin
A hero from our world is summoned into a brand new one, and the story begins live.In this fully improvised fantasy comedy adventure inspired by the isekai genre, a totally normal person from 2026 is dropped into a realm of…
Fauxnique | How Do I look?
Next Up: Thursday, May 7 | 8:00pm | Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance
Fauxnique wields a provocative, wry framework of drag, dance, and philosophy to confront identity, femininity, and self-image.How Do I Look? is the latest work from Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique, the multifaceted artist, choreographer, writer, and performer best known as the first cisgender…
Mark Morris Dance Group: Dances to American Music: Soul of America
Next Up: Thursday, May 7 | 8:00pm | Meany Hall (Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater)
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with Dances to American Music: Soul of America, a captivating performance by one of the country’s leading dance companies. Choreographed by the legendary Mark Morris, this program blends jazz, classical and folk music by iconic American…
A Glimpse of China - Seattle Chinese Culture & Arts Festival Free
Next Up: Saturday, May 9 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
A Glimpse of China - Seattle Chinese Culture & Arts Festival will take place May 9, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to…
The Grand Finale
Next Up: Saturday, May 9 | 7:30pm | Pantages Theater
Sarah Ioannides, conductorScott Hartman, tromboneSymphony Tacoma VoicesCelebrate Sarah Ioannides’ final concert on the Symphony Tacoma podium with a robust program featuring Scott Hartman on trombone, the inspiring Symphony Tacoma Voices, and a rich blend of timeless and contemporary works that…
Min Kwon
Next Up: Tuesday, May 12 | 7:30pm | Meany Hall (Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater)
Pianist Min Kwon presents a selection of pieces from her America/Beautiful project that commissioned 70 American composers to create a variation on the patriotic hymn, “America the Beautiful.” Out of this, Kwon paints a sonic and visual picture of her…
Midday Mindfulness Free
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 11:30am | Henry Art Gallery
Join Danny Arguetty in the James Turrell Skyspace for a guided meditation to cultivate calm and presence through mind-body-breath connection. Immersed within the awe-inspiring interior of Turrell’s artwork, participants will enjoy a 20-minute guided meditation, followed by 10-minute small group…
East Coast Chamber Orchestra with Shai Wosner, piano
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 7:30pm | Meany Hall (Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater)
ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) is a dynamic collective that combines the strength and power of a great orchestra with the sensitivity of superb chamber music. Drawing from the leading soloists and orchestral musicians of today’s younger generation, ECCO is…
East Coast Chamber Orchestra x Vijay Iyer
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 8:00pm | 415 Westlake
Members of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra join Artistic Director Kristin Lee and pianist/composer Vijay Iyer for a dynamic program of chamber music.
Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 8:00pm | The Wade James Theatre
This faithful, new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduces audiences to the first mystery of Hercule Poirot. The year is 1916 and, injured in WWI, Hastings finds himself convalescing at the manor of his old friend, John…
Late Night Session: Vijay Iyer
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 10:00pm | 415 Westlake
Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” VIJAY IYER is a composer and pianist active and revered across multiple musical communities, earning him a place as one…
Spirit of Africa Free
Next Up: Saturday, May 16 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
Spirit of Africa will take place May 16, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to the public.Seattle Center Festál presents Spirit of Africa in partnership with Black4Tech…
Fellow Travelers
Next Up: Saturday, February 21 | 7:30pm | McCaw Hall
A steamy romance complicates everything for recent college graduate Timothy Laughlin, who has arrived in 1950s Washington, D.C., ready to join the fight against Communism. His chance encounter with the handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, results in Tim's first…
The Insidious Trilogy: A THEATRICAL EVENT
Next Up: Wednesday, May 20 | 8:00pm | Spectrum Dance Studio Theater
The centerpiece of the season will be the complete Insidious Trilogy. The Trilogy contemplates Jim Crow, its history, and its contemporary manifestations; it confronts America’s history of racial violence, systemic oppression, and deliberate forgetting. It is not merely a series of dances—it is…
INKPROV
Next Up: Friday, May 22 | 7:00pm | 18th & Union
Join Bandit as we invite some of the most talented tattoo artists onstage to talk about life, art, and everything under the sun! Enter your name to win a free tattoo while our team of improvisers creates comedy based on…
She Loves Me
Next Up: Friday, May 22 | 7:30pm | Dumas Bay Centre
Directed by Michelle BlackmonAnonymous letters and mistaken identities entwine with a gorgeous score and wonderful characters in this delightful, elegant musical comedy. In a bustling European city, a small perfume shop sees its fair share of colorful clients, to say…
First Date
Next Up: Friday, May 22 | 8:30pm | 18th & Union
Watch what happens when two strangers go on a blind date—on stage! Join Bandit Theater as we watch them attempt to fall in love before our team of improvisers make up comedy based on their date. Is it going to…
Mad Science
Next Up: Saturday, May 23 | 7:00pm | Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Come learn a thing or two … or nothing at all! Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and improv comedy unite for Mad Science. Every show we invite a special guest to share their real cutting-edge research and stories from the academic…
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Next Up: Friday, May 29 | 4:30pm | Magnuson Park Theater
Evan Goldman is plucked from his fast-paced, preteen New York City life and plopped into a sleepy Indiana town following his parents' divorce. Surrounded by an array of simpleminded middle school students, he needs to establish his place in the…
ALL LANG
Next Up: Friday, May 29 | 7:30pm | McCaw Hall
Her Door to the Sky – Ghost Variations – ZigZagCelebrate PNB’s Resident Choreographer Jessica Lang with some of her most beloved works. Inspired by legendary American painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s Patio Door series, Her Door to the Sky is one of…
Truth To Fiction: MASC
Next Up: Thursday, June 4 | 7:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
In a world of right wing pundits and politicians seeking to “reclaim manhood,” a young queer filmmaker journeys to discover non-toxic masculinity across class, race, and gender in America today, leading him to confront his own religious upbringing, pastor father…
Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival Free
Next Up: Saturday, June 6 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival will take place June 6 - 7, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to the public.Seattle Center Festál presents Pagdiriwang Philippine…
Frida... A Self-Portrait
Next Up: Saturday, June 6 | 7:30pm | Falls Theatre @ ACT Contemporary Theatre
The singular Frida Kahlo comes to life through the spirit of playwright and performer Vanessa Severo in this stunning one-woman show. Severo explores the parallels between their two lives as she embodies the many facets of this complex artist. With music and movement, Frida’s…
Indigenous People Festival Free
Next Up: Saturday, June 13 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
Indigenous People Festival will take place June 13, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall and Mural Amphitheatre. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to the public.Seattle Center Festál presents Indigenous People…
Seattle Iranian Festival Free
Next Up: Saturday, June 27 | All Day | Armory Food and Event Hall
Seattle Iranian Festival, will take place June 27, 2026 in the Armory Food & Event Hall. The festival is part of the Seattle Center Festál series. It is free and open to the public.Seattle Center Festál presents Seattle Iranian Festival…
MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 5: 9 to 5
Next Up: Saturday, July 25 | 8:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
7:30PM - DOORS8:00PM - SPECIAL INTRODUCTION WITHMISS MONDAY MOURNING8:30PM - SHOWTIME!What begins as another miserable day in corporate purgatory for three overworked women under the rule of their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss spirals into a laugh-out-loud…
Lost Girl
Next Up: Friday, August 7 | 7:30pm | Leo K. Theater
When Wendy Darling arrives back home after her adventures in Neverland, detectives demand answers, therapists worry, and Peter Pan still haunts her thoughts. Unable to let go of the boy who won’t grow up, Wendy searches for Peter—through letters, memories…
MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 5: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Next Up: Saturday, October 24 | 8:00pm | Northwest Film Forum
7:30PM - DOORS8:00PM - SPECIAL INTRODUCTION WITHMISS MONDAY MOURNING8:30PM - SHOWTIME!A mysterious inheritance brings horror hostess Elvira to the most uptight town imaginable, where pearl-clutching locals and a dangerously low neckline collide in one of the silliest and spookiest camp…
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Next Up: Friday, December 11 | 7:30pm | Leo K. Theater
Hey! Unto you a child is born!Chaos, comedy, and heart collide in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! When the notorious Herdman kids—"the worst children in the history of the world"—crash the town’s annual Christmas pageant, everyone braces for disaster. What…