NW New Works Festival 2013
June 7–16, 2013
For multiple showcase packages, please call the box office (206.217.9888). $14 for 1 showcase | $20 for 2 showcases $24 for 3 showcases | $30 for all 4 showcases
Season
12/13 Season
Past Events
Spectacle Spectacular 8
May 30, 2013
Please join us for our annual end-of-season celebration featuring an evening of thematic drinks, dinner and a paddle-raise, all benefitting On the Boards.
Saint Genet
Paradisiacal Rites
May 16–19, 2013
The audacious and lavish style of Saint Genet becomes even more spectacular as they enter OtB’s Mainstage Theater.
KT Niehoff/Lingo Productions
Collision Theory: The Finale
April 18–21, 2013
Over the past several years, KT Niehoff created several projects that radically reconceptualize how artists and audiences interact.
KT Niehoff/Lingo Productions
Studio Suppers | with Mike Easton
April 18, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
Studio Supper | with Debi Zerr
April 4, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
Untitled Feminist Show
April 4–7, 2013
The politics of gender are complex, highly-charged and perfectly suited for the lacerating wit of playwright Young Jean Lee.
Itai Erdal | The Chop
How to Disappear Completely
March 21–24, 2013
Itai Erdal is an award winning lighting designer. He’s also a gifted and gregarious storyteller who draws on a life fully lived between his birthplace, Jerusalem, and his current home in Vancouver BC.
Itai Erdal
Studio Supper | with Tamara Murphy
March 21, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
12 Minutes Max
March 17–18, 2013
CURATED BY: Robin Held (Executive Director, Reel Grrls) Cliff Barnes (AKA DJ Seabefore, musician, Universal Zulu Nation & 206 Universal) Kathy Hsieh (Co-Executive Producer & Creator, SIS Productions)
SPECIAL EVENT | CultureBot
Everyone's a Critic
March 7, 2013
Everyone's a critic! Or are they? What's the difference between having an opinion and having a conversation? How do we move beyond “love it/hate it” reviewing and into real dialogue?
OntheBoards.tv Movie Club
Wunderbaum
February 26, 2013
Antartica. The extreme cold, winds, fauna and isolation of this mysterious continent has served as inspiration for the likes of Werner Herzog and now Wunderbaum.
Annie Dorsen
A Piece of Work (Formerly False Peach)
February 21–24, 2013
Mixing live performance with artificial intelligence software, False Peach flips the switch between man and machine in a Hamlet for our digital era.
Annie Dorsen
Studio Suppers | with Melissa Nyffeler
February 21, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Studio Suppers | with Ethan Stowell
She She Pop and Their Fathers
January 31, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
She She Pop and Their Fathers
Testament
January 31 – February 3, 2013
The Shakespearean vision of fathers and daughters in King Lear meets the modern realities of aging and parenthood in the funny and sad, razorsharp and frank
OntheBoards.tv Movie Club
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company | Tanja Liedtke
January 26, 2013
Celebrate the 3rd birthday of OntheBoards.tv with this double feature!
Catherine Cabeen and Company
Fire!
January 17–20, 2013
The career of visual artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) was both joyful and troubled, peppered with complex depictions of child’s play, violence and femininity.
Studio Suppers | with Maria Hines
Catherine Cabeen and Company
January 17, 2013
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Kyle Loven
Loss Machine
December 5–10, 2012
As the visual and performance worlds continue to collide, Kyle Loven is a difficult artist to categorize.
12 Minutes Max
December 2–3, 2012
CURATED BY: Jen Graves (Art Critic, the Stranger) Storme Webber (Writer/Performer/Interdisciplinary Artist) Nilki Benitez (Founder NBComm & World Writer’s Alliance Seattle)
Teatro Línea de Sombra
Amarillo
November 8–11, 2012
A man departs for the US–Mexican border and vanishes before reaching his destination: Amarillo, Texas.
Studio Suppers | with Johnathan Sundstrom
Teatro Línea de Sombra
November 8, 2012
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Studio Suppers | with Michael Hebb
Kidd Pivot
October 23, 2012
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
Kidd Pivot
The Tempest Replica
October 23–25, 2012
The theatrical greatness of Shakespeare meets the virtuosity and stage wizardry of Crystal Pite as she and her company return to OtB, their Seattle home-away-from-home.
SPECIAL EVENT | Mark Morris Dance Group
Back On the Boards
October 4–6, 2012
Please note: tickets will NOT be mailed out in advance for this performance, all tickets will be kept at Will Call to be picked up day of show.
Studio Suppers | with Cormac Mahoney
Gob Squad
September 27, 2012
All good chefs know they must feed their staff before the night begins. We’re deepening the ritual of going to the theater by taking that lesson and offering a meal for our audience before they see a show.
SPECIAL EVENT | Christian Rizzo | Sophie Laly
Néo-Fiction
September 14–15, 2012
Figures have a way of appearing and disappearing in Christian Rizzo’s performances. In Néo-Fiction he and filmmaker Sophie Laly investigate physical presence and its dispersion and disappearance amongst nature.