NW New Works Festival 2014
June 6–15, 2014
OtB is delighted to announce the artists and companies seleted for the 31st NW New Works Festival.
Season
13/14 Season
Past Events
Spectacle Spectacular 9: “Sarah’s Prom”
May 22, 2014
May 1989 Boulder High School. A night like no other… Celebrate a particular prom night at On the Boards’ annual gala.
Studio Suppers | with PK and Wiley Frank
Alain Buffard
May 8, 2014
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Alain Buffard
Baron Samedi
May 8–11, 2014
The fiercely political music of Kurt Weill channels the Haitian Vodou spirit of disruption, debauchery and resurrection in this stunning work by late Parisian choreographer Alain Buffard.
12 Minutes Max
May 4–5, 2014
On the Boards presents the final 12 Minutes Max (12MM) of the 13/14 season at Washington Hall.
Theatre Replacement and Neworld Theatre
Winners and Losers
April 23–27, 2014
Get your spot on the waitlist! Call the box office at 3pm today 206.217.9888.
Studio Supper | with Michael Easton
Holcombe Waller
April 10, 2014
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Holcombe Waller
Wayfinders
April 10–12, 2014
“Waller has a gorgeously androgynous voice, both as a singer and songwriter — one that cuts through ordinary and extraordinary situations with delicacy and emotional precision” - NPR
zoe | juniper
BeginAgain
March 27–30, 2014
Local wunderkinds zoe | juniper head in a new, streamlined direction as they explore new technological methods for setting and triggering their raw tableaux of movement and stage design.
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
And lose the name of action
March 6–9, 2014
Always irreverent and forever curious, Miguel Gutierrez and six award-winning performers create an evening-length séance that examines the ghostlike traces that dance leaves on the body and mind.
Studio Suppers | with Michael Hebb
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
March 6, 2014
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Special Event | Seattle Chamber Players
Icebreaker VII: OPEN SOURCE
February 16–17, 2014
SCP pushes the boundaries of genre and convention with a two-day celebration of high tech music-making.
12 Minutes Max
February 10–11, 2014
CURATED BY: Gabrielle Schutz (Director/Choreographer), Daveda Russell (Interim Executive Director, CD Forum)
Studio Suppers | with Jonathan Sundstrom
Niwa Gekidan Penino
February 6, 2014
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Niwa Gekidan Penino
The Room Nobody Knows
February 6–9, 2014
Don't forget about our additional LATE NIGHT shows at 10pm!
Frédérick Gravel / Grouped’ArtGravelArtGroup
Usually Beauty Fails
January 23–26, 2014
Following in the grand Montreal dance tradition of La La La Human Steps and Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Frédérick Gravel and his hot-blooded team of dancers/musicians mix genres in a performance where philosophy meets the dancefloor.
Studio Suppers | with Derek Bugge
Kristen Kosmas | Paul Willis | Peter Ksander
January 9, 2014
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Kristen Kosmas | Paul Willis | Peter Ksander
There There
January 9–12, 2014
Christopher Walken falls off a ladder in Russia and is unable to perform his Chekov-inspired solo show. Karen, who apparently proofread the script once, is asked to go on in Walken’s place.
Dayna Hanson
The Clay Duke
December 5–8, 2013
Hope springs from unlikely sources in The Clay Duke, a dance/theater piece that blends details of a fateful school board meeting, Chekhovian suicide and Charles Bronson's on-screen vigilantism.
Studio Suppers | with Tarik Abdullah
Dayna Hanson
December 5, 2013
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Jérôme Bel
Cédric Andrieux
November 14–17, 2013
Conceptually radical choreography gets up-close and personal in the autobiographical Cédric Andrieux.
OntheBoards.tv Movie Club
Catherine Cabeen and Company
November 13, 2013
Catherine Cabeen and Company are in a multiyear exploration of visual arts via the lens of dance. See where it all got started with Into the Void.
12 Minutes Max
October 28–29, 2013
CURATED BY: Kate Wallich (Dancer/Choreographer/Director, The YC) Eric Pitsenbarger (Writer/Visual Designer) José Amador (Actor/Director/Playwright and Editor In Chief, Seattle Star)
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre
Exit/Exist
October 24–27, 2013
"A work of extraordinary depth and physical and musical deftness" - Artspoken, South Africa
Studio Suppers | with Kristi Brown-Wokoma
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre
October 24, 2013
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Studio Suppers | with Maria Hines
Heather Kravas
October 10, 2013
Great food, great conversation and great art. Celebrate opening nights OtB-style as you enjoy a meal made on-site by some of the best chefs around.
Heather Kravas
the quartet
October 10–13, 2013
Comprised of a kaleidoscopic ballet, a mutating folk dance and a titillating cheer, the quartet examines the politics of societal fidelity. Where is the end of us and the beginning of them? How do we come close from far away?
OntheBoards.tv Movie Club
zoe | juniper
October 9, 2013
zoe | juniper's A Crack in Everything was one of the most talked about performances of 2011.
Lola Arias
El año en que naci
September 19–22, 2013
“The experience is soul-crushing, it shakes you to the core.” —La Segunda