July 7 - 13, 2025 - All showtimes have $15 and under options

  

"Birds of Play," Seattle Public Theatre, Green Lake

Joy Rides (Tanya Gagné) and her pet chicken Goldie (hot off their smashing debut on America’s Got Talent!) take you on a wild and whimsical adventure in Birds of Play. They will be joined by circus sisters, the stunning aerialist and magician Elena Brocade and the brilliantly ridiculous talent, Laura Lippert. Exploring and challenging forms of flight, fantasy, fashion, alchemy, mayhem, mastery and mystery delivers a joyful celebration of freedom and fearlessness. Get ready to shake a tail feather!

Afternoon matiness are all ages.   Evening performances are 18 and over.   $10 "Art is for Everyone" tickets available for shows.   Click here for showtimes, tickets, and more info.  

"The Effect," ArtsWest, West Seattle

In this sci-fi romantic thriller by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), a clinical drug trial is thrown off-course when two young volunteers succumb to the gravitational pull of attraction – is it love or just a side effect?

As sexy as it is funny, this riveting play will have you at the edge of your seat. The New York Times describes The Effect as “heady and scintillating…cosmic and atomically intimate.”

$10 Preview on Wedesday, June 18.   All other performances have $15 tickets available using promo code "INCLUSION."  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.  

  

"Summer Festival," Seattle Chamber Music Society,  Benaroya Hall, Downtown Seattle

Join the World’s Largest Chamber Music Party, June 20–August 1, at Nordstrom Recital Hall, online, and throughout the Seattle area.

A limited number of Pay What You Can tickets are available for all ticketed concerts, online or by calling the box office, starting at $5.   Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more information.

"The Grown-Ups," Dacha Theatre, Various Locations, King County

Welcome to Camp Indigo Woods! (The alumni aren’t thrilled about the name change, but it’s really way more ~ inclusive ~ this way!) The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Crack a cold one, make a s'more, tell a scary story. Figure out what you're going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you've seen the news.

Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you're hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.

Touring parks and secret pop-up locations in the Puget Sound area, choose between real-fire and theatrical-fire options and bring a blanket or camp chair.

Pay What You Choose tickets available online starting at $0.00.  Click here for locations, showtimes, and tickets.

June 30 - July 6, 2025- All showtimes have $15 and under options

  

"Summer Festival," Seattle Chamber Music Society,  Benaroya Hall, Downtown Seattle

Join the World’s Largest Chamber Music Party, June 20–August 1, at Nordstrom Recital Hall, online, and throughout the Seattle area.

A limited number of Pay What You Can tickets are available for all ticketed concerts, online or by calling the box office, starting at $5.   Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more information.

"The Effect," ArtsWest, West Seattle

In this sci-fi romantic thriller by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), a clinical drug trial is thrown off-course when two young volunteers succumb to the gravitational pull of attraction – is it love or just a side effect?

As sexy as it is funny, this riveting play will have you at the edge of your seat. The New York Times describes The Effect as “heady and scintillating…cosmic and atomically intimate.”

$10 Preview on Wedesday, June 18.   All other performances have $15 tickets available using promo code "INCLUSION."  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.  

"The Concert Truck," Seattle Chamber Music Society, Various Locations, King County

The Concert Truck is rolling back into Seattle! Celebrating its fourth SCMS residency, the truck will bring 3 different chamber music programs to 18 locations across the city from June 20 to July 3, 2025. This concert hall on wheels brings the joy of chamber music right to you—perfect for families, first-time listeners, and chamber music lovers looking for a fun, relaxed way to experience live music.

All admission is free.  Click here for locations and showtimes.

"The Grown-Ups," Dacha Theatre, Various Locations, King County

Welcome to Camp Indigo Woods! (The alumni aren’t thrilled about the name change, but it’s really way more ~ inclusive ~ this way!) The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Crack a cold one, make a s'more, tell a scary story. Figure out what you're going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you've seen the news.

Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you're hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.

Touring parks and secret pop-up locations in the Puget Sound area, choose between real-fire and theatrical-fire options and bring a blanket or camp chair.

Pay What You Choose tickets available online starting at $0.00.  Click here for locations, showtimes, and tickets.

June 23 - 29, 2025- All showtimes have $15 and under options

  

"The Concert Truck," Seattle Chamber Music Society, Various Locations, King County

The Concert Truck is rolling back into Seattle! Celebrating its fourth SCMS residency, the truck will bring 3 different chamber music programs to 18 locations across the city from June 20 to July 3, 2025. This concert hall on wheels brings the joy of chamber music right to you—perfect for families, first-time listeners, and chamber music lovers looking for a fun, relaxed way to experience live music.

All admission is free.  Click here for locations and showtimes.

"The Effect," ArtsWest, West Seattle

In this sci-fi romantic thriller by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), a clinical drug trial is thrown off-course when two young volunteers succumb to the gravitational pull of attraction – is it love or just a side effect?

As sexy as it is funny, this riveting play will have you at the edge of your seat. The New York Times describes The Effect as “heady and scintillating…cosmic and atomically intimate.”

$10 Preview on Wedesday, June 18.   All other performances have $15 tickets available using promo code "INCLUSION."  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.  

June 16 - 22, 2025- All showtimes have $15 and under options

 

"The Effect," ArtsWest, West Seattle

In this sci-fi romantic thriller by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s Succession), a clinical drug trial is thrown off-course when two young volunteers succumb to the gravitational pull of attraction – is it love or just a side effect?

As sexy as it is funny, this riveting play will have you at the edge of your seat. The New York Times describes The Effect as “heady and scintillating…cosmic and atomically intimate.”

$10 Preview on Wedesday, June 18.   All other performances have $15 tickets available using promo code "INCLUSION."  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.  

"The Concert Truck," Seattle Chamber Music Society, Various Locations, King County

The Concert Truck is rolling back into Seattle! Celebrating its fourth SCMS residency, the truck will bring 3 different chamber music programs to 18 locations across the city from June 20 to July 3, 2025. This concert hall on wheels brings the joy of chamber music right to you—perfect for families, first-time listeners, and chamber music lovers looking for a fun, relaxed way to experience live music.

All admission is free.  Click here for locations and showtimes.

"Unleashed," Pork Filled Productions, Theatre Off Jackson, International District

Pork Filled Productions presents UNLEASHED 2025: NEW PLAYS FOR A NEW WORLD, a staged reading new works festival celebrating and showcasing Asian-American playwrights. Throughout this weekend, five plays will be presented.

All performances have "Access" tickets available for $10.   Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

June 9 - 15, 2025- All showtimes have $15 and under options

 

"The Distillery New Works Festival," Seattle Public Theatre, Green Lake

The Distillery New Works Festival is a weekend-long celebration of emerging theater. It features exciting new plays from local and national playwrights. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences (like YOU!) and providing a platform to help shape new works in progress.

Tickets available to all shows starting at $10.   Click here for tickets, show times, and more info.

"Creation Lab Performances," Seattle Opera, The Opera Center, Belltown

Seattle Opera seeks to cultivate the next generation of opera composers and librettists in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho through our Creation Lab. Launched in 2020, the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab presents new operas by local composers and librettists that tell diverse stories.

Composers, songwriters, librettists, and lyricists of all genres are encouraged to apply to create new operas that tell compelling, resonant stories through vocal music. Selected creators develop 20-minute operas throughout the season that are presented in a concert format for a public audience in Tagney Jones Hall at the Opera Center. Each opera undergoes a development process that includes a table reading, music workshop, and rehearsal prior to the public performance. The creators receive support from professional composers and librettists as they develop their work.

Tickets to all performances are Pay What You Wish.   Click here for tickets and more info.

"Illusion," Seattle Central College, Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Capitol Hill

The Illusion is theatre at its most delightful! Entertaining, witty, fast-paced, and provocative, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy revels in the magic which unites the alchemist’s world with our own. Stupefied as we all are by the never-ending spectacle which has come to dominate our daily lives, we often fail to see that all power is merely a kind of performance. Theatre is the playful logic of that power, and if you feel like you’ve been needing a reminder of, or initiation to, its inimitable magic, then come participate in The Illusion, and be sated.

General Admission tickets are $10.   Click here for tickets and more info.

"Alice in Arabialand," Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill

Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Sliding Scale tickets start at $5.   Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

"The Foolish Bard," Studio East, Studio East - Houghton Village, Kirkland

Join us for an exploration of Shakespeare's best-known fools, hilarious mistsaken identities, larger-than-life clowns, and witty word banter! Lean into the comedy that has lasted centuries!

This experience will include light food and beverages.

There is general seating and reserved table seating avaliable for purchase. 

General seating available for $10.   Click here for tickets, show times, and more info.  

June 2 - 8, 2025- All showtimes have $15 and under options

  

"Alice in Arabialand," Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill

Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Sliding Scale tickets start at $5.   Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

"House of Joy," Seattle Public Theatre, Green Lake

In an Imperial Harem, in a place like India, in a time like 1666, distant and yet familiar, the women of the court live on an idyllic estate protected by an all-female guard. Men cannot enter the House of Joy and the women cannot leave. Witness a story of loyalty, betrayal, oppression, politics and romance told with language, movement and spectacle. 

Limited $10 "Art is For Everyone" tickets available for each performance.  Click here for tickets and more info.

"Illusion," Seattle Central College, Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Capitol Hill

The Illusion is theatre at its most delightful! Entertaining, witty, fast-paced, and provocative, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy revels in the magic which unites the alchemist’s world with our own. Stupefied as we all are by the never-ending spectacle which has come to dominate our daily lives, we often fail to see that all power is merely a kind of performance. Theatre is the playful logic of that power, and if you feel like you’ve been needing a reminder of, or initiation to, its inimitable magic, then come participate in The Illusion, and be sated.

General Admission tickets are $10.   Click here for tickets and more info.

"The World Looks Different Sitting Down," Seattle Public Theatre, Green Lake

From the dark alleyways of Hollywood to surprising celebrity engagements, the life of a working actor is filled with highs and lows. Add a wheelchair into that mix, and you enter the world of Teal Sherer, an actor, mom and disability advocate living a normal, extraordinary life as a wheelchair user. The World Looks Different Sitting Down is a tale of confronting the world at crotch level to bust open misconceptions and limitations. Whether it's falling in love while learning to surf or navigating mommy groups who were all about pushing strollers, Teal tells her story with humor, candidness, and vulnerability. Audiences will leave the show with an expanded view of disability in the world as they witness a fight to not be inspirational but simply to be seen.

Free to the public, a workshop reading with a post-play discussion. The writer/producer/performer is seeking feedback. Donations gladly accepted.

Click here for tickets and more info.

"Native Related," Red Eagle Soaring, Various Locations, Throughout Seattle

Set against the backdrop of an inner city high school, several Indigenous students struggle to forge their own identities while reconnecting with their traditions and heritage. Meanwhile, two spirits  fed up with their lack of knowledge  decide to take the students' education into their own hands, with chaotic results.

Tickets are free.   Click here for dates, locations, showtimes, ticket reservations, and more info.

"Flying Blind," Anything is Possible Theatre, West of Lenin, Fremont

The Anything is Possible Theatre Company presents a live theatre event, "Flying Blind!," an original musical that weaves together scenes, stories, and music to describe the challenges, joy, and heartbreak of the blind and low-vision community. The play, performed by a predominantly blind cast, will be presented at the West of Lenin Theatre in Fremont, May 30-June 8,  2025.

Reduced Rate tickets available for $10.   Click here for showtimes, tickets, and more  info.  

Budget Arts in King County Turns 1!

 

The Budget Arts Blog is turning 1 this week!  For your blogger, it's been a year of fascinating shows and exciting new ventures.   

The best anniversary gift my readers could give me is more input! Have you seen any shows this year because of Budget Arts?   Did we help expand your horizons or save you some cash?  

I have some ideas about how to expand this, and make it more of a community.  Is there anyone who would be interested in a Budget Arts chat group, via Discord, WhatsApp, or some other form of media?  Or do you all have other ideas about how we can connect and engage with the performing arts together?

I'd love to hear more!