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WWU New Works Tour 2026: Fresh Plays From The Cascades

a cartoonish person with a bandana and braids dangles a bird overhead as if to eat
Feb 12, 2026 7:30pm
Feb 13, 2026 7:30pm
Feb 14, 2026 2:00pm
Feb 14, 2026 7:30pm
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Failure: A Love Story

Antique clock interior: brass gears, coiled spring, bell, and printed paper depicting an eagle and "Eight Day Clocks."
Apr 17, 2026 7:30pm
Apr 18, 2026 2:00pm
Apr 18, 2026 7:30pm
Apr 22, 2026 7:30pm
Apr 23, 2026 7:30pm
Apr 24, 2026 7:30pm
Apr 25, 2026 2:00pm
Apr 25, 2026 7:30pm
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Into the Woods

castle shaped sign reading "enchanted forest, next exit"
Jun 5, 2026 7:30pm
Jun 6, 2026 2:00pm
Jun 6, 2026 7:30pm
Jun 7, 2026 2:00pm
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Past productions

Bill Bowers: It Goes Without Saying

a barefoot man balances on one foot against a starry background

Hurricane Diane

painting framed by lush grape leaves and a glass of spilled wine: the lower half of a woman's face sensually eating grapes that are hanging from the vine

Masks Play 2 - Keep playing!

a group of masked players engage in broad physical hijinks

Summer Test Kitchen presents a staged reading of American Prom

a man in a sweater and glasses poses for a portrait in front of a modern urban cityscape.

Summer Test Kitchen presents a staged reading of Dr. DeSoto

a mouse at the top of a ladder inspects the sharp teeth of a fox who has a toothache.

The Duchess of Malfi

woman in dress sitting on the floor against a fancy wall in a dark room, dimly and eerily lit by a window with broken glass

The Cake

tall tiered white wedding cake with a rainbow cascade of flowers winding down the side, topped with two figures in dresses and a heart that reads Mrs & Mrs.

Masks Play! 2024

Cartoonish laughing face made of clay, with a big nose and empty eye sockets

Hip Hop Theatre Weekend III

Portraits of Idris Goodwin and Brian Quijada, posterized, on a background of stylized graphic sunburst and bricks

Ride the Cyclone

large unoccupied roller coaster silhouetted against an eerie sunset

Hay Fever

Embraced silhouettes within an art deco frame: a man dangling from, and looking up at a woman, their eyes locked.

Playreading: The Snow Queen (a work in progress)

a young person is offered assistance by two actors in crow costumes

The Book of Will

brightly colored simplified illustration of a head with Shakespearean hair and collar. Words The Book of Will warp to make the face.

Street Scene

painting of a nighttime city scape from within an alley. Neon reflects from rainy surfaces. Two figures walk in the distance.

what the Gods gave me

watercolor image of a person dead or sleeping with an inky mass of black hair spreading like moss or roots over an old frame building with flaking wooden shingles.

Romeo & Juliet

angular rose sketch circled by triangles

Untethered, the musical

Rainbow border surrounding an illustration of objects: playing cards, flowers, soup cans, legal documents, dice, keys, bowling pins, and phones

Men on Boats

Colored illustration showing 3 canoes rowed by men in white water conditions through a winding canyon

Artist Talk With Rashawn Nadine Scott

Rashawn Nadine Scott seated on the floor in a patterned dress looks confident and comfortable

Voices of Western Washington University - Slievenamon

illustrated view of the bay from Western's PAC plaza on a sunny day, with fluffy clouds in the sky and spring flowers in the forefront

Voices of Western Washington University - One Acts

illustrated view of the bay from Western's PAC plaza on a sunny day, with fluffy clouds in the sky and spring flowers in the forefront

Voices of Western Washington University - Ten Minute Plays

illustrated view of the bay from Western's PAC plaza on a sunny day, with fluffy clouds in the sky and spring flowers in the forefront

Sonata Escondida

A person with long hair holds a hat on their head as they stand next to a piano bench staring down a gravel road

Cabaret (1998 version)

a pair of eyes float over a Berlin skyline

No Exit

Abandoned empty Victorian room. Every inch of wall covered in graffiti. "No Exit" painted on the open door.

No Disrespect in the Ladybug Camper

illustration: top view of a cluttered table top with a polaroid picture in the center depicting a scenic lake, mountains and moon

Shakespeare’s Other Women: A New Anthology of Monologues

view of a castle tower with words "Good people, I am hither come to die... - Lady Jane Grey"

Miss Julie

An open bird cage containing two feathers, and a broken riding crop laying next to it

Early Black Women in the American Theatre Before 1960

kathy perkins has red-framed glasses, a colorful shirt and short graying hair

New Works Play Reading: Dry Land

between theatre curtains appears fresh footprints on a snowy road

Shirley Jo Finney: Art as Activism

Shirley Jo Finney smiles at you. She has a lot of brown braids.

New Works Play Reading: Work by Brian Quijada

standing amid pools of light, Brian Quijada gestures energetically while speaking

Idris Presents

idris goodwin in a cool howlin wolf t-shirt

New Works Play Reading: Collection of Student Work

between theatre curtains appears fresh footprints on a snowy road

New Works Reading Series

a sapling growing through barbwire in front of a book titled "New Works"

how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma)

very messy room with intense splotches of color on the walls

Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach

Shakespeare's Henry V

a triumphantly cheeky figure rises heroically from his faceless admirers, who carry flags.

Working, a musical

Working, a musical

HereToo - WWU

#heretoo theatre production

An American Daughter

An American Daughter

The Imaginary Invalid

The Imaginary Invalid

Fun Home

Fun Home the Musical

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Invincible Ones

drawing of a head in silhouette gazing through rickety scaffolding toward a rollerskate

1776

1776 the Musical

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

Clybourne Park

Aerial view of a suburb outlined in two sections, showing a black couple over one, and a white couple over the other.

The Wake Project: Listening to Voices of Color

Black brush strokes form the profile of a woman's head and shoulders

Arms and the Man

Illustration of a hand holding a brown toy soldier

Peter and the Starcatcher

Black silhouettes cast colorful shadows surrounded by stars through a doorway.

Family Game Night: a new a capella musical

Silhouettes of people playing the game Twister

How I Learned to Drive

View from the waist up of a young lady wearing a bikini top, leaning on a car

The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin

Funeral procession of Ginger Goodwin

A Christmas Carol: The Musical

A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays

Two rainbow rings intertwined in the shape of a heart, in front of purple ribbon

Hip Hop Theatre Weekend 4

Nygel Robinson and Brian Quijada in front of a tall building

A Streetcar Named Desire

mustard background with lightbulb cutout. in the cutout is a woman's face, but shifted in sections drawn with dots

Tartuffe

drawing of a priestly animal character

Hotshots screenplay reading

a person in a pink bikini top stands oppostite a person in a leather jacket and tshirt, between them is a sign with a woman on a horse.

King of the Neuroverse staged reading

Book cover for King of the Neuroverse by Idris Goodwin. Bold, colorful, psychedelic-style lettering and graphic of a head.

An Enemy of the People

green-blue block type slightly out of alignment spells An Enemy of the People

Untitled Tempest Project

watercolor painting of a kelp-like plant on a grey and blush-red gradient

The Storyteller

A box filled with random toys, word magnets, star shapes, and a cocktail umbrella