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Dear Readers, it s so good to be able to call you all that again. I m so pleased to announce that live theatre has returned to the Seattle area. That doesn t mean we re completely back to normal, but it is a start, as The Williams Project has put together The Campfire Festival . And with its rotating slate of shows, they remind us of what we ve been missing, and longing for.
With The Campfire Festival , The Williams Project has gathered four local artists to come up with all new, short plays. The artists, Justin Huertas, Aaron Martin Davis Norman, Maggie L. Rogers, and Dedra D. Woods present half-hour solo works, conceived for performance outdoors with very small, socially-distancing audiences. Each performance presents two of the shows in rotating pairs.
Here are eight concerts, dance performances and theater shows you can see in person this spring.
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The Black Tones and special guest Payge Turner perform at the Cleared for Takeoff Concert at The Museum of Flight in Seattle last March. Event organizers Safe and Sound Seattle are making another concert happen on the stage below a Boeing plane later this month. (Danny Ngan of Dan’s Tunes)
About a year ago, many of us lockdown-delirious, parched for social contact and in-person arts events envisioned “going back to normal” as a big, refreshing plunge into a crowded pool. A massive, collective cannonball, if you will. By now, we’ve learned that a return to live arts events (and life) as we knew it will be more like dipping our toes in one by one.