The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival returns to Volunteer Park on July 12 & 13, 2025!

SOTF has served as the unofficial launching pad for the Seattle’s summer outdoor theater season since 2001, and consists of multiple theatre companies coming together in one park to present a weekend of free theatre.

Volunteer Park is located at 1247 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 – directions and more information about Volunteer Park  

2025 Festival Schedule

• • Saturday, July 12
    • • Amphitheater Stage
        • 12:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE
          • Native Related – 40 minutes
        • 2:00 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
          • Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 1 hour
        • 4:30 pm – THISTLE THEATRE
          • Brother Coyote and Sister Fox – 40 minutes
        • 7:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
          • Much Ado About Nothing – 2 hours
      • Conservatory Lawn
        • 11:00 am – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
          • Out of Orbit – 45 minutes
        • 1:30 pm – EMERALD THEATRE
          • “Scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest” – 1 hour
        • 5:30 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
          • The Comically Tragic Tales of British Bill – 1 hour
    •       Museum Lawn
      • • 12:30 pm – DACHA THEATRE
          • SERIOUS PLAY: A Devising Workshop – 90 minutes
        • 3:30 pm – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
          • Fight Demonstration – 20 minutes
        • 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE PLAY READING SERIES
          • Play Reading Series: As You Like It – 2 hours
        • 7:30 pm – DACHA THEATRE
          • The Grown-Ups – 90 minutes
  • • Sunday, July 13
      • • Amphitheater Stage
          • 11:30 am – LAST LEAF PRODUCTIONS
            • Romeo & Juliet – 1 hour
          • 2:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
            • Richard III – 2 hours
          • 4:30 pm – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
            • Fight Demonstration – 20 minutes
          • 7:00 pm – SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY WOODEN O
            • As You Like It – 2 hours
        • Conservatory Lawn
          • 2:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE
            • Native Related – 40 minutes
          • 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE: BACKYARD BARD
            • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 1 hour
          • 5:15 pm – GREENSTAGE: BACKYARD BARD
            • The Taming of the Shrew – 1 hour
      •        Museum Lawn
        • • 12:30 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
            • The Comically Tragic Tales of British Bill – 1 hour
          • 5:00 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
            • Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 1 hour

  Please check out all the participating theater companies’ websites.

  To round out your time at the SOTF this summer, returning vendors Carver Kitchen Shawarma and Rise Up Bakers will be on hand to meet your culinary needs by the SOTF info booth.

  SOTF HISTORY

  The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival began in 2001 when GreenStage, Seattle’s Shakespeare in the Park Company, and Theater Schmeater, and Seattle Shakespeare’s Wooden O joined forces to bring a full weekend of live theatre to Volunteer Park in Seattle. Since then the festival has grown to include up to three stages and eighteen performances from several local theater companies. All in two days in one park… AND IT’S FREE!

  Stage Locations

  Go see a play!

   

  All details are subject to change.