This weekend: 25th Annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival!

Free! 20 performances by 10 companies on three stages!

The 25th annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival on Saturday July 12th and Sunday July 13th at Volunteer Park.

GreenStage will be performing all of our 2025 summer plays at the festival, and hosting a round-robin reading of As You Like It, too. In 2025 we’ll be joined by 10 other companies performing a total of 20 shows on 3 stages over 2 days. And it’s all free. (We enthusiastically accept donations, though!)

2025 SOTF Saturday & Sunday 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 – 60 minutes
      - 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” – 40 minutes
      - 5:30 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
        
        The Comically Tragic Tales of British Bill – 60 minutes
  - Museum Lawn
    - - 11:30 am – DACHA THEATRE
        
        Workshop – 90 minutes
      - 3:30 pm – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
        
        Fight Demonstration – 30 minutes
      - 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE PLAY READING SERIES
        
        Play Reading Series: As You Like It – 2 hours
      - 11:30 am – DACHA THEATRE
      - Workshop – 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 – 30 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 – 60 minutes
      - 5:00 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
        
        Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 60 minutes

Please check out all the participating theater companies’ websites below. Then get ready to spend an hour, a day or even both days enjoying outdoor theater in Seattle’s historic Volunteer Park at the 2025 Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival! And the participating 2025 Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival companies are:

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