Eleven Free Shows July 26 in Volunteer Park

BYB – Twelfth Night, 2020, Volunteer Park. Photo by Ken Holmes.

Free outdoor theater on three stages!

In a few short weeks, GreenStage kicks off its 37th season of Shakespeare in the Park, including the annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival on Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th at Volunteer Park, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

GreenStage will be performing all of our 2026 summer plays at the festival, and this year we’ll be joined by twelve other companies for a total of 13 companies, performing 21 shows on 3 stages over 2 days. And it’s all free. (We enthusiastically accept donations, though!)

Sunday SOTF Schedule

Here is our current performance schedule featuring eleven (11) shows on Sunday July 26.

• • • • Sunday, July 26
        • • Amphitheater Stage
            • 11:00 am – BAND OF BARDS
              • Twelfth Night: A Pirate Story – 1 hour 15 minutes
            • 2:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
              • Coriolanus (ASL interpreted)– 2 hours 15 minutes
            • 4:45 pm – PRATIDHWANI
              • Dance – 1 hour
            • 7:00 pm – UNION ART CENTER’S WOODEN O
              • Macbeth – 90 minutes
          • Conservatory Lawn
            • 12:30 pm – CSz SEATTLE
              • Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 1 hour
            • 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
              • Backyard Bard The Tempest – 1 hour
            • 5:15 pm – GREENSTAGE
              • Backyard Bard The Two Noble Kinsmen – 1 hour
        •        Museum Lawn
          • • 11:00 am – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
              • Fight Demonstration – 25 minutes
            • 1:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE
              • Killer of the Alien Gods – 40 minutes
            • 3:00 pm – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
              • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 90 minutes
            • 6:00 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
              • The Crow of Henmark – 1 hour

  Please check out all the participating theater companies’ websites below. Then get ready to spend an hour, a day or even an entire weekend enjoying outdoor theater in Seattle’s historic Volunteer Park at the 2026 Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival! See the complete Saturday and Sunday schedule on the SOTF page.

  Participating 2026 Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival companies are:

  • • • Ballinger Shakespeare Company
      • Band of Bards
      • CSz Seattle
      • Emerald Theatre
      • GreenStage
      • Last Leaf Productions
      • Left Blank Productions
      • Penguin Productions
      • Pradidhwani
      • Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre
      • The Seattle Sockeye
      • Shakespeare Northwest
      • Union Art Center’s Wooden O

  To round out your time at the SOTF this summer, vendors Grey Coast Dogs and Filter & Shot will be on hand to meet your food and drink needs by the Festival info booth.

  “Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.“

  — Sicinius in Coriolanus, Act 2, Scene 1

  Visit the SOTF page for the full schedule.

   

  All details are subject to change.