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
More details coming soon! 2025 participating festival companies include CSz Seattle, Dacha, Emerald Theatre, GreenStage, Last Leaf Productions, Penguin Productions, Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre, The Seattle Sockeye, Shakespeare Northwest, Seattle Shakespeare Company Wooden O, Thistle Theatre, and Young Shakespeare Workshop.
- Saturday, July 13
- Amphitheater Stage
- 11:00 am – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
- Finding Trails: On Wheels – 60 minutes
- 2:00 pm – DACHA THEATRE
- Serious Play: Shakespeare Edition – 60 minutes
- 4:30 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
- Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 60 minutes
- 7:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
- Twelfth Night – 2 hours
- 11:00 am – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
- Conservatory Lawn
- 1:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING
- Dracula Spectacular 2: Revenge of the Rat! – 40 minutes
- 2:15 pm – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
- Weapons of Will Shakespeare – 10 minutes
- 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE PLAY READING SERIES
- Play Reading Series: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 2 hours
- 1:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING
- Amphitheater Stage
- Sunday, July 14
- Amphitheater Stage
- 11:30 am – LAST LEAF PRODUCTIONS
- Much Ado About Nothing – 1 hour
- 1:30 pm – THISTLE THEATRE
- A Shakespeare Primer: Henry VI, part 1 – 20 minutes
- 2:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
- Henry VI, parts 2&3 – 2 hours
- 4:30 pm – THE SEATTLE SOCKEYE
- Weapons of Will Shakespeare – 10 minutes
- 7:00 pm – WOODEN O
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona – 90 minutes
- 11:30 am – LAST LEAF PRODUCTIONS
- Conservatory Lawn
- 11:00 am – YOUNG SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP
- Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe (1587) – 60 minutes
- 4:00 pm – GREENSTAGE BACKYARD BARD
- All’s Well That Ends Well – 60 minutes
- 5:15 pm – GREENSTAGE BACKYARD BARD
- Julius Caesar – 60 minutes
- 11:00 am – YOUNG SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP
- Museum Lawn
- 1:00pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
- British Bill’s Fables – 90 minutes
- 4:30 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
- Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 60 minutes
- 1:00pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
- Amphitheater Stage
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.