The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival returns to Volunteer Park in 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  

2024 Festival Schedule

• 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
  • 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

• 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
  • 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
  • Museum Lawn
    • 1:00pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
      • British Bill’s Fables – 90 minutes
    • 4:30 pm – CSZ SEATTLE
      • Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 60 minutes

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.