Ten Free Shows July 25 in Volunteer Park

Bryce Publow in Backyard Bard – Much Ado About Nothing, 2022, Volunteer Park. Photo by Jennifer Crooks.

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!)

Saturday SOTF Schedule

Here is our current performance schedule featuring ten shows on Saturday July 25.

• • • • Saturday, July 25
        • • Amphitheater Stage
            • 10:00 am – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
              • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 90 minutes
            • 1:00 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
              • Hamlet – 2 hours
            • 4:30 pm  – LAST LEAF PRODUCTIONS 
              • As You Like It – 1 hour
            • 7:00 pm – GREENSTAGE
              • The Winter’s Tale (ASL interpreted) – 2 hours
          • Conservatory Lawn
            • 12:00 pm – BALLINGER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 
              • Twelfth Night – 2 hours
            • 3:30 pm – PRATIDHWANI
              • Improv – 1 hour
            • 5:30 pm – CSz SEATTLE
              • Sound & Fury: An Improvised Shakespeareance – 1 hour
        •        Museum Lawn
          • • 11:00 am – EMERALD THEATRE
              • Emma – 2 hours
            • 2:30 pm – LEFT BLANK PRODUCTIONS
              • The Comedy of Macbeth – 1 hour 40 minutes
            • 4:30 pm – GREENSTAGE PLAY READING SERIES
              • Play Reading Series: The Comedy of Errors – 2 hours

  Please check out all the participating theater companies’ websites below. Look for SOTF Sunday line-up, coming soon. 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!

  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.

  “Exit, pursued by a bear.“

  — The Winter’s Tale, stage direction, Act 2, Scene 2

  Visit the SOTF page for the full schedule.

   

  All details are subject to change.