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
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- Saturday, July 12
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- 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
- 12:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE
- 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
- 11:00 am – PENGUIN PRODUCTIONS
- Amphitheater Stage
- Museum Lawn
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- 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
- 11:30 am – DACHA THEATRE
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- Saturday, July 12
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- Sunday, July 13
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- 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
- 11:30 am – LAST LEAF PRODUCTIONS
- 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
- 2:00 pm – RED EAGLE SOARING NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE
- Amphitheater Stage
- Museum Lawn
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- 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
- 12:30 pm – SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST
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- Sunday, July 13
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.
“The time of life is short! / To spend that shortness basely were too long”
— Henry IV Part 1, Act 5 Scene 2, Hotspur
Check the SOTF page for the full schedule, coming soon.
All details are subject to change.