18th and Union Arts Space

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The Shattered Glass Project 2024- New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narrative

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Three original plays elevating new and diverse voices:
8 nights by 9 directors and playwrights, 16 actors and 5 designers,
15 actors, and 5 designers.

Laugh. Weep. Celebrate.

The Shattered Glass Project 2024 New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives is the culminating presentation by the participants in the Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program. The Shattered Glass Project is unique in Seattle’s rich theatrical ecosystem, presenting a festival created by a cohort of women and non-binary directors and playwrights supporting one another through a year of skill building and play development workshops.

Ranging in style from lyrical to camp to realism, the three plays elevate new and diverse voices re-examining traditional narratives and socially relevant topics through the powerful medium of theater.

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Spring Shot Homegrown-Festival of Plays Three Weekends

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Spring Play Festival at 18th and Union

Celebrating a “diverse garden” of performance artists, Spring Shot serves as a
launch pad for brand-new dance, theater, burlesque, and comedy shorts over
three weekends. This year, 30+ artists have come to lay roots at 18th & Union,
curated around the theme HOMEGROWN.

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Sketch Comedy Festival at 18th and Union

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Big Ole’ Sketch Show

Three of Seattle’s Premier Sketch Comedy Groups join forces for One. Big. Night. Come enjoy the Maple Daddies (Toronto Sketch Fest, DC Sketch fest, Seattle Sketch Fest) Drop the Root Beer and Run (Seattle’s Longest Running Sketch Group, DC Sketch Fest, Seattle Sketch Fest), and Good Crash (Seattle Sketch Fest), for a night of brand spankin’ new BIG OLE SKETCH!

Big Ole’ Sketch Show. 18th and Union 1406- 18th Ave Seattle, 98122, Central District, Corner of 18th and Union. March 7th and 8th. 7:30 pm. In person and Streaming

Tickets: https://18thandunion.org/

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Blood Countess-Female Serial Killer in Hungary

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Blood Countess or Countess Dracula

Anyone familiar with Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s brilliantly macabre writings from Animal Saints and Animal Sinners would know that the true story of serial killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory, could have been invented by Blanchard, as it has all the hallmarks of her writing-the links between sexualized violence, and violent sexuality.

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Punchbowl-Interactive Dance at 18th and Union

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Punchbowl

Gather ’round the Punchbowl! This interactive dance show is engaging audiences in a setting filled with movement, community, snacks, and libations. Think of it like a local house party… Except it’s more artsy and way less sticky.

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XXX Island, 18th and Union

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30 days. Alone. Nothing but booze. Can she survive?

‘It Girl’ Amethyst Crystal has just arrived on XXX Island to film what she thinks is the hottest new reality dating show… but is actually a hardcore solo survival challenge.

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Experience the Christmas Spirit for One Hour with Sugar Plum Gary

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“Does anyone have a question about Christmas?”

Emmett Montgomery’s Sugar Plum Gary answered this year’s first show’s batch of questions in the sold-out space at 18th & Union on the night of Friday the 15th. The beloved character has returned to the stage to share the true meaning of Christmas as December 25th approaches: the fully gut-wrenching truth only the sole survivor of Santa’s visit to the Rankin Bass Home for Unfortunate Children could fully grasp.

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Sugar Plum Gary-Returns to 18th and Union

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A Santanist in Bright Red Feet Pajamas brings Christmas cheer

A holiday tradition at 18th & Union, Sugar Plum Gary returns with his eighth annual show of Cosmic Christmas Horror for the whole family.
A gentle-hearted “Santanist,” Sugar Plum Gary is a bushy-bearded man in jolly footie pajamas who has been haunted by the Holiday Spirit ever since he experienced the real Santa, an ancient and sinister creature more Lovecraft than Dickens. Every day is literally Christmas for Gary, and through improvisational conversation with the audience he shares the real reason for the season.

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