All BTG Members are invited to attend the

Annual Membership Meeting
Tuesday May 21, 2024 | 7:00 pm
BTG Lobby | 1600 H St, Bellingham WA

All Voting Members, please come to the Annual Meeting to hear updates, the BTG financial report, and the unveiling of the 2024-2025 season. This is your chance to vote on revisions to the bylaws, officers for next season, and more.

BTG Satellites presents
The Miss Firecracker Contest - a reading
By Beth Henley
Directed by Rylan MacDonald
Performance May 24, 7:30 pm

This reading takes place at the New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228227

Run time: 2 hours, with intermission
Cautions: Frank and potentially offensive adult language on mature subject matters, including mental illness, sex, death, and eating disorders that reflect the period of the play.

THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (www.dramatists.com).

The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as “Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children), complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain’s eccentric brother, Delmount (recently released from a mental institution), to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.

A long-run Off-Broadway success, this explosively funny play again demonstrates the author’s unique gift for finding rich lodes of humor—and simple wisdom—in the zany activities of small-town life.

THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

“…the evening’s torrential downpour of humor—alternately Southern-Gothic absurdist, melancholy and broad—almost never subsides.” —The New York Times

“…there is a story, with suspense and conflict—but where it shines is in the imagination of the playwright, in the characters she has created, in the strangeness and depth of their emotions, in the lines written for them to speak, and in her own astonishing, humorous vision.” —The New Yorker

“It’s a comic volcano of a play, populated by offbeat, but vital, larger-than-life characters…” —The Hollywood Reporter

“These are obviously the kinds of roles actors can happily chomp on…” —Time Magazine

BTG Satellites presents
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
Directed by Kathryn Murray
Performance: May 25, 7:30 pm

This live performance of a radio show will take place at New Prospect Theatre
207 Prospect St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228228

Run time: 1 hour, No intermission
Cautions: Two gunshots will occur in The Purloined Ruby. Appropriate for all ages.

A live radio show reading of two Sherlock Holmes cases, complete with foley sound effects! In The Purloined Ruby, Sherlock and Watson try to solve a mystery that surrounds a play based on Sherlock Holmes’ adventures and a stolen ruby from a distant land. Next, Holmes will tackle The Mystery of the Missing Manhole Covers, which he'll need the audience's participation in solving! Ballots will be distributed to vote on your favorite solution. Use your best detective sleuthing ability!

BTG Satellites presents
More Lasting Than Bronze - a reading
By Lillian Oh-Furlong
Performance May 26, 2:00 pm
Audience talkback afterwards with the playwright

This performance and talkback will take place at New Prospect Theatre
207 Prospect St, Bellingham, WA 98225

Tickets: https://newprospecttheatre.thundertix.com/events/228229

Run time: 1 hour, no intermission
Cautions: adult language and references, depictions of homophobia and violence

An award-winning play by local playwright Lillian Oh-Furlong, More Lasting Than Bronze is a sapphic retelling of the myth of Artemis and Orion. Inspired by the playwright’s love of mythology and storytelling, it explores love, sacrifice, and what it means to be human. It was first showcased at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Play competition in 2023, where it was selected as a semi-finalist and was awarded the Regional Paula Vogel Award. More Lasting Than Bronze was also selected as part of WWU’s student-led new works series during their 2022-2023 season.

This is a workshop reading of the play, so following the show there will be an audience talk-back with the playwright and cast. Come ready to share your opinions and support local artists.