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Week of Events
BTG Satellites Opening Weekend
Welcome to the launch of this sparkling new performance series: BTG Satellites! An exciting new collaboration, forged from Bellingham Theatre Guild traditions and New Prospect Theatre’s small-production ethos, BTG Satellites creates more artistic and theatrical opportunities for local audiences to enjoy at the New Prospect Theatre’s Lucas Hicks Stage.
Dive straight in with our BTG Satellites premiere weekend of readings and radio shows, May 24-26, 2024 at the New Prospect Theatre, located at 207 Prospect Street, Bellingham WA 98225. Want more info? Want tickets? Click the links below! Buy your tickets in advance to take advantage of the “3 for $25 special” for all the May BTG Satellites events!
Satellite Shows in 2024
Special deal for opening weekend...All three performances for the low price of $25!
Purchase tickets to Miss Firecracker, Sherlock Holmes, and More Lasting than Bronze for $25
THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST - a play reading
By Beth Henley
Directed by Rylan MacDonald
Performance May 24, 7:30 pm
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.
By Beth Henley
Directed by Rylan MacDonald
Performance May 24, 7:30 pm
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 ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
Directed by Kathryn Murray
Performance: May 25, 7:30 pm
A LIVE radio show reading of two Sherlock Holmes cases, complete with foley sound effects! Join the famous detective and use your best sleuthing ability! Appropriate for all ages.
Directed by Kathryn Murray
Performance: May 25, 7:30 pm
A LIVE radio show reading of two Sherlock Holmes cases, complete with foley sound effects! Join the famous detective and use your best sleuthing ability! Appropriate for all ages.
MORE LASTING THAN BRONZE
By Lillian Oh-Furlong
Performance May 26, 2:00 pm
Audience talkback afterwards with the playwright
An award-winning play by local playwright Lillian 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.
By Lillian Oh-Furlong
Performance May 26, 2:00 pm
Audience talkback afterwards with the playwright
An award-winning play by local playwright Lillian 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.
SHE KILLS MONSTERS
BY Qui Nguyen
directed by Suzanne Mackay, designed by Keefe Healy
August 1-4 and 8-11, 2024 (Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm)
In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
BY Qui Nguyen
directed by Suzanne Mackay, designed by Keefe Healy
August 1-4 and 8-11, 2024 (Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm)
In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
THE ILIAD, THE ODYSSEY AND ALL OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN 99 MINUTES OR LESS
directed by Allissa Flood
November 21-24, 2024 (Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm)
On a simple stage, with the clock ticking in front of everyone's eyes, the cast speeds through all of Greek Mythology. It's funny, updated, and made easy to understand.
directed by Allissa Flood
November 21-24, 2024 (Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm)
On a simple stage, with the clock ticking in front of everyone's eyes, the cast speeds through all of Greek Mythology. It's funny, updated, and made easy to understand.
Monday, May 20, 2024
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024 -BTG Annual Membership Meeting
BTG Annual Membership Meeting
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.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
No events on this day.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
No events on this day.
Friday, May 24, 2024
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May 24, 2024 -BTG Satellites presents The Miss Firecracker Contest
BTG Satellites presents The Miss Firecracker Contest
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
Saturday, May 25, 2024
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May 25, 2024 -BTG Satellites presents The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
BTG Satellites presents The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Two Old Time Radio Shows – LIVE!
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!
Sunday, May 26, 2024
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May 26, 2024 -BTG Satellites presents More Lasting Than Bronze
BTG Satellites presents More Lasting Than Bronze
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.