Dance
Seattle
“Don Quixote”: The Pacific Northwest Ballet presents the American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s full-length dance featuring literature’s most timeless figure. Set to a score by Ludwig Minkus. Feb. 3 to Feb. 12. Tickets $28 to $168 at www.pnb.org or 206-441-2424.
Opera
Seattle
Seattle Opera: Presents “Attila” by Giuseppe Verdi. Bass-baritone John Relyea returns to Seattle to portray The King of the Huns in this story of a scheming Roman general. The drama in this opera includes assassination plots, dirty politics and plenty of pomp and circumstance. “Attila” runs Jan. 14 to Jan. 28 at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle. Tickets are $25 to $209 at www.seattleopera.org or 800-426-1619.
Theater
Snohomish and Island counties
“Annie Get Your Gun”: This Village Theatre production of a Wild West show-within-a-show tells the ageless love story of the sharpest sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, the heartthrob of Buffalo Bill’s traveling show; opens 8 p.m. Jan. 6 with performances through Jan. 29 at Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave., Everett. Tickets are $20 to $56 at 425-257-8600 or 888-257-3722 or go to www.villagetheatre.org.
“Deathtrap”: The new Everus Theatre presents this tense thriller about Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, whose fiendish plot to “collaborate” with a young gifted writer on a script turns into devilish disarray; opens at 8 p.m. Jan. 6 and runs at various times through Jan. 21 at the Everus Theatre, 1910 Bickford Ave., Snohomish. Tickets are $16. Call 360- 863-3183 or go to http://www.everustheatre.com/.
Seattle
“Beasley’s Christmas Party”: When a curious journalist moves to a small Midwestern town in 1909, he’s captivated by his unusual next door neighbor, gubernatorial candidate David Beasley. Full of hope and heart, this holiday tale will charm your whole family with its surprising twists; runs at various times through Dec. 30 at Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., Seattle. Tickets start at $27. Call 206-781-9707 or go to http://taproottheatre.org/.
“Cinderella”: Rodgers &Hammerstein’s enchanting fairy tale bubbles with magic and music at the 5th Avenue Theatre as the unlikeliest of girls becomes a princess, featuring Jennifer Paz of “Miss Saigon” as Cinderella and “Wicked” star Kendra Kassebaum as the Fairy Godmother; at various times through Dec. 31 at The 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle. Tickets start at $29. Call 206-625-1900 or go to www.5thavenue.org.
“Coriolanus”: Seattle Shakespeare Company presents this action packed show where the citizenry are revolting and political power is concentrated in the hands of the rich and powerful. Shakespeare points up the parallels to current headlines and shows that politics are a nest of vipers more dangerous than an enemy’s sword; 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. on selected Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m. selected Sundays Jan. 4 through 29, Center House Theatre, 305 Harrison St., Seattle. Tickets range $15 to $40 for adults and $15 to $25 for seniors and students. Call 206-733-8222 or go online at www.seattleshakespeare.org.
“14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival”: ACT Theatre presents 14 plays created, written, designed, scored, rehearsed and performed in 48 hours. Each weekend, seven playwrights write seven plays on a randomly selected theme on Thursday night. 12 hours later, seven directors each blindly select a play and the required number of actors to cast it. After 10 hours of fevered rehearsal with seven designers and seven musicians, the plays premiere that evening. The 8 p.m. Friday audience submits themes, one of which is randomly chosen, and the process starts all over again; Jan. 6 to 7 and 13 to 14 at ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of show. Students $10/Seniors $5 or included with the ACTPass; All-Fest Pass $40. Call 206-292-7676 or go to www.acttheatre.org.
“West Side Story”: The tour of this smash hit Broadway revival has Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents’ Broadway direction and the original Jerome Robbins choreography reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely, along with the timeless Bernstein-Sondheim score that includes “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere”; shows at various times Jan. 10 through Jan. 15 at The Paramount, 911 Pine St., Seattle. Tickets start at $25. Call 877-784-4849 or go to stgpresents.org or tickets.com.
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