Village Theatre
Village Theatre
Village Theatre has been lighting up Everett for nearly 30 years—art that enriches lives and expands perspectives. This season blends comfort and surprise: Brigadoon (Oct), 9 to 5, Baskerville, Grease, and the parody closer We Ain’t Ever Gonna Break Up—all in the 500+ seat Everett Performing Arts Center. Bonus: a 43-year youth program shaping the next generation.
Enriching lives and expanding perspectives
By Ellen Hiatt
Adam Immerwahr is able to look back on a lifetime with theater as a core experience.
“Theater has touched every part of my life—it’s my career, my hobby, my community, and my passion,” he said. “It has taught me to think, to work hard, to create, and to lead.”
Immerwahr is the Artistic Director of Village Theatre. Whether you’re a theater kid or an audience member (or both!), Village Theatre has been bringing joy and hope into Everett for nearly 30 years.
The theater company began in Issaquah 46 years ago. The City of Everett expanded their world class operation to become the resident performing and management company for the Everett Performing Arts Center, which seats 500-plus patrons.
This season, as in the past, offers a diverse line-up of shows.
“Every year, my team and I dive into about a hundred musicals and plays in search of the right mix for our season,” explained Immerwahr.
“We listen closely to our subscribers and staff, we talk with our artists about the work that excites them, and we keep an eye on productions both locally and nationally. My goal is always to build a season that blends the familiar with the unexpected—titles our audiences know they want to see alongside discoveries they didn’t know they’d love.”
The season begins in October with Brigadoon, “a legendary romantic musical,” and runs through July 2026.
In January, catch 9 to 5 The Musical, a workplace revenge comedy from living legend Dolly Parton.
February and March, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is playing. Baskerville is a fast-paced adventure with everyone’s favorite detective.
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Grease comes to the stage in May, with pop culture satire, grit, glam and youthful exuberance.
And We Ain’t Ever Gonna Break Up: The Hymon and Parfunkel Musical, plays June and July. The season closer promises “ear-to-ear smiles as fictional folk singers Saul Hymon and Bart Parfunkel satirically skewer the jukebox musical.”
“In the end, I want someone who attends the whole season to feel they’ve experienced a rich variety of work, witnessed the incredible breadth of talent in Seattle’s artistic community, and left the theater with their life enriched and their perspective expanded,” said Immerwahr.
Theater is a lot like public art, in a way. It provides economic benefits and enriches a community’s cultural experience. But its benefits are harder to quantify than counting dollars and cents.
“More than anything else, theater makes us better people—it reminds us of our shared humanity, inspiring us not just to see the world differently, but to act differently within it,” Immerwahr added.
That kind of sentiment is heard from throughout the community, he added.
“Not a week goes by when we don’t receive emails and calls from audience members as well as students and their families about their experiences at Village Theatre.”
“Over and over, we hear that theater is bringing joy, bringing uplift, bringing hope, and bringing community to them. Our artists regularly tell us through surveys, emails, and conversations about their positive experiences—not only is it a job, but it is a chance to do their craft and collaborate with other extraordinary theater-makers.”
An added blessing is Village Theatre’s youth education program, which is in its 43rd year, having served thousands of students annually. It includes in-school residencies, after-school classes, a year-round performance institute for advanced students, summer camps, weekend classes, professionally led and student-directed productions, musical theater writing, technical theater training, and even teaching apprenticeships for older students.
“The impact of these programs has been profound—Village is helping to shape not only the next generation of theater artists, but also future audiences, donors, and community leaders,” he said. “Theater education builds skills that extend far beyond the stage: collaboration, imagination, public speaking, creative problem solving, persistence, and teamwork. And the proof is in the productions—it’s rare to see a professional musical theater show in this region that isn’t filled with alumni from Village’s youth programs.”
Get season subscriptions, single tickets, or gift certificates at VillageTheatre.org, or call the Box Office at (425) 392-2202.
